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The biggest Netflix franchise you're not watching is about to get a massive final season

Max Freeman-Mills — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The scale of the streaming industry now means that it can be quite hard to keep a grip on what franchises are doing huge numbers without you even realising it. That's a label I would use for Outer Banks, a show that Netflix has turned into a cult, but one that I've never dipped my toe into. Now it's getting a fifth and final season and fans seem to be rabidly excited.

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The trailer dropped earlier this week, and gives us a look at the surviving members of the central cast as they try to reckon with a major event at the end of last season. It confirms again that this is the end of the road for them, but makes it clear that we can expect some fairly explosive action as things come to a head.

For the uninitiated, Outer Banks started as a sort of modern take on The Goonies, starring improbably beautiful teenagers in North Carolina who hear tales of a legendary treasure that's eluded searchers for generations. Now, seasons later, that treasure has been found and lost, confiscated and stolen, and the central feuds between two young groups of treasure hunters has deepened with time.

Just as important, though, is the fact that local law enforcement has become an enemy to our main characters, with some corruption and seediness seeping into things. Now that the original treasure arc is largely resolved, this season should be more about getting our characters the send-off their fans want.

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That said, plenty of fans out there think the show might have been best served by ending after Season 3, when that original arc was basically wrapped up, so this season has a challenge on its hands. It has to justify the show continuing a little longer, while also being entertaining enough to be more than just an extended finale.

We'll know whether it meets that brief when it drops on 20 August, in a couple of months' time, but even if it's a damp squib you can still expect it to do some huge numbers in Netflix's charts. After all, the huge streamer doesn't renew shows out of sentimentality – this one has a major fanbase to rely on.

Netflix's enormous dark thriller series looks like it might do something you've never seen before in first trailer

Max Freeman-Mills — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I love a good genre mashup; whether a show is one half sci-fi and another half whodunnit, or horror inflected with comedy, it's always really fun to see material that doesn't just stick to one lane. In the streaming era, I'd argue that some of the biggest platforms (like Netflix) are starting to realise that these blends can work really well for audiences, too.

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That would explain some of the logic behind its new show The East Palace, a Korean drama that does things quite differently. At points in its debut trailer you could think that it's going to be a traditional prestige historical drama, but as things go further you'll start to see that it's got heavy dashes of fantasy too, and a little horror to spice things up.

Set in a fictional but deliberately credible historical era, the show will star Nam Joo-hyuk as Gu-cheon, a ghost-slayer. His unique power is that he can in fact transform into a ghost himself (and it's him you'll see with a cluster of swords on his back in the trailer's latter stages) in order to slay demons and ghosts, before returning to his corporeal form.

He'll apparently be teaming up with a courtly lady, Roh Yoon-seo as Saeng-gang, who can hear the dead and indeed communicate with them, making her a very useful asset to him. They're going to be hired to investigate paranormal situations and hauntings associated with the titular East Palace, to try to figure out what on earth's causing so much trouble there.

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Beyond that (much of which is from the show's blurb), the trailer is actually fairly ambiguous – we don't really get a look at a main antagonist, for example, which doubtless will exist when it's available to stream on 17 July, in a month's time.

Regardless, though, it looks really sumptuous and has oodles of visual character to boast about, including some CGI sequences that look absolutely draw dropping from the glimpses we see in tightly-edited sequences. Whether the show can live up to the promise this trailer gives off, we'll find out in due course.

HBO's gigantic new show looks like it could be one of its most surprising in years

Max Freeman-Mills — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

When HBO announces a new show, you sit up and pay attention, and that rule frankly applies regardless of genre. As it happens, when Larry David announces a new comedy project, a very similar logic should be applied, which makes for quite a double whammy when it comes to Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.

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David famously ended his long-running show Curb Your Enthusiasm a couple of years back, but the industry rumour always seemed to be that he'd be back before too long – as had happened before a few times. Now that's come true, but his new show does look pretty different, as confirmed by its first trailer.

This is more of a sketch comedy approach, as opposed to a painfully awkward scripted series, and it sees David skipping through history examining what it might be like if his famously curmudgeonly characteristics were dropped into some of the most important and consequential moments in the long past of the USA.

That's a funny concept, and it's made funnier by the fact that the show is from the production company founded by the actual Obamas – in some ways the whole thing might be an implicit middle finger to the current presidential administration. Either way, the trailer makes it clear that we'll get a look at plenty of different time periods through the show's seven episode run.

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There are looks at World War I and the experience of US troops in the trenches; the American Revolution; the invention of flight; and even peasant existence long before that – all with David mugging his way through scenes as a suspiciously modern-minded grouch. The joy, of course, will be in seeing how his grumpiness changes the vibes of scenes we know so well from other movies and show.

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness will hit HBO Max on 26 June, so it's around a week away at this stage – if you're a comedy fan or a closet history nut then this is likely to be a real treat.

Disney+ subscribers lose premium video option (again) – but only in certain countries

rik.henderson@futurenet.com (Rik Henderson) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0000

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Dolby Vision is no longer available on Disney+ across 11 countries in Europe.

Disney was found to have impinged on HEVC patents owned by InterDigital in the US, which has resulted in the high-end picture technology being removed.

Millions of Disney+ subscribers have once again lost access to Dolby Vision, even when paying for Premium membership.

Disney has had to remove the HDR option from its streaming service after losing a patent case filed by US firm InterDigital. It affects 11 countries across Europe.

In February, we reported that both Dolby Vision and 3D streaming options were removed from Disney+ across EU member states. At the time, Disney said that they were unavailable due to "technical challenges".

It became apparent that the enhanced picture services were suspended due to a dispute with InterDigital, which claimed the technology used by Disney impinged on its patents. An injunction had been imposed by a German court.

However, it seemed Disney found a workaround and Dolby Vision was restored in countries outside of Germany itself. Now that is no longer the case.

According to InterDigital (via FlatpanelsHD), a new injunction has been imposed by the Unified Patent Court. This covers several countries in the EU (not the UK): "The Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) ruled that InterDigital is entitled to an injunction over Disney's infringement of an InterDigital patent covering certain video encoding techniques related to HEVC and confirmed the validity of this patent," it said.

