TV highlights for Jan. 12–18: 'Tell Me Lies' returns; 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' debuts

A selection of shows and specials will air and stream during the week of Jan. 12–18, including the return of the college-set drama Tell Me Lies and the premiere of the Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Tell Me Lies returns to Hulu with Grace Van Patten and Jackson White as Lucy and Stephen, a repeatedly on-and-off couple at fictional Baird College; the series jumps in time from their college years starting in 2008 to their adulthood in 2015 and chronicles fighting, cheating, back-stabbing and accidental deaths among the clique.

The first two episodes of the season’s eight will air this week, with episodes releasing weekly until a finale on Feb. 24. Also starting this week is the British installment Love Island All Stars, hosted again by Maya Jama; the series will run six weeks, with new episodes every day except Saturday, and begins streaming Wednesday at 9 p.m.

on Peacock. Other new entries include the new season of Hijack, which finds Sam Nelson handling another hostage situation in an underground Berlin train; episodes will air weekly and begin streaming Wednesday on Apple TV. Ponies, set in 1970s Cold War–era Russia, stars Haley Lu Richardson and Emilia Clarke as American Embassy secretaries turned C.I.A.

operatives who begin to uncover a larger conspiracy possibly related to the deaths of their husbands, and begins streaming Thursday on Peacock.

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