Welcome to a special edition of What's On Weekly!
January 2026 is a big month of premieres! Read below about the can't-miss shows to watch, including new seasons of Antiques Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, Miss Scarlet, and All Creatures Great and Small.
Antiques Roadshow
A new season of Antiques Roadshow begins January 5!
Watch as specialists from the country's leading auction houses and independent dealers offer free appraisals of antiques and collectibles, revealing fascinating truths about family treasures and flea market finds.
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Tune in Mondays, beginning January 5, at 7pm. Each new episode is shown again on Saturdays, beginning January 10, at 7pm.
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Finding Your Roots
A new season of Finding Your Roots begins January 6!
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns, exploring the family trees of twenty guests through DNA and genealogy.
From Africa to India, the Cherokee Nation to Texas, the series uncovers stories of resilience, love, and sacrifice, revealing how diverse histories intertwine to shape America’s shared identity.
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Tune in Tuesdays, beginning January 6, at 7pm. Each new episode is shown again on Saturdays, beginning January 10, at 8pm.
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Miss Scarlet | Season 6
Miss Eliza Scarlet is doing her best to have it all. Her business is thriving, but her personal life enters new territory as she attempts to follow her heart and develop a relationship with Inspector Alexander Blake.
Eliza may be an expert solving crimes, but she’s very much a novice when it comes to love. Can Eliza juggle the twin demands of her personal and professional life?
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Tune in for the new season on Sundays, beginning January 11, at 7pm.
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All Creatures Great and Small | Season 6
Travel back to the beautiful Yorkshire Dales for more heartwarming human and animal tales in the new season of All Creatures Great and Small.
This time, we find our beloved Skeldale gang in a somewhat different situation as we join them in 1945, just as the war in Europe is coming to a close. We arrive back in Darrowby to veterinary advancements, expanded families, and new faces as they all look ahead to a brighter and more peaceful future.
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Tune in Sundays, beginning January 11, at 8pm.
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Bookish
In post-war London, Gabriel Book, a literary enthusiast and bookseller, combines his day job with his favorite hobby — helping solve knotty murder cases.
Although happily married to his best friend, Trottie, Book is a gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal. When a new assistant, Jack, arrives at the bookshop, it soon becomes clear his appointment wasn’t as random as it at first seems.
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Tune in Sundays, beginning January 11, at 9pm.
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Breaking the Deadlock | A Matter of Life and Death
What does “freedom” mean — and what is the role of government — when people face life and death choices? As with many other complex issues, Americans are divided in their views regarding the limits of personal autonomy.
In this hour long special, moderator Aaron Tang and a panel of experts with very different views, take on a hypothetical scenario that raises questions about reproductive rights, as well as our right to die at a time of our choosing.
Breaking the Deadlock: A Matter of Life and Deathencourages dialogue, and the possibility of common ground.
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Tune in Tuesday, January 20, at 8pm.
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American Masters | Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, we seek to understand the man behindElie Wiesel's searing and widely read memoir, “Night.”
Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) — his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust.
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Tune in Tuesday, January 27, at 8pm.