Coming up with a new series for Netflix is never simple, I'd imagine, but there are certain pillars that you can include to give yourself a great chance of not just getting picked up, but also of scoring a proper hit once your show eventually hits the streaming service. I think The Body ticks quite a few of those hypothetical boxes, personally.

The new series got its first proper trailer last week, which is full of arresting imagery, and it'll hit Netflix on 11 November. What boxes does it tick, you ask? Well, it's got teenagers bullying each other, high school sports drama, hints of the supernatural, and a strong implication of steamy, messy relationships.

The show appears to revolve around a dance squad at a girls' school, recruiting for new members and putting those new dancers through an initiation rite that goes more than a little wrong. From the blurb, this will apparently kick off a series of prophetic visions among the girls, who start to see things and believe increasingly scary things about each other.

It's clear from the trailer that at least one of them might end up getting literally possessed, whether it's by a demon or the literal devil, or by nothing at all, we don't know right now. What's clear is that this tone will take the show from a high school drama into the territory of a supernatural thriller or even an outright horror show.

The good news for Netflix is that those genres have done brilliantly for it over the years, with audiences clearly hungry for the sort of thrills and frights that come with that territory. If The Body can deliver on them, I think it has all the ingredients to be quite a hit in terms of Netflix's all-important charts.

We know that it's an eight-episode season, and it hasn't been billed as a limited series, so it'll be fascinating to see whether this is a "one and done" scenario, or whether it'll sow some seeds for more potential seasons down the line – with a young cast of relative unknowns, you'd assume that might be at least an option. We'll know more on 11 November, when it starts streaming.

According to some, Netflix has lost its way over the last few years. Where it was once the king of video streaming, rivals have sprung up to offer higher-rated TV series and movies.

Apple TV has become synonymous with some of the most popular and highly regarded TV shows of today, such as Slow Horses, Ted Lasso, Silo, and Dark Matter. While HBO Max continues to cement its reputation for water-cooler programming with the likes of House of the Dragon, The White Lotus, Lanterns, and War.

Netflix viewers on the other hand have been faced with thousands of hours of murder documentaries and imported shows from other stations and services. This from a platform that brought us Squid Game, Tiger King, Stranger Things, and The Crown.

That's not to say it doesn't continue to add Netflix Originals worth watching, but it's been a while since any of them have become a trend or buzz. And they tend to be surrounded on the homepage by games and podcasts.

But that has not gone unnoticed. As the industry waits to see what emerges from the Paramount+ and HBO Max merger, Netflix's co-CEO Ted Sarandos has suggested that the streamer is set to go back to basics. He wants it to "strengthen its core TV and movie offerings", according to the WSJ.

The company has already taken action. Content chief Bela Bajaria and the head of film, Dan Lin, have each departed Netflix in the last week. They joined around 1,000 other employees who have been laid off recently.

A new executive, Peter Rice (formerly of Disney and Fox), has stepped in and $20 billion has been budgeted for new scripted and un-scripted programming.

The WSJ suggests that Rice's biggest task will be to rediscover the spark that made the service so essential just a few years ago. Hopefully, that means we'll be getting a wave of exciting new TV series and films in the coming years – and fewer external acquisitions made just to bulk out the library.

Our world is one of content, and there's never really enough for people to get through (even though we all know the fear of browsing Netflix's catalogue for hours before managing to decide on what to watch). So, the big streamers know that they have to keep pumping new shows and movies out, or people will eventually cancel their subscriptions.

That's why I spend the first few hours of every working week going through the release plans of both Netflix and Prime Video in proper detail, to highlight the three new additions that you should know about for the evenings to come. If you're on the lookout for something to binge this week, here are the most interesting new arrivals for you to preview.

The Terminal List (Season 2)

• Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video from 21 October

Amazon went pretty big on The Terminal List the first time around, nabbing Chris Pratt to star in the show at a time when his star was shining really brightly thanks to his involvement with Marvel. After its first season, though, the show went as AWOL as his character in it, James Reece.

Now, though, years later and just past the point when I had started to assume that the show was effectively on ice, it's back. The second season sees Reece start things off in full anonymity (or so he thinks), before being tracked down by the US because it needs his unique skills once again. With the offer of a full pardon on the table (but doubtless with some asterisks attached), it's his best chance to get something resembling a normal life back. Cue some crazy tactical missions, if nothing else.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2

• Streaming on: Netflix from 20 October

Edgerunners might be one of the most celebrated new anime of all time, an addition to Netflix's library that really marked its ability to create impressive modern animated shows. Now, a few years later, we're getting another season, but it's important to note that the story won't be related. Sure, we'll probably get some little references to the first run, but this is going to involve a brand new cast of characters.

In some ways that's obvious, since the ending of the first season didn't exactly leave too many of our favourite chooms alive, but still. This time around, you can expect another burning story of body modification, cyberpsychosis, revenge and violence. The trailer makes it clear that we'll see some crazy fights, gory deaths, and impactful exchanges – sign us up.

Lupin (Part 4)

• Streaming on: Netflix from 23 October

Lupin has been a really strong performer for Netflix over the last few years, even as the gaps between its seasons have stretched to slightly annoying levels. Now, we're finally getting a fourth outing from our favourite French thief. Framed for a crime he didn't commit (for once), it looks like he's going to be in pretty hot water, and literally in jail at least for some amount of time.

You know a French show's doing well, quite frankly, when it manages to film not just around the Eiffel Tower, but actually inside it – and that's what it looks like we're getting this time around. Assane will have to chase down a rival thief copying his methods, while evading recapture and both trying to clear his name and, frankly, score some theft along the way. What fun!

Daniel Craig is returning to the big screen in a fantasy movie that's quite the departure from the Bond role he's best known for, or his Knives Out character Benoit Blanc. In fact, it's a little more like his 2007 dalliance in The Golden Compass.

Netflix has just released the first trailer for Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, the latest installation in The Chronicles of Narnia. While The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the best known and was the first published from CS Lewis' novels, The Magician's Nephew serves as prequel for the universe in which Narnia exists and was one of the last books written.

So this is an origin story, starring Craig as the magician, but putting young actors David McKenna (as Diggory Kirke) and Beatrice Campbell (as Polly Plummer) into the frame.

The Magician's Nephew sees the children exploring other worlds thanks to a magic ring that the magician (Daniel Craig) gives to them.

The trailer shows us a fantastical world, including a glimpse of a celestial Aslan, while the story revolves around how Narnia comes into being and how evil enters that world through Emma Mackey's White Witch.

Greta Gerwig's (Barbie) portrayal of the various worlds is bright, vibrant and instantly engaging, while having a distinct Ragnarok feeling to it. As a movie it looks like a lot of fun for all ages, both long-time fans and kids who are easily distracted. Visually, at least, Narnia: The Magician's Nephew should hold their attention.

And it's probably a part of the universe that many CS Lewis readers never got to. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Price Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader make sense as a trilogy, following the adventures of Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, but that adventure concludes with Dawn Treader.

So this is an interesting part of Narnia's universe, adjacent to the characters and world that is familiar and makes for a good entry point to the adventures for new fans. It could also serve to draw some to the novel before the cinema release in February 2027, or at least put it on parents' reading lists.

This is a Netflix movie that's heading to the big screen first, so streamers will have to wait for it to hit the small screen, although typically that wait isn't long.

It doesn't get much more '90s than Baywatch – even if the show technically launched right at the end of the 1980s. A show that launched careers and made sex icons out of most of its stars, it also brought up a generation of viewers with the idea that there was basically no job more heroic than being a beach lifeguard, and now it's back.

After a pretty terrible movie in 2017 with The Rock in a mainline role, this series looks like it's a bit more of a faithful reimagining of what Baywatch would look like in our current times, and it's coming to Prime Video at the start of 2027. The fact that it just got its first trailer (and it's a pretty long one) shows that Amazon hopes it has a real hit on its hands, here.

As with the old Baywatch, while much of the conversation will remain on the frankly ridiculous cuts of the swimwear being worn by female members of the team, this revival does seem to be going 'equal opportunities' when it comes to beauty standards – every single one of its cast seems to be the most absurdly buff person imaginable, whatever their gender.

The head of the team is none other than Stephen Amell as Hobie Buchannon – the son of David Hasselhof's iconic character from the original show. He's the captain of Baywatch now, and he's built like a superhero (which makes sense, since he played Green Arrow for so long). He's good at what he does, and loves doing it, but doesn't see one major twist coming.

That twist is his biological daughter, Jessica Belkin as Charlie Vale, who rocks up out of the blue hoping to join Baywatch and do what she was born to do (save people). Hobie's going to have to wrestle with whether he can watch his daughter do such a dangerous job without intervening, but also with whether stopping her would mean having no relationship at all.

Beyond that, there will doubtless be accidents, rescues and conspiracies to uncover, as well as steamy romances to watch between various members of the crew, all of whom are stupidly beautiful. It looks like it could be a really indulgent, fun time – but we'll have to wait until 2027 to get a better sense of that.

Can Apple take over your Smart Home? Following this week's release of Apple's new HomeView hub, T3's Editor-in-chief, Mat Gallagher, chats to Jason Bradbury and Ortis Deley about its home ambitions.

Alongside the HomeView, they also announced a new Apple TV 4K model and the HomePod mini 2 speakers, and the trio discuss the benefits of each.

Also in this week's podcast, we run down some of the best Smart Home upgrades from this month's magazine feature, including the Tewke Light Switch, Smeg AFC01 Dual Flavour Air Fryer, and MSI Claw 8 EX AI+.

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The Gadget Show launched in 2004 on Channel 5 in the UK and has delivered previews and reviews of the latest gadgets since.

With a range of presenters and formats over the years, the new podcast sees the return of the original duo Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry in a weekly episode, hosted on its YouTube channel.

It's worth subscribing and liking their weekly videos – and, of course, returning to T3.com to see other members of the team talk over the latest tech with The Gadget Show team.

With so many services offering streaming content these days, it's no surprise that there's a lot of scouring the past for classics that might stand up to the conversion. Paramount+ seems to have found some IP ripe for the picking in SEGA's back catalogue.

That's seen Golden Axe, the 90s side-scrolling beat 'em up getting churned through the works for a second spot in the limelight - and a lot of people love it.

Originally released in 1989, Golden Axe centres on Gilius, Ax Battler and Tyris, all seeking revenge against Death Adder. The game basically revolves around slaying Death Adder's henchmen. Yes, it was something of a button masher with a bit of magic thrown in, but now it's a 10-part animated series on Paramount+.

To say it's unexpected might be an understatement, but here we are, looking at an 18+ rated cartoon, which has plenty of retro charms of its own. I can't helping but think it looks a lot like the original He-Man cartoons from the 80s.

And it's probably going to be watched by the same people.

You might struggle to figure out how Golden Axe has enough plot to make a 10-part series, but it falls into the comedy genre, which is what has divided opinion. Yes, it's tongue-in-cheek, having a bit of a joke about this gaming genre while throwing enough in to keep people entertained.

But with people piling into a Reddit thread with comments like "I ended up not hating this", there seems to be some hope that it's actually worth watching.

There are plenty of people who have enjoyed the experience, while others say they hit the first joke and decided the humour wasn't for them. Perhaps the best advice is to commit to at least an episode and see if it brings back fond memories.

"Surprisingly funny" writes one reviewer on IMDb, while another claims it misses the mark. It's definitely one for 80s kids and retro fans, but perhaps don't expect too much from it.

Mike McMahan, known for Star Trek: Lower Decks and Rick and Morty, and Joe Chandler, of American Dad! fame are the creators, so that explains the homour and adult animation angle that Golden Axe has taken.

Netflix is always introducing enticing new shows and movies – and when big-deal stars are involved, it certainly grabs the public's attention. But it doesn't always mean a surefire hit – from a critical perspective, at least.

The streaming service's latest number one movie, which was released on 9 October, has been sat in pole position as being the most-viewed on the platform. Animals is directed by none other than Ben Affleck, who also stars.

It's got a raft of A-list talent in the production, too, from Gillian Anderson to Steven Yuen and Kerry Washington, but that's not held its critics back from dishing out Z-list reviews. You only need take a look at Rotten Tomatoes to get a gist.

I think that Animals' trailer, however, makes it look like a great Hollywood production – as you can see below. From the sweeping views of Los Angeles, to the glimpses of talent on show, I'm still tempted to cue it up and watch.

Animals trailer

What's Animals about?

