New to ThreeNow in November
October 13, 2024 
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Sky may have its new BBC First channel but rivals like Warner Bros. Discovery continue to screen their share of BBC firsts.
The latest can be streamed on ThreeNow from next month, including the newest Rebus adaptation (November 27).
It stars Richard Rankin (Outlander) as the detective sergeant hero of Ian Rankin’s crime novels, but as a younger incarnation in today’s Edinburgh where his brother, a former soldier, becomes involved with rival criminal gangs.
“The all-new Rebus is physical and forceful with a fag in hand and a willingness to crack skulls,” The Guardian said:
But in a TV series that can’t and won’t replicate the novels’ auxiliary function of documenting social changes in Scotland over time, a lot rests on Rebus being uniquely roguish – and it’s hard to differentiate this troubled, rule-breaking maverick from all the others.
The Times dubbed it “terrific” for two reasons: the star; and the script, “which is nimble, non-clichéd and underscored with a wit that sometimes made me laugh loudly”.
Dead & Buried (November 5) follows a young Irish mother’s obsessive tormenting of her brother’s reformed killer 20 years after he’s released from prison.
Reviews for the four-part thriller, which stars Annabel Scholey (The Split) and Colin Morgan (Humans), were mixed:
- “ludicrous, none of the characters behaves rationally … 100% bonkers” (Irish Times);
- “instantly delivers all the intense, moody vibes you’d expect – although it doesn’t quite manage to sustain them” (Digital Spy);
- “explores the possibility of forgiveness with subtly and intelligence but beware, this is grim drama” (The Irish News).
Blackshore (November 13) is another Irish thriller, about a big-city detective whose tragic past looms when she’s banished to a rural backwater uncomfortably close to her home town, where she investigates a missing person case.
The blurb promises “a dark thriller [that] explores the DNA of one town’s relationship with shame, guilt, and the price of success”.
While the Irish Times said it “ticks off cliches by the barrel load” but is “silly and watchable” and “for all its flaws, one of the better thrillers RTÉ has put on screen recently.”
Daddy Issues (November 6) is a BBC Three comedy about a hedonistic 24-year-old (Aimee Lou Wood) who discovers she’s pregnant after a random hook-up and moves in with her hapless, newly-divorced dad (David Morrissey).
The Guardian thought it “honest, moving and full of laughs” while The Telegraph was on the same page: “The latest in a long line of sexually frank comedies – think Fleabag or Starstruck – Daddy Issues is deft, daft and deliciously watchable.”
Other highlights include the S20 premiere of The Block Australia, S1-2 of The Traitors US (November 19), S1-2 of acclaimed Starz wrestling drama Heels (November 8), and the docuseries:
- Death Row Stories S1-2 (November 10), in which Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) narrates capital murder cases “with twists and turns worthy of a crime thriller”;
- anthology spy series Declassified S1-2 (November 7), which promises “unprecedented access to the secret world of espionage”, and,
- Vanity Fair Confidential S1-2 (November 24), which brings to life some of the sex scandals and murder cases that the magazine’s covered.
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