Chapman’s boyfriend of six years, Adrien Brody, won Best Performance by a Male Actor for his star turn in “The Brutalist.”

Weinstein, behind bars for rape, has been shuttling between Rikers Island and Bellevue where he’s been treated for a bad heart and leukemia.

One source said Weinstein is happy for his ex and stated, “Brody is a good guy and she deserves that after what she went through with me.”

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Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber made a last-ditch attempt to salvage their relationship in Mexico over the holidays.

The genetically gifted duo stayed at the home of Gerber’s parents, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, at the exclusive El Dorado Golf & Beach Club in Los Cabos, Mexico.

The couple, together for about three years, officially broke up earlier this week.

Other boldface names at the posh resort included Glen Powell, who was on the most recent cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue, Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine and billionaire Neil Bluhm and his wife, Kimberly Paige Bluhm.

Butler and the supermodel kept a low profile while staying at the club where Amal and George Clooney also have a home.

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The fight between Blake Lively and her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, has some interesting protagonists.

Lively has her husband, “Deadpool” star Ryan Reynolds, on her side, while Baldoni has Steve Sarowitz, who made billions founding Paylocity before launching Wayfarer Studios with Baldoni.

Lively claims she was subjected to harassment while filming, but Sarowitz told Forbes magazine “the actual harassment and smear campaign both occurred and continues to occur against us.”

Sarowitz, who like Baldoni is a follower of the Baha’i faith, called Lively’s accusations “vicious lies.”

Since both sides are suing each other, this could keep going.

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Mark Kostabi rang in the new year by opening an exhibition of his art at Dorchester’s Hotel Eden in Rome.

Among the guests was Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, the sister of Qatar’s ruling emir.

Al-Mayassa chairs the Qatar Museums, and has an annual acquisition budget estimated at $1 billion. She bought a Gauguin for $300 million and a Cezanne for $250 million.

Also there were singer Greesi Desiree Langovits and White Zombie co-founder Paul Kostabi — who both performed as a trio with Mark on piano at the $1,000 per person (not including alcohol) sold-out dinner.

Kostabi also created a live painting, which was the first he signed in 2025 at the stroke of midnight while the revelers enjoyed the fireworks blanketing the eternal city.

The art market has been in the doldrums lately but Kostabi is selling art on television in Italy, QVC style, a long-standing Italian practice that his American art gallery, Park West, has embraced with success.

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Brooklyn born-and-bred comic Olga Namer wowed the audience at West Side Comedy Club for The Carlebach Shul’s 20th annual comedy celebration.

“Everyone tells me to date a nice guy, but nice guys are so boring,” Namer confessed. “I was on a date with a nice guy and I was like, ‘Should we get a third glass of wine?’ He said, ‘Ooo, you trying to get me drunk.’ And I was like, ‘No! I’m trying to black out!’”

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Out & About: Author Jean Shafiroff gave a party honoring The NY Women’s Foundation. Among the guests were +Body designer Julia Haart, Frank Schilling and Gabi Petrylaite, Nicole Noonan and Steven Knobel, and couturier Ron Dyce … “Dancing with the Stars” host Julianne Hough and hairstylist Chaz Dean, whose clients include Brooke Shields and Kelly Bensimon, did a sexy, impromptu tango at the show’s 33rd season finale after-party.

NEW YORK (AP) — Smooth like butter, like a superstar about to hit the road. BTS member J-Hope will embark on his first solo tour next month.

The announcement was shared to J-Hope’s social media accounts as well as on Weverse, an online fan platform owned by BTS management company Hybe.

According to Weverse, details surrounding the North American tour will arrive later, “due to the large-scale wildfires in California and their resulting impact on the region,” the statement read. “We kindly ask for your understanding.”

In October, J-Hope completed his 18-month compulsory military service in South Korea, having been the second member of BTS to join the country’s army.

“I was able to finish (the military service) heathy and safely thanks to my fans,” he said in Korean at a press conference held at an army base in Wonju, South Korea. “Thank you so much for waiting and thank you for your cheering me on.”

In 2022, J-Hope became the first South Korean performer to headline Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival.

The long-running children’s series — set to debut its 55th season on Jan. 16 on the streaming platform — will feature appearances by pop star Renee Rapp, Grammy winner SZA, platinum-selling singer-songwriter Noah Kahan, heartthrob actor Michael B. Jordan, jazz ingenue Samara Joy, country crooner Chris Stapleton, “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness and tennis great Billie Jean King.

