New to AMC+ Etc in December

Out There (December 16) stars Martin Clunes in a gritty crime drama he says couldn’t more different from his long-running Doc Martin.

“It’s pretty dark, but definitely a story worth telling.”

He plays a grieving farmer facing off against gangs threatening to rob him of his teenage son.

The six-part ITV series from Manhunt and Silent Witness scribe Ed Whitmore lands with a double-episode before weekly eps roll out from December 23 on AMC+ and Acorn.

Also exclusive is S3 of Dalgleish (December 2), which is set
in 1979 on the cusp of Margaret Thatcher’s election and sees Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigate a remote seminary already mired in scandal, a wealthy family under political attack, and  a spate of killings at a nuclear power station.

Streaming from December 30 is S2 of Darby and Joan (double-ep premiere, weekly from January 6), which teams Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi as geriatric sleuths.

It follows the December 16 premiere of another Acorn original, The Chelsea Detective – Christmas Special.

S1 of Annika, which stars Unforgotten’s Nicola Walker as the head of a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit, tasked with solving murders that take place in and around the waterways of Scotland, can be binged from December 9.

And S1-2 of the 2014 retirement home comedy Boomers can be streamed from December 23.

New to Shudder are Joe Bob Christmas Carnage (December 15). Reads the blurb:

Joe Bob and Darcy host a holiday horror flick featuring so much bloodshed that Santa will think twice before coming down this chimney.

Two days earlier you can binge Just Joe Bob, which is billed as
“all the rants, raves and reviews you can handle … without the movies.”

Instead, there are segments and commentary from S4-5 of The Last Drive-In and the specials Goultide Get- Together, Creepy Christmas, Haunted Halloween Hangout, Heartbreak Trailer Park, Helloween, Very Violent Valentine, Vicious Vegas Valentine and A Tribute to Roger Corman.

Also new are S2 of Horror’s Greatest (December 31) and The Haunted Season: To Fire You Come at Last (December 1) is an AMC+/Shudder original about the frightening path a group of pallbearers in rural 17th-century England must traverse.