'Boba Fett' Leads New Year's Week TV Highlights
by EG
Disney's new Star Wars series, The Book of Boba Fett, premieres this week on the Disney+ streaming platform. The new original series is just one highlight in a week with a long list of them, including a big Harry Potter reunion special on HBO Max. Read on for details of more big TV events this week.
The calendar turns to 2022 this week, which means both a wave of specials on New Year’s Eve — typically one of the bigger nights of the year for network TV — and a host of premieres once the hangover clears. Among the broadcast debuts are the final season of This Is Us and Black-ish. The streaming menu is a bit light on premieres, but it features both a new Star Wars series on Disney+ and a look back at the Harry Potter movie franchise on HBO Max.
Below is The Hollywood Reporter‘s rundown of premieres, returns and specials over the next seven days. It would be next to impossible to watch everything, but let THR point the way to worthy options for the coming week. All times are ET/PT unless noted.
With the third season of The Mandalorian set for a 2022 debut, Disney+ squeezes in a Star Wars series just under the wire for this year with The Book of Boba Fett. The spinoff of The Mandalorian follows the legendary bounty hunter (Temuera Morrison) and fellow hired gun Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) as they return to Tatooine and attempt to gain a foothold in the galactic underworld by taking over the territory once controlled by Jabba the Hutt. Jennifer Beals, David Pasquesi and Sophie Thatcher also star. The series premieres Wednesday on Disney+ and will have new episodes weekly.
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Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and a host of other Harry Potter movie alumni gather to celebrate two decades of the franchise in HBO Max’s special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (Saturday). The second installment of Netflix’s true-crime anthology Crime Scene is subtitled The Times Square Killer (Wednesday). Season four of Cobra Kai debuts Friday on Netflix.
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New Year’s Eve: The second COVID-affected New Year’s Eve will feature a somewhat more celebratory atmosphere than in 2020 — but still one rife with precautions against the virus. Several networks will mark the turning of the calendar with primetime and late-night specials on Friday, with ABC’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.) marking its 50th anniversary. CBS has New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash (8 and 11:30 p.m.), and NBC will air 2021: It’s Toast! in primetime (8 p.m.) followed by Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party (10:30 p.m.), hosted by Miley Cyrus and Pete Davidson.
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