The upcoming season will focus on “emotional well-being, helping children learn accessible strategies to comprehend and cope with big feelings through fun, lighthearted, relatable, and engaging stories,” according to Thursday’s announcement.

SZA will specifically contribute an alt-R&B-pop track about gratitude, teaching a new word to Elmo. The chart-topping singer teased her appearance on the program last year, sharing moments from her time on the set with popular characters like Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.

“This was the purest happiest day from top to bottom,” she wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for having me and for patching up my inner child.”

Premium cable giant Max — previously known as HBO and HBO Max — pulled the plug on its exclusive deal for “Sesame Street,” confirming last month that the upcoming 55th season will be the last to debut on the platform. It will continue to license episodes from the show’s library through 2027.

“Sesame Street” is now looking for a new home.

“We will continue to invest in our best-in-class programming and look forward to announcing our new distribution plans in the coming months, ensuring that ‘Sesame Street’ reaches as many children as possible for generations to come,” the show’s producer, Sesame Workshop, said in a statement.

Joel, 75, famously played the old Yankee Stadium on June 22-23, 1990. He’ll become the first artist to perform at the original venue and the new stadium, which opened in 2009, according to Major League Baseball.

“It is also particularly fitting that Billy Joel, who was born in the Bronx and is so iconically identified with New York, will become the first musical act to headline a show at both the original Yankee Stadium and the current Yankee Stadium,” Yankees CFO Scott Krug said in a statement.

Tickets will go on sale on Jan. 17 at 10 a.m. However, a presale will be available for Citi cardmembers beginning on Jan. 13 at 10 a.m. and lasting through Jan. 16 at 10 p.m.

The Yankees will be on the road in Atlanta on the day of the concert, which immediately follows the MLB All-Star break.

Though Joel famously wrapped up his lengthy residency at Madison Square Garden last year, he has continued performing across the country and in the New York area. He played UBS Arena, home of the New York Islanders, on New Year’s Eve.

Joel also has a concert scheduled at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., on Feb. 22 and will play MetLife Stadium on Aug. 8 with Stevie Nicks. Prior to their Yankee Stadium show, he and Stewart also be in Pittsburgh on July 5.

Plus, there’s family-friendly magic, provocative comedy and a female-focused roller skating party.

Art

“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy”

The Shed — 545 West 30th St., Manhattan (Hudson Yards)

Through Feb. 23. Various times.

Lovers of Pop art lovers and amusement parks have the best of both worlds with The Shed’s reincarnation of the avant-garde carnival that opened in Hamburg, Germany in 1987.

Although it didn’t run longer than three months, the “world’s first art amusement park”  —conceived by Austrian multimedia artist André Heller — featured vintage carnival rides and attractions done up by the most acclaimed artists of the day such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Salvador Dali, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, and more.

A ferris wheel designed by Basquiat (with Miles Davis music) and a colorful carousel painted by Haring are the main attractions of the immersive, larger-than-life revival. And although attendees can’t take a ride on them, there’s interactive fun inside Dalídom (Dalí’s geodesic dome with a mirrored interior) and a glass labyrinth paneled with images from Lichtenstein’s 1985 Perfect/Imperfect series.

Tickets start at $25.The Shed also partnered with New York City-based non-profit organizations, including NYCHA, CUNY and ArtsConnection to provide thousands of free tickets through its Ticket Access Program (TAP).

Film

“A Complete Unknown“

BAM Rose Cinemas — 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn (Fort Greene)

Various showtimes.

Timothée Chalamet, who received an early thumbs up from Bob Dylan himself for “A Complete Unknown,” has another Oscar-caliber turn under his belt. And if this week’s SAG Awards nominations is any indicator, the “Call Me By Your Name” star’s work will be recognized at this year’s Academy Awards.

James Mangold, known for “Walk the Line,” “Wolverine” and the latest “Indiana Jones” movies, delivers with his chronicle of Dylan’s early years shaping his sound in New York City during the early 1960s.

