DISCOVERY CHANNEL
LICENCE TO DRILL – Season 2 premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 10 p.m. ET
The tough men and women who drill for oil in Canada's inhospitable north.
DINO GANGS – Canadian premiere
Sunday, Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. ET
An investigation into whether dinosaurs hunted in packs.
CANADA'S GREATEST KNOW-IT-ALL – Canadian premiere
Monday, Jan. 30 at 10 p.m. ET
Ten of Canada's smartest people compete head to head.
ANIMAL PLANET
CALL OF THE WILDMAN – Canadian premiere
Saturday, Jan. 28 at 9 p.m. ET
Ernie Brown Jr., saves animals from distress in rural Kentucky.
DISCOVERY SCIENCE
METEORITE MEN – Season 3 premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 8 p.m. ET
The men travel thousands of kilometres – from Poland to Russia to Arizona – to face rugged terrain and challenging weather conditions in pursuit of some of Earth’s rarest objects – ancient meteorites. This eight-part season hunts for cosmic treasures that are often more than 40-million years old and have plummeted to Earth at speeds of 48,000-km per hour.
DISCOVERY WORLD
DIGGING FOR BRITAIN - Season 2 premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 8 p.m. ET
Documentary continues to dig up historical finds in an around the U.K.
DIY NETWORK CANADA
MAN CAVES – Canadian premiere
Beginning Monday, Jan. 2, weekdays at 5 p.m. ET
COOL TOOLS – Canadian premiere
Beginning Monday, Jan. 2, weekdays at 5:30 p.m. ET
RENOVATIONS REALITIES – Canadian premiere
Beginning Monday, Jan. 2, weekdays at 7:30 p.m. ET
HOLMES ON HOMES – Canadian premiere
Beginning Jan. 2, weekdays at 8 p.m. ET
DISASTER DIY – Season debut
Monday, Jan. 2 at 9 p.m. ET
INCOME PROPERTY – Season debut
Monday, Jan. 2 at 10 p.m. ET
BATH CRASHERS – Canadian premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. ET
BROTHERS ON CALL – Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. ET
This show takes you into the hectic and often hilarious world of two brothers taking home improvement to the next level. The ultra-competitive world of construction just might be the easy part of the job, when you consider running a company with your polar-opposite brother as the biggest challenge. Giving homeowners useful home improvement tips and inspiring them to take on projects of their own, Brothers on Call will also highlight the entertaining antics of the two brothers.
HOUSE CRASHERS – Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 9 p.m. ET
I HATE MY BATH – Canadian premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. ET
Love your house but not the bathroom? Join the club. DIY Network's I Hate My Bath series gives homeowners hope with economical yet clever bathroom design ideas using amazing new products and cool tools. Forget about it costing almost a year's salary to renovate your bathroom. I Hate My Bath tears up real homeowners' lives and their bathrooms, showcasing alternatives along the way that don't require loans, demolition or divorce.
MONDAY HUNTERS – Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 9 p.m. ET
10 GRAND IN YOUR HAND – Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 10 p.m. ET
RUN MY RENOVATION – Canadian premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 9 p.m. ET
KITCHEN IMPOSSIBLE – Canadian premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 10 p.m. ET
MEGA DENS – Canadian premiere
Saturday, Jan. 7 at 11 p.m. ET
FOOD NETWORK CANADA
RACHAEL VS. GUY CELEBRITY COOK-OFF – Canadian premiere
Sunday, Jan. 1 at 10 p.m. ET
Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri, square off against each other for culinary bragging rights in Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off. In this six-episode competition series, the Emmy®-winning talk show host Rachael Ray and best-selling cookbook author and successful restaurateur Guy Fieri, each serve as coaches and mentors to eight multi-talented celebrities, all of whom are passionate about food and cooking. Divided into ‘Team Rachael’ and ‘Team Guy’, each episode features celebrity contestants battling it out in a fun, fast-paced culinary fight-to-the-finish, with the two bottom-rated contestants from the losing team going head-to-head in a blind tasting elimination challenge. In the end, the last contestant standing is crowned king or queen of the Celebrity Cook-Off and wins $50,000 for the charity they are playing to support.
CHOPPED – Canadian premiere
Tuesday, Jan 3 at 9 p.m. ET
CHOPPED CHAMPIONS - Canadian premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. ET
SWEET GENIUS – Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 10 p.m.
