Winter/Spring TV Preview: From X-Files to Jessica Jones

It’s officially 2018! New year, new me. Oh, and new TV!

Let’s map out midseason TV, shall we? A hearty look at all the winter and spring continuations, returns, and debuts.

From the back halves of The Walking Dead, The Tick, and Star Trek: Discovery to the seasonal returns of The X-Files, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, and American Crime Story to the debuts of Black Lightning, Counterpart, and Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams – the months of January through April contain a ton of content.

Plus, more Ash vs Evil Dead, Homeland, The Magicians, Strike Back, and One Day at a Time – along with new shows like Altered Carbon, The Alienist, Waco, and American Idol. Okay, Idol’s not new, obviously. But it is back…and on a whole new network.

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Free PS4 PS Plus Games For January Coming Soon

It’s the start of a new month–and a new year–which means more free games are now available (or coming very soon!) for PlayStation Plus subscribers. With the PlayStation Store refresh on Tuesday, January 2, games like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Batman: The Telltale Series will drop to the low, low price of $0.00 for paying subscribers.

It is already January 2 in Australia, but if you live elsewhere you should be able to grab these games and the rest of January 2018’s PS Plus lineup very soon.

Mankind Divided is the headlining PS4 freebie this month. The dystopian cyberpunk role-playing game casts you as Adam Jensen and tasks you with catching a terrorist group, which you can do by being a stealthy detective or a tech-enhanced killing machine, or some mixture of both.

As for Telltale’s Batman game, this is the first season of the story and puts players in tricky situations as both Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter-ego. The decisions you make will have some consequence on the relationships around you, and the overall story.

Other PS4 freebies in January include the wacky and fun party game That’s You and StarBlood Arena (which requires PlayStation VR). You can see January 2018’s full PS Plus lineup–covering PS4, PS3, and PS Vita–down below.

January 2018 Free PS Plus Games

PS4

  • Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PS4)
  • Batman: The Telltale Series (PS4)
  • StarBlood Arena (PS VR required)
  • That’s You!

PS3

  • Sacred 3
  • Book of Unwritten Tales 2

PS Vita

  • Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness
  • Uncanny Valley (PS Vita & PS4)

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The Last Jedi Is 2017’s Highest-Grossing Movie

With $533.1 million in ticket sales in just three weeks of release — including an additional first place finish of $52.7 million over New Year’s weekend — Star Wars: The Last Jedi is now the No. 1 movie of 2017 at the domestic box office.

The Last Jedi dethroned another Disney release, Beauty and the Beast, which drops to second place with $504 million. As of January 1, 2018, however, Beauty and the Beast remains the No. 1 movie of 2017 worldwide with nearly $1.3 billion. (Here is a list of the top domestic box office releases of 2017.)

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