Ed Norton portrays folk music trailblazer Pete Seeger who serves as Dylan’s early mentor after meeting him in Woody Guthrie’s hospital room, and “Top Gun: Maverick” breakout Monica Barbaro stars as Joan Baez. Both actors, along with Chalamet, actually sing (quite well) in the movie. And they all nail it. There’s also a great turn from Elle Fanning as Sylvia, a fictionalized version of the “Blowing in the Wind” singer’s first love, Suze Rotolo.

Tickets are $17.

Comedy

Jon Laster

Comedy Cellar — 117 MacDougal St., Manhattan (Greenwich Village)

Sun. Jan. 12, 5 p.m.

Renaissance man Jon Laster returns to the Village’s famed comedy club for a late afternoon, hourlong set centered on the theme that “anything is possible.”

The former college basketball star — turned comedian and tech entrepreneur — tells the Daily News that he will have funny takes on subjects like his battle with alcohol and cocaine addiction, his house burning down and his current life “building a company for Black-owned businesses in a landscape with DEI crashing down around us.”

$16.

Family

“Broadway Magic Hour”

Broadway Comedy Club — 318 West 53rd St., Manhattan (Hell’s Kitchen)

Sat. Jan. 11, 2 p.m.

There’s more magic happening on Broadway outside of big-budget theatrical productions like “Death Becomes Her,” “Harry Potter and The Cursed Child” and “Aladdin.”

For a fraction of the price this weekend, people ages 5 and up can enjoy the “mind-boggling mysteries and hilarious comedy” served up by master magicians Jim Vines and Carl Mercurio.

The audience becomes the real star of the hour-long family-friendly theatrical experience featuring grand illusions, mind reading and magic.

Tickets are $25.

Music

Winter Jazz Festival 2025

Various venues

Through Jan. 12. Various showtimes.

The dynamic duo known as Lion Babe — partners in music and in love — are a part of Brice Rosenbloom‘s jam-packed lineup of more than 100 music acts from around the world assembled for this year’s sprawling event, which includes “marathon” events in Manhattan on Friday and in Brooklyn on Saturday.

For their after midnight set at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right, fans can expect vocalist Jillian Hervey and DJ/producer Lucas Goodman to perform their 2012 breakthrough “Treat Me Like Fire,” alongside new tracks from their recently released album “House of Lion Babe” opus.

Elsewhere in Brooklyn, Salami Rose Joe Louis has a 8:45 show at Union Pool and Sun Ra Arkestra will play an 11 p.m. set at Brooklyn Bowl.

Among Friday night’s lineup: The Baylor Project will get the joint jumping at City Winery at 6:30, and Grammy Award-winning jazz great Christian McBride has a 9:30 performance at Mercury Lounge.

At Brooklyn’s Roulette on Sunday, Ravi Coltrane and his quartet will lead a line-up of guest improvisers for improvisatory interpretations on John Coltrane’s seminal 1964 masterpiece “A Love Supreme” starting at 8 p.m.

Tickets start at $30 for individual shows. Two-day marathon passes start at $155.

Theater

“My Mother’s Funeral: The Show”

SoHo Playhouse — 15 Vandam St., Manhattan (Soho)

Through Jan. 25. Various showtimes.

Kelly Jones‘ award-winning play centers on a struggling playwright who can’t afford to pay for her mother’s costly funeral. She reluctantly decides to pour her grief into her art after a director tasks her to create “something gritty, raw, working-class” … like her.

British actress Nicole Sawyerr is the star of the 70-minute satire, which opened the SoHo Playhouse “International Fringe Encore Theatre Series” this week. The backstory of how the strapped-for-cash writer turns her personal tragedy into artistic triumph is just as funny as it is moving.

Tickets start at $40.

Skate

“Ladies Night Edition of Vinyl Nights”

Xanadu Roller Arts — 262 Starr St., Brooklyn (Bushwick)

Fri. Jan. 10, 7 p.m. – 2 a.m.

Bushwick’s hottest roller skating destination teamed up with promoter and self-professed “Party Girl” Rebecca Lynn and DJs Misbehaviour, Quinnette and Jazzy Joyce for a night of disco, funk, soul and hip hop.

Jazzy Joyce, née Joyce Lynn Spencer, tells The Daily News that “roller skating is therapy.” The Bronx-born hip hop pioneer, who’s been spinning since gaining prominence with Sweet Tee’s “It’s My Beat” in the 1980s, said she is looking “forward to having a great time, all while exercising” at the female-focused event.