Sweet Genius is a sugar-packed competition series that challenges America's premier pastry chefs to create magical and inventive desserts given inspiration, surprise ingredients and a finite amount of time. The chefs must compete in three unique pastry challenges judged by New York City’s famed Ron Ben-Israel, the Sweet Genius himself, who will critique their work and determine who will receive the $10,000 cash prize.
IRON CHEF AMERICA - Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 9 p.m. ET
THE BEST THING I EVER MADE – Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 12:30 p.m. ET
Acclaimed chefs, cookbook authors and Food Network personalities – people who have spent their lives obsessing over food reveal not only what they love to eat, but what they love to make. From personal family recipes to favourite dishes off their own menus, these food experts share their secrets and show us how to cook what they consider to be The Best Thing I Ever Made.
CHEF HUNTER – Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 11 p.m. ET
In Chef Hunter, out-of-work chefs audition for a coveted executive chef position and experience the most pressure-filled night of their lives. Getting the job could change their fate — and the fortunes of a top restaurant. Teeming with emotion and incredibly high stakes, Chef Hunter looks behind the kitchen door at a uniquely cutthroat interview process that tests culinary skill, business acumen and the tenacity required to be an executive chef.
BITCHIN’ KITCHEN – Season 2 debut
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. ET
WORST COOKS IN AMERICA - Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 9 p.m. ET
RESTAURANT: IMPOSSIBLE - Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 9 p.m. ET
SANDWICH KING – Canadian premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 12:30 p.m. ET
Join Food Network Star Season 7 winner Jeff Mauro as he shares his passion for all things sandwiches. For Jeff, sandwiches are much more than something eaten between two pieces of bread, and you'll quickly see why he's fond of saying, "you can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal."
YOU GOTTA EAT HERE! – Series debut
Friday, Jan. 6 at 9 p.m. ET
John Catucci is a funny man who takes his food seriously. He’s on a quest for Canada’s most delicious, mouthwatering, over-the-top comfort food. He’s visiting great joints, greasy spoons, and legendary restaurants to taste the food that made them famous and to meet the colourful characters that make them institutions. John dives into the kitchens to find out what makes these signature recipes so good. Health food? Not on this show, baby. Bring on the cheese, bacon, and barbecue!
THE BEST THING I EVER ATE - Canadian premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 9:30 p.m. ET
TOP CHEF: TEXAS - Canadian premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET
PITCHIN’ IN – new season
Monday, Jan. 9 at 11 p.m. ET
ICE COLD CASH – Series debut
Friday, Feb. 10 at 9:30 p.m. ET
Ice Cold Cashtravels around the summer-lovin’ city on a suped-up ice cream bicycle challenging a series of people to correctly answer witty and fun trivia questions about food in exchange for cash.
FX CANADA
UNSUPERVISED – Series premiere
Thursday, Jan. 19 at 10:30 p.m. ET
From the writers/producers of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia comes the brand new animated comedy Unsupervised, following optimistic best friends Gary and Joel as they navigate the harsh landscape of teenage life – without any parental guidance whatsoever. Featuring an all-star ensemble voice cast including Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Romany Malco, Fred Armisen, Kaitlin Olson and Alexa Vega, along with Rosell and Hornsby.
SONS OF ANARCHY - Season 2 network premiere
Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 9 p.m. ET
This season, Jax (Charlie Hunnam) and the club deal with the fallout from Donna’s death, bringing internal tensions to an all-time high while a new enemy takes root in Charming. LAN, or League of American Nationalists, is a white separatist organization headed by Ethan Zobelle (Adam Arkin, Life) with help from his lieutenant, A.J. Weston (Henry Rollins, The Devil’s Tomb). Zobelle opens a cigar shop on Main Street intent on ingratiating himself with the community and forcing SAMCRO out.
LOUIE- Season 2 network premiere
Thursday, Feb. 9 at 10 p.m. ET
Loosely based on Emmy Award®-winning comedian Louis C.K.’s own life as a successful stand-up comedian and a newly single father raising two daughters in New York City comes the critically-acclaimed original comedy series Louie. Deriving from his inventive imagination, the series puts a spotlight on C.K.’s everyday ordeals, his quest to find love and his pursuit of humour.
