TV Shows Starting Early 2018
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1. LA to Vegas (2018)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
Meet the people flying between LA and Vegas on weekends.
Stars: Kim Matula, Ed Weeks, Peter Stormare, Nathan Lee Graham
Votes: 5,268
An ensemble workplace comedy about a group of underdogs trying to find their place in the world, set on the Friday night flight from LAX to Vegas and the returning flight on Sunday, who all share the same goal: to come back a winner in the casino of life.
Premiering 1/2 on Fox
2. Grown-ish (2018–2024)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama
A spinoff of ABC's "Black-ish," Zoey Johnson is off to college and must live outside the nest, dealing with drugs, sex, and relationships along the way.
Stars: Trevor Jackson, Yara Shahidi, Diggy Simmons, Francia Raisa
Votes: 6,631
A spin-off of "Black-ish", Zoey Johnson goes to college and deals with issues learning how to live outside the nest. We see her struggles as she deals with drugs, sex, and relationships.
Premiering 1/3 on Freeform
3. The Chi (2018– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
From Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.
Stars: Jason Mitchell, Jacob Latimore, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Alex R. Hibbert
Votes: 7,862
A fateful turn of events sends shockwaves through a community on the Southside of Chicago and connects the lives of Emmett, Brandon, Ronnie and Kevin in unexpected ways.
Premiering 1/7 on Showtime
4. Alone Together (I) (2018)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy
Two not-so-young socially-awkward Millennials--rich, self-conscious, unmotivated Benji and his poor, freeloading, self-centered, strictly-platonic best friend Esther--try to fit in with L.A.'s vain, status-obsessed elite.
Stars: Esther Povitsky, Benji Aflalo, Edgar Blackmon, Chris D'Elia
Votes: 2,150
Two misfits from different backgrounds try to make their way into the vain and status-obsessed culture of Los Angeles. Along the way, they find salvation in their strictly platonic male/female friendship.
Premiering 1/10 on Freeform
5. Electric Dreams (2017–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Philip K. Dick.
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi, Richard Madden, Timothy Spall
Votes: 18,763
A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Philip K. Dick.
Premiering 1/12 on Amazon
6. Black Lightning (2018–2021)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A crusading school principal gets back into action as the original African-American electrical superhero.
Stars: Cress Williams, Nafessa Williams, Christine Adams, Marvin Jones III
Votes: 27,240
A retired superhero becomes a vigilante for justice.
Premiering 1/16 on The CW
7. The Resident (2018–2023)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
A group of doctors at Chastain Memorial Hospital face personal and professional challenges on a daily basis.
Stars: Matt Czuchry, Manish Dayal, Bruce Greenwood, Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Votes: 32,680
It centers on an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered.
Premiering 1/21 on Fox
8. Mosaic (2018)
TV-MA | 285 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A whodunit based on the murder of popular children's book author and illustrator Olivia Lake.
Stars: Jennifer Ferrin, Frederick Weller, Paul Reubens, Sharon Stone
Votes: 3,769
A whodunit based on the murder of popular children's book author and illustrator Olivia Lake.
Premiering 1/22 on HBO
9. The Alienist (2018–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Newspaper illustrator John Moore meets with criminal psychologist (alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.
Stars: Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, Robert Wisdom
Votes: 60,137
Crime reporter, John Moore, meets with psychologist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.
Premiering 1/22 on TNT
10. Bellevue (2017)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Thrilling and eerie, Bellevue is a mystery set in a small blue-collar town with a lot of 'good people' who 'live right' and take it upon themselves to make sure the neighbors do too.
Stars: Anna Paquin, Shawn Doyle, Billy MacLellan, Sharon Taylor
Votes: 1,688
Bellevue is a mystery set in a small blue-collar town with a lot of 'good people' who 'live right' and take it upon themselves to make sure the neighbors do too. Driving the series is Detective Annie Ryder (Anna Paquin), a cop whose intense and brazen personality has always been at odds with her hometown.
Premiering 1/23 on WGN
11. Let's Get Physical (2018– )
30 min | Comedy
Two fitness gurus face off at the National Aerobics Championships.
Stars: Matt Jones, AnnaLynne McCord, Chris Diamantopoulos, Jane Seymour
Votes: 299
Two fitness gurus face off at the National Aerobics Championships.
Premiering 1/24 on POP
12. Waco (2018)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, History
The FBI and ATF seize religious leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993.
Stars: Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Sparks
Votes: 25,611
The FBI and ATF seize religious leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993.
Premiering 1/24 on Paramount
13. Girlfriends (2018)
46 min | Drama
Miranda Richardson stars in this drama that centers on a trio of friends who are facing the responsibilities that come with being a modern woman of a certain age.
Stars: Miranda Richardson, Phyllis Logan, Zoë Wanamaker, Philip Cumbus
Votes: 792
Miranda Richardson stars in this drama, which centers on a trio of friends who are facing the responsibilities that come with being a modern woman of a certain age.
Premiering 1/29 on Acorn
14. In the Cloud (2018)
90 min | Thriller
The movie is about a tech company, which is developing software capable of uploading a person's consciousness and memories to a virtual space.
Director: Robert Scott Wildes | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Daniel Portman, Laura Fraser, Tomiwa Edun
Votes: 387
The movie is about a tech company, which is developing software capable of uploading a person's consciousness and memories to a virtual space.