"The UPC is a pan-European patent court which issues decisions that apply across multiple countries in the European Union (EU); here, the injunction against Disney spans 11 EU countries."

Disney has responded with confirmation: "As a result of litigation before a European patent court, we have been required to make changes to the availability of Dolby Vision and 3D in Denmark and several neighbouring countries," it said.

"We are disappointed that we have had to do this, and we share our customers' frustration."

It has also been revealed by FlatpanelsHD that Amazon Prime Video, which uses similar streaming technology, has brokered a deal with InterDigital so that it can continue to offer Dolby Vision to subscribers.

Netflix's steamiest romance series will get a finale film to send it off into the sunset

Max Freeman-Mills — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Netflix, like many of the best streaming services apart from it, has been slowly but surely building up quite a repertoire when it comes to steamy romance dramas. It figured out quite a few years ago that audiences absolutely love a bit of relationship drama, and it's built out more than one mega-franchise from that genre. One of the first big hits for its efforts was Heartstopper.

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This very British story about coming of age and coming out in the UK while at school became a huge fan favourite and ran for three seasons before Netflix decided that the best way to send it off wasn't a fourth season. Instead, we're getting a finale film, and it just got its first trailer ahead of arriving on 17 July.

Heartstopper Forever will pick up the story of Nick and Charlie as they head into a genuinely pivotal part of their lives, at the end of school. They're deciding what's next for them individually and as a unit, with Nick making ready to go to university and Charlie finding himself more and more as his introversion falls away.

As anyone who had a teenage relationship will know, though, these sorts of thresholds in life tend to bring a huge amount of angst and worry with them – and that looks to be guaranteed from the trailer. Nick's clearly feeling all sorts of anxiety about what his life looks like without Charlie right there by his side, and Charlie in turn is worried about their codependency.

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Of course, that all sounds a bit worrying and negative, but I have a pretty good feeling that Heartstopper won't take the route of a super sad ending. Worst case we might get a relationship break while Nick sorts himself out an uni, but I reckon we get a rosier outcome for this pair. Netflix knows just as well as the original author of the graphic novels that the show's based on that people don't really want super depressing endings, after all.

If you're a huge fan of the series, you'll want to circle 17 July in your diary or get a calendar reminder in there – it's likely to be a big day for the romance genre on streaming.

Netflix's massive new sci-fi horror movie could take the world by storm

Max Freeman-Mills — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I've never held back from heaping praise on Apple TV's commissioning team over the last few years because of the way it's consistently taken fun bets on interesting new sci-fi ideas, so it's only fair that Netflix gets a proper nod for unveiling an equally intriguing project. It's just trailed The Last House, which looks like a fascinating blend of sci-fi and horror elements.

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The original movie will star Wagner Moura (fresh from an Oscar nomination for The Secret Agent) opposite Greta Lee, as a pair of parents whose life is upended when they discover they can't leave their home one morning. From the looks of the first trailer, though, it's not that they're under house arrest – something far more sinister is actually unfolding.

In fact, it looks like the sealing-in doesn't just happen to our family – it might be happening to everyone, putting their survival skills to the test in a very unique way since they can't get outside. We see a timelapse of how the family manages, including some indoor crop cultivation, but the movie seems keen to underline the fact that it's not just a survival story.

The supernatural storm happening outside the house when it gets sealed is clearly something otherworldly, and it looks fairly heavily implied that the movie might just have aliens in it. These aren't confirmed or even glimpsed on-screen in the trailer, but as it ends we see that the characters might be getting stalked by something in their home.

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There are some really arresting images in the trailer, too, including a look at the outside world once nature has reclaimed it after a few years of people being locked inside. That brings up shades of The Last of Us, although this looks like it's going in a different direction.

In fact, when you think about it for more than a second, the film might end up being a fairly direct allegory for the lockdowns we all endured during the height of the coronavirus pandemic a few years ago. Literally being locked in while nature heals outside, and being forced to rely on each other for help and companionship? Horror story stuff!

The Last House arrives on Netflix on 7 August, so it's a little way off, but that might mean we get another look at before too long.

3 top new Netflix and Prime Video arrivals for a mid-week binge (June 15-19)

Max Freeman-Mills — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

We're finally getting into the proper summer weeks now, and that means that plenty of countries around the world are getting hot enough to make you want to cower inside with the lights turned down once the evening finally cools down – which means streaming is on the menu. The rest of June gives the likes of Netflix and Prime Video some major new competition – the World Cup.

If you're not a big football fan, though, the best streaming services on the market still have some excellent new additions to offer up. You might find it a little harder than usual to find people to talk about them with, but that might feel refreshing, if anything. I've picked out the three big arrivals you need to know about, so check them out below.

I Will Find You

Streaming on: Netflix from 18 June

This thriller looks like it's almost guaranteed to be a hit on Netflix when it comes out later in the week, with a really top-level cast but also a plot that seems laser-targeted to hook people in. It stars Sam Worthington as a father wrongly convicted of killing his son, serving out his jail time knowing he's innocent.

When he's visited by a mysterious character (Britt Lower of Severance fame) with evidence that his son isn't even dead, let alone that he did the crime, he's faced with a burning need to get out of prison and set things right. It looks like we'll get a blend of prison breakout action, but also some good old-fashioned whodunnit investigating, which could make this a really strong debut in the Netflix charts.

Your Fault: London

Streaming on: Prime Video from 17 June

Prime Video has made a total mega-franchise out of the Our Fault movies, having already concluded a Spanish-language trilogy. It's now releasing the second part of its English-language reimagining, which relocates the action to London but still stars step-siblings Noah and Nick, with their forbidden romance now starting to get incredibly heated.

The second movie will open with them in the throes of love, having finally gotten together last time around, but there are storm clouds on the horizon. With Noah going to university and encountering all sorts of new people, and Nick getting drawn further into the underworld of racing that he loves so much, they're going to have a fight on their hands to stay together.

