By Jeniffer Hillman
You've finished your finals, you're back home, and everything seems great. The only bad news is all of your favorites shows are on hiatus and all that's playing are repeats. Now, what do you do? Simple: Just check out the new shows coming in January. Fans of Friends, listen up: Showtime's new show Episodes starts January 9 with Matt LeBlanc starring as Matt LeBlanc. Yes, you might be hesitant to watch this show after the flop of Joey, but it shows promise. "Episodes" is a comedy series about remaking a U.K. comedy series with Matt LeBlanc playing an exaggerated version of himself. Episodes airs January 9, 9:30 PM on Showtime.
Matt LeBlanc will be in competition with The Cape on NBC.
The Cape is a superhero show, (don't groan: NBC isn't trying to bring back Heroes) that doesn't seem original at first. Vince Faraday is a cop who gets framed for murder. He becomes his son's favorite superhero, the Cape, to save the town from crime and maybe one day be reunited with his family. It sounds like your run of the mill superhero show, right? Well, creators of the show, Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun added the twist that Vince Faraday learns to fight crime from the other outcasts of the city, the carnies a.k.a. the carnival people.
If you're sill hesitant about this show, one good thing about it is David Lyons, the actor who plays Vince Faraday. You might remember him from NBC's other well known show ER. The Cape airs January 9, 9 PM, NBC.
What if the two shows above aren't to your liking? What you really want are new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice? Well you'll have to wait for those, but Shonda Rimes, the creator behind those two shows, has come out with another new medical show, Off the Map.
Off the Map is a medical show where six doctors set up shop in a tiny town, "La Ciudad de las Estrellas" in South America. The medical team is trying to save the people of the town, but also trying to save themselves and figure out what they are being doctors. This show is a tad different from Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice as the medical team on Off the Map have their waiting rooms and operating rooms in the jungle or in their small clinic, not in a hospital with all the expensive equipment. They just have their own hands and brains to figure out how to help. Off the Map premieres January 12, 10 PM on ABC.
A couple of old shows will also return to the January lineup including Pretty Little Liars on ABC family, Parks and Recreations on NBC, and V on ABC.
Maybe January won't seem so bad now that you found some new shows to watch.