Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers viewing tips for the coming quarter.

Broadcast network scripted shows will start to return in earnest next month, and the hangover from the writers’ and actors’ strikes will grow more pronounced later in 2024 for cable and streaming series.

Broadcast shows are produced much closer to when they air, so those shows saw the greatest impact this fall. But cable and especially streaming shows have a much longer lead time. Cable/streaming shelves may start to look bare the deeper we get into 2024.

Here are the original scripted series that have been announced so far for cable and streaming:

“The Brothers Sun” (Jan. 4, Netflix): Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”) stars as the matriarch of a Taiwanese gang living in Los Angeles.

“Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale” (Jan. 4, AMC+, Sundance Now): Witch gets hunted following tragic accident in a contemporary, idyllic English town.

“Echo” (Jan. 10, Disney+/Hulu): A five-episode, TV-MA-rated Marvel series about Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) who is pursued by baddie Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio).

“Criminal Record” (Jan. 10, Apple TV+): Peter Capaldi (“Doctor Who”) and Cush Jumbo (“The Good Fight”) star as two London detectives who get drawn into an old murder case.

“Ted” (Jan. 11, Peacock): Seth MacFarlane again voices the title character, a foul-mouthed bear first introduced in the 2012 feature film of the same name.

“True Detective: Night Country” (9 p.m. Jan. 14, HBO/Max): Six-episode season of this anthology follows two detectives (Jodie Foster, Kali Reis) trying to solve what happened to eight scientists who disappeared from an Alaska research station.

“Monsieur Spade” (9 p.m. Jan. 14, AMC, AMC+, Acorn TV): Clive Owen stars as the hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade, now retired in the South of France when six nuns at a local convent are murdered. Soon after, Spade is on the case.

“Belgravia: The Next Chapter” (9 p.m. Jan. 14, MGM+): Technically a second season to the 2020 limited series but with few original cast members returning. Writer Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”) also sat this one out with playwright Helen Edmundson taking over as the story moves forward three decades to 1871 as the third Lord Trenchard (Benjamin Wainwright) woos London society newcomer Clara Dunn (Harriet Slater). Only Alice Eve, as Susan Trenchard, and Richard Goulding, as Oliver Trenchard, return from the original series.

“Hazbin Hotel” (Jan. 19, Prime Video): A princess of hell tries to rehabilitate demons to reduce overpopulation in hell.

“The Woman in the Wall” (Jan. 19, Paramount+ with Showtime; 9 p.m. Jan. 21, Showtime): Lorna Brady (Ruth Wilson, “Luther”), who suffers from sleepwalking, finds a corpse in her home but has no idea what happened or how the body got there.

“Griselda” (Jan. 25, Netflix): Sofia Vergara stars as the Godmother of a 1970s-’80s era drug cartel in Miami.

“In the Know” (Jan. 25, Peacock): Adult stop motion-animated comedy about NPR’s third most popular host (voice of Zach Woods), executive produced by Mike Judge (“King of the Hill”) and Greg Daniels (“The Office”).

“Sexy Beast” (Jan. 25, Paramount+): Eight-episode prequel series to the 2000 film of the same name explores the complicated relationship between Gal Dove (James McArdle) and Don Logan (Emun Elliott) in the London criminal world in the 1990s.

“Expats” (Jan. 26, Prime Video): Nicole Kidman stars in this six-episode limited series based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s novel “The Expatriates” about three American women who experience a family tragedy in 2014 in Hong Kong.

“Masters of the Air” (Jan. 26, Apple TV+): World War II-set follow-up to the Tom Hanks-produced HBO series “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” this time following the 100th Bomb Group as it conducts bombing raids over Nazi Germany.

“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” (10 p.m. Jan. 31, FX, FXX; streaming next day on Hulu): Eight-episode limited series about Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and the New York society women he befriended and then betrayed in writing a thinly veiled fictionalized account of their lives.

“Three Little Birds” (Feb. 1, Britbox): Uplifting drama about sisters who leave Jamaica for Great Britain in the 1950s.

“Genius: MLK/X” (9 -11 p.m. weekly Thursdays beginning Feb. 1, Nat Geo; Feb. 2 on Disney+, Hulu): Eight-part series on the dueling philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) and Malcolm X (Aaron Pierre).

“Mr. and Mrs. Smith” (Feb. 2, Prime Video): New version of the 2005 Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie film about two lonely strangers (Donald Glover, Maya Erskine) who work for a mysterious spy agency.

“One Day” (Feb. 8, Netflix): 14-episode limited half-hour series following characters on the same day year after year, based on the David Nicholls novel.

“The New Look” (Feb. 14, Apple TV+): Filmed in Paris, Glenn Close stars as the editor-in-chief of fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar during World War II in this historical drama that reunites Close with series creator Todd A. Kessler (the two previously collaborated on FX’s “Damages”).

“Constellation” (Feb. 21, Apple TV+): Conspiracy thriller about an astronaut who returns to Earth following a space disaster to discover key pieces of her life are missing. Noomi Rapace and Jonathan Banks (“Breaking Bad”) star.

“The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” (9 p.m. Feb. 25, AMC/AMC+): Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) return in what AMC calls “an epic love story.”

“Shogun” (10 p.m. Feb. 27, FX; Hulu): 10-episode limited series adapted from the same James Clavell novel as the 1980 Richard Chamberlain miniseries set in 1600 Japan at the start of a civil war.

“Palm Royale” (March 20, Apple TV+): Maxine (Kristen Wiig) tries to break into Palm Beach high society in 1969. Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Julia Duffy, Bruce Dern and Carol Burnett star in this loose adaptation of the Juliet McDaniel novel “Mr. and Mrs. American Pie.”

“Fallout” (April 12, Prime Video): Based on the video game of the same name, the streaming series is set 200 years after an apocalypse as people leave luxury fallout shelters and return to the hellscape their forebears left behind.

Returning:

Dec. 26: “Letterkenny” (Hulu).

Jan. 2: “Good Trouble” (10 p.m. Jan. 2, Freeform).

Jan. 11: “Skymed” (Paramount+).

Jan. 12: “Bluey” (Disney+).

Jan. 21: “The Way Home” (9 p.m., Hallmark Channel).

Jan. 26: “Hightown” (9 p.m., Starz).

Feb. 4: “Curb Your Enthusiasm” final season (10 p.m., HBO).

Feb. 8: “HALO” (Paramount+).

Feb. 16: “Life Beth” (Hulu).

March 14: “Girls5eva” (Netflix).

May 16: “Bridgerton” season three, part one (Netflix).

June 13: “Bridgerton” season three, part two (Netflix).

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