Voicemails for Isabelle

Streaming on: Netflix from 19 June

If you want some steamy romance with a little less complicated legality involved, then check out Voicemails for Isabelle on Netflix at the end of the week, which seems a little more traditional (in a good way). It starts Zoey Deutch as a young woman who recently lost her sister, struggling to make her way through adult life without one of her biggest support pillars there to help.

She occasionally leaves voicemails on her sister's old phone number as a way of still feeling connected and acknowledging her grief, but she doesn't realise that the number has been reassigned to a very eligible young bachelor. He starts to fall for her while feeling bad about the access he's getting to her confessionals, but I have a feeling the end for these two will be decidedly romantic.

Apple TV's Silo season 3 will show how it all began – and I can't wait to watch this Sci-Fi epic

mat.gallagher@futurenet.com (Mat Gallagher) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Silo isn't just one of the best Sci-Fi shows on Apple TV, it's based on one of the best Science Fiction novels in recent years. The original trilogy was written by Hugh Howey, beginning with a series of short stories titled Wool, followed by Shift and Dust.

Having watched the first season, reimagined for Apple TV, I devoured the full collection of books and even moved on to the additional short stories and connected works. There are differences between the books and the TV show, but it doesn't take away from this excellent story.

Season 2 deviated significantly from the book's order but still primarily covers elements from Wool, the first book. Season 3 sees a move to book two, Shift, which is where we discover how and why the Silo happened.

Though the first book is incredible as a self-contained dystopian mystery, it's the back story in the second book that's really fascinating. We see a teaser of this at the end of season two, with a scene that looks like Capitol Hill in Washington. From the new trailers for season three, it seems we will get the full story, as we do in the books (no spoilers).

While there are just three main books for the series, there are planned to be four seasons of the TV show, so season three is expected to keep to the second book, with season four taking care of the last one.

The order will likely be different, and some of the characters will change, but if Silo Season 3 even keeps roughly to the story arc of Shift, then it's going to be a wild ride.

Apple is releasing the first episode of Silo Season 3 on 3 July 2026, with new episodes launched weekly. I'm tempted to hold off to allow for a full binge session – also giving me time to rewatch season 2) but I'm not sure I can wait.

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Apple's new supernatural thriller just got some Season 2 news that you're going to want to know

Max Freeman-Mills — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I'm a big fan of Apple TV – there's a list of reasons why it's been sitting pretty for a long while at the top of our list of the best streaming services, and one of the biggest is the boldness of its commissioning decisions. Sure, you get some interesting series coming to Netflix and Prime Video, but not with the hit rate that Apple boasts.

It seems like every month it has something new to offer that does things genuinely differently, and not just if you consider how many cultish shows it develops, whether they're sci-fi inflected or just a little paranormal. It has traditional thrillers and crime dramas, too, but I just love how willing Apple seems to be to take punts on edgier, more niche material.

That approach has brought it huge hits like Severance, and also some more modest successes, which is how I'd describe Widow's Peak, which is on the cusp of its first season's finale right now (it airs on 16 June). The show stars Matthew Rhys as the beleaguered mayor of a small coastal town, but its trailers really underplayed how weird the show actually is.

Now it's getting a second season, which is great news, and which has been confirmed by a short trailer making the announcement:

It's brief, and obviously contains no actual new footage, instead cleverly reworking a moment from the show, but it's still great news for those who've been enjoying its weird, paranormal mix of genres. I've seen some people saying it's a bit like if Twin Peaks had a kid with Parks & Recreation, which is quite the enticement, and its mixture of scary thrills with deadpan black comedy has been a word-of-mouth hit.

Crucially (from Apple's point of view, you'd imagine), the show's also gone down really well with critics, who have left it sitting on a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97%. While audiences haven't quite matched that, 93% on that front is still an excellent showing, and the two scores together suggest that people who take a gamble on the show almost certainly enjoy it a lot.

We'll find out if Apple can convert that into a proper fanbase with a second season in due course, although don't hold your breath for it to arrive any time before late 2027 if we're being optimistic.

Netflix's next enormous historical smash hit just got a trailer, and it proves something quite important

Max Freeman-Mills — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Whenever Netflix chooses a new IP to be a big TV project, it doubtless has an almost scientific method behind the scenes. After all, we're now years into the streaming era and it's adapted a whole host of books, mangas and games into shows, many of which have done enormous numbers for it. Still, though, that doesn't stop every project from being at least some sort of a risk.

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Take the latest big novel series that it's adapting, which just so happens to be one of the most influential and best-selling in American history: Little House on the Prairie. The books have already been made into one long-running and much-loved series, but now Netflix is updating things with a higher budget and doubtless the hope that it'll run for ages, too.

After a teaser a couple of weeks ago, we got a proper trailer this week to showcase a bit more of what awaits the Ingall family when they upend their life and migrate to the prairie of Minnesota. Those huge open expanses promise the possibility of a better life for them all, but also hold clear and present dangers that need to be tackled head on.

The trailer shows us how the family will indeed be prepared for the challenges of life on the frontier, but it also makes clear that they'll only survive and thrive if they can make connections and find friends to rely on. That won't be hard, though, since anyone who's read even just the first book will know that the whole Ingall clan has hearts of gold – they're good people to their core.

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It'll be really interesting to see how much appetite people have for this sort of quasi-Western historical drama, which is so much less absurd and thrill-a-minute than many competing shows. The whole attraction of the series is likely to be its slower pace and more gentle storytelling, although the trailer still shows us wolves and other frightening parts of outdoor life.

The show clearly also aims to tackle the question of indigenous Americans and the way they were treated in this period of history. Whether it can do so with total clarity, or if it'll sugarcoat things a little for the wide family-friendly audience it's courting. I'm fascinated to see how that unfolds, when the show arrives on 9 July, in just under a month's time.

Prime Video's cult reboot could be something special based on this sparkling trailer

Max Freeman-Mills — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Prime Video is one of many out of the best streaming services right now to know that mining people's nostalgia is a great way to score hits, whether it's in the form of movies or shows. Remakes and reboots are in vogue in a big way, and have been for years, so it isn't the biggest surprise to see Elle, which takes on Legally Blonde and gives it an unexpected prequel series.

