January streaming highlights include The Night Manager Season 2 and Wonder Man

Streaming services will add a broad slate of films and series in January, with new seasons and originals arriving on Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV, Paramount+, Hulu, Peacock and AMC+. Notable additions called out by the outlet include The Night Manager Season 2, Wonder Man, Shrinking Season 3, The Pitt Season 2, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, The Beauty, Ponies, Chain Reactions and the heist series Steal.

Amazon’s The Night Manager Season 2 (starts streaming Jan. 11) brings back the core cast nine years after the BBC adaptation; the story follows Jonathan Pine and Angela Burr chasing Colombian gangsters who may have ties to British intelligence, with an emphasis on the psychological toll of their work.

Prime’s Steal (Jan. 21) opens with a violent robbery at a London firm that handles pension funds and then focuses on the aftermath as a police inspector with a shady past investigates. AMC+ debuts Chain Reactions (Jan. 9), a documentary on the legacy of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre featuring interviews with Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King and Karyn Kusama.

Apple TV’s Shrinking Season 3 (Jan. 28) returns with characters who are mostly in more stable places, though Paul’s Parkinson’s symptoms have worsened and Jimmy worries about his daughter Alice graduating high school. Disney+ premieres Wonder Man (Jan.

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