LIGHTS OUT – Network premiere
Monday, Feb. 20 at 10 p.m. ET
Patrick “Lights” Leary (Holt McCallany, CSI Miami) is an aging former heavyweight boxing champion struggling to find his identity and support his wife and three daughters after retiring from the ring. With his wife finishing her medical residency, his financial problems leave him at a perilous crossroad – battling the urge to return to boxing or reluctantly accepting a job as a brutal and intimidating debt collector. Starring Catherine McCormack (Braveheart), Pablo Schreiber (Law & Order) and Stacy Keach (Fat City).
THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER – Season 15 premiere
Friday, March 9 at 9pm
The series unveils a new format: each 60-minute episode follows two fighters as they prepare for a fight that can advance them further in the competition. In the final 15 minutes of each episode, competitors face off in the octagon, with the winner advancing to the next round. The season culminates with the three-hour finale where only one competitor will emerge victorious and take the title of The Ultimate Fighter.
HGTV CANADA
COWBOY BUILDERS – Canadian premiere
Weekdays, Jan. 2 at 10 a.m. ET
Up and down the country, cowboy builders are causing devastation and dismay. These reckless workmen are always bad news, leaving behind them piles of rubble, financial angst and heartache – and it’s up to our team to fix up ruined homes and drive the bad builder out of town. Standing up for aggrieved consumers everywhere are Dominic Littlewood and Melinda Messenger.
HOME BY NOVOGRATZ - Canadian premiere
Monday, Jan. 2 at 8 p.m. ET
Cortney and Robert Novogratz – the husband and wife design team who juggle seven children and dozens of clients – believe good taste and deep pockets have nothing to do with each other. In each episode the couple take on a new design project and create totally unique, wildly original spaces that showcase their funky, downtown-chic aesthetic, their unpretentious design sensibility, and their self-taught, drop-dead gorgeous style.
KITCHEN COUSINS - Canadian premiere
Monday, Jan. 2 at 10 p.m. ET
Everyone wants to have their dream kitchen, and it’s the Kitchen Cousins’ job to make it a reality! Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri run a New Jersey-based family construction company that focuses on turning mediocre kitchens into masterpieces.
MILLION DOLLAR COTRACTOR – Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 8 p.m. ET
Hosted by “Contractor to the Stars” Stephen Fanuka, this show gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most amazing spaces and construction of Manhattan’s high-end luxury homes. Throughout the series, Stephen shares tips and tricks of the trade that first-time DIYers and home improvement aficionados will appreciate.
LEAVE IT TO BRYAN – Season debut
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 10 p.m. ET
Bryan Baeumler knows that the reno you need is not always the reno you want – you’ve got to invest your money where it counts. In this brand new HGTV series, homeowners hand over the decision – and the housekeys – to Bryan, who surprises them with a reno that looks great and makes sense.
SELLING LA – Canadian premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 9 p.m. ET
From Beverly Hills to the Sunset Strip, Los Angeles is a place where the rich and famous live large, and everyone has a dream. For the region’s real estate brokers, landing a client and closing a deal can be as competitive as any casting call. Follow three real estate firms as they build up their rosters of millionaire clients, tour spectacular properties and network their way through the competitive world of high-end real estate.
MASSIVE MOVES – Season debut
Sunday, Jan. 8 at 10 p.m. ET
Moving house is one of the most stressful experiences we ever encounter – but can you imagine moving an entire house, including fixtures, furniture, walls and roof intact, through a city, over a mountain or across a frozen lake? In every episode a team of movers race against the clock to move a home for a nervous set of homeowners. There is high drama, jeopardy and emotion for everyone involved.
CANADA’S HANDYMAN CHALLENGE – Season debut
Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 10 p.m. ET
This is HGTV Canada’s first nationwide search for the best everyday handyman, judged by all-stars Mike Holmes, Scott McGillivray and Bryan Baeumler and hosted by interior designer Jillian Harris. This competition puts contestants through a series of rigorous, skill-testing challenges to see who will win the coveted title of Canada’s Best Handyman.
FOR RENT – Canadian premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. ET
HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL – Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 9 p.m. ET
HOUSE HUNTER – Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. ET
HOUSE HUNTERS ON VACATION – Canadian premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET
SELLING NEW YORK – Canadian premiere
Friday, Jan. 27 at 9 p.m. ET
HISTORY TELEVISION
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WAYS - Network Premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
For two adrenaline junkies attempting to circumnavigate the globe using every conceivable mode of transportation, it's not the destination that counts - it's the journey itself. Hosts Rob (Boston Rob) Mariano and Dennis Anderson must get themselves around the world in 80 different ways, from rickshaws and hovercrafts to hang gliders and barrels.