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The show takes a look at Elle before she ever went to law school, and a new full trailer opens with her living the high life as a queen bee in LA, celebrating her birthday with a lavish party that's unsurprisingly pink from top to bottom. What she doesn't realise is that her life's about to be upended by a move to rainy Seattle.

We see parts of her arrival in this new, far less sunny city, as she struggles to adapt her bubblegum-coloured personality to a vibe that's far more laid-back and, for lack of a better word, cool. She'll face the classic question of whether she should pretend to be something she's not, in order to fit in with people that she doesn't even really know yet.

The trailer gives us a glimmer of hope, though, by hinting at how she'll start to make friends and gain a positive reputation – investigations and campaigning. Hinting at her later talent for legal work, it looks like she'll slowly make her way into a group of students who are looking into some local scholastic controversies, and find her passion driving her to figure out what's going on and who's to blame.

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It all looks quite frankly idyllic, and with at least a couple of gags in the trailer that make it look like the writers have a good sense of what made the original movie so fun, it could be that this is a take on the character that's actually surprisingly faithful despite the passing of time.

Plus, in the form of Lexi Minetree the show has a young star who looks almost unbelievably similar to a young Reece Witherspoon – from certain angles I almost thought there was some CGI face-blending going on, which is a real boast for the casting director in this case. The series starts on 1 July, so strap in if you loved the movie some 25 years ago.

UK's most-loved sci-fi series in peril – is there a Doctor in the house?

rik.henderson@futurenet.com (Rik Henderson) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

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The showrunner and production company behind Doctor Who have departed the show, and the planned Christmas special has been cancelled.

So where does that leave the UK's most beloved sci-fi series?

It seemed like something was wrong. After all, a year has elapsed since the last season of Doctor Who aired (to its lowest viewing figures in 63 years) and we've not heard a peep about a new one since.

Now the BBC has confirmed the worst – the future of Doctor Who is currently up in the air.

Showrunner Russell T Davies has departed (for the second time) and the production company, Bad Wolf, will make it no longer. A planned Christmas special for 2026 has even been cancelled.

The writing was on the cards when it was announced Disney+ was pulling out of showing the series globally. And as fun as some episodes were (including the spectacular, surprise ending), Ncuti Gatwa's run as the 15th Doctor garnered as much criticism as it did praise.

So, where does future lie for the UK's most beloved and long-running sci-fi series? Well, there is some hope.

The BBC has revealed that it is looking for a new production partner to take up the reins: "Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come," it said in a statement.

It has put the show out to tender, meaning production companies and studios can submit their own ideas, pitches and proposals to make future series. Hopefully, that'll result in new ideas, fresh takes on the mythos, existing characters and villains, and a cunning way of intertwining the shock ending of the last season into the storyline.

What I hope doesn't happen is we get anything similar Spielberg's TV movie starring the eighth Doctor.

I was actually in Hollywood in the mid-90s (filming for Channel 4's GamesMaster) when we saw some behind-closed-doors tech demos of that particular Doctor Who revival, and let's just say it was very different to what was eventually broadcast. Two words: Spider Daleks. That's all I'll say.

Hopefully, the BBC will be more careful to protect its decades-old asset this time.

Who knows? We might even be able to convince Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight to have a go at creating his own vision for Doctor Who. He'll be a Brummie and played by Cillian Murphy, of course, but I'm down for that.

Whatever happens, we just need a safe pair of hands to take the Doctor on their next series of adventures. And if handled correctly, I'm sure there'll be plenty willing to take the ride too.

Netflix's huge new thriller sequel suggests a series that might run and run forever

Max Freeman-Mills — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

When you tot up a list of Netflix's biggest series in your head, you'll probably default to some expected answers like Squid Game and Stranger Things, but it can be easy to forget that it's also spawned some impressive movie franchises of its own. True, the majority of Netflix's original movies don't get sequels, but at least one of its series is still going strong.

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Enola Holmes debuted back in 2020 and looked at the time like a fairly transparent attempt to capitalise on some of Netflix's biggest acting contracts. It took Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things and Henry Cavill from The Witcher and stuck them in a film together, and the result was a hit with audiences. Now, six years later, we're getting a threequel.

The film picks up some time after the events of the second movie, with Enola (Sherlock Holmes' spirited younger sister) living in bliss with her love Tewkesbury. When he proposes that they actually marry, though, it kicks off a chain of events that she has little control over. Firstly, it looks like the ceremony will have to happen in Malta for some reason (not just because of tax breaks for movie projects, either).

Once they're actually on the Mediterranean island, though, it would seem that Sherlock's going to go and get himself kidnapped, leaving Enola in the lurch with another major mystery to solve. Frankly, from a viewer's point of view, one can only hope that the film actually gets to that moment really quickly, since the more time spent sleuthing, the better.

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The fact of the matter is that this series could run and run from here – after the first movie I wouldn't have said they had loads more material to uncover, but now that Enola's character is pretty established, it's just a matter of writing more mysteries. With Henry Cavill clearly game to pop in for a few days' filming each time, and Mille Bobby Brown basically a co-founder of Netflix at this point, what's stopping them?

Well, probably the big executive viewership counter in the sky, for one. It's clear that Netflix is brutal with whether shows and movies deserve sequels, based entirely on engagement when they release – so it'll be pivotal to observe how Enola Holmes 3 performs when it comes out on 1 July.

I'm finally watching this surprising fantasy hit on HBO, and I should have started way earlier

Max Freeman-Mills — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

When your write about streaming as much as I do, it's easy for people to assume that you spend all day, every day watching shows and movies to keep up with everything coming out. The reality is much less fun than that – just like everyone else, I have limited time outside of work in which to pick and choose the shows that most interest me, which means that plenty get missed.

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Frankly, even when shows do pique my interest I'll still often wait a little while to watch them, to avoid interrupting another season that I'm in the middle of, for example. That's what happened to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the second spinoff show from Game of Thrones that came out earlier this year – I've only just got around to watching it, and I'm having a grand old time.