Premiering in January on Crackle
15. A.P. Bio (2018–2021)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy
A former philosophy professor who takes a job teaching advanced placement biology uses his students to get back at the people in his life who have wronged him.
Stars: Glenn Howerton, Lyric Lewis, Mary Sohn, Jean Villepique
Votes: 16,669
A former philosophy professor who takes a job teaching AP biology and uses his students to get back at the people in his life who have wronged him.
Premiering 2/1 on NBC
16. Altered Carbon (2018–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored, a prisoner returns to life in a new body and must solve a mind-bending murder to win his freedom.
Stars: Chris Conner, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Dichen Lachman, Will Yun Lee
Votes: 188,660
Altered Carbon is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness "re-sleeved" into new bodies.
Premiering 2/2 on Netflix
17. Our Cartoon President (2018–2020)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious animated workplace comedy where the office is oval. It's a character study in search of character and a timely political send-up of our forty-fifth president.
Stars: Jeff Bergman, James Adomian, Gabriel Gundacker, Emily Lynne
Votes: 3,813
This fresh, cutting-edge comedy presents the true-ish adventures of Trump's confidants and bon vivants, intrepidly exploring their histories and their psyches, revealing insights into what makes them so definitively Trumpian.
Premiering 2/11 on Showtime
18. Here and Now (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A dark dramedy about a progressive Portlandian family made up of husband, wife, three adopted children from Liberia, Vietnam and Colombia, and one biological daughter, who find their sanity tested and values challenged in 2018 America.
Stars: Tim Robbins, Holly Hunter, Daniel Zovatto, Jerrika Hinton
Votes: 5,145
A multi-racial family made up of husband, wife, three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia and one biological child, find their bonds tested when one of the children begins seeing things which the rest cannot.
Premiering 2/11 on HBO
19. Seven Seconds (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Tensions run high between black citizens and white cops in Jersey City when a black teenage boy is critically injured by a cop.
Stars: Clare-Hope Ashitey, Beau Knapp, Michael Mosley, David Lyons
Votes: 19,918
Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
Premiering 2/23 on Netflix
20. Living Biblically (2018)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
An adaptation of the non-fiction book by A.J. Jacobs in which a man tries to live in accordance with the Bible's teachings as closely as possible.
Stars: Jay R. Ferguson, Lindsey Kraft, David Krumholtz, Tony Rock
Votes: 1,127
An adaptation of the non-fiction book by A.J. Jacobs, in which a man tries to live in accordance with the Bible's teachings as close as possible.
Premiering 2/26 on CBS
21. Good Girls (2018–2021)
TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three suburban mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take back their power.
Stars: Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman, Reno Wilson
Votes: 60,562
Three suburban mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
Premiering 2/26 on NBC
22. Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A scripted true crime series based on the murder investigations of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
Stars: Josh Duhamel, Bokeem Woodbine, Wavyy Jonez, Marcc Rose
Votes: 8,986
A scripted true crime series based on the murder investigations of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
Premiering 2/27 on USA
23. The Looming Tower (2018)
TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, History
A look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan.
Stars: Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp
Votes: 17,525
Tracing the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, it takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently might have set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
Premiering 2/28 on Hulu
24. Hard Sun (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are forced to work together in a pre-apocalyptic criminal world.
Stars: Jim Sturgess, Agyness Deyn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Derek Riddell
Votes: 5,280
Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are forced to work together in a pre-apocalyptic criminal world.
Premiering 3/7 on Hulu
25. The Oath (2018–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Explores a world of gangs made up of those sworn to protect and shed light on corrupt and secret societies. And what if the Policemen use the criminals to arrest others.
Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Katrina Law, Cory Hardrict, J.J. Soria
Votes: 1,898
Explores a world of gangs made up of those sworn to protect and shed light on corrupt and secret societies.
Premiering 3/8 on Crackle
26. Instinct (2018–2019)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A former CIA operative who has since built a "normal" life as a gifted professor and writer is pulled back into his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer on the loose.
Stars: Alan Cumming, Bojana Novakovic, Daniel Ings, Michael B. Silver
Votes: 8,834
A former CIA operative (Cumming), who has since built a "normal" life as a gifted professor and writer, is pulled back into his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer on the loose.
Premiering 3/11 on CBS
27. Rise (2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Music
A working class high school drama department and the students come alive under a passionate teacher and family man whose dedication to the program galvanizes the entire town.
Stars: Josh Radnor, Marley Shelton, Auli'i Cravalho, Damon J. Gillespie
Votes: 4,631
A working class high school drama department and the students come alive under a passionate teacher and family man whose dedication to the program galvanizes the entire town.
Premiering 3/13 on NBC
28. The Terror (2018–2025)
TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Supernatural, semihistorical, horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real life historical tragedy.
Stars: Jared Harris, Derek Mio, Tobias Menzies, Kiki Sukezane
Votes: 51,347
The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.
Premiering 3/26 on AMC
29. Siren (2018–2020)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A coastal town known for its legend of once being home to mermaids is turned upside down when a mysterious girl appears and begins wreaking havoc.
Stars: Alex Roe, Eline Powell, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ian Verdun
Votes: 15,733
A mermaid-obsessed town is turned upside down when a mysterious girl appears and begins wrecking havoc.
Premiering 3/29 on Freeform
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