VIETNAM IN HD - Network Premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 8 p.m. ET/PT
Vietnam in HD immerses viewers in the sights, sounds and stories of the Vietnam War as never seen before. Hours of uncensored footage - much of it shot by soldiers in action - will detail every critical chapter of the conflict. The war will unfold onscreen through the gripping firsthand accounts of the brave men and women who were forever changed by their experience in Vietnam.
HAIRY BIKERS - Network Premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Paul Patranella is a four-star, classically trained French chef who loves motorcycles. Bill Allen, a renowned motorcycle mechanic, is passionate about food. These two longtime friends know that food is the ticket to the American experience and that motorcycles are a traveling foodie’s best friend. In Hairy Bikers, Paul and Bill embark on a fun-filled but informative road trip along back roads to immerse themselves in local American history and longstanding traditions. But they don’t just cook and eat with the locals; they do everything it takes to put the meal on the table. This means spearing bullfrogs, trawling for shrimp, capturing gators, cleaning road kill, harvesting wheat for beer and tracking down wild boars.
BRAD MELTZER’S DECODED - Season 2 Network Premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT
Brad Meltzer is back to explore a whole new set of history’s most compelling and perplexing riddles. This season, Brad and his crew will examine unanswered questions about the Declaration of Independence, Fort Knox, Billy the Kid, the Vatican and an ancient crucifixion relic, among other intriguing people, places and things. Their sleuthing will take them across the country and, for the first time, overseas.
AMERICAN PICKERS - Season 4 Network Premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 10 p.m.
American Pickers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz are on a mission to recycle America, even if it means diving into piles of grimy junk or getting chased off a gun-wielding homeowner's land. Hitting back roads from coast to coast, the two men earn a living by restoring forgotten relics to their former glory, transforming one person's trash into another's treasure.
IRT DEADLIEST ROADS: ANDES - Network Premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 9 p.m.
Three teams of North American truckers take on South America’s Andes Mountains, where they’re out to prove they have what it takes to haul any load over any road. Veterans and rookie drivers alike will have to battle thick Amazon jungles, landslides, and cliffside routes where any mistake can be fatal. It’s only the first trip, but already the roads are forcing even the most seasoned veterans to second-guess their decision to challenge ‘The Death Road’.
CANADIAN PICKERS - Season 2 Broadcast Premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 10 p.m.
Canadian Pickers follows two highly-skilled pickers – Sheldon Smithens, an antiques dealer, auctioneer and appraiser by trade, and his partner Scott Cozens, a full-time lawyer and life-long picker – as they rummage through old barns, messy yards and abandoned attics in search of objects with historical, collectible and pop culture value.
MUSEUM SECRETS - Season 2 Broadcast Premiere
Thursday, Jan. 22 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
In the second season of Museum Secrets, viewers are invited into the deepest and darkest corners of some of the world’s greatest museums – Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, New York’s American Museum of Natural History, London’s Imperial War Museum, Berlin’s Neues Museum, Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology and others – to uncover surprising stories and revealing secrets. Museum Secrets takes viewers beyond the public galleries and into hidden places that visitors are rarely allowed to see.
AMERICAN RESTORATION - Season 2 Network Premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT
American Restoration features Rick Dale and his crew of loose screws at Rick's Restorations in Las Vegas, Nevada, as they take rusty, beat-up items and restore them to their original glory. Whether it's a giant gas pump from the 1940s or a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle from the 1950s, every restoration is a high-stakes business project where worthless rust is transformed into a valuable collectible. However, these restorations aren't easy. Things just aren't made like they used to be, but at Rick's Restorations, old becomes new again.
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY
INHERITING TROUBLE - Canadian debut
Friday, Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. ET/PT
Spotlights the drama that can result in the reading of a loved one's last will and testament.
MUCHMORE
CEE LO GREEN: TALKING TO STRANGERS - MuchMore Premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 3 p.m. ET
R&B star Cee Lo Green sits down and interviews fellow artists, getting answers to some hard-pressing questions and sharing a few laughs. Guests featured this season include Lupe Fiasco, Keri Hilson, Train, Estelle, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals.