Animals is about a Los Angeles mayoral candidate, Mark Kimball (played by Affleck), whose son is kidnapped. Both he and his wife, Abigail Kimball (Kerry Washington), are left scrambling for the ransom to free their son.

Kimball's aide, Sam Allison (played by Steven Yuen), and a curious 'fixer', Dayle Burton (Gillian Anderson) is drafted in to try and solve the crisis. But things only escalate, with the family's housekeeper, Cecilia Trujillo (Adriana Paz), also pulled into the chaos.

Is Animals well rated?

Affleck directs Animals, a job he's held in high esteem many times previously, with titles such as The Town, Argo and many more under his belt. However, those were far greater in their reception.

So what's the crux of the movie's low ratings? In general, reviewers cite the lack of a worthy backstory, a believable motive, and lack of on-screen dynamics between such a group of strong actors.

"Remember when Netflix made great exclusive films? Neither do I," says Adam Olinger in his YouTube review. That's cited on the Rotten Tomatoes page and may be the most to-the-point take of many.

Yet none of this has prevented Animals from rocketing up Netflix's chart, of course, quickly sliding into the top spot in many countries, the UK included. Whether it'll remain there, however, is another matter...

Begun, the streaming wars have – or, more to the point, they begun long ago. Netflix and Prime Video are now locked in what feels like a fight to the death, albeit one that Netflix appears to be winning handily if you go by viewership alone. Neither has any interest in letting up the pressure on the other, though, and that means content.

Sure, it's probably the worst word in history used to describe what should be artistic pursuits, but in a time full of more TV shows, movies and other material to watch than any other era in history, maybe we have to use it. If you're a Netflix subscriber, an Amazon Prime member, or both, you have a vested interest in knowing when good stuff hits either platform.

So, I've taken a careful look at everything being added to Netflix and Prime Video this week, and have picked out three highlights that you should be aware of. They're below, with trailers and release dates so that you can plan around them for your mid-week viewing pleasure.

The Diplomat (Season 4)

• Streaming on: Netflix from 15 October

One of the biggest hits that Netflix has had in recent years has been The Diplomat, starring Keri Russell in the title role as an extremely stressed diplomat for whom nothing seems to ever be simple. If you haven't watched the first few seasons, head off and do that, because this next paragraph will be spoilerish.

Kate (Russell's character) has always had a super complicated marriage, but things are even more fraught now that Hal (Rufus Sewell) is vice-President, and becoming ever more exposed to the sort of influence that she's afraid of. Whether she can keep a grip on the whole situation is anyone's guess, and doubtless there's going to be at least one major twist to keep her on her toes.

Love of Your Life

• Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video from 14 October

If you're in the mood for a story that's a little bit more optimistic about the potential for love to strike when you're least expecting it, then Love of Your Life seems like the perfect pick for a mid-week evening pick-me-up. It stars the always-glowing Margaret Qualley as a young woman mourning the messy end of a relationship that she thought would go the distance.

She takes herself on a European trip to clear her mind, but with no intention of falling for anyone else while she's there. Life has other plans, though, as it so often does, and she's soon doing her best to stop catching feelings for none other than Aaron Pierre (fresh from his profile-raising work in Lanterns).

Masterplan

• Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video from 16 October

My final pick this week is the most light-hearted of the lot, so it might be a great pick if you're in the mood for something snackish and easygoing this week. Stanley Tucci stars in Masterplan as a master thief who's planning a job just a little bit too big for him to tackle on his own: stealing literally the Mona Lisa. This means it's a Louvre heist, which is obviously more topical than it might have been a decade ago.

The movie looks, frankly, like a bit of light fun – Tucci's clearly having a ball, from the trailer, and he's the only really recognisable face in the whole thing. That hopefully won't stop it from putting together an inventive story, and if it can nail the fundamentals of a good heist sequence, then it'll be well worth the price of entry (which you already paid in your Prime sub).

The rolling saga of Yellowstone has consumed a lot of viewing hours. From the original Kevin Costner-led series, we've leapt back in time through 1883 and 1923 and into two spin-offs, Dutton Ranch and Marshals.

Marshals, which follows the story of ex-Navy SEAL Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), aired on Paramount+ in March 2026, but has now returned for a second season just 7 months later. That's a quick turn around and a welcome break from waiting a year to continue the storyline.

And that's what Marshals S2 does: it continues the storyline as though it was never designed to be two separate seasons. Protagonist Kayce Dutton's son Tate is off on a fishing trip with Tom Weaver - who's aggressively trying to buy East Camp - when things take a turn for the worst.

In classic Dutton style, just about everyone that Kayce comes into contact with ends up dead, while the rest of the US Marshals team is left to figure out what's happening and swing in to lend some extra muscle. While enforcing the law is one part of the job, much of their time seems to be spent sorting out personal issues.

Streaming now on Paramount+, you might not want to jump right in, because it's on a weekly release rather than giving you the whole season to binge in one go. Let me tell you, that's not my favourite way to watch.

Marshals sees the youngest of the Dutton offspring pairing up with another ex-Navy SEAL Pete Calvin (Logan Marshall-Green). They regularly re-live some of their shared military history, while working with Belle Skinner (Arielle Kebbel), Andrea Cruz (Ash Santos), and Miles Kittle (Tatanka Means).

It's effectively a vehicle to continue Kayce Dutton's story, carrying with him the legacy of the Duttons, playing out across the Yellowstone's backcountry canvas. You're only ever about 5 minutes away from a shootout on horseback, as someone else tries to take advantage of the land and corrupt the natural order of things.

For fans of Yellowstone, it feels like the sort of thing you expect Kayce to be doing, having shown off those SEAL skills on several occasions in the original series. What's surprising is how quickly the series returned, but I'm not going to complain about that.

For those waiting for the other Dutton child, Beth, it seems that filming on Dutton Ranch S2 is set to start in early 2027, so there's going to be a little while longer to wait.

There's a retro tech revival happening right now. From turntables to cassettes, BlackBerry-style phones to classic gaming consoles.

It's tech that takes some of us back to our childhood, while for others, it's a chance to experience these classic products for the first time.

In this week's The Gadget Show podcast, T3's News Editor, Rik Henderson, talks through some of the best retro gadgets from the feature in T3 Magazine.

These include the Technics SL-1200 55th anniversary edition, the Kodak Chamera key ring camera, Clicks Communicator, Acemagic Retro X3, Tiny Vinyl Player, and Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema.

Watch the full episode of The Gadget Show Podcast below or watch on YouTube.

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Your favourite lifestyle tech publication, T3, has partnered with the legendary TV and YouTube sensation that is The Gadget Show.

T3 has celebrated its print magazine's 30th birthday this year, while T3.com continues to grow and reach wider audiences year on year.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be bringing you all the latest news on tech and gaming from Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry and members of the T3 team.

What is The Gadget Show?

The Gadget Show launched in 2004 on Channel 5 in the UK and has delivered previews and reviews of the latest gadgets since.

With a range of presenters and formats over the years, the new podcast sees the return of the original duo Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry in a weekly episode, hosted on its YouTube channel.

It's worth subscribing and liking their weekly videos – and, of course, returning to T3.com to see other members of the team talk over the latest tech with The Gadget Show team.

Netflix has a long history, at this point, of revealing fairly massive projects just before they hit the streaming service. After all, that's sort of its entire plan – keep people guessing about what it has coming, but in a way that incentivises them to leave their subscriptions recurring, assuming that there will indeed be a constant drip-feed of decent stuff.

Well, decent stuff is probably underselling its latest reveal – a country music-themed mystery thriller that stars an Oscar-winner and looks like it could have some extremely entertaining twists and turns. Heartland sees Jessica Chastain playing Misty Jones, a semi-retired country superstar who heads back to her home town of Nashville when her niece (also a musician) goes missing.

Misty seems like a certified badass, and suspects from the start that something's not right – her niece is famous, and famous people don't just disappear without anyone having a solitary clue where they've gone. She's clearly going to take it into her own hands to progress the case where the police seem largely stumped.

From the trailer Netflix dropped this week, it looks like it won't take her long to find some fairly harrowing stuff, and that's just the half of it. It's clear that Misty will also get embroiled back into the world of the Nashville music scene, and there are going to be some concert appearances for the movie to portray, too. In fact, Netflix says the soundtrack will be available before the film arrives, so it's clearly proud of it.

We'll get a better sense of whether that pride is in the right place when the film arrives – it premieres on Netflix on 13 November. Interestingly, there's no word of it getting a theatrical release, which tends to indicate that Netflix is keen for a movie to be in contention for awards in a few months' time. Whether that says anything about the likely quality of Heartland is up to you.

I suspect it just means that this is a gripping thriller that should keep you engaged, rather than something deeper and more artistic – and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Expect this one to rocket up Netflix's charts when it comes out.

The crown weighs heavily in the world of streaming – for however long Netflix has been able to call itself the biggest streaming service in the world, it's known the whole time that it can't rest easy. The likes of Prime Video are there in the back of its mind at all times, trying to steal away the status it earned.

Some of us, of course, will just play both sides in this one, and if you're a subscriber to either or both of Prime Video and Netflix, then you're likely curious about what you can expect from the pair of streamers this week. It's actually a really big one for releases, too, with some massive additions rounding out my three picks below. You'll find each with a trailer for some context, along with a release date to plan around.

Animals

• Streaming on: Netflix from 9 October

Ben Affleck's new film looks like a thriller that should have you on the edge of your seat, not least because there seem to be a few different angles on its plot. On the surface, he plays a mayoral candidate in California whose life is upended when his son is kidnapped, driving him to desperation.

Below that, though, there are clearly some sordid details percolating. Affleck's character seems to be hiding more than one secret, and he's not the only one – his wife (Kerry Washington) is clearly at least somewhat compromised too. Throw in Gillian Anderson as a shadowy fixer that comes in to theoretically help things move forward, and you've got a pretty interesting equation for a movie.

Carrie

• Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video from 7 October

Carrie launched the career of a certain Stephen King, which is quite the accolade, and was later adapted into one of the most iconic horror movies of all time, albeit subsequent remakes have generally been fairly dire. Now it's time for a new vision, though, and Mike Flanagan's horror credentials are basically peerless.

He's running this new show, which looks like it'll take a slower-paced view of Carrie's journey into the hellish world of school bullying, and also update it for modern times. Harrowing scenes from the original might be even more troubling in the age of smartphones and cameras, and this looks like it could be quite the addition for Prime Video this week.

Below

• Streaming on: Netflix from 8 October

Back to Netflix we go, though, for my last pick, which sees Josh Hartnett return to our screens for what looks like a supernatural horror-thriller, which is quite the combination of genre flags. Below looks like nothing else we've seen recently, and I consider that an accolade. Hartnett's character is scarred by a confusing event from his childhood, and hopes that it'll never crop up again.

He's left to process his disappointment, then, when a mysterious and giant iceberg floats into the bay of his quiet fishing town, inexplicably, and seemingly starts to fuel odd happenings and unrest. The trailers for this one have been mercifully vague, so I'm looking forward to discovering some big twists about the bizarre plot that Below might offer up when it arrives midweek.

I have a rule that I try to stick to – if I have the opportunity to pick up a Steven Spielberg movie on physical media, especially if I haven't seen it, I'll do so. He's one of the great living directors, and his place in the canon is secure, but he's also a movie-maker whose films really deserve proper treatment.

Streaming can be brilliant for access, but the difference in playback quality, from sharpness and depth of colour right through to surround sound, is huge when you start playing 4K Blu-rays more regularly. Spielberg's latest, Disclosure Day, underlines this perfectly.

It's a movie I missed when it hit cinemas earlier this year, so the chance to get a screener seemed like an obvious win, and having sat and watched it on a midweek evening, it's an interesting step for Spielberg in story terms. It continues his fascination with the question of how we'd receive extraterrestrial visitors, and seems like almost an update of how he thinks it might unfold in 2026.

That compares to the obvious old hits of E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and it's a fairly fascinating triptych when viewed in that light, albeit I think Disclosure Day is rather clearly the weakest of the three films.

It stars Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor as a pair of people beset by baffling knowledge – they both discover at different times in their lives that they can understand languages and concepts previously foreign to them, like a gift of knowledge. They're drawn together while a shadowy private company tries everything it can to stop them from revealing what they know.

In point of fact, what they know is that aliens are real and have been visiting our planet for some time, covered up by a succession of governments, but it doesn't really help to examine that idea too closely.

