Ah January! While the rest of us plan resolutions, sign up for gym memberships, repair relationships…our media doesn’t typically inspire the first month of every year…on television and at the movies. So yeah…if you’re gonna sell the whole this is golden age of television don’t include January.

Sunday, January 6
UFO Cover Ups: Secrets Revealed (9 p.m.) History Channel

Monday, January 7
The Clemson Tigers take on the Crimson Tide of Alabama for the College Football Playoff National Championship. From Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California (5 p.m.) ESPN

Tuesday, January 8
Project Blue Book (10 p.m.) History Channel
Executive Produced by Robert Zemeckis, shot in Vancouver…oh hopefully this is gonna be my new X-Files (And! How cool is it that a tv show detailing suspicious government cover-ups of UFO encounters…for one of their main characters hired an actor whose name is Malarkey! That’s Brilliant!!):

Wednesday, January 9
Godzilla the Planet Eater: Season 1, Netflix
Solo: A Star Wars Story, Netflix (that’s the movie Kathleen Kennedy thought was worth making rather than a Boba Fett movie. Err, yeah. Star Wars is a cautionary tale…just because a minority is loud; it doesn’t make em right. Clearly.)
The Dictator’s Playbook (10 p.m.) PBS
The new six-part series The Dictator’s Playbook examines the terror tactics used by such power-mad rulers as Kim Il Sung, Benito Mussolini and Saddam Hussein.

Thursday, January 10
Roswell: Mysteries Decoded (9 p.m.) The CW

Friday, January 11
Future Man: Season 2, Hulu (As tempting as “mysterious visitors travel through time in order to prevent the extinction of humanity” is I’m gonna pass Future Man Season 2. (Season 2?!) If you’re still in…it drops today on Hulu. As tempting as “mysterious visitors travel through time in order to prevent the extinction of humanity” is I’m gonna pass Future Man: Season 2. (Season 2?!) If you’re still in…it drops today on Hulu.
Sex Education: Season 1, Netflix
The Last Laugh, Netflix

Saturday, January 12
It is Saturday night…maybe time to find The One? She’s out there…all lonely just waiting for your touch.

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