T.I. & TINY: THE FAMILY HUSTLE - MuchMore Premiere
Sunday, Jan. 15 at 7p.m. ET
Viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at the most private moments of the Grammy award-winning artist as he is reunited with his wife, Tameka (a.k.a Tiny), and his children following a 12-month prison sentence. The new series follows the ‘King of the South’ at his most vulnerable, as T.I. re-acclimates back into his life as a father, husband, son, musician, apparel magnate, businessman, actor and best-selling author.
SINBAD: IT’S JUST FAMILY - MuchMore Premiere
Sunday, Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. ET
This series showcases the life of comedian Sinbad and his family. Six, one-hour episodes capture the ups and downs the famous comedian has faced over the years, and his tireless climb back to the top of his game.
SAME NAME - MuchMore - Premiere
Sunday, Jan. 15 at 9 p.m. E (60 min.)
Each week, a famous person trades places with a total stranger who shares the same name to experience the other's life. This season, boxer Mike Tyson trades places with a nurse from Michigan, David Hasselhoff swaps lives with a high-voltage power technician from Texas, NFL star Reggie Bush switches with a general contractor from Illinois, and Kathy Griffin takes over the life of a fiberglass saleswoman from Georgia.
RUSSELL SIMMONS PRESENTS THE RUCKUS - MuchMore Premiere
Friday, Jan. 27 at 11 p.m. ET
JB Smoove brings the ruckus to the stage as he reunites with Russell Simmons to host RUSSELL SIMMONS PRESENTS THE RUCKUS. Showcasing stand-up sets from Smoove, and a roster of comics including Damn Fool, Tiffany Haddish, and more, each episode features new material from a mix of rising stars and long time favorite comedians with beats from DJ Cassidy. As a new added bonus, viewers also see Smoove giving his fans what they love most – performing in filmed sketches woven into each episode.
METAL EVOLUTION - MuchMore Finale
Friday, Jan. 27 at 10 p.m. ET (60 min.)
On the finale of the 11-part original series METAL EVOLUTION, the guitar-driven, genre-defying music of progressive metal is explored. This episode looks at the musical style, powerful lyrics and conceptualization of progressive metal bands. Artists to be featured include Tool, Mastodon, Coheed And Cambria, Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, A Perfect Circle and Opeth.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
ROCK STARS - Season 1 Network Premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT
Rock Stars follows a tight-knit group of rock technicians who plant explosives, manhandle gigantic hydraulic jacks, and set anchors into sheer rock; all the while hanging hundreds of feet above the ground. Working with the constant threat of boulders the size of trucks falling around them, these men risk life and limb to prevent massive avalanches and landslides all across North America. When a mountain falls, this crew of Rock Stars puts it back together.
TABOO - Season 7 Network Premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT
Taboo uncovers some of the most bizarre behaviors, rituals and beliefs from around the world. Exploring tales about addiction, fantasy lives, prison love, the extremes of beauty and the squalor of hoarding, Taboo gives viewers a front row view of some of the most controversial aspects of human behavior.
HARD TIME - Season 3 Network Premiere
Thursday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT
Go on a journey behind bars and follow the lives of those who work and serve time in some of the toughest correctional systems in the Unites States. Everything for the wardens and inmates revolves around life: serving it, living it, and taking it back.
DRUGS INC. - Season 2 Network Premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT
Welcome to the $300 billion industry of Drugs Inc. where traffickers pocket huge profits, addicts become trapped in vicious cycles, and law enforcers wage war across diverse battlefields - farmers' fields, shady labs, urban street corners and suburban schools. Drugs Inc. documents the lives changed forever by the production, smuggling, selling, using and policing of illegal substances.
OLN
BEAR SWAMP RECOVERY – Series premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 9:30 p.m. ET
Owner and operator, PJ Vinch opened Bear Swamp Recovery in 2008. Today he runs his family business with his 67-year-old father, Philip J. “Pops” Vinch and teenage son, Joseph Anthony “Tiny” Vinch. In the premiere episode, the team gets into a heated battle when they attempt to repo a restaurateur's kitchen equipment. Later, they go to pick up a 50-ton quarry truck and wind up playing chicken with a big-rig driver trying to jam up the job.
WHISKER WARS – Series premiere
Thursday, Jan. 12 at 9:30 p.m. ET
Whisker Wars follows a devoted group of whisker warriors as they travel the country competing for top bearding honours in preparation for the World Championship Competition in Trondhjem, Norway. The beardsmen compete in five categories: Moustache, Partial Beard, Full Beard Groomed, Freestyle and the prestigious, Full Beard Natural.
