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Last week, during an investor conference call masquerading as entertaining content (or vice versa) Disney announced an exhausting number of new Disney+ series and films arriving over the next few years, most of them having something to do with the Marvel or Star Wars franchises. The majority of those are a long way off, but Avengers fans in particular are getting a treat next month with the launch of WandaVision (Jan. 15), a limited series that seems sure to put two of the MCU’s most underrated (and underutilized) characters to good use.

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The series picks up with Wanda “Scarlet Witch” Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and The Vision (Paul Bettany) at some undetermined time before the latter was obliterated by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War (or maybe not; the trailer promises a lot of hopping about about in time) as they attempt to take up a life of wedded suburban bliss right out of a 1950s TV sitcom. Given Wanda’s unstable, reality-warping powers, you shouldn’t be surprised to see this picture-perfect facade quickly begin to crumble. If the show, from creator Jac Schaeffer (writer of the forthcoming Black Widow) is half as good as the comic it is drawing from—the two-volume, award-winning 2015-2016 limited series The Vision, by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta—it will rank with the best superhero properties ever put to film. (No pressure.)

Disney+ isn’t offering much to love this month if you’re not a Marvel fan, but if your life needs more puppets (and whose doesn’t?), there are two big additions from the Jim Henson folks arriving in January: season two of the sci-fi faux talk show Earth to Ned (10 episodes dropping Jan. 1) and all four seasons of the ‘90s sitcom Dinosaurs. Will “I’m the baby!” be as funny 25 years later? We’ll see. Here’s the full rundown for January 2021.

Series with new episodes premiering weekly in January

• Marvel Studios: Legends (Series premiere 1/8)

• WandaVision (Series premiere 1/15)

Movies and complete series coming in January

January 1 

• 700 Sharks

• Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!

• Earth to Ned (Disney+ Original)

• Great Shark Chow Down

• Mega Hammerhead

• Mr. Popper’s Penguins

• The Wolverine (2013)

January 8

• Disney Fam Jam

• Ferdinand

• Star Wars Forces of Destiny: Volume 1

• Star Wars Forces of Destiny: Volume 2

• Star Wars Forces of Destiny: Volume 3

• Star Wars Forces of Destiny: Volume 4

• Toy Story That Time Forgot

January 15

• Disney Elena of Avalor (s3)

• Doctor Doolittle 3

• Isle of Dogs

• Mary Poppins Returns

January 22

• Pixar Popcorn (Disney+ Original)

• Wild Uganda

January 29

• Dinosaurs (s1)

• Dinosaurs (s2)

• Dinosaurs (s3)

• Dinosaurs (s4)

• Epic

• The Incredible Dr. Pol

• Ramona and Beezus

• Texas Storm Squad