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T8 WHATS UP! January 9 - 15, 2022 BY RAYE SMITH TV Media WHAT'S NEW ON HULU "Dollface" - Season 2 It's friends before everything else when "Dollface" returns to Hulu with its second season on Tuesday, Jan. 11. Season 1 of the series followed Jules, played by Kat Dennings ("Thor," 2011), a young woman on a mission to rekindle her neglected friend- ships after the end of her long- term relationship. As Jules at- tempted to rebuild her relation- ships with Madison (Brenda Song, "The Social Network," 2010), Stella (Shay Mitchell, "Pretty Little Liars") and Izzy (Esther Povitsky, "Alone Togeth- er"), the audience saw her over- come her own imagination and re-enter the world of women. Now reunited with her friends, Season 2 sees the girls move for- ward in their lives and deepen their relationships as they try to balance love, work and friend- ship. Created by Jordan Weiss ("Entitled," 2014), the series is directed by Emma Westenberg ("Stranger's Arms," 2018) and Stephanie Laing ("Physical") and co-written by Weiss, Hallie Cantor ("Arrested Develop- ment") and Grace Edwards ("*Loosely Exactly Nicole"). Beth Grant ("Donnie Darko," 2001) returns to the series, along with new additions Lilly Singh ("A Little Late With Lilly Singh"), Jayson Blair ("Good Trouble"), Corinne Foxx ("Beat Shazam"), Owen Thiele ("Eighty-Sixed"), Hayley Marie Normam ("Kenan"), Luke Cook ("Chilling Adventures of Sabri- na") and Chelsea Frei ("The Moodys"). WHAT'S NEW ON NETFLIX "Archive 81" - Season 1 The popular horror podcast "Ar- chive 81" is making a move to the small screen when the brand- new streaming series of the same name premieres on Netflix on Friday, Jan. 14. Based on the eponymous podcast, the horror series follows archivist Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie, "The Circle," 2017) as his ordinary life takes a turn for the dark and ter- rifying and he is recruited by a billionaire named Virgil (Martin Donovan, "Tenet," 2020) to work on a mysterious project. Now working to reconstruct the work of filmmaker Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi, "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan"), Dan finds himself piecing together video footage from her 1994 investigation into a dangerous cult. Drawn into her story, Dan becomes convinced he can save Pendras from her terrifying end. Written by show- runner and executive producer Rebecca Sonnenshine ("The Vampire Diaries") with Evan Bleiweiss ("Rosewood"), Paul Harris Boardman ("The Exor- cism of Emily Rose," 2005), Bo- bak Esfarjani ("Manifest"), Hel- en Leigh ("Outcast") and Mi- chael Narducci ("The Origi- nals"), the series is directed by Rebecca Thomas ("Stranger Things"), Haifaa Al-Mansour ("Mary Shelley," 2017), Justin Benson ("Spring," 2014) and Aaron Moorhead ("The End- less," 2017). The cast is rounded out by Ariana Neal ("Fruitvale Station," 2013), Evan Jonigkeit ("X-Men: Days of Future Past," 2014), Matt McGorry ("Orange Is the New Black"), Julia Chan ("Saving Hope"), Daniel John- son ("The Boonies," 2021) and Kate Eastman ("Limetown"). WHAT'S NEW ON HBO MAX "Peacemaker" - Season 1 Dive into a hero's origin story in the new HBO Max original se- ries "Peacemaker," available to stream on the platform on Thursday, Jan. 13. Following the events of 2021's "The Suicide Squad," this new series follows DC Comics character Christo- pher Smith, aka Peacemaker (John Cena, "WWE Raw"), a part hero, part super-villain mer- cenary killer and all-around not- that-great guy. Stopping at noth- ing to achieve what he believes to be peace (including a fair bit of violence), this story unveils the character's origins, taking audiences through his humble beginnings and through his sub- sequent missions. Executive produced, directed and written by superhero movie maven James Gunn ("Guardians of the Galaxy," 2014), this DC Extended Universe series is co-executive produced by Cena. While "The Suicide Squad's" (2021) Jennifer Holland, Freddie Stroma, Steve Agee and Stephen Blackehart re- turn to reprise their roles from the film, the series' cast is round- ed out by Robert Patrick ("The X-Files"), Christopher Heyer- dahl ("Van Helsing"), Danielle Brooks ("Orange Is the New Black), Chukwudi Iwuji ("The Split") and Nhut Le ("Kroll Show"). WHAT'S NEW ON PRIME "Hotel Transylvania: Trans- formania" (2022) The monster pack is back, but this time around they're looking a lot less monstrous — "Hotel Transylvania: Transformania" streams Friday, Jan. 14, on Prime. Dracula (Brian Hull, "Pup Star," 2016) and his merry band of monsters are reunited once more in another new terrifying adventure. When Van Helsing's (Jim Gaffigan, "Luca," 2021) mys- terious "Monsterfication Ray" gets completely out of control, Drac and the other monsters be- come the most terrifying crea- tures of all: humans. Stripped of all their powers and with Dracu- la's human son-in-law, Johnny (Andy Samberg, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), now running around as a monster, the creepy crew must team up for a journey around the world to find a cure and get everyone back to normal before the transformations be- come permanent. Directed by Derek Drymon ("SpongeBob SquarePants") and Jennifer Kluska ("Wild Kratts"), the film features a screenplay by Genndy Tartakovsky ("Samurai Jack") and Amos Vernon and Nunzio Randazzo (both of "90s Sleepover"). "Tranformania's" all-star voice cast is rounded out by Selena Gomez ("Only Mur- ders in the Building"), Kathryn Hahn ("WandaVision"), Steve Buscemi ("Miracle Workers"), David Spade ("Joe Dirt," 2001) and Keegan-Michael Key ("Schmigadoon!"). Kat Dennings and Jai Rodriguez as seen in "Dollface" A little help from her friends: Kat Dennings leads Season 2 of 'Dollface' STREAMING Dina Shihabi stars in "Archive 81" A scene from "Hotel Transylvania: Transformania"