OWN
OPRAH’S NEXT CHAPTER – Series premiere
Sunday, Jan. 1 at 9 p.m. ET
Oprah Winfrey steps outside of the studio for riveting, in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders and real-life families in the new weekly, primetime series Oprah’s Next Chapter. During the first season, Oprah visits Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler at his home in New Hampshire, journeys to Haiti with Sean Penn nearly two years after the devastating earthquake that took the lives of more than 300,000 people, tours Skywalker Ranch with George Lucas as her personal guide, has a slumber party at Southern chef Paula Deen’s Georgia estate and travels to a small town in Iowa devoted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation.
GASTOWN GAMBLE – Series Premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 9:30 p.m. ET
Gastown Gamble is a new half-hour docu-series following Vancouver entrepreneur and restaurateur Mark Brand and his wife Nico as they take on their riskiest challenge yet - resurrecting the historic Save-On-Meats building in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside.
MILLION DOLLAR NEIGHBOURHOOD – Series premiere
Sunday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. ET
Set in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Million Dollar Neighbourhood is an unprecedented social experiment in which 100 families have only 10 weeks to raise their collective net worth by $1 million. It's a challenge to rethink the way we earn, spend and save money
AMERICA’S MONEY CLASS WITH SUZE ORMAN – Series premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET
America’s most trusted personal finance advisor and best-selling author Suze Orman holds a six-episode money class, tackling the toughest financial questions and revealing the rules for surviving in this volatile economy.
EXTREME CLUTTER WITH PETER WALSH – Season premiere
Monday, Jan. 2 at 10 p.m. ET
In each episode of Extreme Clutter with Peter Walsh (formerly titled Enough Already!), acclaimed organization expert Peter Walsh encounters the biggest, most extreme problems he has ever seen as he continues his mission of helping families whose lives have been dramatically affected by the overwhelming presence of clutter.
THE AMBUSH COOK – Series premiere
Saturday, Jan. 7 at 3 p.m. ET
Kristina Kuzmič (co-winner of Your OWN Show) has been passionate about cooking her entire life. In The Ambush Cook, she ambushes people from their everyday lives and takes them to her kitchen for an intervention in home cooking. Kuzmič was born and raised in Croatia, has gone from food stamps to her own television series. From married moms addicted to frozen foods and take-out, to single bachelors who still go to mom's house for dinner every single night, as varied as Kuzmič’s guests may be they all have one thing in common: they fear the kitchen.
ROLLIN’ WITH ZACH – Series premiere
Saturday, Jan. 7 at 3:30 p.m. ET
Zach Anner (co-winner of Your OWN Show) hosts Rollin' with Zach, a half-hour travel series where he explores the U.S. from coast to coast, visiting Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Portland. From surfing to sailing, rock climbing to water-skiing, he challenges himself to try the unexpected, and at times - the seemingly impossible he never imagined possible!
LOUDER THAN A BOMB – Documentary premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 9 p.m. ET
Humanitas Prize-winning Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world’s largest youth slam poetry contest. The film captures the turbulent lives of these unforgettable teenagers, exploring how writing and performing shapes their world.
SHOWCASE
RIZZOLI & ISLES – Season 1 Network Premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. ET
TNT series follows the quirky relationship of Boston detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon, Law & Order) and medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander, NCIS). Polar opposites, Rizzoli and Isles are good friends who decipher the toughest cases in town and bust Boston's most notorious criminals. Supporting cast includes Bruce McGill, Lorraine Bracco, Lee Thompson Young and Jordan Bridges.
ROYAL PAINS – Season 3
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. ET
USA Network’s highest rated series follows the life and times of everyone’s favourite doctor-on-demand, Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) and his brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) as they live it up in the Hamptons. Season three guest stars include Wilmer Valderrama, Molly Sims, Julie Benz and more.
MISFITS – Season 3
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 10 p.m. ET
This time around Rudy, the new kid on the block, is learning the ropes misfits-style – meaning little community service and plenty of cleaning up corpses. With zombies, time-travel and some complicated relationships brewing, the superhero series boasts a large order of mayhem.
