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Freed from holiday obligations, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. Below are the most interesting of what we’ve found for new movies and TV series coming to the major streaming services in January, followed by a roundup of all the best new titles in all genres. (Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice.)

‘Comedians of the World’

Starts streaming: Jan. 1, on Netflix.

Forty-seven stand-up comics from around the world trot out their best bits in this series of half-hour specials, which offers an excellent opportunity to sample new and diverse comedic voices. Want to get out of a sexually awkward situation? Aditi Mittal, who hails from India, has a foolproof excuse for you to try. Thinking of getting a Brazilian wax? The Canadian-American comic DeAnne Smith will slap that out of you. Didn’t think it was kosher to joke about H.I.V./AIDS? Loyiso Madinga (South Africa) thinks you should give it a try. Concerned about racial profiling? Nazeem Hussain (Australia) explains how he’s learned to use it to his advantage. It’s the funniest trip you can take without leaving your couch.

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‘Pan’s Labyrinth’

Starts streaming: Jan. 1, on Netflix.

The director Guillermo del Toro knows nightmares — whether they be fantastical (here, the Pale Man, with eyes in the palms of his hands) or all too real (the fascism under the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco). A pensive little girl named Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) tries to navigate both kinds of horrors as her everyday world becomes tangled with a symbolic one. Watch out for the slime-spewing toads!

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