Rather, Disclosure Day is about the ride these two strangers go on, and the movie really unfolds as one long chase sequence as they both dodge around the machinations of that evil corporation. It's fun enough, but doesn't really have the clarity and thematic emphasis of some of Spielberg's best stuff.

What it does have, though, on 4K disc, is a whacking great sound mix that's extremely cinematic and underlines what streaming can't bring to the table. My living room setup now comprises the excellent Sonos Beam Ultra, along with the Sub Mini and two Era 100s for rear channels, and it's a pretty tidy surround system in all.

There are a few car chases in the film, and all of them sound rounded and powerful, but one particular scene involving a couple of freight trains is particularly impactful. The sub-bass that Spielberg uses is just tremendous, and on a good system it'll have your seat shaking in a way that I've never heard a streaming service manage.

This is something that's familiar if you have other Spielberg movies on disc – I couldn't believe the noise generated by the first UFO arrival in Close Encounters when I saw it on Blu-ray for the first time, and that feeling of almost discomfort was echoed here.

Impressively, the dynamic range employed is still relatively carefully calibrated, though. I didn't have an issue with whisper-quiet dialogue even at a fairly reasonable overall volume, something that I can't really say about (for example) some Nolan movies on disc.

4K disc evangelists like me might make people assume that it's all about the pixel-peeping when comparing sources, but Disclosure Day is another great little example of how it's really the sound that's the biggest single upgrade (in my opinion). If you want to see Spielberg's latest without the compromise of muted audio, I'd say you know what you have to do.

What's in your ultimate wishlist? In this week's The Gadget Show podcast, we dive into some of the top picks from T3's Ultimate Wishlist, including We Are Rewind Freddie retro earphones, MineLab's Manticore metal detector, the Bose Lifestyle Ultra soundbar and the Flit M2 folding electric bike.

T3's Editor-in-Chief, Mat Gallagher, chats through the list with Jason Bradbury and Jon Bentley. Mat also fills in the boys on his experience with Meta's new VR Glasses that look to make a splash in 2027.

Could these really be the best VR glasses to date? They're certainly more comfortable to wear than the Apple Vision Pro and the Samsung Galaxy XR models.

Watch the full episode of The Gadget Show Podcast below or watch on YouTube.

• Check out The Gadget Show's YouTube channel for more

Your favourite lifestyle tech publication, T3, has partnered with the legendary TV and YouTube sensation that is The Gadget Show.

T3 has celebrated its print magazine's 30th birthday this year, while T3.com continues to grow and reach wider audiences year on year.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be bringing you all the latest news on tech and gaming from Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry and members of the T3 team.

What is The Gadget Show?

The Gadget Show launched in 2004 on Channel 5 in the UK and has delivered previews and reviews of the latest gadgets since.

With a range of presenters and formats over the years, the new podcast sees the return of the original duo Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry in a weekly episode, hosted on its YouTube channel.

It's worth subscribing and liking their weekly videos – and, of course, returning to T3.com to see other members of the team talk over the latest tech with The Gadget Show team.

Prime Video is locked in one of the great broadcasting battles with Netflix, even if "broadcasting" is objectively not the right word for how either service works. They're the giants of this streaming age, and in the race to not just attract the most subscribers, but also to keep them for more than just a single month at a time, they both know the brief.

Amazon has to keep pumping content into its catalogue, or people will get bored, and that means original shows and movies, as well as older material. If you're wondering what it's got planned this month, I've got good news – I've done the hard work for you. I went trawling through everything being added to Prime Video this month. I've picked out the highlights you'll want to pay attention to, so here are the five biggest new arrivals.

Carrie

• Streaming from: 7 October

Amazon's ownership of MGM gives it access to a whole heap of the biggest and most iconic franchises of all time – including one of the best horror movies ever made, Carrie. It had a fairly terrible remake back in 2013, but that's long enough ago that a new series could well fare much better without any blowback.

It takes Stephen King's creepy novel and takes a slower approach to it, with more time to luxuriate in the painful nature of high school integration for our guileless heroine Carrie. She's in for a terrible time, with horror master Mike Flanagan updating the material to account for our age of social media. It all promises a cathartic climax that's even more violent and explosive than the original.

The Terminal List (Season 2)

• Streaming from: 21 October

Chris Pratt's big-budget series for Prime Video looked like it might have been something of a bust, but now it's been revived years after its first season, having had a spin-off more recently. Pratt's back as a damaged ex-military man who's had to go into the deepest sort of hiding to avoid scrutiny because of what he did last time out.

As often happens, though, the US government isn't done with him. It looks like he'll have to come out of hiding and retirement to help track down another former colleague who might have gone rogue. That trail will take him all around the world, from the looks of it, making this a great fit if you fancy a globe-trotting tactical adventure.

Love of Your Life

• Streaming from: 14 October

Another one to watch if you want some of the feeling of journeying around Europe and finding love, Love of Your Life stars the fairly magnetic Margaret Qualley as a young woman in the grieving phase for a relationship that she thought would go the distance. She's almost unwilling to allow for the idea that she might find another lover, frankly.

That's the sort of position that's always going to come under strain when Aaron Pierre looks your way, of course. So, it seems like a whirlwind romance will ensue, haunted by the question of whether you can get over a heartbreak and open yourself to the possibility of another one, if the other outcome is lasting love. Beautiful stuff!

Last One Laughing: Halloween

• Streaming from: 23 October

Last One Laughing has been something of a sensation over the last couple of years. Prime Video launched the show without a huge amount of fanfare, but it's already spawned spinoffs and local versions, since it really only requires a team of comedians to be locked in a house and let loose.

The central idea (whoever lasts the longest without laughing wins) is a brilliant one, and this time around we're getting the show's first seasonal special. It sees the cast dolled up in Halloween costumes, and presumably they might keep their gags a little spooky in flavour. We can't wait for this one.

Masterplan

• Streaming from: 16 October

My final pick for the month is clearly the silliest of the lot, but that's a good thing sometimes. Masterplan seems to have roped in Stanley Tucci largely with the promise that he'd get to both wear a ridiculous little moustache and be allowed to chew the scenery. He plays a master thief who reconnects with his two adult children to convince them to help him steal the Mona Lisa.

That's right: it's a Louvre heist movie, with the real-world version still fairly fresh in people's minds. Whether it can match the drama of the genuine article is hard to know, but it looks like Masterplan won't take itself remotely seriously, which is probably smart. It arrives midway through the month and should be a nice chill way to spend an evening.

Netflix, perhaps more than any other part of the huge streaming ecosystem that we all now participate in, knows that it can't take a month off. Its subscribers (who basically know that their plans will get more expensive as time goes on) need a whole heap of content to keep them from jumping ship, and that means Netflix is under constant pressure to deliver.

This October, it looks like it's doing the best job it's done in ages. There are some huge additions coming to its catalogue, in a whole range of genres, from the very start of the month right through to the end of it. I've taken a look at not just the big guns, but at every single new addition coming to Netflix this October, and have picked out the five incoming arrivals that you need to know about. These might be the best of a bumper crop in the month to come.

East of Eden

• Streaming from: 1 October

Florence Pugh steps into the spotlight for Netflix in this new adaptation of one of the great American novels, from master author John Steinbeck. The novel tells the story of the Trask family, and while this new series will clearly have the same ambitious plotting and multi-generational focus, it'll tell that story through a different lens.

Pugh plays Cathy Ames, who has a fairly terrible reputation among those who've read the book (and I'll freely admit here that I haven't). She's something of a villain in the novel, but here we'll see the story through her eyes, perhaps revealing depths that were previously untapped. Whether that experiment is a success will be fascinating to find out.

Animals

• Streaming from: 9 October

Ben Affleck is another big name to have starring in a major Netflix project, but he's also in the directorial chair for Animals, which makes this movie even more interesting. Affleck has proven himself a pretty capable director of thrillers, after all, and that's exactly what this is – one with a political side.

He's playing a mayoral candidate whose son is kidnapped, and the ensuing blackmail saga uncovers way more secrets and dodginess than you might expect. He's not the only one with some skeletons in his closet, either, with his wife (Kerry Washington) also in the crosshairs. Throw in Gillian Anderson as a mysterious fixer with a crazy sense of style, and you have a pretty enticing mystery movie for people to sink into.

Below

• Streaming from: 8 October

Another excellent-looking thriller arrives just a day before Animals, but it has a very different tone and genre to explore. Below looks, if anything, like a sort of gothic supernatural thriller, but that lack of certainty is a testament to its trailers, which have kept things impressively ambiguous.

Josh Hartnett stars as a father living a quiet life in a rural fishing village. He's quietly haunted by a bizarre episode from his childhood, one that has sometimes been dismissed as a bad dream, and hopes to forget all that when his adult kids come to stay. The arrival of a huge, mysterious iceberg in the bay, though, promises to set the cat amongst the pigeons, and it'll only get weirder from there.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2

• Streaming from: 20 October

The first season of Edgerunners is a modern anime classic, showing that the world of Cyberpunk has a huge amount to give, and it's fairly thrilling to know that it's coming back a few years later. Sensibly, the team behind the show have completely left behind the story from the last run of episodes, and will now tell a new 10-episode story with all-new characters.

It looks like the extremely poppy and stylised visuals are here to stay, though, and we're almost certain to get another story of how Night City can corrupt people from basically any background. Expect hyper-violent moments, uber-saturated neon-soaked scenes, and to re-familiarise yourself with slang like "choom".

Nobody Wants This (Season 3)

• Streaming from: 22 October

A hit comedy series?! In this day and age?! Netflix has something very good going on with Nobody Wants This, a tightly-scripted and really funny series about the challenges of love and faith that face us as we get a little older and still very much want to find love and friendship.

Its main characters, Joanne and Noah, have moved in together, taking that very big step towards making their partnership as permanent as they're able, but that doesn't mean there are no more hurdles to jump. While they're working out how to integrate their lives even more fully, their friends are busy having crises of their own, and we might get to see plenty more of the latter this season, to fill the cast out with a bit more detail.

Oasis might be touring again next year, including a return to the site of one of their finest moments, Knebworth, but I shan't be joining them. I want to, but considering I was quoted £450 a ticket shortly after they went on sale it's once again been hijacked by aggressive ticketing systems.

Thankfully though I can watch a slice of Oasis for free in just over a week's time, as Disney+ will be the exclusive streaming host for the movie made during the band's 2025 reunion foray.

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger will debut on the service on Friday 9 October 2026, and Disney will offer exclusive new footage on top. As well as full versions of Wonderwall and Slide Away, we'll also be able to stream D'You Know What I Mean? and Half The World Away in their entirety for the first time.

There's also exclusive extra material from the joint interview with Noel and Liam Gallagher.

The documentary movie was written by Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame, who is also currently penning the next Bond film. It was directed by duo Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, who also helmed Blur's 2010 doc, No Distance Left to Run.

How much is Disney+?

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger will be available to stream in the UK and internationally on Disney+. It'll be on Hulu and Disney+ in the US.

Subscription plans vary around the globe, with a recent price hike being rolled out in the States. That is yet to affect other regions, although it is expected at some point.

Currently, in the UK Disney+ starts at just £5.99 per month for a Standard with Ads plan – which includes 1080p streaming with up to 5.1 sound. It's ad-supported, of course. You also don't get offline viewing with this tier.

Sky Glass and Sky Stream customers with a Sky Ultimate TV plan get this Disney+ subscription for free.

Disney+ Standard ditches the ads for £9.99 per month. It also adds downloads and offline viewing on up to 10 devices.

Finally, Disney+ Premium will currently set you back £14.99 per month. It is ad-free and ups the streaming quality to up to 4K HDR (Dolby Vision) with Dolby Atmos audio.

Frankie LaPenna has already done something that sounds like it belongs in a sci-fi film, he stepped into a fighting cage against a six-foot humanoid robot.

The bout took place at a REK event in San Francisco on 18 September, with LaPenna wearing protective equipment as he faced an EngineAI T800 robot. Footage shows him landing several punches before the robot responds with kicks, including one that sends him across the cage.

REK described the event as the first human-versus-robot fight, although that claim hasn't been independently verified. The company has previously staged fights between remotely controlled humanoid robots, but this event put a human in the cage with one for the first time.

To be clear, the robot wasn't making its own decisions.

