With the sun setting closer to lunch than bedtime, winter is the perfect time to find all of your new binges.
Here are the buzziest new TV shows of the season to watch or avoid.
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"Pivoting" (Sunday, Fox): What, three middle-aged women grieving the death of their fourth best friend doesn't sound like a laugh to you? Not a historically funny premise but Fox has branded "Pivoting" a comedy, and anything that puts Maggie Q, Ginnifer Goodwin and Eliza Coupe in the same room — or graveyard — is a winner.
"The Gilded Age" (Jan. 24, HBO): Julian Fellowes' long-awaited follow-up to "Downton Abbey" is finally here with "The Gilded Age," which appears to be a grandiose study of the most pretentious millionaires in 1880s New York society. If you're going to make a show about obnoxious rich people with blinkers on, you'd better give them great hats.
"Promised Land" (Jan. 24, ABC): A generational epic about two Latino families vying for land in California's wine country will almost certainly have someone's son and someone else's daughter sneaking around in an illicit affair.
"How I Met Your Father" (Jan. 28, Hulu): "How I Met Your Mother" will go down in history as having one of the worst series finales. We can only hope that the showrunners have learned their lesson for the remake, which thrusts Hilary Duff back into the dating scene. Ultimate Nice Guy Chris Lowell is a big draw here, too.
"The Afterparty" (Jan. 28, Apple TV Plus): Like "Pivoting," this is a series that entirely hinges on a fantastic cast. Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Zoe Chao, Ben Schwartz, Ike Barinholtz, Ilana Glazer, Jamie Demetriou and Dave Franco solving a murder-mystery at their high school reunion? Yeah, sign us up.
