Sky Announces January 2022 Line-up With ‘Bull’, ‘The Rookie’, ‘Billions’, ‘Discovery of Witches’ & More!
Sky has announced the shows which will be hitting our screens in January across their channel and the NOW streaming service, and it is a great mix of new and returning faces. Here are a selection of what to expect on the broadcaster when 2022 rolls around.
Bull – Season 5 – Sky Witness
Making his Sky Witness debut, Dr Jason Bull is back for the long-awaited UK premiere of the acclaimed legal drama’s fifth season. Brilliant, brash, and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition, and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses, and the accused tick. As this season kicks off, Bull and the Trial Analysis Corporation team struggle to adjust to a virtual court system as they weather the New York City coronavirus shutdown.
The Rookie – Season 4 – Sky Witness
John Nolan (Nathan Fillion), the oldest rookie in the LAPD, has used his life experience, determination and sense of humour to keep up with rookies 20 years his junior. Nearing the end of his training, Nolan now faces his biggest challenge as a police officer when he must come to terms with the choices he has made in pursuit of the truth.
The Simpsons – Season 33 – Sky Showcase
The world’s most evergreen – or should that be everyellow? – TV family return for all-new episodes exclusive to Sky Showcase. In this season, Waylon Smithers finally finds true love with a famous fashion designer, we flashback to Homer’s teenage years as he and Grampa head out on a road trip to find his runaway mother, and Marge is inspired to reunite with her old classmates to restage their high school play. NOTE: This airs exclusively on Sky Showcase, not Sky Max, due to the deal Sky did with Disney over the premiere rights for the series.
Billions – Season 6 – Sky Atlantic
The dust has cleared to reveal a world that has evolved. With Axe gone and Michael Prince (Corey Stoll) assuming his place, Chuck (Paul Giamatti) must develop a new strategy that is keener and more sophisticated than before. All the players, from Wags to Wendy, from Taylor to Sacker, and of course Senior must sharpen their weapons and look for new alliances in order to survive. The ground is ever-shifting and the stakes absolute. New king, new war, new rules.
Euphoria – Season 2 – Sky Atlantic
Created, written, and directed by Sam Levinson, and starring Emmy winner Zendaya, the eight-episode drama series returns. Amidst the intertwining lives in the town of East Highland, 17-year-old Rue (Zendaya) must find hope while balancing the pressures of love, loss, and addiction. This actually has a premiere date of Monday, 10th January 2022.
The Gilded Age – Sky Atlantic
Julian Fellows, the creator of Downton Abbey, presents a new drama set on the brink of the modern age. It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), a young, orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott (Denée Benton), an African- American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbours as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path. Also starring Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector.
Frayed – Series 2 – Sky Max
Having escaped from her native Australia, Sammy’s (Sarah Kendall) situation is barely improved. Now living in a tiny London flat while frantically trying to prove that her lawyer (Robert Webb) has stolen her house, she’s barely able to make ends meet working in ‘exhaust management’ (read: working as a secretary in a muffler repair shop). Series two finds Sammy desperate to find a way to reclaim her opulent London life, while keeping her kids far away from Australia and hiding the truth about what happened to their neighbour.
A Discovery of Witches – Series 3 – Sky Max
In the third and final instalment of this spellbinding adaptation of Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy, vampire Matthew (Matthew Goode) and witch Diana (Teresa Palmer) return from 1590 to find tragedy at Sept-Tours. They must find the missing pages from the Book of Life and the Book itself before it’s too late, but a monster from Matthew’s past is lying in wait for his return.
In addition to all those dramas and comedies, on Sky Documentaries we have ‘The Alpinist’, from veteran filmmaker Peter Mortimer about Marc-André Leclerc who climbs alone on remote alpine faces with no cameras, no rope and no margin for error; And ‘The Devil’s Advocate’, a docuseries which tells the stranger-than-fiction tale of flamboyant international movie mogul and businessman turned criminal defence lawyer, Giovanni di Stefano.
Over on Sky Crime we have ‘Murders at Starved Rock’, a story which begins on March 14th, 1960, where the bodies of three women from the suburbs of Chicago were discovered in a canyon that makes up one of the natural wonders of Starved Rock State, Illinois. The brutal killings shocked northern Illinois and led to an exhaustive manhunt that snared a confessed killer who has been in prison ever since.
Lastly, over on Sky Cinema, there are premieres for ‘A Quiet Place Part II’, ‘The Croods 2: A New Age’, ‘Monster Hunter’ starring Milla Jovovich, ‘Supernova’ starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, kung fu film ‘The Paper Tigers’, and many more.
Which ever way you look at it, there should be something to catch your interest on Sky and NOW in January 2022.