REK's machines are remotely controlled by human operators, and the LaPenna fight was part of the company's work on a virtual reality combat game. The idea is to connect the virtual game with physical humanoid robots, allowing people to control machines that fight in the real world.

That puts this closer to a demonstration of remote-controlled robotics than a genuine UFC-style fight between a human and an autonomous machine.

Still, the footage is a pretty good demonstration of what a remotely controlled humanoid can already do. REK has also suggested that more footage and potentially more human-versus-robot fights could follow.

I think it's fair to say that even the biggest and best streaming services don't always know for sure before they release a show that it'll be a huge hit. It's probably fairly easy to spot the real turkeys when they're in the editing suite, but the alchemy of a success can be harder to nail down. Take Nobody Wants This.

Sure, Kristen Bell is a pretty bankable star and had already played the lead in one really long-running and critically well-loved sitcom (The Good Place), but that didn't necessarily make her an AAA-lister, and Adam Brody was arguably from a lower bracket in terms of fame – yet the show was an enormous hit. Now it's back for a third season in as many years, and it looks fairly terrific.

After negotiating some doubts last time around, Joanne and Noah are now all in on each other, it looks like. They've made good on their promise to move in together, and Joanne's getting closer and closer to Noah's family, and indeed his faith by extension.

That doesn't mean everything's going to be simple and smooth this time around, though. It's pretty clear that Joanne will have some major insecurities to work on, while Noah might be under continued pressure from more traditional folks to settle down with someone closer to what they'd imagined for him. It's a familiar cocktail, to be fair, but also one that's worked wonders in the previous two seasons.

Meanwhile, their friends will continue to be fleshed out further as they go through little crises of their own, with life changes leaving some of them searching for love and others for meaning. The best comedies of this type are generally adept at bringing the supporting cast closer to the centre as things unfold, so this is a very good sign.

The show's also right around the corner, since it drops on 22 October, so if you haven't yet sampled its first two seasons you have just under a month to do so. They come highly recommended, too, and the promise of more to come is always a nice enticement.

Stanley Tucci seems to be having the absolute time of his life right now. The actor has long been pretty beloved, not least thanks to great roles in cult films like The Devil Wears Prada and The Hunger Games, but latterly because he's extremely charming and has become a specialist food broadcaster and writer.

That doesn't mean he's stepped away from acting, though – quite the contrary. He's just popped up in the lead role for a Prime Video movie hitting the streaming service on 16 October, and it looks like a huge change from the rather more serious role he just took up for Amazon in Citadel.

In Mastermind he plays Roger, a gracefully ageing master thief who's decided to pull what's arguably the ultimate heist – stealing quite literally the Mona Lisa. He's not going to be able to do it alone, though, and chooses this moment to reunite with his two adult children, who never knew him or each other.

One, Chiara, is a sassy Italian hacker, and the other, Jay, is a French explosives specialist with an ego that might need checking. They're not really team players, even before you add in the weird quasi-family reunion for them to emotionally process. The score on offer is hard to resist, though, so it looks like the three will manage to become something resembling a crew.

The amusing subplot here is that the movie involves a whole heap of plot revolving around a heist at the Louvre museum, which had an extremely high-profile real-world heist not long ago, one that it's still living down right now. I'd assume Masterplan filmed before that took place, or it might have had to go on ice as simply too awkward a topic.

Instead, it looks pretty well-timed, if anything, and could be a great way to lighten the mood at the most famous museum in France. I can't pretend the movie looks like high culture, despite Tucci's amusing moustache and funny little accent, but it's almost certain to be a fun diversion when it drops midway through October.

Disney+ has put up its prices again, with its top tier plan rising by 13%. However, reports suggest the price hike has only hit the US for now, with viewers in the UK and Europe so far unaffected.

A Disney+ Premium plan now costs $21.49 per month in the States – a raise of $2.50. Paying for 12 months up front will now cost you $214.99.

There's also a bump in the price of Disney's ad-supported subscription, but by just 50 cents – to $12.49 per month.

Those subscribing to a Disney+ & Hulu bundle without ads will also see their fees have increased. You can now expect to pay $21.99 per month – $2 more.

It's worth noting though that a Disney+ & Hulu bundle with ads is the same price as before – $12.99 per month.

UK Disney+ prices stay the same

T3 spoke with Disney to find out if price rises are coming to the UK too, and there's nothing to report as yet. We find it's usual for the service's fees to even out over time, but so far so good. We'll update if there is more information over time.

A Disney+ Standard with Ads plan is priced at £5.99 per month for ad-supported 1080p streaming, 5.1 audio and streaming on up to two devices at once. There are no offline downloads available on this tier.

Disney+ Standard is ad-free and as well as the above, it also includes offline viewing on up to 10 devices. It's currently priced at £9.99 per month.

Disney+ Premium still remains great value for money in the UK at £14.99 per month, especially when Netflix's equivalent tier is £20.99 per month.

It ups the video quality to 4K HDR (Dolby Vision) and audio up to Dolby Atmos. You can also stream on four devices simultaneously, and download on up to 10 devices.

Disney+ Standard with Ads is also available as part of Sky's Ultimate TV package for Sky Glass and Sky Stream customers, which is priced at £24 per month but also includes Sky's TV channels, plus Netflix, HBO Max, Hayu and Discovery+ subscriptions.

I’ve been writing about the best streaming services, their shows and movies, for many years. So for a new big-hitter to arrive on the scene is big news. And that’s exactly what’s coming next month.

JustWatch, the huge streaming guide that I use all the time to view charts and data about who’s watching what, is set to launch its own JustWatch TV – and it’s got some big content launch partners, including Paramount and New Regency.

At a time when Netflix is once again hiking its prices for the second time in a year – for some, that’s been a step too far – the addition of an ad-supported free streaming service will be a most welcome treat, especially with quality partners.

JustWatch TV will offer various ways in which to access content, though, with the free version supplemented by a pay-for ad-free version, plus the option of pay-for rentals. That follows the familiar model of most other streamers at this point in time.

The service will launch in October in North America, the UK and some European countries, plus Australia and New Zealand. It will be accessible via www.justwatch.tv and promises “a growing catalogue of ad-free movies and TV shows” for your viewing pleasure.

JustWatch has been around for more than a decade, designed to connect users with what they want to watch by highlighting on which service a specific movie or TV show is available. It has over 50 million monthly users and plugs into more than 1,500 worldwide streaming services – which is why it’s the go-to source for those hard-to-find specials.

As JustWatch TV will piggyback on the existing JustWatch site and apps, you won’t be required to sign in to other services to access the content it can provide, bringing a seamless access hub to the content which it can offer.

However, precisely what this new service will offer and how desirable its library will be is unclear at this stage. There’s also no word on pricing – which will have to be competitive in order to stand apart from the established elite of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Disney+, Paramount+, et al.

That said, I’m so here for it. As JustWatch is no flash-in-the-pan company, its established knowledge gives me a strong hope that this could be your new streaming super-weapon when it launches next month. Certainly one to watch – so if you’re not a member you can sign up for free right now to get early and ongoing insights.

I am both of the following two things: an adult, and a Lego fanatic. So I’m obviously pretty happy that Lego releases a lot of big, complex sets that are aimed at people just like me, even if they do tend to be more expensive than the sets for the kids.

I’ve written about some of these before, but those Lego designers never rest, and in 2026 we’ve seen plenty of new additions to the 18+ lineup.

Rather than list them all here (it would take a while), I’ve picked out three of my absolute favourites of the year so far, all of which look superb on display.

Here are three new Lego adult builds that are worth the price of entry.

Lego Donkey Kong Arcade

Lego has already honoured one legendary arcade game with its Pac-Man Arcade set, and in 2026 it’s Donkey Kong's turn. The latest set in Nintendo and Lego’s ongoing collaboration is a 1,367-piece build that perfectly recreates the game that started it all for Ninty.

Like the Pac-Man set before it, this is a brick-built arcade machine replica with proper mechanical buttons and sticks. Just like the kids who spent all their pocket money on the real-life equivalent in their local arcades in the early 80s, you control Jumpman (before he was known as Mario) with the joystick, while frantically pressing the jump button to leap over the oncoming barrels released by pulling a lever.

Donkey Kong, very much in his evil era here, and the kidnapped “Lady” (who would eventually become Pauline) are in their original positions at the top of the screen.

The Lego Donkey Kong Arcade is another remarkably intricate and detailed set to put together, letting you assemble not only the scaffold and ladders that make up the first level of the seminal Nintendo game, but also the barrel-releasing mechanism working away behind the cabinet.

I really love that these sets are also playable, and while not cheap, they certainly aren’t as pricey as installing an actual arcade machine in your living room.

Lego Shrek, Donkey & Puss in Boots

Everyone’s favourite flatulent, swamp-dwelling ogre celebrates his 25th anniversary this year, and if you love Shrek like Donkey loves dragons, there’s no better way to show it than by displaying this new set in all of its muddy glory.

The 1,403-piece Shrek, Donkey & Puss in Boots set is pretty self-explanatory, but as with most of Lego’s adult-oriented builds, it’s all about the little details.

Pop open Shrek’s stomach and you’ll see Easter eggs from the film, like an onion and a tiny waffle-shaped piece. Donkey, meanwhile, has a posable mouth that can hold a blue flower with red thorns.

You’ll also build the “Beware, Ogre” sign that Shrek unsuccessfully erects outside his home to keep out intruders .

Capping the deeply nostalgic Shrek set off is a Puss in Boots minifig, which admittedly does mess with the scale of the thing when you display them all together (are donkeys really that large?), but who wouldn’t want to add that swashbuckling feline to their collection?

Lego Batman Returns Batmobile

Lego is no stranger to a Batmobile or five. Just about every version of the Caped Crusader’s trusty ride has been recreated in brick form in the two decades that Lego has had the Batman license to play with. But for the first time we just got a large-scale replica of the Batmobile from Batman Returns.

If you think this 2,269-piece set looks familiar, that’s probably because at first glance it’s barely distinguishable from the 1989 Batmobile from Tim Burton’s first movie, which did get its own Lego set a few years ago. However, the new one from the 1992 sequel is a bit smaller than the previous set, which was absolutely enormous, so if you’re struggling for space you might appreciate those more shelf-friendly dimensions.

Also, don’t let the smaller size kid you into thinking this is a less ambitious Batmobile build than its predecessor. In its fully completed form you can admire what is arguably still the most iconic Batmobile design of them all, complete with a detailed cockpit you can peer into by removing the canopy.

Naturally, you get a nice Batman minifig with his own stand too. But the best bit is the convertible feature. Press a button and the vehicle sheds its sides to reveal its slimline Batmissile form, which Batman uses to fit through a teeny alleyway in one of the film's best sequences.

Either can be displayed, and this is the first Lego model to incorporate such a feature.

Apple Music Hall is the launch no one expected this week, but it could be a bigger deal than even the new iPhone Duo. While it has recording spaces and studios around the world, this is its first public-facing venue – and it's right here in London.

Work on Apple’s music venue has been ongoing for the last five years, yet the project has remained top secret outside of the company. Hidden in plain sight in the Battersea power station complex, wedged between the shopping mall and Apple’s own headquarters, the state-of-the-art venue takes centre stage.

It’s a box within a box, perfectly soundproofed and suspended within the former power station's giant structure. The vision here is for smaller, intimate performances from some of the world’s biggest acts. As such, the facilities both on and off stage are better than any stadium.

A huge multi-purpose stage takes up a large proportion of the room, with the ability to drop down the front section and lower the immense screen for movie showings. The lighting is next level, with row after row of high-spec programmable lights, while a 48-speaker array provides sound for full spatial audio performances.

Backstage, the facilities are designed to cater to megastars doing pre-shows, post-shows, or exclusives, with dressing rooms larger than most London flats, social areas for production and guests, and even an office space for band management.

Broadcast suites are on hand to either live stream the performances or record them for future showings. Spatial audio suites allow tracks to be accurately mixed to the format, and further studios provide recording studio-level setups.

Apple plans to showcase new and upcoming artists in the venue too, with writing rooms and recording facilities for them to work on their craft, right behind the stage area.

The venue is perfectly set up for immortalising those performances on the Apple Music Hall stage, with the ability to record or stream in full Spatial Audio.

New Apple Radio studios are also based in the space, so that artists can go live on air with the Apple Radio presenters before the show, or just drop into the studios for an exclusive chat.

