If you’re looking for new TV this week, you’ll probably want to head to Disney Plus — not officially, but that’s where you’ll find a lot of the big new releases in the lead-up to Christmas Eve this week (and, not for nothing, a lot of the family-friendly content for being home for the holidays too). There you’ll find familiar tentpoles like the MCU’s What If...? season 2 and the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians. But you’ll also find Dragons of Wonderhatch, a new world with a partially animated schtick.
Of course, those aren’t the only new TV shows this week, nor are they even all the shows you might be trying to catch up on; there’s a lot of good TV this year! But it’s a good place to start — at least, you know, for this week.
Here’s all the best TV premieres and finales happening this week:
Genre: Horror
Release date: Dec. 22
Writer: Kang Eun-kyung
Cast: Park Seo-joon, Han So-hee, Soo Hyun, Kim Hae-sook, Jo Han-chul, Wi Ha-joon, and more
It’s spring 1945 in Gyeongseong, with Korea still under Japanese colonization. The wealthiest, most well-connected person in the city will soon be pairing up with a sleuth to confront a strange creature, and try their best to live to tell the tale. This series will be divided in two parts: Part 1 (with seven episodes) will be coming on Dec. 22, and then part 2 (the remaining three episodes) will be out Jan. 5, 2024.
Genre: YA fantasy adventure
Release date: Dec. 20, with two episodes
Showrunner/creator: Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg
Cast: Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, and more
We’re doing Percy Jackson again — but now he’s on TV. Based on the book series by Rick Riordan (and trying to be more like those books than the movie series was), Percy
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