Tickets are $32.17.

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In the weeks after the death of the 40-year-old “Ellen DeGeneres Show” executive producer and DJ, Holker and her friend found a shoebox of his that was housing a “cornucopia” of drugs.

“I was with one of my really dear friends, and we were cleaning out the closet and picking out an outfit for him for the funeral,” the 36-year-old “So You Think You Can Dance” judge recalled to People in its latest cover story.

Among the substances inside were mushrooms, pills and “other substances I had to look up on my phone,” recalled Holker, who was married to Boss from 2013 to his death. Though she was well aware that Boss would smoke marijuana or drink once their kids — Weslie, 16, Maddox, 8, and Zaia, 5 — went to bed “to recharge,” Holker didn’t realize the extent of what was really going on.

“It was very alarming to me to learn that there was so much happening that I had no clue [about],” said Holker, whose new memoir, “This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light,” will be released Feb. 4. “It was a really scary moment in my life to figure that out, but it also helped me process that he was going through so much and he was hiding so much, and there must have been a lot of shame in that.”

Boss’ autopsy results, reported on in May 2023, showed no evidence of drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of his death.

In Boss’ journals, which Holker read following his death, she said he alluded to childhood sexual abuse he had suffered.

“He was wrestling with a lot inside himself, and he was trying to self-medicate and cope with all those feelings because he didn’t want to put it on anyone because he loved everyone so much,” Holker said. “He didn’t want other people to take on his pain.”

Holker, though, said she’s publicly sharing the family’s pain, as well as Boss’ own struggles, in hopes that those “dealing with the same thing will help themselves out of the shadows and [know] you’re going to be OK.”

Disney, which owns Hulu, will be the majority owner of the new Fubo.

The two services have about 6.2 million subscribers between them, and both services will continue to be available after the merger is completed. YouTube TV claimed last year to have more than 8 million subscribers on its own, meaning it remains the largest live television streaming platform.

“Having two separate platforms today, obviously, it’s not ideal,” Fubo co-founder and CEO David Gandler said Monday during a call with investors, according to CNBC and The Hollywood Reporter. “I think we want to really focus on providing consumers with choice, and the Hulu product is really focused on providing a full entertainment bundle of sports, news and entertainment, and Fubo will continue to focus on its sports-first service, with the ability to launch skinnier sports bundles.”

The merger also settled a lawsuit over Venu, a planned streaming services combining sports content from Disney (ESPN), Fox Sports and Warner Bros. Discovery (TNT, TBS). A U.S. judge temporarily blocked that service from launching in 2024.

Fubo, which is sports-focused with an emphasis on giving cord-cutters a way to watch their local teams, had argued Venu would have solidified those three networks’ grasp on sports broadcasts and create an uncompetitive market. The merger and settlements should allow it easier negotiations to carry sports content from its former competitors.

It’s unclear if Venu will continue, as TV rights for several sports leagues are set to shuffle around in coming years.

“The Brutalist″ won best motion picture drama, and Adrien Brody took home best actor for his role in the film.

“Shōgun“ won best television drama, and ”Hacks” won for TV comedy or musical. Emilia Pérez” entered the night as the lead nominee, with 10 nods.

Demi Moore, Sebastian Stan, Zoe Saldaña, Kieran Culkin and Jean Smart were among the acting winners.

Comedian Nikki Glaser hosted Sunday’s ceremony from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.

At a gala dinner Friday, Viola Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and Ted Danson accepted the Carol Burnett Award. The Globes aired on CBS and streamed live for subscribers to Paramount+ with Showtime.

Here’s a list of winners at Sunday’s Golden Globes:

Movies

Best motion picture, drama

“The Brutalist”

Best motion picture, musical or comedy

“Emilia Pérez”

Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture, drama

Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”

Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture, drama

Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”

Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy

Demi Moore, “The Substance”

Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy

Sebastian Stan, “A Different Man”

Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role, movie

Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”

Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role, movie

Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

“Wicked”

Best motion picture, non-English

“Emilia Pérez”

Best motion picture, animated

“Flow”

Best director

Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”

Best screenplay

Peter Straughan, “Conclave”

Best original score

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “Challengers”

Best original song

“El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez” music/lyrics by Clément Ducol, Camille, Jacques Audiard