Unsurprisingly, the Apple Radio studios are just as high-tech as the rest of the set-up, with their signature halo lighting, giant LED displays and robotic cameras built into the walls – all now using iPhone 18 Pros.

More info on Apple Music Hall, including upcoming shows and ticket sales, is available at the new dedicated website applemusichall.com or from its Instagram and TikTok feeds.

Every week is a big week when you're Netflix and Prime Video, locked in a never-ending battle to be the biggest streaming service in the world, knowing that the only way you'll cement your position is by releasing new content all the time. People expect a lot of volume from their subscriptions now, after all, with prices only ever seeming to trend upwards.

If you've got a quiet week with some evenings free this time around, and either a Netflix or Prime Video subscription (or both), you might be interested to know what the big additions this week will be. I've gone through both streamers' release schedules in detail to pick out three highlights around which you could anchor your week – with release dates and trailers for you to check out, too.

The Love Hypothesis

• Streaming on: Prime Video from 23 September

This steamy looking romance movie clearly verges into comedy territory at times, but I have a feeling it's going to be a refreshingly old-school romantic story rather than one that undercuts its own sincerity. Lili Reinhart stars a Olive, a PhD student who makes an impulsive decision to kiss someone in an attempt to convince her friend to go on a date of her own.

The man she kisses just happens to be senior to her in the lab, but he's surprisingly interested in a potential ruse – they can pretend to be an item and each benefit from the conclusions that others make about the situation. Needless to say, they're clearly going to develop feelings for each other in no time at all, and that should bring with it plenty of fodder for romantic situations.

Unabomber

• Streaming on: Netflix from 25 September

Netflix has become a specialist at adapting true crime stories into dramatic, tense series, and it looks like Unabomber might be one of its biggest examples yet. Jacob Tremblay stars as the young bomber, a boy turning into a man and encountering all sorts of pressures and triggers as he realises that he doesn't feel at home in the world.

In a split timeline, we'll also see the police as they embark on a major manhunt to find the criminal once his spree has started, and this should mean we get plenty of tension along with the psychological depth of Tremblay's performance. How exactly those two timelines are juggled will be fascinating to observe, and nobody should be surprised when this storms to the top of Netflix's charts on release.

Wonka's The Golden Ticket

• Streaming on: Netflix from 23 September

Reality shows haven't always been the biggest hits for Netflix, at least in terms of quality and critical reception, but this one looks as big-budget as any I can recall seeing. It basically puts on a real-life version of Wonka's chocolate factory, and thenm puts a group of contestants into it to compete in confectionary-themed games against each other.

With sets that look frankly unbelievable at times, and the impression that some of those games will push people to their limits, this could actually be a surprise hit. Netflix clearly thinks it's on to something, given the resources it's put behind the show, and its finale will have a week-long delay before it airs on 30 September, to build up the suspense.

The Terminal List wasn't a show that I thought we'd ever get to see more of. After its first season ended back in 2022, we got a whole heap of silence from Amazon about whether there was to be more of the Chris Pratt-fronted spy-style action thriller. It kept quiet about the main show even while dropping a spinoff, Dark Wolf, last year.

2026 has finally ended that silence, though, with Amazon taking the wraps off a new outing for James Reece, the brooding character played by Chris Pratt in both of those previous seasons, and it looks like it's going right back to the same sort of material as last time. After a teaser a few weeks ago, we now have a proper trailer, and it's pretty eye-opening.

It opens with Reece very much in hiding, having gone to ground so deeply that he basically looks like a different person. Pratt has one of the best beards I've seen in a decent while for these scenes, but it looks like it won't last long. He'll get himself slightly closer to civilisation by taking what looks like a job on a safari preserve, but even that won't last long.

It's there that he'll be approached by the US military once again, this time dangling the promise of a full pardon for the fairly significant sins of his past. They need him to get into the field as a new threat rises with civilians very much in the firing line, and it's clear that the season will take Reece all over the world on missions that tend to end explosively.

It also looks like Tom Hopper will have a bigger role this time around as one of Reece's old colleagues (to put in blandly), and the trailer makes it pretty clear that the two are unlikely to see eye to eye. If you like Tom Clancy-style tactical action, there's obviously going to be more than enough of that to go around.

The season starts on 21 October, so there's almost exactly a month to go until it drops on Prime Video. That's more than enough time to catch up on what's already out there, if you're curious about some action-packed TV.

If you've been trying to keep your kids off Roblox, there's a chance that 20th Century Studios isn't going to help you. The studio is getting to work on a Roblox movie, the latest and perhaps least likely game franchise to jump to the big screen.

Specifically, it's 99 Nights in the Forest that's getting adapted and Sam Raimi - of Evil Dead fame - onboard as the producer. It's a pairing that makes sense, given Raimi's movie history.

The adaptation is coming from Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4, Transformers One) and is based on one of the biggest games in Roblox. It's a survival horror game where players have to search for four missing children in the forest - and survive for 99 nights.

The daytime is based around foraging and exploring, the nighttime is focused on survival. It's one of the biggest games on the Roblox platform with billions of visits.

There's currently no director, but the game's developers are executive producing. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio took pitches from writers and Cooley was selected.

According to the stats, the game has racked up 26 billion visits since it launched in 2025 and it's just the latest case of Hollywood raiding other entertainment genres. We've seen the likes of Five Nights at Freddy's make the jump - and pillaging Roblox's locker will speak to younger audiences.

Exactly how the adaptation is pitched will be interesting because it has all the makings of a decent psychological thriller, but that might not immediately dovetail with Roblox's core fan base.

For parents of younger children hooked on the platform, the thought of having to fend off a Roblox movie that's a horror film might fill them with fear, but some of Roblox's more pedestrian games - like running a salon - wouldn't really have the depth to transition into a cinematic masterpiece.

There have been some major successes recently, with the likes of The Last of Us and Fallout, landing on streaming platforms and pulling those universes into a different medium for more people to enjoy.

So Roblox appears to be in the frame, albeit at the early stages. As for the Call of Duty movie you didn't know was happening, that's scheduled for release in 2028.

What new gadgets are we looking forward to? In this week's The Gadget Show podcast, we take a look at 10 future gadgets from our Horizon section in the magazine.

T3's Content Director, Marc Chacksfield, chats with Jason and Suzy about retro PDAs, handheld gaming devices, stripped-back 'dumb phones', Nike recovery shoes, Mous x Mercedes AMG roller bags, Sony cinema cameras, and more.

These 10 highly desirable products aren't available in stores just yet, but when they are, you know that we want them all.

Watch the full episode of The Gadget Show Podcast below or watch on YouTube.

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Your favourite lifestyle tech publication, T3, has partnered with the legendary TV and YouTube sensation that is The Gadget Show.

T3 has celebrated its print magazine's 30th birthday this year, while T3.com continues to grow and reach wider audiences year on year.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be bringing you all the latest news on tech and gaming from Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry and members of the T3 team.

What is The Gadget Show?

The Gadget Show launched in 2004 on Channel 5 in the UK and has delivered previews and reviews of the latest gadgets since.

With a range of presenters and formats over the years, the new podcast sees the return of the original duo Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry in a weekly episode, hosted on its YouTube channel.

It's worth subscribing and liking their weekly videos – and, of course, returning to T3.com to see other members of the team talk over the latest tech with The Gadget Show team.

Netflix knows a good thing when it sees it, and The Diplomat has absolutely been that for it over the last couple of years. It's a show that seems to be able to roll back the years to the golden age of network TV, with big stars giving great performances in tightly-written dramas that didn't take five years to create.

As if to underline that last point, Netflix just dropped a full trailer for the show's fourth season, which is quite a remarkable release schedule given the show's first season only came out in late 2023. To already have a fourth run on the way at this point is something that plenty of other streaming franchises could basically never manage, and it also happens to look terrific.

The show is picking up in the wake of some explosive, well, diplomacy in the last season, as the US and UK continue to walk a very fine line in terms of potential international incidents. Right at the heart of it remains the marriage of Kate Wyler (Russell) and Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), now the US vice president. His star continues to rise, but Kate's increasingly uneasy about what him and the president (Alison Janney) might be willing to cook up.

This time around, it looks we'll be heading to Italy, whether as part of a diplomatic visit or an international summit, and what a backdrop that should be for some of the tensest conversations the show has yet offered up. After all, while it does occasionally boil over into brief moments of actual action or real tension, the best of The Diplomat comes down to verbal exchanges.

Of course, this is also the point in many shows' runs when they start to feel long in the tooth, unless they manage to really hit their stride. So far, The Diplomat has had smooth sailing amid some really fun plotting and storytelling decisions, so here's hoping it sticks the landing for a fourth time.

The show hits Netflix on 15 October, so you've got a few weeks left if you're still not quite caught up on the third season, or if you're yet to dip your toes into its world at all.

Amazon will fix a bug in a recent Fire TV update for that blocked users from installing third-party apps. Acknowledging the problem, Amazon confirmed that it an update will correct affected devices in the coming week.

When the update originally went out in August, some found that granting permission to install unknown apps didn't work. That blocked third-party installs - or sideloading - one of the popular features of Fire TV's Android devices.

The "bug" drew attention, because Amazon has been attempting to crack-down on sideloading for some time to deal with piracy problems involving its Fire TV Sticks.

In a statement to AFTVNews, the company said: "There was a bug in a recent Fire TV Settings update that caused the “Install unknown apps” list to appear incomplete or empty on some Fire TV devices."

"We have identified the cause and a fix will roll out in an upcoming Fire TV Settings update, installed automatically on affected devices over the coming week."

The irony won't go unnoticed by those following the story of "dodgy" Fire TV Sticks, with Amazon moving to the Linux-based Vega OS for its recent devices, rather than a version of Android.

The problem with Android is that it's too easy to add extra apps - including those that bypass subscriptions or grant access to free movies. With Vega OS on more recent devices that's no longer possible, but many older Fire TV devices still run on Android.

One of the attractions of Android is that it's easy to customise the experience by sideloading apps that might not be natively offered. While some will see that as a route to accessing content they're not paying for, for others it's just a nice way to get access to the apps and services that you want.

The move to Vega OS removes that flexibility, but deals with the problem of "dodgy" hacked Fire TV Sticks which Amazon needed to address to avoid being seen as facilitating the problem.

Amazon says that Vega OS is leaner and faster, and most users won't notice that there's any difference in the experience that's offered with the change of platform - all the major apps and services work exactly as they did before.

In this case, however, it seems that it was a genuine bug and it will be corrected via a software update for those with older hardware still on Android.

In some ways, it's a bit of a surprise that it took Netflix this long to figure out that Ben Affleck's an absolute banker of a star. This year we've already had one big movie with him in a lead role – The Rip, opposite his bestie Matt Damon. Now, there's another one coming down the pike, and Affleck's even more central to its hopes.

Animals not only stars him in the lead, but it's also directed by Affleck himself, which makes it a bit of a double whammy. After an atmospheric teaser a couple of weeks ago, we now have a full trailer to digest, and it does an impressive job of remaining somewhat ambiguous about the movie's plot ahead of a release date of 9 October.

Affleck stars as a politician running to become the mayor of Los Angeles, but it looks like the shiny life he and his wife (Kerry Washington) are projecting for the press might be a bit of a fabrication. In fact, things are tense between them, and that tension spills out dangerously when their son is kidnapped.

The "why" of that kidnapping is likely to be of central importance to the movie's overall plot, and from the glimpses we get in this trailer, it seems like Affleck and Washington both have sizeable secrets from each other to make things more complicated. Getting a ransom together might be just the first problem they're forced to confront. All the while, they'll work with Gillian Anderson as a shady fixer who seems morally dubious in the extreme.

Her shadowy dialogue narrates much of this trailer, and makes it sound like the movie could go to some impressively dark places, but I'm pleased to see that it doesn't actually drop any out and out spoilers on us. It's always nice when a big movie like this hits Netflix without people already having a good sense of what's going to happen in it.

Animals will almost certainly rocket up the Netflix charts when it releases in a few weeks, but it'll be both streaming and in a limited number of cinemas, so keep an eye out in case it's screening near you.

Every week is a big one when you're one of the biggest and best streaming services on the planet, and if you want to dominate in the manner that Prime Video and Netflix are both aspiring to, you'd better fill each week with content. Subscribers are savvier than ever right now, not least because prices keep going up, so they need to be kept satisfied with new additions.

