The tip of 2024 is right here, which suggests the 2025 TV schedule and upcoming motion pictures lineup are kicking off in earnest. It’s a fairly customary month-to-month custom at this level that the primary of the month brings an enormous shift in content material on lots of the greatest streaming providers as numerous motion pictures and exhibits depart one platform, solely to get replaced by a slew of recent materials, at the very least normally. Nonetheless, with the tip of not simply the month, however all the yr, that subject seems to be much more vital.
January is an enormous month for streaming, and the large releases arrive nearly instantly, with a few of Netflix’s large premieres making an enormous wave in reside tv. So far as what’s upcoming on Disney+ or what’s on the best way for different streaming platforms, there’s a lot to get you thru the tip of the yr and celebrating 2025 in fashion. Strap in.
Skeleton Crew, Episode 6 – December 31 (Disney+)
There are not any dangerous weeks to have a Disney+ subscription as of late, as a result of each week brings a brand new episode of the youth-friendly journey collection Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Following final week’s sudden however inevitable betrayal, followers have numerous questions that can hopefully be answered when the brand new episode drops on New 12 months’s Eve, with loads of time to get pleasure from it earlier than the ball drops.
New 12 months’s Eve Broadcasts – December 31 (Paramount+, Max)
And talking of It’s New 12 months’s Eve this week which suggests a world celebration as the brand new yr arrives. Broadcasting the midnight celebration is all the time an enormous deal and this yr you may watch a number of the festivities streaming as effectively. New 12 months’s Eve Reside with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen, is among the extra in style exhibits of the yr, and it may be streamed reside with a Max subscription.
If nation music is extra your pace and you’ve got a Paramount+ subscription then you may get pleasure from Jack Daniel’s New 12 months’s Eve Reside: Nashville’s Massive Bash.
WWE Archive – January 1 (Netflix)
WWE made waves when it signed a deal to deliver its flagship collection, Raw, reside to Netflix. Whereas the primary episode of the lengthy operating collection gained’t debut till subsequent week, a group of further WWE archival materials, together with previous episodes of Uncooked and different weekly exhibits and premium reside occasions will drop on the platform on the primary in an effort to get outdated followers, and possibly some new ones, in control earlier than issues actually get rolling subsequent Monday.
AEW – January 1 (Max)
To not be outdone by WWE, the opposite main American wrestling promotion, AEW, can even be making the leap to streaming starting in January. The promotion’s common Wednesday night time present AEW Dynamite will stream reside with a Max subscription on January 1 and 5 traditional occasions from 2019 can even be made out there. AEW Collision can even start weekly livestreams on Saturday January 4.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – January 3 (Netflix)
The final time {that a} Wallace & Gromit film got here out in theaters, it gained the Academy Award for greatest Animated Characteristic, so film followers will wish to take not of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The brand new movie debuts on Netflix this week nevertheless it already has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes so that is one other nice piece of cease movement animation that can be price trying out.
Thw 2025 Golden Globes – January 5 (Paramount+)
Awards season will get underway this Sunday with this yr’s Golden Globes, which can be streamed reside on Paramount+. Its potential to foretell the Oscars is questionable at greatest, nevertheless it marks Hollywood’s first large night time to rejoice everybody’s favourite motion pictures and TV collection from the earlier yr.
If the primary few days of 2025 are any indication of what the yr has in retailer for us, it’s going to be an excellent yr certainly.