New to TVNZ+ in November

Thanks to the vagaries of Paramount Global’s distribution strategies, three series from Taylor Sheridan soon will be spread across different streaming platforms: Yellowstone on Neon, 1883 on Prime Video and from November 13, Tulsa King on TVNZ+.

It stars Sylvester Stallone stars as New York mafia capo Dwight ‘The General’ Manfredi who, after 25 years in prison, is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Realising his mob family might not have his best interests in mind, Dwight builds up a crew of misfits and unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that might as well be another planet.

Garrett Hedlund (On the Road), Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire) and Martin Starr (Silicon Valley) co-star.

Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin (November 23) picks up 10 years after college, with Bumper Allen (Adam Devine) working as a security guard until one of his songs goes viral in Berlin and he moves to Germany to revive his his dreams of becoming a pop star.

Flula Borg, who played Das Sound Machine’s Pieter Krämer in the movie franchise, Sarah Hyland (Modern Family) and Jameela Jamil (The Good Place) co-star.

Rogue Heroes (TBA) is Peaky Blinders scribe Steven Knight’s take on how the SAS was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War II.

Connor Swindells (Sex Education), Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Jack O’Connell (Skins) and Dominic West (The Wire) star in an adaptation of the book by Ben Macintyre.

In My Skin (November 21) is a darkly funny series about a South Wales teenager who uses humour to hide the truth of her home life from her friends.

“But when your mother is in a mental facility and likes breaking out and your father is a Hell’s Angel, flying under the radar isn’t easy,” reads the blurb.

“Brutally honest and full of humour, heart and hope, this coming-of-age comedy drama is based on the real life of writer Kayleigh Llewellyn.”

Other UK comedy highlights will include:

• This Time with Alan Partridge S2, Uncle and This Country (November 1)
• Dead Pixels, Misfits and Save Our Skins (November 5)
• The Mighty Boosh and Stath Lets Flats (November 7)
• Red Dwarf (November 9)
• Threesome, The Catherine Tate Show and Extras (November 11).

There also will be another chance to catch About a Boy S1-3 (November 15), Top of the Lake S2 (November 20), Beauty and the Beast S1-4 (November 25) SS-GB and Great Expectations (November 27), Barracuda (November 28) and The Twilight Zone S1-2 (November 30).

New documentary series will range from Moment of Truth (November 1), which promises “a front row seat to the most iconic moments and stories from FIFA World Cup history”, and Spector (November 6), which profiles the groundbreaking record producer and convicted killer Phil Spector, to The Aotearoa History Show S1-2 (November 5), BossBabes S2 (November 9) and David Attenborough’s Climate Change: The Facts (November 21).

Also tune in to music specials Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know, Harry Styles: Live in Manchester, In and Out of Hell: The Meat Loaf Story, Sam Smith: Live in London and Kylie’s Secret Night (November 18).

True-crime newcomers will include Killer Motive S1 (November 12), Dying to Belong S1 (November 19), and Final Appeal S1 and Up and Vanished S1 (November 26) while among the new movies will be Bad Boys, Bad Boys II and Spider-Man 3 (November 1) and The Guilt Trip (November 10).

New to the branded channels from November 1 will be:

Filmstream

Britt-Marie Was Here
Two Of Us

iWonder

Bureau 39: Kim’s Cash Machine
Soyalism
Post Truth Times
Banking Nature

Lifetime

Big Lies in a Small Town
Girl in the Box
Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever
Christmas Reservations

Outdoor

Trev Gowdy’s Monster Fish (S4)
Wild Ops (S5)

OUTtv

Camp Wannakiki (S4b)
China Doll: A Many Splendored Queen
Face to Face With David (S4a)

Pulse

Banksy Most Wanted
Revolt She Said
The Man on the Island
The Pinkies Are Back