New to Apple TV+ in October

Bill Murray’s reunion with Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola and a wildlife series that will leave you bug-eyed top next month’s premieres on Apple TV+.

Ant-Man’s Paul Rudd narrates Tiny World (October 2), a six-part series which took almost a decade to film. It gets up close and personal with 200 species, using new camera technology to capture the “survival instincts and warrior spirit” of grasshoppers, ladybugs, ants and the like.

On the Rocks (October 23) stars Rashida Jones as a happily-married New Yorker who seeks the help of her playboy father (Murray) when she suspects her husband (Marlon Mayans) is having an affair.

Apple TV+ dubs it “a generation-clash comedy about how we see relationships differently from our parents” while Variety called it “a boozy humanistic hang-out caper movie, one that’s light-spirited and compelling, mordantly alive to the ins and outs of marriage, and a winning showcase for Murray’s aging-like-fine-whisky brand of world-weary deviltry”.

Also new next month will be the return of two children’s series for their second seasons: Ghostwriter (October 9) and Helpsters (October 16).