This week is a fruitful one if you're a Prime Video or Netflix subscriber, as it happens, with some really intriguing arrivals swelling each service. From horror to animated fare, these highlights run the gamut, and I've arranged each with its trailer and release date so that you can plan your week of viewing more carefully.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

• Streaming on: Netflix from 17 September

Netflix has made quite a success out of the twisted Monster series, which makes fictionalised versions of the stories of world-famous killers. It's tackling its oldest subject so far in the form of Lizzie Borden, whose repute as an axe-murderer stands in contrast to the outcome of her actual trial, interestingly.

Because her story is the subject of so much less documentary evidence, it looks like this might be the loosest and therefore most creatively interesting Monster season yet, with license to take a more impressionistic view of her story. It looks like we'll get to experience some of the horrible adversity she lived with, and get a fuller sense for why she might have done something terrible to change it (if she indeed did).

Neagley

• Streaming on: Prime Video from 16 September

Reacher has been a phenomenal success for Prime Video, to the point where it's a wonder it took anyone this long to adapt Lee Child's novels properly (without Tom Cruise in one of the most tragic miscasting incidents ever). You can underline that success with the fact that it's now getting a spinoff centred around his sometime colleague Neagley, a pretty interesting operator in her own right.

While she's a very different character, you can probably expect this season of TV to unfold in a roughly similar way – with Neagley uncovering and then slowly dismantling a criminal conspiracy. That said, I'm hoping that her investigative methods are meaningfully different, hopefully with a bit more deduction and reasoning compared to Reacher's blunt-force approach.

Stranger Things: Tales From '85 (Season 2)

• Streaming on: Netflix from 17 September

This is one of the most surprising releases of the year, in my opinion, simply because of its timing – just six months on from the first season's release, we're now getting another dose of Tales from '85, Netflix's exploration of what might have happened between seasons of Stranger Things.

With the mainline series now over, fans of the gang from Hawkins don't really have any other options for spinoffs right now – and now they've got two seasons of this one within the same year. This time around we should get another story of teenage derring-do as the gang takes on more supernatural monsters and grows together while doing it.

I'm a big fan of the career revival that Josh Hartnett has had in the last few years, one that felt like it really started with M. Night Shyamalan's film Trap in 2024. I watched that movie on a plane and it felt like the perfect choice for the circumstances, with Hartnett very clearly having oodles of fun in the lead role.

Now he's anchoring a new limited series for Netflix, and it looks like almost as interesting a choice once again. Below looks like a gothic horror story, or at the very least, a thriller, and Hartnett is in the lead as a father with a complex trauma buried in his past – one that comes to the surface when a mysterious iceberg floats up next to his fishing town.

It looks like Hartnett's character, Calvin, had something extremely weird happen to him as a teenager – his father disappeared inside an odd floating house, then was taken down into the depths. Now, as an adult, he's carved out a decent enough life for himself, fishing and keeping himself to himself.

When a couple of his kids come back for a visit, he's pleased to see them, but it looks like he'll start to get fairly tied up in anxiety when weird phenomena start to plague the town. We don't get a proper look at what might be lurking below the placid surface of the sea they live by, but it sure doesn't seem normal – and that's before the massive iceberg rocks up out of nowhere.

I don't often have this opinion, but for a full trailer from Netflix I actually think this one is really well-judged. It gets you interested in what's going to happen to the town, and just what the nature of the disturbances could really be, but manages to resist the temptation to show us too much. We get a vibe check, basically, but don't get too much spoiled for us.

With the series dropping in full on 8 October, there's still probably some time left for Netflix to reverse course and show us more than we want, but if you're in the mood for something a little eery this could be a perfect one to queue up. It might be Netflix's answer to Widow's Bay on Apple TV, frankly.

Silo has become a wonderful Apple TV staple – with its third season entertaining weekly every Friday. Well, until now, as that season has just concluded.

Fret not, though, as Juliette and co will be returning to your favourite streaming service next summer. But ahead of July 2027, if you want a sci-fi fix then I've trawled the web for some great alternatives to Silo.

Whether you like your sci-fi with a veil of mystery, or horror, or suspense, these shows – some of which have run their course; others which will return for future seasons – represent 5 great watches to fill that Silo void.

1. Dark

• Stream on Netflix [season 1 to 3 – since cancelled]

All too often foreign-language shows are overlooked. Dark is a German sci-fi mystery that began in 2017 – running for three seasons and concluding in 2020.

Set in Germany, the show centres around four families who are pursuing the disappearance of two children. In so doing they uncover a time-travel conspiracy – or is it more reality?

If you like your sci-fi to tickle reality, albeit with some supernatural elements, then this head-scratching mystery is a must-watch – and much-loved, with a massive 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

2. Pluribus

• Streaming on Apple TV [season 1 – S2 expected 2028]

Breaking Bad show creator, Vince Gilligan, received heaps of praise for his latest, Pluribus – which put Apple TV firmly on the map and might be one of the best sci-fi shows of a generation.

Critics certainly agreed, with a giant 99% approval rating on the Rotten Tomatoes site – a rare accolade, but a worthy one. Not all viewers agreed, but the twists and turns of this wild ride and worth tuning into to make up your own mind.

The show's premise is that an advanced virus has taken over the human race, except for a small number of those immune. The virus offers a hive mind, an apparent utopian life – but faces opposition from some of its immune subjects.

Pluribus is far more than just sci-fi, though, exploring themes of memory, loss, loneliness and the human condition – faults and all – in a fine balance between dramatic and, at times, comedic. It's compelling viewing.

3. Fallout

• Streaming on Amazon Prime [seasons 1 and 2 – S3 expected late 2027]

Perhaps the most similar to Silo, in a way, as the themes here crossover significantly. The source material is wildly different, of course, with Fallout being based on Bethesda Studios' game series, not a series of novels like the former.

In a post-apocalyptic world owed to nuclear annihilation, a variety of vault-dwellers exist, having survived the fallout. They know little of the outside world, but when forced to explore come face to face with its atrocities.

Ella Purnell does a fantastic job in depicting Lucy MacLean, a strong yet naive vault-dweller who goes on an epic journey to seek out her kidnapped father – facing ghouls, monsters, raiders and various factions of the new world in her quest.

Fallout is depicted in an ultra-violent universe, but to the point that it almost adds a layer to its comedy leanings too. Fans love it in particular, as its 96% Rotten Tomatoes score attests.

4. From

• Streaming on NOW (UK) / MGM+ (USA) [seasons 1 to 4 – S5 expected 2027]

Lots of people were very late to the game on this one, as From wasn't always widely available in all regions across the globe. It's finally out from under the radar, though, and about to enter its fifth season next year.

The show is about a small town where, try as they might – residents and visitors alike – remain captive and unable to leave. A sinister force holds them there, which at night causes misery to horror-genre levels.

Not for the faint of heart this one, but still a top sci-fi pick for its mystery, its imprisonment of people with apparent free will – à la Silo – and hugely respected by its critics, with a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score showing that in gusto.

5. The OA

• Streaming on Netflix [seasons 1 and 2 – since cancelled]

A Netflix Original that had (and still has) huge potential, from the minds of Brit Marling (who stars as the lead) and Zal Batmanglij (who directs), The OA is a sci-fi which crosses into supernatural and even fantasy worlds.

It's as much of a head-turner for its visual moments as it is a head-scratcher for its sometimes profoundly complex themes. But that's exactly why the show – which also explores time-travel and sense of place in the universe – is so gripping. It's also probably why it was cancelled way before its conclusion.

Marling stars as Prairie Johnson, a once blind girl who, after missing for 7 years, returns with sight and calls herself 'The OA'. How did this come to be? Where has she been for all that time? The rabbit hole the show explores is as revealing as it is confounding on this one – but, per its 84% Rotten Tomatoes rating, the audience it did reach were really affected and loved it.

When is Silo season 4 out?

• Streaming: 9 July 2027 on Apple TV [seasons 1 to 3 available now]

That ought to be enough to keep that Silo-sized hole full for some time for all those shows' similarities and differences to the Apple TV great.

The fourth season is confirmed, complete with air date of 9 July 2027, as you can see in the above trailer. Don't watch if you're not up to date, though, as it might give a bit too much away otherwise!

There's nothing like attaching a big star to your movie to get people interested, and it's fair to say that Margaret Qualley's profile seems to have trended relentlessly upwards in recent years. She's a really fun performer whose nepo-baby status is obscured by her last name (she's Andie MacDowell's daughter!) – and now she's fronting a pretty excellent-looking romance movie for Prime Video.

Love of Your Life just got a proper trailer this week, ahead of a theatrical release on 7 October, and a streaming one on 14 October. That makes it just a few weeks away, so this is the perfect time to get up to speed with the movie. It stars Qualley as Maya, a young woman who travels to Europe in an attempt to clear her mind off the biggest heartbreak she's ever experienced.

She's reeling after what looks like the partnership that she thought would last her whole life fell apart quicker than she ever assumed it could. Her Europe trip is a way to clean the slate, but she can't stop thinking about what she's lost – even when she meets a new man (Aaron Pierre as Felix), and starts to fall for him.

As many of us know from personal experience, it's easy to get obsessed with the risk of failure when embarking on a new relationship, and it seems like Maya's going to take some convincing if she's going to feel ready to take the plunge again. All the while, she'll seemingly be visiting some drop-dead gorgeous locations, from stunning beaches to sunlit streets.

This being a romance movie, it's not all that hard to guess how it'll end, and it's great in particular to see Aaron Pierre having such a big summer, given he's also starring in Lanterns. This is the first time I can remember getting to see him doing his native British accent, too, which is always nice.

That said, I've no doubt that Qualley will be the main draw for many people, and she's clearly going to be on-screen for basically every minute of the movie. It's a big departure from the last movie I saw her in (The Substance), but if she can nail a big romance part like this, then her star power will continue to grow.

The Gadget Show Podcast is back, and this week we're talking iPhones, following yesterday's big announcements of the iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max, AirPods 5, Apple Watch 12, Apple Watch Ultra and the iPhone Duo.

T3's Editor-in-Chief Mat Gallagher joined Suzy and Jason to discuss the new phones and whether the Duo lives up to the hype.

They also picked out highlights from T3's Best of IFA Awards, given to the best products at this year's IFA show in Berlin, including the Plaud One, Hypershell Halo and Harry Potter Chess.

Watch the full episode of The Gadget Show Podcast below or watch on YouTube.

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Your favourite lifestyle tech publication, T3, has partnered with the legendary TV and YouTube sensation that is The Gadget Show.

T3 has celebrated its print magazine's 30th birthday this year, while T3.com continues to grow and reach wider audiences year on year.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be bringing you all the latest news on tech and gaming from Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry and members of the T3 team.

What is The Gadget Show?

The Gadget Show launched in 2004 on Channel 5 in the UK and has delivered previews and reviews of the latest gadgets since.

With a range of presenters and formats over the years, the new podcast sees the return of the original duo Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry in a weekly episode, hosted on its YouTube channel.

It's worth subscribing and liking their weekly videos – and, of course, returning to T3.com to see other members of the team talk over the latest tech with The Gadget Show team.

If you're looking for an iconic seventies horror movie to adapt, they don't much better than Carrie. Telling a story straight from the inventive, sometimes twisted mind of Stephen King, the 1976 movie is deeply influential, and some of its imagery is seared into the minds of whole generations of movie-watchers.

Now, though, Amazon Prime Video is adapting the same story and bringing it roaring into the 2020s, with Mike Flanagan (perhaps the safest pair of hands in horror right now) running the show. We have a full trailer to digest at last, and the show's now just a few weeks away – it'll premiere on 7 October.

The trailer is quite an exciting one, because it pulls back the curtain on how Flanagan has updated Carrie's story for 2026, with the behaviour of her fellow teenagers taking centre stage. Where pranks and bullying used to be generally done in-person, we all know that social media is now where much of the rot can set in for schoolkids.

True to that impression, Flanagan has turned some of Carrie's new classmates into very modern demons, as they film her every move, instantly sensing weakness in the odd, home-schooled girl. We see glimpses of Instagram posts that look extremely unpleasant, but it's also clear that the show might differ from the movie in another way.

That 1976 film rightly has a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes to underline it status, but it doesn't go on for hugely long after the climactic prom night prank that so many people remember. This show might extend longer – we see quite a few glimpses of Carrie exploring her powers, and also a fair few moments that seem like they probably happen after she's victimised for the last time.

