Must-See LGBT TV 1/24-30: 'The Fosters' returns, 'True Life: I Have a Trans Parent,' 'Recovery Road' series premiere
Grab the remote, set your DVR or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the highlights in LGBT on TV this week. Check back every Sunday for up-to-date coverage in LGBT-inclusive programming on TV.
The Fosters returns Monday night! Now that Callie has been officially adopted into the Adams-Foster family, she must get past her feelings for Brandon. She throws herself into her “Fost and Found” website and attracts the attention of a potential investor. The Fosters: Monday, 8pm on Freeform.
The new series Recovery Road premieres on Freeform Monday night. When Maddie is caught with alcohol at school, she must choose betwen being expelled or attending rehab. While at rehab she meets Vern (Daniel Franzese), a gay former go-go boy who was addicted to drugs and has struggled with body image since gaining weight after getting clean. Recovery Road: Monday, 9pm on Freeform.
Don’t miss a new episode of the docuseries True Life on Monday night, True Life: I Have a Trans Parent. The episode follows two young people, Kiara and Jeremy, whose parents have recently begun transitioning. Kiara’s father Kelden introduces her to other trans men living in the South, while Jeremy and his mother Jessica work to reconnect with her other children who have stopped communicating with her. True Life: I Have a Trans Parent: Monday, 11:30pm on MTV.
Sunday January 24: Downton Abbey (9pm, PBS); Shameless (9pm, Showtime); Work Out New York (10pm, Bravo); Hollywood Medium (10pm, E!)
Monday: The Fosters (8pm, Freeform); Superstore (8pm, NBC); Telenovela (8:30pm, NBC); Jane the Virgin (9pm, The CW); Ellen’s Design Challenge (9pm, HGTV); Recovery Road (9pm, Freeform); The Biggest Loser (9pm, NBC); Hit The Floor (10pm, VH1); True Life: I Have a Trans Parent (11:30pm, MTV)
Tuesday: Hollywood Game Night (8pm, NBC); Prancing Elites Project (8pm, Oxygen); Grandfathered (8:30pm, FOX); Brooklyn Nine-Nine (9pm, FOX); Teen Wolf (9pm, MTV); Shadowhunters (10pm, Freeform); Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce (10pm, Bravo); Just Jillian (10pm, E!)
Wednesday: Code Black (10pm, CBS); Newlyweds: The First Year (10pm, Bravo); The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines (10pm, MTV); Younger (10pm, TV Land)
Thursday: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (8pm, The CW); The 100 (9pm, The CW); London Spy (10pm, BBC America)
Friday: Undateable (8pm, NBC); The Originals (9pm, The CW); Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (9pm, TLC)
Saturday: Black Sails (9pm, Starz)
On daytime, check your local listings for information about LGBT-inclusive talk shows Ellen, The Meredith Vieira Show, The Talk (CBS), The Gossip Table (VH1), The View (ABC) and The Chew (ABC). Soap operas Days of Our Lives on NBC, The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS, and General Hospital on ABC (check local listings) all feature out characters.