Television

Best television series, drama

“Shōgun”

Best television series, comedy or musical

“Hacks”

Best performance by a female actor, TV series, drama

Anna Sawai, “Shōgun”

Best performance by a male actor, TV series, drama

Hiroyuki Sanada, “Shōgun”

Best performance by a female actor TV series, musical or comedy

Jean Smart, “Hacks”

Best performance by a male actor, TV series, musical or comedy

Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”

Best limited series, anthology series or movie made for television

“Baby Reindeer”

Best performance by a male actor in a limited series, anthology series or movie made for television

Colin Farrell, “The Penguin”

Best performance by a female actor in a limited series, anthology series or movie made for television

Jodie Foster, ”True Detective: Night Country”

Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role, TV

Jessica Gunning, “Baby Reindeer”

Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role, TV

Tadanobu Asano, “Shōgun”

Best performance in stand-up comedy on TV

Ali Wong, “Ali Wong: Single Lady”

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Will heavyweights like “The Brutalist” and “Conclave” have the golden touch? Could genre-defying “Emilia Pérez” dominate the night or will “Wicked” defy gravity and come out on top?

Here are the Daily News’ predictions for who will take home the trophies in the year’s most-anticipated film categories.

Best Motion Picture, Drama

• “The Brutalist”
• “A Complete Unknown”
• “Conclave”
• “Dune: Part Two”
• “Nickel Boys”
• “September 5”

What will win: “The Brutalist”

From mystery-thriller “Conclave” set in the halls of the Vatican to Bob Dylan’s biopic “A Complete Unknown,” it’s undoubtedly a strong contest among this year’s drama nominees. But there’s one film that stands out as arguably the best of 2024, an epic period piece that takes a deep dive into the immigrant experience in America.

“The Brutalist” brilliantly explores the 30-year journey of a Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States, where he’s forced to endure poverty and indignity in search of the American dream.

The film, which director Brady Corbet worked on for seven years, has been hailed by critics and filmmakers from around the world, despite some disapproval over its three-and-a-half-hour runtime.

“This film does everything that we are told we are not allowed to do,” Corbet said during its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, shrugging off the criticism. “[It’s about] how much story there is to tell. … The idea we have to fit into a box is quite silly.”

Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical

• “Anora”
• “Challengers”
• “Emilia Pérez”
• “A Real Pain”
• “The Substance”
• “Wicked”

What will win: “Wicked”

The big-screen adaptation of the popular Broadway musical dominated the box office at the end of the year to become one of the highest-grossing domestic releases ever, even adjusting for inflation.

The blockbuster fantasy, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, earned glowing reviews from audiences and critics alike — and if social media is any indication, fans are still literally singing its praises.

While Cinderella story “Anora,” quirky dramedy “A Real Pain” and musical thriller “Emilia Perez” have all won rave reviews of their own, “Wicked” more than likely has an edge.

Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

• Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
• Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
• Daniel Craig, “Queer”
• Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
• Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
• Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”

Who will win: Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody — no stranger to winning awards after taking home the Best Actor Oscar in 2003 for his role in the period piece “The Pianist” — will definitely be adding more accolades to his resume this year.

In “The Brutalist,” Brody takes on the role of Jewish Holocaust survivor László Tóth, who struggles to make a life for himself in America following World War II. Despite the film being significantly longer than most, Brody keeps viewers gripped with his nuance and emotional range.

The actor says he took inspiration from his mother, a photographer who fled Europe in 1956 during the Hungarian revolution.

“[She] was a refugee and immigrated to the United States, and much like László, started again and pursued a dream of being an artist,” Brody said at the Venice Film Festival. “I understand a great deal about the repercussions of that on her life … and how post-war psychology influences your work.”

Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

• Pamela Anderson, “The Last Showgirl”
• Angelina Jolie, “Maria”
• Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”
• Tilda Swinton, “The Room Next Door”
• Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
• Kate Winslet, “Lee”

Who will win: Angelina Jolie

The fight for Best Female Actor in a Drama ultimately comes down to Oscar winners Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman.

While Kidman was terrific as a New York CEO who embarks on an affair with a much younger intern in “Babygirl,” it was Jolie in “Maria” that delivered the most impact in 2024.

Her stunning performance has been at the forefront of award show chatter since the biopic’s debut at the Venice Film Festival in August, where her turn as renowned opera star Maria Callas garnered an eight-minute standing ovation.

