Freaks And Geeks arrives at Hulu

Here’s what’s happening in the television world on Monday, January 25th. All times are from the east.

Best choice

Freaks And Geeks (Hulu, 3:01): This, as our current president once said about certain health legislation, is big business. Here’s Danette Chavez in Paul Feig’s seminal one-season series coming up, soundtrack intact, on Hulu:

Paul Feig’s maturing dramatic comedy Freaks And Geeks is coming to Hulu, the streamer announced via a press release on Monday. The complete series (the Wonder of a season) will be available for broadcast from January 25 in all its strange and sincere glory […] Viewers for the first time will be able to watch at their leisure from next Monday, which is a decidedly different experience from watching Freaks And Geeks when it aired, sporadically and on various networks, from 1999 to 2000. One thing that Hulu thought it best to preserve, however, is the music of the program. A Hulu representative confirmed the The AV Club that Viacom has confirmed that the show will be broadcast with its original soundtrack intact. This is big business, as music licensing rights have prevented home releases of programs like Freaks And Geeks and Would give in the past. And, as Feig told the AV Club last summer, abandoning any of the perfect musical choices would be like “losing a character on the show”. But on January 25, Hulu subscribers can watch William McKinley High’s crazies and geeks surf in their teens to The Moody Blues, The Who, Van Halen, Styx, XTC, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Rush and, of course , The Grateful Dead.

Check out the baby faces of some hitherto unknown people, now very famous, for the first time. (Or, if you’re like many of us here at The AV Club, for the hundredth time. It’s a really good show, right?)

Regular coverage

The bachelor (ABC, 8pm)
Snowpiercer (TNT, 9:00 pm): Second season premiere

Wild card

The secret history of the British garden (Acorn, 3:01, complete series, premiere in streaming in the USA): If you need a little serenity this beautiful Monday, Acorn has it all for you with this 2015 four-episode series. Here is the description:

World-famous gardener and horticulture expert Monty Don explores the stories behind four of the country’s most important gardens in this BBC Two series, unraveling its fascinating secrets to reveal how the British garden has evolved over the past 400 years. From 17th century royal palaces to 20th century melancholic huts, many of the world’s most famous influential and important gardens were created in the UK. Follow Monty Don as he digs up plans, diaries, letters and paintings to get a truly revealing insight into how our most valuable and iconic outdoor spaces have evolved.

It’s time to stroll through the gardens, friends. Don’t let your petticoats sink six inches into the mud, or your sister’s boyfriend’s shitty sister will be an idiot. (That is a Pride & Prejudice joke.) Just watch this trailer, okay? Seems very good.