The show takes a look at Westeros through a very different lens, focussing on a single pair of characters rather than a sprawling cast in many different locations. It opens with Dunk, a giant young man, burying his master, a cantankerous hedge knight who he'd been squire to. He's now a knight in his own right, but with no reputation to speak of, so he sets off to a nearby tourney in the hopes of making a name for himself.

Along the way he picks up a tiny young lad, Egg, who says he wishes to be Dunk's squire. He has secrets of his own, and the show quickly starts to unfold them, but I've been really enjoying how differently paced the episodes are compared to Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon. They're generally shorter, and take a much gentler pace, to give you more time to sit with Dunk in particular as things unfold around him.

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I'm halfway through the show's first season and I'm having a great time, even if things just took a turn for the worse for Dunk's own personal chances of success and survival. I'm hoping that the scope of the show doesn't widen out much from here, too – it's strength has been how limited its locations have been and how much time it takes to unfold a given day or night.

Don't get me wrong, I'm also excited for the return of House of the Dragon and its grander scope, especially as someone who doesn't know exactly how that story will unfold. Still, it's been a brilliant change of pace to sink into A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms ahead of the bigger show's return this month – I highly recommend it if you haven't dipped your toe yet.

How to watch World Cup 2026 – watch from anywhere, including free options

Aatif Sulleyman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Quick Summary

World Cup 2026 runs from June 11 to July 19, with the knockouts beginning on June 28. Spain and France are the pre-tournament favourites.

For the past four years, and very different reasons, World Cup 2026 has been the only thing standing between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and retirement. Messi was set to bow out on top when Argentina triumphed in Qatar but the Flea couldn't resist another shot at glory, while CR7 knows he'll never rest easy if football's greatest prize continues to elude him. Especially now his arch-rival has got there first.

As far as subplots go, it's not a bad one. It's somewhat fitting, however, that both Messi and Ronaldo could well be relegated to the sidelines – metaphorically, rather than literally – at this summer's tournament. While they can each still deliver magic moments, it's hard to escape the sense that they're each now holding their respective nations back by stunting the next generation of Argentine and Portuguese players.

The Spain team, by contrast, looks like a far more cohesive unit, with twin playmakers Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams acting predominantly as providers rather than finishers. That emphasis on team above individual is one of the prime reasons La Roja, the reigning European champions, are the pre-tournament favourites.

France, who went all the way in Russia before falling to Argentina in the final four years ago via a penalty shootout, are a close second. Although Kylian Mbappe's defensive efforts leave a lot to be desired, he's already an all-time World Cup great who could feasibly break Miroslav Klose's goalscoring record this summer. Having the core of the back-to-back Champions League-winning PSG team at the heart of the side frees up the skipper to do his thing.

It promises to be a tournament to remember, so make sure you tune in from wherever you are in the world.

When and where is World Cup 2026 taking place?

The 2026 World Cup is taking place in Mexico, Canada and the US, from Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, July 19. Scroll down for the full schedule of fixtures.

There are 16 venues in total: Estadio Azteca, Estadio BBVA and Estadio Akron in Mexico, BC Place and BMO Field in Canada, and MetLife Stadium, AT&T Stadium, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Arrowhead Stadium, NRG Stadium, Levi's Stadium, SoFi Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, Lumen Field, Gillette Stadium and Hard Rock Stadium in the US.

How to watch World Cup 2026 for free

Free World Cup 2026 coverage is available in multiple places, but here are some key options to note in the UK, Australia and Ireland.

UK: BBC iPlayer & ITVX
Australia: SBS on Demand
Ireland: RTÉ Player

How to watch World Cup 2026 in the UK

In the UK, every game of the World Cup is free-to-air on either BBC iPlayer or ITVX.

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How to watch World Cup 2026 in the US

In the US, every game of the World Cup is being televised by either Fox or FS1.

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What is the World Cup 2026 schedule?

Group Stage

Thursday, 11th June
8pm – Mexico vs South Africa (ITVX)

Friday, 12th June
3am – South Korea vs Czech Republic (ITVX)
8pm – Canada vs Bosnia & Herzegovina (BBC iPlayer)

Saturday, 13th June
2am – USA vs Paraguay (BBC iPlayer)
8pm – Qatar vs Switzerland (ITVX)
11pm – Brazil vs Morocco (BBC iPlayer)

Sunday, 14th June
2am – Haiti vs Scotland (BBC iPlayer)
5am – Australia vs Turkey (ITVX)
6pm – Germany vs Curacao (ITVX)
9pm – Netherlands vs Japan (ITVX)

Monday, 15th June
12am – Ivory Coast vs Ecuador (BBC iPlayer)
3am – Sweden vs Tunisia (ITVX)
5pm – Spain vs Cape Verde (ITVX)
8pm – Belgium vs Egypt (BBC iPlayer)
11pm – Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay (ITVX)

Tuesday, 16th June
2am – Iran vs New Zealand (BBC iPlayer)
8pm – France vs Senegal (BBC iPlayer)
11pm – Iraq vs Norway (BBC iPlayer)

Wednesday, 17th June
2am – Argentina vs Algeria (ITVX)
5am – Austria vs Jordan (BBC iPlayer)
6pm – Portugal vs DR Congo (BBC iPlayer)
9pm – England vs Croatia (ITVX)

Thursday, 18th June
12am – Ghana vs Panama (ITVX)
3am – Uzbekistan vs Colombia (BBC iPlayer)
5pm – Czech Republic vs South Africa (BBC iPlayer)
8pm – Switzerland vs Bosnia & Herzegovina (ITVX)
11pm – Canada vs Qatar (ITVX)

Friday, 19th June
2am – Mexico vs South Korea (BBC iPlayer)
8pm – USA vs Australia (BBC iPlayer)
11pm – Scotland vs Morocco (ITVX)

Saturday, 20th June
2am – Brazil vs Haiti (ITVX)
5am – Turkey vs Paraguay (ITVX)
6pm – Netherlands vs Sweden (BBC iPlayer)
9pm – Germany vs Ivory Coast (ITVX)