Portraying the legendary soprano and diving deep into the opera world was “therapy I didn’t realize I needed,” she said at a press conference. “I had no idea how much I was holding in and not letting out. The challenge wasn’t the technical; it was an emotional experience to find my voice, to be in my body, to express. You have to give every single part of yourself.”

Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical

• Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain”
• Hugh Grant, “Heretic”
• Gabriel LaBelle, “Saturday Night”
• Jesse Plemons, “Kinds of Kindness”
• Glen Powell, “Hit Man”
• Sebastian Stan, “A Different Man”

Who will win: Sebastian Stan

From Hugh Grant playing a horror villain in “Heretic” to Glen Powell as a strait-laced professor moonlighting as a hitman, every actor in this category is beloved for their own reasons. But we’ve got to stan Sebastian Stan in “A Different Man.”

In the dark comedy, Stan portrays a struggling actor with neurofibromatosis, a genetic condition that causes his face to be disfigured. After undergoing an experimental procedure to drastically transform his appearance, he assumes a new identity — but finds that “new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.”

Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical

• Amy Adams, “Nightbitch”
• Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
• Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”
• Mikey Madison, “Anora”
• Demi Moore, “The Substance”
• Zendaya, “Challengers”

Who will win: Cynthia Erivo

Though Mikey Madison is widely seen as a frontrunner for her role as a sex worker searching for her fairytale in “Anora,” it’s Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in “Wicked” that will surely take lead.

Despite the story of Elphaba being one that many viewers are familiar with, Erivo managed to give the green-skinned character new meaning in the blockbuster musical, magically pairing a soaring vocal performance with raw emotional depth.

Erivo has said that she hopes her turn as Elphaba is “a bit of a love letter to everyone who feels different, who feels out of place, to all of the Black women who have walked into rooms and felt like they haven’t been welcomed. To anyone who’s walked into a room and felt like they haven’t been welcomed.”

Let me contradict myself to also point out that you can’t argue with a half-century milestone. On Feb. 16, “Saturday Night Live” will air its 50th anniversary special on network TV. No doubt “SNL’s” most famous alumni will be on hand, underscoring my nagging original question: When was the last time the show was an early platform for a breakout Hollywood star?

On Jan. 16, NBC’s streaming arm Peacock will also premiere a four-part docuseries called “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night Live” that will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the show, including the audition process. Plenty of former cast members have been critical of the show’s sexism, its dearth of non-white performers and creative process overall, but I’m not expecting this in-house project to address any of that.

Here’s a wider look at the winter TV season, which includes more medical dramas (TV wouldn’t be TV without ’em) plus a Hollywood satire starring Seth Rogen and a new twist on Sherlock Holmes featuring Watson at the forefront.

“Doc” (Jan. 7 on Fox)

This medical drama is based on an Italian series about a doctor (Molly Parker) who has lost nearly 10 years of her memory after an accident. “Forced to re-acclimate to the present — with no recollection of a tragedy in her personal life and bereft of the medical knowledge she’s accrued over this time — she must return to being an intern and somehow rebuild her life from the fractured pieces which remain.”

“Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action” (Jan. 7 on Netflix)

The two-part docuseries about the long running and often notorious “Jerry Springer Show” will feature “first-hand testimony and revelations from show insiders” to uncover “a murkier picture” of the show. (The unhinged goings-on that transpired on the show were also the basis for an opera that premiered in London in 2003 called, fittingly enough, “Jerry Springer: The Opera.”)

“The Pitt” (Jan. 9 on Max)

HBO’s streaming platform, the inelegantly named Max, is getting into the weekly medical drama game. This may be a first, a streamer trying to emulate the kind of network shows that remain a staple. The 15-episode series stars Noah Wyle (oh hey, he knows his way around a medical drama) in a “realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Each episode follows an hour of Dr. Robby’s (Wyle) 15-hour shift as the chief attendant in Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency room.” My curiosity is piqued!

“On Call” (Jan. 9 on Amazon)

This half-hour police procedural is the first streaming series from Dick Wolf’s production company, which is the creative force behind the One Chicago franchise as well the “Law & Order” and “FBI” franchises. That’s quite a single-minded focus on fictional law enforcement stories. Co-created by Tim Walsh and Elliot Wolf, it’s being marketed as an “adrenalized and visceral police drama that follows a rookie and veteran officer duo as they go on patrol in Long Beach, California” that incorporates bodycam, dash-cam, and cellphone footage to create a cinema verité effect. The cast includes Eriq La Salle (who is an executive producer and director on the series).

