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January 7, so soon? Where did the time go? The year’s just started and we’re already behind.

What's up? In the short term, there’s the Consumer Electronics Show, in full swing through Sunday in Las Vegas. And what goes on there won’t stay there; the word’s out that the tablet is the CES object of the moment (like we couldn’t have guessed that):

This slow movie weekend, Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman (he of FX’s Sons of Anarchy) star in Season of the Witch, a supernatural actioner directed by Dominic Sena. It opens Friday. Not much buzz on this Crusader-era epic, but hey, it’s only January.



Next Tuesday, Southland continues its just-started third season,  on TNT. The L.A. ensemble police series created by Ann Biderman (Public Enemies) won a well-deserved new life after being offed by NBC. Here’s a preview of Tuesday’s new episode:

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