TLC on Jan. 7 debuts Hot & Heavy, a docuseries about three couples in “mixed-weight relationships,” according to the network. The men love plus-size women, and deal with any related pushback. “We had been inspired by certain people in our own lives who struggled with society’s acceptance of their own relationships,” TLC senior VP of development Jason Sarlanis said. “This is a space that felt very raw and real to us. These couples let us follow their struggles and triumphs against society and within their own communities, and we wanted to share that with our viewers.”

Hot & Heavy arrives at the right time, in Sarlanis’s view. “We are proud to give these women, who love their bodies and relationships, a platform to help promote body positivity and erase stigma,” he said.

There are three one-hour episodes.

Why does the show focus on plus-size women, but not large guys? “We wanted to break the conventionally acceptable stereotype of plus-size men with smaller women that is pervasive in pop culture and media,” Sarlanis said. “The women we’ve featured in this show are empowered and rightfully believe they deserve to find love.”

Fantasy-comedy The Owl House begins on Disney Channel Jan. 10. The animated show is about Luz, a teen who stumbles upon a portal to a magical realm where she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and a tiny warrior, King. Luz pursues her dream of becoming a witch by serving as Eda’s apprentice at the Owl House and ultimately finds a new family.

Dana Terrace created the show. Before that, she was on Gravity Falls. Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls, voices King. “He’s a little demon monster who likes to eat out of the garbage and create mischief,” Hirsch said. “I can relate.”

Sarah-Nicole Robles voices Luz and Wendie Malick handles Eda. Luz is inspired by Luz Batista, storyboard artist on The Owl House, and Terrace’s former roommate. “A lot of Luz’s personality came from the stories we would tell each other,” Terrace said, “about what dorks we were in high school.”

How is it similar to Gravity Falls? That show was about an “unusual found family,” said Hirsch. “The Owl House digs deep into those themes — characters who don’t quite fit in the world they come from and find a place they all can be a team and be a family.”

Hirsch hopes viewers learn from all of the characters. “I hope they take away from the show a sense that anything’s possible,” he said. “I hope they take away Luz’s optimism and Eda’s cleverness and King’s fuzziness. Those are three ingredients that are important to survive in this world.”

Some 500 years after his death, Hieronymus Bosch is enjoying fresh relevance on television today. Bosch was a Dutch painter who specialized in surreal depictions of good battling evil; his best known work is “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” The talent behind Disney Channel show The Owl House, which premieres Friday, Jan. 10, cites Bosch as a key influence in the animated program’s look and feel.

A mix of fantasy and comedy, The Owl House follows teen girl Luz, who stumbles upon a magical realm and befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and a tiny warrior named King. Luz serves as Eda’s apprentice.

Creator Dana Terrace mentioned the works of Bosch, along with artists John Bauer, Charles Leickert and Remedios Varo, as influences. “I started doodling demons and witches and created the characters out of those little ideas,” she said.

Disney Channel has committed to a second season of the series.

Hieronymus Bosch died in 1516. His popularity seems to pick up at times when people are uneasy, according to Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Perhaps there’s a world war going on, or the nation is divided along political fault lines. He describes Bosch’s work as “evil, dystopic landscapes populated by creatures.”

The creatures often face off with a Christian saint. “There’s hostility, a lurking evil in his work,” Koerner said. “It’s a world in a state of siege, a state of emergency.”

Fittingly enough for The Owl House, Bosch often painted an owl somewhere in the frame of his works.

Cop drama Bosch premiered on Amazon Prime in 2014, and season six is in the works. The main character is LAPD detective Hieronymus Bosch, known to colleagues as Harry. The series is an adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novels about Hieronymus Bosch, including The Black Echo and Two Kinds of Truth. This Bosch is the son of a prostitute who conceived him after an affair with a married man. To protect her son’s identity, she named him Hieronymus Bosch. A poster of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” hanging in her apartment surely influenced the naming of her son.

Connelly, an exec producer on the Amazon series, has authored 20-plus Bosch novels.

“Bosch painted a world gone wrong, and detectives work in a world gone wrong,” said Dan Pyne, executive producer and a co-showrunner for Bosch. “L.A. is a lot like The Garden of Earthly Delights.”

Bosch isn’t much of a fan of the painter, according to Pyne. In season three, Bosch was being framed for a murder, and the perpetrator left a plastic owl at the crime scene to steer law enforcement to Detective Bosch.

Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls, provides the voice of diminutive warrior King in The Owl House and is a consultant on the series. “Things that are old are new again, and Dana is taking that to the extreme of going back to Hieronymus Bosch and illuminated manuscripts,” he said. “It’s an ancient, bizarre, medieval world that’s been reinterpreted through a modern lens. That creates a really funny and interesting tension.”