The season of indulgence has come to an end and, like most, you’re probably tightening your belt, reining in your diary, and hunkering down while waiting patiently for January to pass you by. Don’t even bother making plans for the next few weeks: just settle in and enjoy all the new TV shows to stream this month. From a new Selling Sunset spin-off and Cameron Diaz’s first movie appearance in a decade to a tell-all documentary on Molly-Mae Hague, as well as a brand-new book-to-TV offering from Harlan Coben, you’ll have plenty to chat about when you see your mates again in February.

Missing You, Netflix

Where Doctor Who and Call the Midwife have become synonymous with Christmas Day specials, it now seems not a New Year’s Day goes by when a fresh Harlan Coben thriller doesn’t grace our screens. For 2025, it’s Coben’s 2014 novel Missing You that’s getting the big-budget Netflix treatment, and, while Richard Armitage will be making his ubiquitous appearance, this time it’s Slow Horses’ Rosalind Eleazar leading a cast that also includes Jessica Plummer, Ashley Walters and James Nesbitt. As twisty and turny as ever, the story follows Detective Kat Donovan as she investigates exactly why her ex-fiancé has popped up on a dating app 11 years after he vanished. Expect the unexpected.

Release date: 1 January 2025

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Now TV

A dramatic retelling of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing – which saw 259 people killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie after Libyan terrorists detonated a bomb on board – A Search for Truth stars Colin Firth as Jim Swire, a doctor whose daughter Flora is killed in the incident. When Swire becomes the official spokesperson for the UK victims’ families he is thrown into a journey that will see him cross the world and traverse the spectrum of political divides to get truth and justice for those who died in the bombing. If you were a fan of ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office, you’ll love this.

Release date: 2 January 2025

Selling the City, Netflix

The Selling Sunset behemoth continues its global domination of property porn television with yet another spin-off – this time focusing on the high stakes New York City real estate landscape. Having seemingly been unable to convince the Oppenheim brothers to up sticks to the East Coast, Selling the City focuses instead on the equally overdressed, sharp tongued and cutthroat real estate agents at Douglas Elliman. In charge of this ambitious crew is Eleonora Srugo: an archetypal girl boss with a penchant for heels as sky high as the apartments she’s flogging. Tune in for huge penthouses and even huger egos.

Release date: 3 January 2025

Playing Nice, ITVX

This four-part psychological thriller sees James Norton lead a cast of British acting heavyweights including James McArdle, Jessica Brown-Findlay and Niamh Algar. Adapted from JP Delaney’s novel of the same name, in a ludicrously beautiful and brooding Cornwall, two couples discover that their toddlers were accidentally switched at birth leading to an impossible decision: keep the son you’ve raised and loved or reclaim your biological child? Somehow the two couples seem to come to an amicable solution but, as they get further drawn into each other’s lives, it appears darker motives may be at play.

Release date: 5 January 2025

Unstoppable, Prime Video

Starring Jharrel Jerome, Don Cheadle and Jennifer Lopez, and co-produced by Ben Affleck (awkward), Unstoppable tells the true story of Anthony Robles, a disabled American athlete who was born with one leg but defied the odds to become a national wrestling champion. Similar in form to 2009’s Oscar-winning Sandra Bullock film The Blind Side, Unstoppable promises to be an inspirational and emotional biopic ideal for brightening up a dark January day.

Release date: 16 January 2025

Back in Action, Netflix

If you watched The Holiday over the Christmas break and found yourself wondering what Cameron Diaz is up to these days, here’s your answer: teaming up with Jamie Foxx for a new comedy-action flick. Diaz’s first film appearance in a decade, Back in Action sees the pair play Emily and Matt – a married couple, parents and former secret agents. When their cover is blown, the pair are dragged back into the world of espionage and chaos, inevitably, ensues. Think Mr and Mrs Smith: What Happened Next.

Release date: 17 January 2025

Molly-Mae: Behind It All, Prime Video

British uber-influencer and reality TV star Molly-Mae Hague is the biggest Love Island success story to date. Having harnessed her enormous social media fame to catapult her into a career that has seen her become creative director of PrettyLittleThing (until the deal imploded following her infamous interview on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast) and a beauty entrepreneur. Following her highly publicised split from boxer Tommy Fury, with whom Hague had a child in 2023, this documentary goes behind-the-scenes to offer an intimate look at Hague’s life – and inevitably help her star rise even further.

Release date: 17 January 2025

Prime Target, AppleTV+

2025 is set to be Leo Woodall’s year. Having risen to prominence in One Day and The White Lotus, he’ll be hitting the big screen in the final instalment of the Bridget Jones franchise this year, but first you can catch him flexing his action muscles in AppleTV+ thriller Prime Target. This wittily named series sees Woodall play Edward Brooks, a brilliant mathematics post-grad whose research into prime numbers is on the verge of giving him access to every computer in the world – which, inevitably, some shady figures would rather not happen. Aided by NSA agent Taylah Sanders (Quintessa Swindell), Brooks is forced into the murky world of organised crime and conspiracy as he tries to uncover the identity of the people set on destroying his life’s work.

Release date: 22 January 2025

You’re Cordially Invited, Prime Video

If you’re in need of something light and fluffy to banish the January blues, this Will Ferrell and Reece Witherspoon rom-com is just the ticket. Seeing Witherspoon’s wedding planner pitted against Ferrell’s father-of-the-bride when a dream wedding venue is accidentally double booked, the pair’s increasingly outlandish attempts to outdo each other in pursuit of an unforgettable celebration create the perfect comedic caper for a dark winter night. Don’t forget the popcorn.

Release date: 30 January 2025

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