New to Prime Video in October

September 26, 2023 0 Comments

Today Prime Video released the official trailer for the Wiggles documentary, Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles, which streams from October 24.

It depicts the meteoric rise of The Wiggles as the most successful children’s act of all time after four friends recorded an album of children’s music in the early 1990s.

But when three of the original members retired in 2010, the new-look Wiggles, complete with the first woman member, faced a brutal backlash that turned packed stadiums into half-empty halls.

Hot Potato documents how the new group overcame setbacks while the original line-up prepared to reunite on stage — only for Greg Page to have a cardiac arrest at a 2020 charity gig. Reads the blurb:

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles is a backstage pass to one of the world’s greatest entertainment stories, and features decades of personal archive footage and intimate access to their sold-out shows. It’s the story of a life of music, friendship, joy, and the enduring power of the child in all of us.

Also new are Taylor (Yellowstone) Sheridan’s undercover terrorism series Special Ops: Lioness (October 13), season three of sci-fi comedy Upload (October 20), slasher comedy Totally Killer (October 6), the true life-inspired Tommy Lee Jones-Jamie Foxx vehicle The Burial (October 13) and the fifth and final instalment of the After franchise, After Everything (October 6).

Dark comedy Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (October 27) stars Simon Pegg as the Hungarian-American psychoanalyst on his search for the real Talking Mongoose, “Gef.” Minnie Driver and Christopher Lloyd co-star.

Awareness (October 11) is a Spanish thriller about a rebellious teenager who uses his illusionist skills to pull off scams while Everybody Loves Diamonds (October 13) is an Italian heist series with a comedic twist inspired by the 2003 “Antwerp Diamond Heist”, which media dubbed “the world’s largest theft of diamonds”.

The Other Zoey (October 20) is a romantic-comedy about a smart computer major who pretends to be the girlfriend of a soccer player with amnesia while harbouring feelings for his cousin. Josephine Langford, Drew Starkey, Heather Graham, Andie MacDowell and Patrick Fabian star.

Silver Dollar Road (October 20) is a documentary about the wrongful imprisonment of two men that highlights how the US legal system has been “exploited to keep black land ownership fragile” while each episode of docuseries Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe (October 6) “uncovers a new shocking truth behind this online community” run by YouTube influencers Jeff and Shaleia Divine.

Make Me Scream (October 3) is a one-hour special hosted by horror fanatics and life-partners Tempestt Bledsoe (The Cosby Show) and Darryl M. Bell (A Different World) in which celebrity teams, led by Jaleel White (Family Matters), Shoniqua Shandai (Harlem) and rapper Lil Xan, undergo bone-chilling scares while trying NOT to scream.

Pantheon (S1-2, October 15) is an AMC+ animated series about a bullied teen who discovers the consciousness of her dead father has been uploaded to the Cloud as part of a global conspiracy to trigger a new kind of world war.

And Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (October 10) recounts how Canada’s favourite children’s show, Mr. Dressup, “built a legacy of kindness, patience, inclusiveness, and creativity in 4,000 episodes across 29 years”.

Other TV highlights include One Shot: Overtime Elites S1 (October 9), Mud, Sweat And Tears: Premiership Rugby S1 (October 12), Bosch: Legacy S2 (October 20), Zainab Johnson: Hijabs Off S1 (October 24) and Fitzek’s The Therapy S1 (October 26).

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