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After a couple of lacklustre months, Acorn TV will launch an “October-feast” of top shows to stream, including several NZ premieres. As already reported, Penance and Anthony will spearhead the month’s new drawcards. But the Anglophile service also will add to its impressive whodunit slate the first two seasons of Vera (October 12), Endeavour (October 19) […]

Fans of Gold Digger and Flesh and Blood should warm to a new “tale of familial trauma and forbidden romance” that will stream exclusively on Acorn TV from October 12. The psychological thriller Penance stars Julie Graham (The Bletchley Circle), Nico Mirallegro (My Mad Fat Diary), Neil Morrissey (Line of Duty) and Art Malik (Homeland). The […]

Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood (1/10/2020) In 1900 Munich, ambitious brewer Curt Prank uses brutal tactics on his quest to build a beer hall that will dominate the city’s lucrative Oktoberfest. Bom Dia, Verônica (1/10/2020) While hunting for a dating-site predator, an underused police clerk discovers an abused wife with a horrific secret — and a web […]

Disney+ has plenty of the right stuff in October, including the return of The Mandalorian and the premiere of The Right Stuff. Season two of the Star Wars spin-off streams weekly from October 30, with The Mandalorian and The Child continuing their trek through a dangerous galaxy following the collapse of the Galactic Empire. The […]

Andrew (Pride & Prejudice, Les Miserables) Davies’ latest period drama adaptation, A Suitable Boy, will stream next month on Netflix. Director Mira Nair (The Namesake, Vanity Fair) has dubbed the six-part dramatisation of the Vikram Seth novel “The Crown made brown” and much has been made of this being the first BBC series to feature an all-brown cast. Said […]

Spark Sport is adding Matchday Live to its Premier League coverage from Saturday. Here’s the media release: Spark Sport Premier League coverage gets even better with the arrival of Matchday Live  From this weekend, Premier League fans will be able to tune into the full matchday studio programme, ‘Matchday Live’ on Spark Sport, wrapping each Premier […]

Next month TVNZ OnDemand will fast-track a new David Tennant true-crime drama and the latest season of The Bachelorette. Des (October 8) is three-part series about serial killer Denis Nilsen, a civil servant who murdered 15 boys and men on the streets of Soho from 1978-83. While he confessed after his arrest, he couldn’t remember […]

The latest true-life drama from award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern will have its NZ premiere on the Acorn TV service. Anthony is a 90-minute BBC dramatisation of how 18-year-old devout Christian Anthony Walker was murdered in a racist attack 15 years ago. McGovern (The Street, Hillsborough) was asked by Walker’s mother, Gee, to write Anthony; they […]

Neon is adding The History of Home Narrated by Nick Offerman to its platform next month. The three-part series bearing the Parks and Recreation star’s name interviews architects, designers, craftspeople and historians to explain the “story” of various rooms in a house, including hallways, kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms. The CuriosityStream show features the likes of Highclere Castle […]

Neon will stream David E Kelley’s latest, The Undoing, the same day that it screens on SoHo (8.30 Mondays from October 26). The limited series revolves around a successful therapist, her devoted husband and their young son after their seemingly perfect life is upended after a violent death, a missing spouse and a chain of […]