Sunday, 21st June
1am – Ecuador vs Curacao (BBC iPlayer)
5am – Tunisia vs Japan (BBC iPlayer)
5pm – Spain vs Saudi Arabia (BBC iPlayer)
8pm – Belgium vs Iran (ITVX)
11pm – Uruguay vs Cape Verde (BBC iPlayer)

Monday, 22nd June
2am – New Zealand vs Egypt (ITVX)
6pm – Argentina vs Austria (BBC iPlayer)
10pm – France vs Iraq (BBC iPlayer)

Tuesday, 23rd June
1am – Norway vs Senegal (ITVX)
4am – Jordan vs Algeria (ITVX)
6pm – Portugal vs Uzbekistan (ITVX)
9pm – England vs Ghana (BBC iPlayer)

Wednesday, 24th June
12am – Panama vs Croatia (BBC iPlayer)
3am – Colombia vs DR Congo (ITVX)
8pm – Switzerland vs Canada (ITVX)
8pm – Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Qatar (ITVX)
11pm – Morocco vs Haiti (BBC iPlayer)
11pm – Scotland vs Brazil (BBC iPlayer)

Thursday, 25th June
2am – South Africa vs South Korea (BBC iPlayer)
2am – Czech Republic vs Mexico (BBC iPlayer)
9pm – Curacao vs Ivory Coast (BBC iPlayer)
9pm – Ecuador vs Germany (BBC iPlayer)

Friday, 26th June
12am – Tunisia vs Netherlands (BBC iPlayer)
12am – Japan vs Sweden (BBC iPlayer)
3am – Turkey vs USA (ITVX)
3am – Paraguay vs Australia (ITVX)
8pm – Norway vs France (ITVX)
8pm – Senegal vs Iraq (ITVX)

Saturday, 27th June
1am – Cape Verde vs Saudi Arabia (ITVX)
1am – Uruguay vs Spain (ITVX)
4am – New Zealand vs Belgium (BBC iPlayer)
4am – Egypt vs Iran (BBC iPlayer)
10pm – Panama vs England (ITVX)
10pm – Croatia vs Ghana (ITVX)

Sunday, 28th June
12.30am – Colombia vs Portugal (BBC iPlayer)
12.30am – DR Congo vs Uzbekistan (BBC iPlayer)
3am – Algeria vs Austria (BBC iPlayer)
3am – Jordan vs Argentina (BBC iPlayer)

Knockout Stage

Round of 32

Sunday, 28th June
8pm – A2 vs B2

Monday, 29th June
6pm – C1 vs F2
9.30pm – E1 vs A/B/C/D/F3

Tuesday, 30th June
2am – F1 vs C2
6pm – E2 vs I2
10pm – I1 vs C/D/F/G/H3

Wednesday, 1st July
2am – A1 vs C/E/F/H/I3
5pm – L1 vs E/H/I/J/K3
9pm – G1 vs A/E/H/I/J3

Thursday, 2nd July
1am – D1 vs B/E/F/I/J3
8pm – H1 vs J2

Friday, 3rd July
12am – K2 vs L2
4am – B1 vs E/F/G/I/J3
7pm – D2 vs G2
11pm – J1 vs H2

Saturday, 4th July
2.30am – K1 vs D/E/I/J/L3

Round of 16

Saturday, 4th July
6pm – Round of 16 game 1
10pm – Round of 16 game 2

Sunday, 5th July
9pm – Round of 16 game 3

Monday, 6th July
1am – Round of 16 game 4
8pm – Round of 16 game 5

Tuesday, 7th July
1am – Round of 16 game 6
5pm – Round of 16 game 7
9pm – Round of 16 game 8

Quarter-finals

Thursday, 9th July
9pm – Quarter-final 1

Friday, 10th July
8pm – Quarter-final 2

Saturday, 11th July
10pm – Quarter-final 3

Sunday, 12th July
2am – Quarter-final 4

Semi-finals

Tuesday, 14th July
8pm – Semi-final 1

Wednesday, 15th July
8pm – Semi-final 2

Third-place playoff

Saturday, 18th July
10pm – Third-place playoff

Final

Sunday, 19th July
8pm – 2026 FIFA World Cup final

(All times BST)

The biggest reason to get Disney+ is coming back for one more season

Max Freeman-Mills — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

It's almost easy to forget just how much of a sensation The Bear was when it first arrived. This little-heralded show about an ailing local sandwich joint in Chicago was a proper word of mouth hit, making stars out of multiple cast members and attracting some truly crazy cameos for subsequent seasons. Now, just four years later, it's about to end with its fifth season.

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That's a remarkably quick period of time to get four seasons out, obviously, and the show has stood out as one of, if not the single best reason to get Disney+ here in the UK thanks to that hookup with FX. It's a delightful series, and extremely digestible thanks to often quite short episodes, and now we've got a sense of what to expect from its final season.

One of the criticisms of later seasons of The Bear has been that it tends to retread the same territory, with the core cast enduring some calamity from a maintenance perspective, then just about coming together by the end to make an important night go off okay. Main characters like Carmy and Syd, meanwhile, increasingly get frayed mentally, with their ability to work together constructively always looking suspect.

Well, don't expect a radical change of direction in Season 5 – the trailer makes it clear that The Bear (the in-show restaurant, that is) will have at least one huge problem. It looks like crazy weather will bring a wild flood with it to the place, and test everyone to their limit while they try to deal with it at a time when the restaurant simply cannot afford to stay closed.

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It'll be fascinating to see how brutal or kind the ending of the show ends up being – at a time when many of us know full well that restaurants and the wider service industry are under huge pressure around the world. Will Carmy's dream restaurant rescue itself from financial oblivion, or is it moreso a case of "one last hurrah"?

We'll know when the last season airs on 26 June, so if you're not subscribed to Disney+ already you'll want to set a reminder to change that nearer the end of the month. This is one of those finales that likely will have a major surprise or two up its sleeve, if only in the form of one more wild cameo. Don't be against it!