COVERT AFFAIRS – Season 2 continued
Sunday, Jan. 8 at 10 p.m. ET
LOST GIRL – Season 2 continued
Sunday, Jan. 22 at 9 p.m. ET
SLICE
BUBBLE WRAP KIDS – Canadian premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. ET
Lenore Skenazy hit the headlines in April 2008 when she allowed her 9-year-old son, Izzy, to travel on the New York Subway on his own. The media called her ‘America’s Worst Mom’. Now she’s coming to Canada to help kids reclaim their childhood – and parents, their sanity.
PARTY MAMAS – Season 4 Canadian debut
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. ET
REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA – Season 4 Canadian debut
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. ET
MILLIONAIRE MATCHMAKER – Season 5 Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 8 p.m. ET
FOUR WEDDINGS CANADA – Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. ET
Canadian brides-to-be have the once in a lifetime opportunity to pit their weddings against one another for a shot at a dream honeymoon.
TORI & DEAN: SWEET HOME HOLLYWOOD – Season 6 Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 10 p.m. ET
PROJECT RUNWAY ALL-STARS – Canadian premiere
Monday, Jan. 9 at 10 p.m. ET
It’s judgment day…again! World-famous designers Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman will serve as judges on this new series which is hosted by supermodel Angela Lindvall and features fashion tastemaker and Marie Claire editor-in-chief Joanna Coles as mentor. Guest judges include the iconic Miss Piggy, supermodel Miranda Kerr, and musician Pharrell Williams.
SPACE
INNERSPACE – NEW TIME
Mondays – Fridays at 6 p.m. ET starting Jan. 3
Daily entertainment talk show that covers film, television, video games, technology, comic books, gadgets, and all things genre. Hosted by Ajay Fry, Cynthia Loyst and Teddy Wilson.
TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL – Season 2 continued
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 9 p.m. ET
Season 2 returns with “See you Later, Masterbator,” in which Jimmy is fired for peeping on students and Todd vows to clear his name. The gang finds the real culprit is difficult to identify – because he’s invisible! Following at 9:30 p.m. ET, the A/V Club use the Book to turn the Gang’s lives into a psycho thriller – and they’ve cast Jenny as the victim and Todd as the killer in the episode “Loser Generated Content”.
TRUE BLOOD – Season 3
Friday, Jan. 6 at 10 p.m. ET
In bad “Bad Blood”, Sookie turns to Eric for help finding Bill. Andy urges Jason to stay the course. Sam wants to reconnects with his past so he begins his search for his birth parents. Tara seeks refuge from her grief. Lafayette gives Lettie May one more chance to help Tara. Meanwhile Jason and Andy work to cover up the truth about Eggs death. Sophia-Anne makes a surprise visit to Fangtasia.
MERLIN – Season 4 Premiere
Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. ET
In the Season 4 premiere, “The Darkest Hour (Part 1)”, Morgana, empowered with her magic stronger than ever, summons the mighty Callieach to tear open the veil between the two worlds, effectively opening the gates to the Other World. Hellish creatures pour forth, killing any who succumb to their touch. With Uther a shadow of his former self, it falls to Arthur and his loyal knights, including Lancelot to protect the kingdom. Nothing will prepare Merlin when he discovers that the only way to restore the balance requires a sacrifice of unimaginable proportions.
FACT OR FAKED: PARANORMAL FILES – Season 2B Premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 9 p.m. ET
Led by former FBI agent Ben Hansen, the paranormal investigation team returns with “UFO Crash Landing/Graveyard Ghost”. In the season 2B premiere, one team goes to New Mexico to investigate a supposed UFO crash while the other travels to Nevada to look into stories of a graveyard ghost.
FACE OFF – Season 2 Premiere
Wednesday, Jan.11 at 10 p.m. ET
Season 2 of the competition/elimination series explores the world of special-effects make-up artists and the unlimited imagination that allows them to create amazing works of living art. The contestants are tasked with elaborate feature challenges including executing full body paint make up on models and creating their own horror villain. FACE OFF culminates in one winner and one grand prize that will launch a career.
BEING HUMAN (US) – Season 2 Premiere
Monday, Jan. 16 at 10 p.m. ET
In the season premiere episode “Turn This Mother Out”, Aidan deals with the power vacuum and orphan vampires left behind when Bishop died and Josh prepares to re-enter medical school and embrace a normal life with Nora. Sally’s ghost powers grow stronger as she wonders what will happen to her now that she’s missed her door
SUNDANCE CHANNEL CANADA
QUIRKY – Season premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. ET
Chronicling Quirky.com, a product development company, founded by 24-year-old visionary Ben Kaufman, that gives everyone the freedom to turn their creative ideas into a business reality.