Whether that's me reaching or not, I'm hopeful that this could be a big hit for Prime Video – at a time when Netflix has frankly been the monarch of horror in the streaming world for quite some time. Flanagan working with Prime Video could be a big shakeup on that front, but we'll get a better sense when the show debuts in early October.

I'm not necessarily in the group of people who think that awards mean all that much for movies nowadays – I've lived through too many travesties for that attitude to really stick. Still, I'll definitely defend the place of film festivals, and their attendant awards, in the distribution system, and when a movie arrives with an award from one of the bigger festivals it's generally a great sign that it has real promise.

That's exactly the box that's been ticked by La Bola Negra on Netflix, which just got a full trailer that gives us only its theatrical release date (16 October), although Netflix has separately confirmed its streaming date as 2 December. It looks like a pretty stunning film, and crucially it won the Best Director prize at the Cannes film festival.

The film looks hugely ambitious and striking, and Netflix says that it follows three generations of men in three drastically important phases of Spanish history – 1932, 1937, and 2017. Each makes discoveries that rock them to their core, as they try to find a sense of belonging in times that don't make such a thing easy.

Two of those moments are obviously set during war, and it looks like we'll meet a ragtag bunch of characters fighting in those conflicts, which won't be glamourised at all. Perhaps the most curious part of the film is one of its stars, the Spanish musician known as Guitarricadelafuente, who's been getting wild plaudits for this breakout acting role.

It's rare to see this sort of self-built star branching out into a new medium and basically smashing it out of the park at the first attempt, and you'd have to assume that his existing musical fanbase will be a big asset for the film's popularity on arrival. Netflix rarely dresses up its trailers quite so pretentiously as this one, suggesting that it has confidence in the artistic merit here.

It's certainly got me interested – this looks like it could be a great one to see in the cinema, although it might be hard to know how long that theatrical run will be. At least it's coming to streaming before the year's out.

Over the weekend, I tucked into a superb Warner Bros. 4K Blu-ray remaster of Mars Attacks! – which has just been released on a 30th-anniversary steelbook edition.

I've always loved this movie; it's one of Tim Burton's best in my opinion, much as others might disagree (and its Rotten Tomatoes score certainly supports that).

But this remaster is an absolute belter that streaming can't even pretend to match – indeed, there's no access to a 4K version from such services.

I could barely believe that the original is now 30 years old, as the sheer quality that's been pulled from this high dynamic range (HDR) rework is really special.

Honestly, it looks like a modern-day movie in many respects. I was nervous that the Martians might look really dated under the lens of today's more advanced effects – but their design and delivery show just how well thought-out they always were.

There are a couple of versions of the Mars Attacks! 4K Blu-ray: you can buy it as a single disc, or the more lavish 30th anniversary collector's edition with steelbook (and Blu-ray bundled into that package, too). It's the latter that I have, as you can see in the pictures below:

Even the box set is lavishly thought out, complete with a steelbook that's shrouded in a transparent coating with Martian Girl showing – and revealing a classic Martian head once you slide it off. Ack ack!

The other box within the package has a series of postcards and a duo of posters, hence it being a collector's item. I'll be keeping those safe and sound rather than putting them up on my office walls, mind.

Warner Bros. has used a 100GB disc for this version of Mars Attacks!, which really shows in its visual fidelity. That's outputting a massive 84.5 megabits per second of HEVC-encoded visuals for the movie's 106 minutes.

To put that in perspective: it's crunching through around 630MB of data per minute to bring you those rich visuals. The sharpness is incredible, the colours pop more than ever before, with higher dynamic range than the movie has ever presented.

The audio track has been remastered too, with the 4K disc delivering a Dolby Atmos mix for even greater immersion, one-upping the standard Blu-ray's 5.1 mix. It's the audio treat that carries those visuals even further.

Diving back into this sci-fi classic rekindled childhood movie memories for me. That said, the message – as much as the satire and the comedy – is just as relevant today as it was back in 1996!

Mars Attacks! is a 4K Blu-ray treat and another entry in my '4K Blu-ray club' of watching one physical release per month. This one felt like a blast from the past, delivered in a modern-day quality that shows off just how good movie-making was in the mid-90s.

A big week beckons in the world of streaming, if you're keeping up with things, and I've been through the (long, long) lists of releases coming this week to see what you should know about this time around. Normally, these round-ups tend to skew in Netflix's favour, since it has a more fulsome release schedule than Prime Video, but this week's an exception.

Amazon's queued up a couple of big new additions for people to sink into, but Netflix is certainly keeping things fresh on its own front too. So, if you want some ideas about what new arrivals could fill your evenings with action, romance or more this week, keep reading. You'll find a trio of highlights along with their trailers and release dates for clarity.

Crew Girl

• Streaming on: Netflix from 10 September

Crew Girl has all the ingredients to be a smash for Netflix, largely because it's continuing what might just be the most popular genre in the world right now – steamy romances set around sports teams. This time, rather than ice hockey or some other wintery sport, though, it's a rowing team that's stepping into the spotlight.

Our main character will become the female cox to an all-male team when she joins a new school without a women's rowing programme, and that is a pretty obvious setup for romantic complications. It wouldn't be much of a drama without a love triangle, and one looks like it'll spring up almost immediately after she joins.

In The Grey

• Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video from 9 September

Guy Ritchie seems to find time to make multiple films a year, and that's before you consider his renewed commitment to TV and streaming series. This movie looks like a characteristically fun one, and reunites him with Henry Cavill after The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare a couple of years ago. Where that was wartime action, this is a modern spy thriller.

Cavill's part of a team (along with Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez) who specialise in helping people recover what's been stolen from them, whether it's in a kidnapping or a robbery. This time they're chasing down literal billions, and that means the stakes will be super high. It's still a Ritchie flick, though, so expect repartee throughout.

Drawn Together

• Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video from 9 September

If you want your dose of steamy romance this week but don't have a Netflix subscription or don't fancy rowing-themed fun, then this Spanish-language option on Prime Video looks enticing. It's a classic bodyguard setup, where a rich young woman is forced to accept a new guard when she's kidnapped and then mysteriously released.

The trailer makes it obvious that sparks will fly between them almost immediately, especially since they have to live together in really close proximity. Don't be too shocked when they fall for each other, or when plot twists make any potential relationship fraught with risk. Prime Video has a great track record for romances in languages other than English, so this could be the start of another big franchise if it finds an audience.

Well, if this doesn't have all the ingredients to be a banger, what does? Netflix has finally given us a proper trailer for Ink, its upcoming Danny Boyle film based on an award-winning play, and it looks absolutely terrific. Telling the story of The Sun, one of the UK's most popular and controversial newspapers, it promises a whole heap of interesting moments.

Netflix is giving broadly equal billing to three stars for the movie – Jack O’Connell as Larry Lamb (the editor who changed everything for the paper), Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch (the world-famous magnate who bought it) and Claire Foy as Jules Davies (a more complicated character, as I'll explain). They all look to be in pretty magnetic form, too.

If it follows the play quite closely (and James Graham is adapting his own work, so you'd think it probably will), the movie will open in late 1969, as Australian Ruper Murdoch looks to buy The Sun and revamp is as part of his big plans to become a global media magnate. He approaches Larry Lamb to be the paper's new editor-in-chief and gives him a mandate to tear up the rules.

The third major player here is Jules Davies, but she's complicated; rather than a single real-life professional from the true story, she's instead an amalgamation of a few different female reporters from the paper's tumultuous history, showing that it wasn't quite as much of a boys' club as the famous Page 3 might make one think.

Of course, there's no point pretending that The Sun isn't without its controversies, with some observers over the years blaming it for bringing down the tone and standards of mainstream reporting, among other things, and the film is sure to touch on that sort of area quite heavily. In fact, from the trailer it remarkably even looks like it paints the Rupert Murdoch of the time as being concerned about its reputation.

Most interesting is the verve and style that Boyle's used to film the story, which makes it look like his zippiest and most interesting work in a good while (as a certified 28 Years Later hater, here). It's a big release for Netflix, as a result of all this – heading to cinemas on 11 December this year before only hitting streaming on 8 January 2027.

There has never been a better time to love gaming and Lego, with the brick building company continuing to partner with the great and good in the field. We've seen a Lego NES, Atari 2600, Sega Mega Drive and Game Boy over the last few years, and now there's something special to add to that list.

The Lego PlayStation is a faithful recreation of Sony's original machine – the console that effectively changed the whole industry. Having reviewed the original on its release in the 90s, I am of the firm belief that it marked the time when gaming grew up.

Games like WipEout, with its hardcore dance soundtrack, saw consoles find their way into clubs for young adults. It widened the audience and gaming has never looked back since.

Its shape and styling is also iconic, and thus the new Lego set is as great to look at as it undoubtedly will be to build.

Hidden under the disc tray and around the sides of the finished build are dioramas and Easter eggs that nod back to the console's glorious games (such as Ape Escape and Gran Turismo).

There are other nices touches too, such as controllers that use similar connectivity shapes to the original DualShocks. And a reassuringly clicky power button.

The set is also reasonably priced in comparison with some of the other retro console builds we've seen. It'll be available from Lego's own website from 4 October 2026 for just £139.99 / $179.99.

Lego Insiders will be able to order it a touch earlier, on 1 October, while it'll be available on the official PlayStation store around that time too.

All you need to do in the meantime is figure out where you'll display it. At 1,911 pieces, it should fit in a compact area. But just you wait until the Lego PlayStation 5 arrives somewhere down the line.

I'll admit up front that this isn't a compunction that applies to everyone out there, but the simple fact is that when a massive streaming service announces an adaptation of a classic novel I haven't read, I go into fight or flight mode. I'm a big reader, and I have a rule that I'll almost always read the source novel before I watch any adaptation, since the original is almost always the best.

Well, Netflix is putting me in quite a spot with its latest big-budget series, starring none other than Florence Pugh. It's an adaptation of East of Eden, a classic by John Steinbeck (he of Grapes of Wrath), and crucially I haven't read it. The series arrives on 1 October, which really doesn't give me long to get up to speed, given it's an objectively chunky novel.

Frankly, the start of October is way too soon for me to readjust my to-read pile, so I'm a sunk before I've even begun, which means I now have a secondary objective – showcase this series for you without accidentally spoiling a quite old novel for myself. Here's what I know for sure:

East of Eden is a massive story that spans the generations of an unhappy family, the Trask clan, in their relationships and fortunes. It famously has one of literatures great villains, if you're to believe at least some of those who've read it – Cathy. Now, though, writer and showrunner Zoe Kazan is reframing this long-established story and telling it moreso through Cathy's eyes.

That means that a story that might (perhaps) have previously served to demonise Cathy, not without some reason, might now instead serve to humanise her. We'll get more interiority from her, and you'd be hard pressed to argue with casting Pugh, who's already demonstrated a huge amount of range in her career.

Crucially, she's also something of a star, so Netflix will be hoping that she drawns in a crowd for what otherwise could be mistaken for a pretty traditional slice of programming. Honestly, if you want more details than that I'd recommend heading to Wikipedia or some other source to see plot information – that's a sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now!

Here in the UK we've just enjoyed a long weekend thanks to the late-August bank holiday, which means it's a shorter week than usual. Thankfully, though, Prime Video and Netflix have both stepped up to the plate with a pretty interesting slate of additions through the rest of the week, in case you're wondering what you'll be watching in the evenings to come.

In fact, as a trio of additions, these will make for one of the highest-profile weeks I can remember from Netflix and Prime Video in a joint capacity. If you're a subscriber to either (and they're both among the best streaming services going), then you'll probably want to check out the highlights below. Each is showcased with a trailer and its release date for your convenience!

The Gentlemen Season 2

• Streaming on: Netflix from 3 September

Guy Ritchie has found a real renaissance in a TV career, although that's not to say he's done with movies by a long stretch. The Gentlemen proved with its first season that his snappy dialogue and fast action can work terrifically when elongated over the course of more time for streaming, and now it's back for a second season that promises to be a big deal for Netflix.

The show will return to the story of Theo James' reluctant drug kingpin, a Duke who found himself inheriting a weed empire last time around. Now he's fully used to the idea and indeed the market, he's starting to get ideas about expansion, and that means conflict. Expect dirty dealing and plenty of action when this drops midweek.

The Runner

• Streaming on: Prime Video from 2 September

If you want a thriller that's open and shut in a couple of hours, rather than offering up an entire season of episodes to get through, then you might want to turn to Prime Video this week for The Runner. This Gal Gadot film is a one-off release and looks like it could spin a really quite entertaining yarn through the streets of London.