3 top new Netflix and Prime Video additions for a mid-week binge (June 8-12)

Max Freeman-Mills — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

The neverending quest for streaming supremacy is one that surely consumes execs at both Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. The latter is the world's biggest streaming service, but it knows full well that it can't rest on its laurels if it wants to stay that way. So, each and every week it and Prime Video race to put up more, better new content for people to watch.

If you're looking at a relatively clear schedule of evenings this week, and you're wondering what new material might be arriving on either platform for you to watch, you're in luck. I've combed through the release schedules to pick out the three new arrivals on Prime Video and Netflix that you need to know about, and you'll find them here with trailers and release dates for your convenience.

Every Year After

Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video from 10 June

Amazon's almost certainly backing a winning horse in the form of Every Year After, which adapts a best-selling romance novel and looks like it could spawn a new franchise all on its own. It stars a young woman who's back in the small town she used to spend her summers in, and unexpectedly finds herself reconnecting with the ex-boyfriend she bonded with back then.

He's got a new partner, though, and she's having trouble figuring out what she wants from life, which is almost certainly the foundation for a pretty compelling tussle between what they want and what they think is right. Expect some seriously steamy moments and plenty of anguish in this new show dropping midweek.

Outlast: The Jungle

Streaming on: Netflix from 10 June

Netflix isn't the only streaming service that likes to take turns at competing with hugely long-established shows from network TV, and this new reality TV series looks like it's aimed directly at Survivor, which is an institution in the US. It puts a load of very beautiful people into challenges that will test their endurance and teamwork.

From raft-building to hunting and gathering, it looks like some of the challenges on show will be really tough, but the really interesting side of things is the more inter-personal one. With alliances quickly forming but rules allowing for team-switching whenever you like, people's loyalties are likely to be pretty fluid.

The Rest Is Football

Streaming on: Netflix from 10 June

In case you're living under a rock, it's the World Cup starting this week, which means the ultimate feast for football fans. Gary Lineker's podcast empire has seen him go from strength to strength since leaving the BBC, and now he's been licensed by Netflix to produce daily podcasts in video form, reacting to the biggest games and talking about those still to come.

With co-hosts Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, he's going to welcome a wide array of impressive footballing guests, too, and the episodes will come out at 6AM every morning, making this the perfect way to start your footballing day if you're in the UK. Lineker's media empire might only just be getting started, frankly.

My favourite sci-fi show on TV is about to return, and its trailer confirms some pretty big twists from Apple TV

Max Freeman-Mills — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I've been flying this flag for a couple of years now – if you haven't already grabbed yourself an Apple TV subscription so that you can check out its frankly unbelievable slate of sci-fi shows and movies, you really need to. One of the jewels in that crown, in my opinion, is Silo, which takes a more subdued and pared-back approach to the genre, and makes it work brilliantly.

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The show's just about to start its third season (on 3 July), and now we've got a proper trailer running through some of what we can expect to see. It confirms that Juliette will be back in the main silo again, but also that she'll be dealing with a very new challenge – getting her memories back. I've embedded that trailer below for you to check out.

Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) is back in the silo, then, and has semi-pariah, semi-blessed status as the first person to ever go out and come back in alive – after a brush with an incinerator. She's lost her memory of that outing, though, which is fairly crucial since she learnt more than one thing that would change her underground society's understanding of itself.

Meanwhile, as she struggles to get a grip on what happened to her, the situation in the silo is getting more heated. We've seen more than one uprising be quelled at this point, but there's got to be a threshold where the people's demands for answers start to break through. We're poised to learn more about the secret design of the silo's surveillance project and governors.

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Meanwhile, we'll also get more and more insight into how the world actually got to the point where its only survivors are living in underground vaults. The flashback sequences in the second season were fascinating but perhaps a little underexplored – now we're clearly going to get more, and I'm gagging to find out some of the politics behind this particular apocalypse.

Some people felt (fairly) that Silo's second season dragged a little, especially with Juliette taken off into her own little slow-moving side story, and I'm hoping this new run of episodes will have taken that feedback into account. If we can get into revelations a little more quickly, we could be heading into one of the best sci-fi seasons in recent memory.

Apple TV's new Anya Taylor-Joy thriller looks so high-budget, I thought it was a movie for sure

Max Freeman-Mills — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Apple TV knows how the game is played, and in the world of streaming the biggest way to secure success is to reel in some big stars. Apple already had some sort of good relationship going with Anya Taylor-Joy after last year's The Gorge, which did some seriously striking numbers. Now they're teaming up again, on Lucky, which got its first proper trailer this week.

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After my first watch of that trailer, which I've embedded below, I would have fairly confidently bet on the project being a movie, since it looks really high-budget and interesting visually, but we're in lucky. It's actually a series, which means we'll get way more runtime to enjoy if it ends up being a hit when it arrives on 15 July.

Taylor-Joy looks like she's very much the star at the centre of this show, rather than it being more of an ensemble piece. She plays Lucky, who's grown up in a fairly unconventional way, being trained up by her father (Timothy Olyphant) to run cons and get away with some seriously big scores.

She isn't all that keen on keeping up a life of crime, and might even be tempted to get out and go straight, but that wish gets a lot more complicated when she wakes up one morning to find her husband missing, and their latest batch of cash missing. That husband's mother just happens to be a crime boss in her own right, played by Annette Bening, and she seems not to be too fond of Lucky.

Apple TV

It's fairly clear from the way the trailer unfolds that this will all add up to Lucky going on the run, whether she's just trying to keep her head above water, or whether she's got a plan to get the money she lost back, and find her husband at the same time. With the FBI on her tail as well as the mob, she's got a lot to juggle.

Luckily, Taylor-Joy looks like she's putting in another highly committed performance, and it seems quite action-packed too. We see car chases, foot chases, gunfights and more. That makes me hope this could be a proper hit for Apple TV, at a time when there's not actually all that much to watch.

Netflix's new thriller (with a big Severance star) just got a trailer that's impossible to ignore – it'll be a sensation, that much I'm sure of

Max Freeman-Mills — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000

If you're interested in the business behind streaming, here's one tiny, perhaps obvious little trick. You can broadly tell how much power a showrunner or writer has by whether they get a mention in the full title of a show. Tyler Perry's a great example, since his output almost always has his name attached, and now you can add thriller-writer Harlan Coben to the elite, too.

