The Parade Preview: What to Watch, Rent or Buy Jan. 9 – Jan. 15

All times Eastern.

MONDAY, Jan. 9
Summer House
The party’s on! Nine affluent young New York friends head to the Hamptons beach community of Mountauk to let loose in a big way on the weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day in this new reality series (10 p.m., Bravo).

Big Fan
Conan O’Brien sidekick Andy Richter hosts this comedic game show, co-produced by Jimmy Kimmel and based on a segment from his own late-night show, in which super-fans compete to see who knows the most about each show’s featured guest celebrity (10 p.m., ABC).

TUESDAY, Jan. 10
Taboo
Tom Hardy stars in this new miniseries, a BBC import, as a man who returns to London from an African adventure with a stash of stolen of diamonds, seeking to avenge the death of his father, and finds himself in a dangerous, deadly swirl of murder, mystery, love and treachery (10 p.m., FX).

Generation KKK
Cameras follow four prominent Klan families who each have a member trying to escape the Ku Klux Klan in this documentary that pulls back the curtain on the organization the Anti-Defamation League calls “a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy” (10 p.m., A&E).

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11
Street Science
In this all-new series, host Kevin Delaney leaves the lab behind to hit the streets for unusual, offbeat and unexpected experiments that combine the scientific method with curiosity and old-fashioned ingenuity—often producing fire, explosions and crazy responses from onlookers (10 p.m., Science Channel).

Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’
Neil Patrick Harris stars as the evil guardian Count Olaf in this rollicking new eight-episode adaptation of the best-selling book series about three orphans, a whopping inheritance, and a succession of devious plans and disguises (begins streaming today on Netflix).

THURSDAY, Jan. 12
Monkeying Around
The core of “human” behavior can be found in even the smallest of primates. Love, guilt, envy, generosity and anger are all present in this fascinating story of monkeys’ cunning, expertise and resourcefulness (7 p.m., National Geographic Channel).

Mad Families
Charlie Sheen, Leah Remini and Naya Rivera star in this new original film about three families that find themselves competing for camping space on a Fourth of July holiday weekend through a series of hilarious competitions (streaming today on Crackle).

FRIDAY, Jan. 13
The Wheel
Participants, given only lightweight packs (and SOS devices they can use at any time to quit or call for help) must survive six extremely harsh South American environments in 60 days in this new adventure-survival series, which determines where—and when—they’ll be plunked down based on spins of a wheel (10 p.m., Discovery).

Sneaky Pete
Giovanni Ribisi and Margo Martindale star in this new streaming dramatic series about a con man released from prison but hunted by the vicious gangster he once robbed (Amazon on Demand).

SATURDAY, Jan. 14
Scandal
Olivia (Kerry Washington) and Abbey (Darby Stanchfield) have to put their differences aside and work together to try to take down Hollis (Gregg Henry), while Edison (Norm Lewis) realizes he may have made a deal with the devil (9 p.m., ABC).

A Royal Winter
While on a European holiday, a young woman (Merritt Patterson) finds herself in the middle of a real-life fairy tale when a chance meeting with a handsome local (Jack Donnelly) leads to something more when she finds out he’s really a royal prince who’s about to be crowned a king! (9 p.m., Hallmark Channel).

SUNDAY, Jan. 15
Victoria
Jenna Coleman from TV’s Doctor Who stars in this new “Masterpiece” miniseries as the young queen at the onset of her epic reign, which sets the stage for an entire era that would be named in her honor (9 p.m., PBS).

Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence
Actor Martin Sheen narrates this all-new, six-part docuseries, airing over three nights, which re-opens the case of O.J. Simpson’s murder trail, re-examines key evidence, reveals new information, addresses alternative theories and introduces a new person of interest (9 p.m., Investigation Discovery).

NEW ON DVD

Director Nate Parker also stars as Nat Turner in Birth of a Nation (20^th Century Fox Home Entertainment), based on the true story of Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South who orchestrated a bloody uprising in the hopes of leading his fellow slaves to freedom.

Morgan Freeman hosts and narrates The Story of God (20^th Century Fox Home Entertainment), which became the highest-rated, most-watched series in the history of the National Geographic Channel after it aired last spring. The double-DVD set explores themes of spirituality, death, the end of the world, resurrection, apocalypse, science, miracles, evil and other topics across the globe.

The true-story drama of the 2010 oil rig disaster that became a raging inferno is dramatized in Deepwater Horizon (Lionsgate Home Entertainment), starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez and Kate Hudson in the tale of the brave men and women who experienced one of the worst man-made disasters in U.S. history. Blu-ray extras include five behind-the-scenes featurettes.

Ben Affleck is the world’s baddest number cruncher in The Accountant (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment), starring as a mild-mannered math-savant accountant who untangles the cooked books of some of the world’s most dangerous criminals. When he gets mixed up in some high-level corporate shenanigans, things really take a turn for the ugly. Can he and the clerk assigned to help him (Anna Kendrick) outfox the hit man (Jon Bernthal) on their trail and the U.S. Treasury director (J.K. Simmon), who’s also closing in?

READ ALL ABOUT IT

Comic book characters have become huge box-office stars, and Movie Comics (Rutgers University Press) by Blair Davis takes a studied look at the long synergy between the silver screen and the pulpy pages from which Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and hundreds of other colorful characters have sprung.

AT THE MOVIES
In Patriot’s Day, Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman and Kevin Bacon headline the ensemble cast (which also features Melissa Benoist, J.K. Simmons and Alex Wolff) in director Peter Berg’s gripping dramatization of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and the citywide manhunt that followed.

Ben Affleck directs and stars in Live By Night, an ambitious Prohibition Era gangster saga with shades of both The Godfather and Scarface, based on a Dennis Lehane novel and also featuring Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning, Sienna Miller, Scott Eastwood, Titus Welliver and Brendan Gleeson.

In Monster Trucks, Lucas Till, TV’s MacGyver, plays a young man who discovers a most curious critter under his hood. With Rob Lowe, Amy Ryan and Thomas Lennon.

Three young friends start having a pretty bad day when they stumble upon The Bye Bye Man, a mysterious figure they discover is the root of the evil behind man’s most unspeakable acts.

A corrupt cop (Jamie Foxx) with a connection to the criminal underworld scours Las Vegas in search of his kidnapped son in Sleepless, which also stars Michelle Monaghan, Scoot McNairy, Dermot Mulroney and Gabrielle Union.