Gadot plays a bigshot lawyer whose life gets put in the tumble dryer when her son is kidnapped. The criminals want to change the outcome of her biggest case (which is ongoing) and they're happy to force her into submission with twisted theats. She'll have to run through some crazy sequences to keep her son safe, and it looks like pretty hair-raising stuff.

The Grand Tour

• Streaming on: Prime Video from 4 September

One of the biggest early swings that Prime Video took was poaching Top Gear's talent after the implosion of that show on the BBC, and repackaging it into The Grand Tour. Now that era's over and there'd been some anticipation building about what would follow it. The answer? Francis Bourgeois. It's not just the trainspotting sensation, though, but also YouTube powerhouses from Throttle House.

The show will be pretty fascinating to observe, with the chemistry of those three new faces being key to its potential success. Either way, this season looks really high-budget and globetrotting, which is basically the whole point of a motoring show like The Grand Tour. Prime Video will be hoping this is the start of something huge.

Every month is a big month when you're one of the biggest and best streaming services on the planet – and Netflix most certainly ticks both of those boxes. It knows that it has to keep up a steady cadence of releases if it wants to keep its subscribers locked in, which means never having a slow month.

So, now that we're looking down both barrels at September, you might be wondering what's coming down the pike from Netflix this month. Well, it's good news, since this is going to be a really busy few weeks on the streamer, with some of its biggest shows dropping new seasons, and some very intriguing brand-new additions, too. You'll find the five key highlights below with trailers and release dates.

The Gentlemen Season 2

• Streaming from: 3 September

Guy Ritchie created something of a sensation when he took the British gangster material he's best known for, and transplanted it into a longer-form TV setting. The result was a blockbuster hit for Netflix, and it's absolutely no surprise to see it get a swift second season.

The Duke (Theo James) is back and he's just as keen as ever to keep his weed empire on top of the various other criminal cartels he's so far interacted with. In fact, the more experienced he gets, the more he seems likely to start lashing out at those who think they can control him. The stage is set for him to start some hostile takeovers, and the trailers we've seen suggest the show will go from strength to strength.

Crew Girl

• Streaming from: 10 September

Another guaranteed hit for Neflix comes in the form of Crew Girl, which takes the tried-and-true format of high school sports and romance blended together. This makes it probable a little tamer than the more mature Off Campus, which was set at college, but there's still every chance that things will get pretty heated in this one.

Crew Girl makes rowing its sport of choice, which is a great excuse to put its lead characters in skintight aerodynamic rowing suits. Our main character Teagan is new to a high-end school, but has a talent that takes her right into the men's rowing squad as their new cox, and which also fires up an almost immediate love triangle.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

• Streaming from: 17 September

Netflix is making a real thing of its Monster shows, which dramatise real-life killings and give us a look at the psychology of the world-famous killers in question. This time around it's Lizzie Borden, a famous potential axe-murderer whose case has long lived in the collective imagination of Americans (she's less famous here in the UK).

We'll get to see her domestic environment and the challenging situation she lived in, all with a huge dose of creative license. Since this story is from well before the time of TV news or documentary footage, expect this to be the loosest and potentially most colourful Monster yet.

Unabomber

• Streaming from: 25 September

Jacob Tremblay became a sensation for starring in Room as just a precocious 8-year-old, but now he's 19 and getting to choose his own projects – and Unabomber is definitely an interesting choice. He'll star as the eponymous bomber in his younger days, giving us a look at the origins of a man who did terrible things.

The show itself, though, will seemingly jump into two timelines. In one we'll see the bomber's adolescence, and in the other we'll follow the enormous manhunt that eventually located him, with the perspective of police but also at times his victims. Expect some harrowing stuff, but what a treat of a month for true-crime fans.

Stranger Things: Tales From '85 Season 2

• Streaming from: 17 September

Although the first season didn't get the most rave write-ups from critics, it clearly got enough viewers for Netflix to keep going with this animated spin-off from Stranger Things. Where the show got darker and darker as it unfolded, this one stays a lot lighter and promises more concise stories, too.

It has a really fun art style that emphasises the character of all the gang's faces, and gives us a bit more time to get to know some of those who only joined it after a season or two. If you loved your time in Hawkins and want some more of that nostalgic vibe, this could be perfect for you.

September is one of those months that sometimes feels like the start of autumn, but in other years can very much just be a dose of late summer vibes. Who knows which it'll be for you this year, but you're guaranteed one thing, at least – a significant set of additions to Prime Video if you're a subscriber.

Amazon knows that it can't rest on its laurels where new content is concerned, since the only way it'll keep the subscriber numbers it needs is if it can keep adding new stuff on a regular basis. To that end, it's got an impressive month in the planning, with new series and movies on the way. I've gathered five that you should know about, with trailers and release dates for your convenience.

Neagley Season 1

• Streaming from: 16 September

You know a show's done exceptionally well for its creators when it gets a spinoff, and that's what Neagley is to Reacher, the uber-popular Prime Video show based on Lee Child's long-running series of mystery novels. This series will focus on Reacher's old colleague and sometime ally Frances Neagley (Maria Sten).

She's always been a cold and calculated operator, and part of what's so fun about her character is that it's heavily implied that she gets up to plenty of mischief in Reacher's absences between their interchanges. So, this time around we'll get to watch as she gets entangled with some proper wrong'uns before inevitably sorting them out (violently).

The Runner

• Streaming from: 2 September

Gal Gadot stars in a London-set movie that looks heavily inspired by films like Run Lola Run and others, as a mother who's about to participate in a huge legal case but finds her life turned upside down by a conspiracy surrounding it. On her morning run the day of a big moment in the trial, her son's kidnapped.

She's forced to follow instructions to avoid harm to her child, and that takes her down some dark paths. It looks like this will be a textbook fast-paced thriller that will only ramp up the action as it goes on. Whether Gadot can finally score a hit after a string of iffy streaming releases will be very interesting to observe right at the start of the month.

The Grand Tour

• Streaming from: 4 September

A show that's gone through a few different iterations for Prime Video gets its most radical transformation yet with an all-new crew helming it, including the really interesting swing that is Francis Bourgeois, who became so famous for his viral trainspotting antics. He's also a proper motorhead, though, so will hopefully undercut the blokishness of everything.

He's going to be joined by James Engelsman and Thomas Holland, creators of YouTube's Throttle House, and the key will be whether they have chemistry as a trio. If so, then the motoring antics of this season could secure a long future for the show as a globetrotting showcase of all the makes cars great.

The Love Hypothesis

• Streaming from: 23 September

This charming romance has a really classic hook at its centre – what if two colleagues pretended to be in a relationship for reasons of their own, but started to fall for each other as they spent more time together? It's really quite a clever idea to kick things off, but it too will thrive or shrivel depending on the on-screen chemistry.

The film will star Lili Reinhart as Olive Smith opposite Tom Bateman as Adam Carlsen, her boss in the lab she's studying in. That makes even their fake romance a little dramatic, but that's nothing compared to the drama they'll cook up once they start to catch feelings. This looks like a great cozy September watch.

Drawn Together

• Streaming from: 9 September

If you want your romance to be just that little bit steamier, then perhaps this is the one for you, earlier in September. A Spanish-language movie, its main character Marfil Cortés is born into a life of privilege. That's shattered when she's kidnapped then released mysteriously, which ends up with her needing a bodyguard.

What do you know, though, he's a beauty himself and there's immediate sexual tension between them. It's another fairly textbook setup for romance, but there might be some major twists in the plotting eventually, if Drawn Together has anything like the inventiveness you'd hope for.

Prime Video has made it pretty clear over the last couple of years that it has every intention of being the steamiest streamer on the market – at least in mainstream terms. From My Fault to Off Campus, it's already delivered multiple heaping servings of romance, but there seems to be no end to either the demand or its ability to supply it.

The latest in that long lineup looks like it could be a hit even by the inflated standards of Prime Video and Netflix. The Love Hypothesis has a classic, inventive twist at its heart, and looks like a potentially excellent rom-com that errs on the steamier side. That positions it to be quite a hit for Prime Video when it arrives on 23 September.

Lili Reinhart stars in the movie as Olive Smith, a gifted PhD student who finds herself in some complicated territory in an attempt to help her friend find the right partner. Convinced that she needs a fake boyfriend of her own to reassure her bestie that it's okay to shack up with someone, Olive kisses the first man she sees – not realising until too late that it's her boss: Tom Bateman as Dr. Adam Carlsen.

He's a character so stiff and formal that Olive and the other PhD students have seemingly nicknamed him "Dr. Evil", but that doesn't stop him from agreeing to her furtive proposal. He needs an apparent partner to make his department realise that he's committed to the university, so it's possibly a win-win for both their aims.

If that all sounds like a fairly classic setup for a rom-com, you'd be right – it's a meet-cute of classic proportions, and a textbook way to set up some funny situations. The two of them will have to mug their way through various performances for their friends and colleagues, all while they inevitably start to fall for each other despite themselves.

The movie probably ends in a way that you can predict, but that's the fun of a rom-com – it's all about the journey, as well as the destination. The Love Hypothesis is also based on a best-selling novel, so it's likely to be impressively well-plotted. You'll be able to find out for yourself in a few weeks, though.

I'm sorry, but there are some rules that just shouldn't be broken. Whether it's the order you put your jam and cream on a scone, or whether you put your loo roll on so it falls over or under the holder, there are things you just know are right, and when Apple unveiled a new series called 12 12 12 I had a similar type of certainty.

The moment I saw that numerical title, and the fact that its first teaser trailer was nothing more than a "date announcement", I just knew in my soul that this would be a fun one – with the series premiering on 12 December, to make it 12 12 12 on 12/12. Then Apple went ahead and decided to ruin my day by launching it on 13 November.

Now, I'm obviously not saying that Apple is obliged to follow my personal instructions to the letter when it comes to the release schedule of a show that it doubtless spent millions to make. Still, I can't quite believe it's ignored the potential for one of the most satisfying release dates of all time, especially to get the show out just a month before that point.

Regardless, you might be curious about what 12 12 12 is actually about. The title of the show refers to a theory that a great heist takes 12 months of planning and 12 hours to execute. That third 12 refers to the idea that any robber who hasn't been caught inside 12 days is unlikely to ever be apprehended for their crime. It's all explained by Anthony Mackie's character in the very brief trailer.

He seems to be explaining the theory to Jamie Dornan, the other lead in the show, although at this stage we're in the dark about which one of them will play the criminal and which one will be law enforcement. Apple says the show will play out across three timelines, suggesting it'll be a zippy and fun watch that jumps around in time to keep audiences guessing about how it'll end.

Still, I'm going to remain hung up on that release date fumble for quite some time – we really could have been celebrating one of the best release day timings ever. We'll doubtless see more of 12 12 12 in the next month, though, as Apple builds the hype.

I've been having a lot of fun this year with my '4K Blu-ray Club' New Year's Resolution, which has seen me buy a new or classic movie on the best-quality physical format to watch each month.

Having missed Toy Story 5 at the cinema during its summertime run, and as a long-time fan of the series – there's not a bad one, which is good innings! – I was pleased to see that it would get a proper physical release.

That includes a 4K Blu-ray edition (backed by a Blu-ray in the box, too), for the utmost quality. Disney Pixar isn't messing around with this one, either, as the disc – I'm told by a trusted T3 freelancer – is a 100GB mega-capacity, to ensure the absolute best quality and lowest compression.

For a CG-rendered movie like Toy Story 5 that capacity is going to mean a whole lot. Expect the brightest colours, the smoothest gradations, and biting detail in this high dynamic range (HDR) presentation – best viewed with one of the best OLED TVs.

Sure, I could watch Toy Story 5 right now via streaming – it's available at various outlets in its pay-for format, ahead of its arrival on Disney+ later down the line – but I'm happy to pay for the ownership, for that utmost quality. The disc will hands-down beat the streaming services.

The disadvantage, of course, is that physical media arrives later. The US release in Steelbook format will hit the shelves on 22 September – almost a month after the digital release. Here in the UK, however, Amazon is telling me that me pre-order will arrive on 12 October, so even later.

That'll add to the anticipation, though, so I'm happy to wait it out. There are a batch of featurettes on the disc, too, which tend to be better on physical releases – I said the same of the Project Hail Mary 4K Blu-ray, too, which was also well worth waiting for.