TWIST TV
BRAXTON FAMILY VALUES – Canadian premiere
Monday, Jan. 2 at 10 p.m. ET
The show features the rambunctious, tight-knit Braxton sisters — Grammy© Award-winning artist Toni Braxton, Traci, Towanda, Trina and Tamar — and their headstrong mother, Evelyn, and offers an inside look at their lives and the drama of family chaos. They battle it out for the spotlight with sibling rivalry, man drama, bankruptcy, a DUI, an absent dad much more. Through the laughter, tears, screaming and door-slamming, this family still has each other’s back.
STATEN ISLAND CAKES – Canadian premiere
Monday, Jan. 2 at 9 p.m. ET
Meet Vinny! This 21-year-old is the boss at his bakery, but still needs to answer to mom and the rest of his loud Italian family at home – watch what happens when the two worlds collide on Staten Island Cakes.
GLAMOUR BELLES – Network premiere
Monday, Jan. 2 at 8 p.m. ET
DOWNSIZED – Season 2 Canadian premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. ET
RUBY – Season 2 & 3 Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 9 p.m. ET
TOO FAT FOR FIFTEEN: FIGHTING BACK - Canadian premiere
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. ET
JO FROST: EXTREME PARENTAL GUIDANCE – Season 1 & 2 Canadian premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 10 p.m. ET
Jo Frost gives parents the honest, insightful, no-nonsense parenting advice they need.
DANCE MOMS – Network premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 10 p.m. ET
SHOTGUN RENO – Network premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. ET
‘TIL DEBT: BABY EDITION – Network premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET
W NETWORK
CANDICE TELLS ALL – Season 2 premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 7:30 p.m. ET
As one of North America’s top designers, Candice dishes her best trade secrets while juggling clients, multiple job sites and a personal life. From inspiration, to execution, to completion – this half-hour series offers an entertaining glimpse into Candice's world and her design process, revealing the secrets of timeless design principles and where she finds her inspiration.
ALL FOR NOTHING? – Season 2 premiere
Tuesday Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. on W Network
All For Nothing? returns for a second season this January to W Network. Produced by Mountain Road Productions in association with W Network, this hour-long series pits homeowner against homeowner in a competition to ready their neglected homes for sale, with the help of Award-winning interior designer Penny Southam and top-ranked realtor Paul Rushforth – all without spending a dime.
LUDO BITES AMERICA – Network series premiere
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. ET
Ludo Bites America, a six episode, hour-long series takes classically trained five-star French chef Ludovic Lefebvre, better known as Ludo, the creator of L.A.’s legendary pop-up restaurant LudoBites, on the road with his business partner and wife Krissy as they create a pop-up restaurant in a new town with a new menu every week. Part travel series, part food series, and one hundred percent non-fiction, Ludo Bites America gives viewers a first-hand look as Ludo and Krissy scout locations, hire staffs, experiment with local flavors and open a restaurant - all in one week.
THE CLOSER – Season 6 network premiere
Friday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET
Starring Golden Globe® winner Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, who uses her CIA training to close high profile cases, extracting confessions when nobody else can. Sedgwick’s steel-fist-in-velvet-glove portrayal of the tough-talking cop won her the Golden Globe® for best actress in a drama series as well as Screen Actors Guild and Emmy nominations in the same category.
UNDERCOVER BOSS – Season 1 network premiere
Thursday, Jan. 5 at 8 p.m. ET
Undercover Boss (U.S.) is an hour-long series that follows high level corporate executives as they take the extraordinary step of going undercover in their own companies to ensure that they are fighting fit for the future. The bosses slip anonymously into the lowest level jobs within their companies, get their hands dirty with the rank and file, and find out what their employees really think of them. In the process, these senior executives learn about themselves, the perception of their company and the spirit of their work force. They discover what needs fixing, who deserves praising and who needs a wakeup call.
SWITCHED AT BIRTH – ABC Spark sneak peek
Saturday, Jan. 21 at noon ET
A one-hour scripted drama, Switched at Birth tells the story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano, Gilmore Girls) grew up in a wealthy family with two parents (D.W. Moffett, Friday Night Lights and Lea Thompson, Caroline in the City) and a brother (Lucas Grabeel, High School Musical), while Daphne Vasquez (newcomer Katie Leclerc), who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother (Constance Marie, George Lopez) in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.
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