“Severance” (Jan. 17 on Apple TV+)

The creepy-sardonic workplace drama starring Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette ended on a cliffhanger. Now it’s back, three years after it first premiered. Hang on, is that right? (Squints) Yep, three years. That’s no way to build anticipation! At any rate, there was a lot to like about show’s production design (conjuring a retro ’80s blandness) as well as its premise, where employees of a company agree to have a chip implanted in their brains that “severs” their memory in two: At work, they have zero knowledge of their life at home, and vice versa once they leave the office. An intriguing idea that probably would have worked better as a movie instead of dragging it out over nine episodes. By the end of Season 1, the workers learned an inconvenient truth about who is actually behind this cockamamie system. That’s presumably where Season 2 will pick up.

“Prime Target” (Jan. 22 on Apple TV+)

A conspiracy thriller in which a mathematician on the verge of a major breakthrough teams up with the NSA agent who has been spying on the work he and other mathematicians have been doing. What is this premise?

“The Night Agent” (Jan. 23 on Netflix)

I liked the first season of this show, about a young, square-jawed FBI agent relegated to a boring desk job on the overnight shift until he finds himself on the run, protecting a cybersecurity expert from nefarious forces inside the White House. In Season 2, he is working in the secretive organization known as Night Action that will propel him “into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.” I mean, sounds just like Season 1. Not a critique, just an observation.

“Watson” (Jan. 26 on CBS)

Morris Chestnut is back on network TV playing Dr. Watson — yes, Sherlock’s old pal — who now gets to be at the forefront of his own medical procedural. I like Chestnut and I like the general Sherlock framework; here’s hoping it’s a winning combination. In the end, it will all come down to the writing. After the premiere in January, the series will have a two-week hiatus before returning for a weekly schedule on Feb. 16.

“Great Migrations: A People on the Move” (Jan. 28 on PBS)

The four-part docuseries from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. looks at the Great Migration of the early 20th century that saw Black people relocate across the U.S. from the American South, and asks: “What political or economic pressures inspire people to move? Is it more often inspired by hope or fear? Is there even such a thing as a promised land?”

“Good Cop/Bad Cop” (Feb. 19 on the CW)

Leighton Meester (“Gossip Girl”) stars with Luke Cook as “sibling detectives who don’t always see eye-to-eye, working together to solve crimes — and the strained relationship with their police chief father.”

“Reacher” (Feb. 20 on Amazon)

I’ve always liked the way Alan Ritchson both takes the role of Jack Reacher seriously, but is also in on the joke that is the character’s inherent absurdity. It’s a great tonal balance. The upcoming third season is based on author Lee Child’s novel “Persuader,” wherein Reacher “hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise when trying to rescue an undercover DEA informant whose time is running out.”

“A Thousand Blows” (Feb. 21 on Hulu)

From “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight, the six-episode series is set in the “perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London” and is apparently based on real people. The other day I read a harrowing account of now-retired pro boxer Heather Hardy, who (like so many other boxers) has brain damage as a result of her involvement with the sport. It’s why I have so little interest in boxing itself, but I understand why it proves to be a potent storytelling framework. As Hardy’s interviewer Hamilton Nolan puts it: “It seems to me like nobody goes into pro boxing unless their life outside the boxing ring is harder than a life inside the boxing ring would be.”

“Dope Thief” (March 14 on Apple TV+ series)

A crime drama adapted from Dennis Tafoya’s book of the same name about a group of friends in Philadelphia who pose as DEA agents to rob a house, and somehow “unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard.” Brian Tyree Henry stars.

“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” (March 23 on PBS’s Masterpiece)

Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis are back, playing Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII respectively, in the final chapter of author Hilary Mantel’s literary trilogy about the 16th century British monarch.

“The Studio” (March 26 on Apple TV+)

Seth Rogen stars in this 10-episode Hollywood satire (can anything match the heights of “The Comeback”?) as the head of a movie studio. His team of “infighting executives battle their own insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe.”

Nina Metz is a Tribune critic.