New to ThreeNow in October
September 21, 2025 
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Lynley (October 15) is a Britbox take on the Inspector Linley Mysteries that ran for six seasons 20 years ago.
This time Leo Super (Vikings: Valhalla) plays the aristocratic cop who spars with his insubordinate partner (We Are Lady Parts’ Sofia Barclay) while solving murders.
The four-part series was praised more for their chemistry than whodunit originality but the Wall Street Journal thought it “a beautiful-looking show [that] becomes increasingly absorbing along the way”.
“There’s no reason this version of Lynley can’t be solving crimes just as long as his predecessor,” Medium reckons:
It injects its dramatic happenings with some life, so that there’s more to look forward to than just bad guys being caught. When so many procedurals claim to be character-driven, this one actually is.
Family Law S1-2 (October 29) is a popular Canadian drama about a family-run law firm in Vancouver that’s so far spawned four seasons — even if the critics’ verdict was underwhelming.
“A light-hearted legal drama that is fine but totally unessential,” said the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review while Decider thought it “appealing enough” and “entertainingly quirky“.
Film Club (date to be confirmed) stars The White Lotus’ Aimee Lou Wood, who wrote the romantic-comedy, as an agoraphobe who starts a film club in her garage with her best friend (Nabhaan Rizwan).
The BBC bills the series, which also stars Suranne Jones, as a “witty and emotional show about love and family, about whether we should follow our hearts or heads, and being in love with a friend”.
Among the big names captured for Celebrity Traitors UK, which also is being fast-tracked from the UK (TBC), are Stephen Fry, Alan Carr, Jonathan Ross and Charlotte Church while ready to binge is another celebrity scoop, The Baldwins (October 25), which critics on both sides of the Atlantic savaged.
“One of the darkest and most bizarre hours of television to appear in recent memory” (New York magazine); “a saccharine pity party” (The Telegraph).
Returning is Parental Guidance S3 (TBC) while library additions include:
- The Long Call (October 11), which first streamed on TVNZ+ in 2021 (“a return to the dark and twisty British crime mysteries that we love” )
- Redemption (October 19), which first aired on TVNZ 1 in 2023 and stars Ray Donovan’s Paula Malcolmson as a Liverpool-based detective whose estranged daughter is found dead in Dublin
- Wild Bill (October 5), which first aired on TVNZ 1 in 2019 and stars Rob Lowe as a top US cop who shakes up the East Lincolnshire Constabulary in an ITV series that critics weren’t wild about
- Zomboat (October 17), which first streamed on TVNZ+ in 2021 and is a “surprisingly clever and refreshingly upbeat” comedy-horror mash-up in which two sisters flee a zombie apocalypse in Birmingham on a canal boat
- Supernatural spin-off The Winchesters (October 13), which first streamed three years ago on Neon.
Has anyone who watches ThreeNow notice the cranking up of the number of ads per hour since Sky took over? I just finished watching Timeless and when WBD owned it you’d get a couple in the hour but the last few episode they were as bad as normal broadcast TV. —
Paul W
It’s hard to say, Paul W, because the frequency, number and length of ad breaks vary from the time of day to the appeal of the programme or movie. Personally I find TVNZ+’s digital ad strategy so intrusive that usually I wait for the programmes to be broadcast. Again, ‘tho, that is dependent on the above factors. I’ve viewed less of ThreeNow but would not have thought it any worse than TVNZ+. My Prime Video account now has limited advertising, and so far the insertions have been reasonable, ranging from one 30-second break midway through a movie to 90-second breaks in a series.
I used to watch several programmes on ThreeNow and the last one was Timelines which I’ve now finished. The last two episodes were loaded with ads compared the rest of the series and that seemed to coincide with Sky taking over from WBD. I don’t find TVNZ too bad, just need to find away to play the end credits with out it autoplaying the next episode before it finishes. — Paul W.