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Harlan Coben's I Will Find You might be known by just I Will Find You by 99% of the people who end up watching it, but that doesn't stop the fact that the author's name is clearly a big deal at Netflix after a series of successful outings for the streamer. This new show got a proper full trailer this week, and what a scary-looking time it promises to be!

The show stars Sam Worthington as David, a grieving father who's been convicted for killing his son, while knowing that he did no such thing. When he's approached in prison by a visitor, he's initially reluctant but then unable to ignore her. She's Rachel, played by Severance's Britt Lower, and she seems to have proof that his son never died in the first place.

What was treated as a murder might have been a kidnapping, and that means David has to immediately consider how he's going to get out of prison to start investigating. From the looks of this trailer, the show will therefore divide into a few genres, with at least part of its runtime shaping up as a Prison Break-style escape story.

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Once he's out, it would seem we'll be getting more of a traditional mystery thriller from then on, but there are some really intriguing questions floating around even just from the teaser and this new trailer. One of them is quite who Rachel is, and why she knows so much about David's case, and the bigger question is who exactly the abductor is, and what their motivation could be.

It's all very enticing stuff, and I have a pretty good feeling that this will do numbers on Netflix when it comes out – it has all the right ingredients to be a mainstream success. It drops on 18 June, so it's about two weeks away, which means you don't have long to wait to see if I'm right.

Apple TV's bringing back Colin Farrell for more of a show that I thought was almost certainly dead

Max Freeman-Mills — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000

When the first season of Sugar ended on Apple TV, I wouldn't really have guessed that we'd be getting any more of Colin Farrell's disturbed private investigator. While the show was a really interesting one, and Farrell's commitment was pretty clear, it didn't do all that well critically. Still, it must have got the numbers Apple was hoping for, because we're about to get a second season after all.

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A new trailer came out this week ahead of a premiere date of 19 June, and it looks like potentially a slightly more tied-down season than the last, focusing a little less on Sugar's own ongoing crisis and a little more on the case he's working on. It's a classic missing person mystery, with some fun details to explore.

Sugar's looking into the disappearance of the brother of a promising young boxer making his way through bouts, and it looks a little like that brother might not actually want to be found. Given that Sugar's also trying to locate his own missing sister, there are clearly parallels to be explored here.

He's going to have to dive into gang-run underbellies to get closer to figuring out what's happening; that much is clear. The show continues to have a really fun visual identity, too, with a pulpish commitment to looking grimy and sun-baked, fitting given its LA setting.

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This time we'll also clearly get more time looking into dirty cops, which again is growing into a theme for the show. As Sugar gets closer to the truth, he'll almost certainly get into more and more potential trouble with police officers who're heavily incentivised to keep him off the scent.

If you never checked out Sugar, I think this is probably a pretty good prompt to do so, and it's another example of how Apple seems to be pretty far-sighted and patient when it commissions shows. While viewer numbers are likely the ultimate guide, its willingness to renew flawed shows like this one is heartening.

Netflix's massive new Oscar Isaac movie looks like a fever dream, but that might be a very good thing

Max Freeman-Mills — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Netflix just unveiled one heck of an interesting-looking original movie, and its cast alone makes it easily worth paying attention to, even if you don't have time to check out its frankly bonkers trailer. In the Hand of Dante is coming on 24 June, and promises to tell an era-hopping story of obsession with a deliberate arch noirish tone.

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The movie stars Oscar Isaac as Nick, seemingly a modern-day scholar obsessed with the works of Dante Alighieri, whose most famous work was the Divine Comedy, in which he described the nine circles of hell. Nick dreams of knowing the unknowable about the great writer, but never expects to have his wish answered.

In a noir-inspired black and white timeline, which seems to be set in the present day, Nick is accosted by the literal Italian mob in New York and offered the chance to find and study the lost original manuscript of The Divine Comedy, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity fraught with danger.

On the way to finding it, he'll clearly fall in with Gal Gadot as a femme fatale, and once he gets his hands on it, all manner of shenanigans will break loose. What's more interesting, though, is the fact that we'll also get glimpses of historical scenes, in which the mainline cast take on new roles, with Isaac filling in as Dante himself, for instance. These scenes are contrasted with the present day by being presented in vivid colour, too.

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The whole thing looks completely surreal and quite beautiful, but the cast list bears dwelling on. We've got, alongside Isaac and Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Al Pacino, Jason Momoa and, most amazingly of all, Martin Scorsese in yet another cameo, this time in a nearly ludicrous Gandalf-like beard and long-hair combo.

That's one heck of a list of actors, and it's enough to make me curious about the film despite frankly very middling early reviews. It's sitting on a hugely dividied 43% score on Rotten Tomatoes after reviews from film festivals last year, which might just mean that it's interesting enough to bear some proper inspection if you have a Netflix subscription.

3 top new Netflix and Prime Video arrivals for a mid-week binge (June 1-5)

Max Freeman-Mills — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Streaming never lets up – and with the heat finally dissipating here in the UK, it's a lot more bearable to imagine staying in to binge some TV this week than last week. If you're subscribed to either Netflix or Prime Video, which are very much the two biggest streaming services out there, then you might be wondering if there's anything new coming to either.

Well, I've gone and looked into that very question for you, and found some pretty juicy news, ensuring that you should be able to pick from the three highlights below. They run a gamut of genres, too, so there should be enough variety to keep anyone satisfied. You'll find a trailer for each, too, to help you get a sense for what it offers.

Clarkson's Farm Season 5

Streaming on: Prime Video from 3 June

I'm fairly sure that when Amazon greenlit Clarkson's Farm for the first time, years ago, it probably didn't anticipate the show going on to be this sort of massive success, and a franchise that probably drives Prime subscriptions in its own right. It's become a sensation, and has launched Clarkson into the hearts of many non-motorheads for the first time.

He's still a rambunctious fellow, though, and has sharp edges, as his presence and input into massive farming protests in recent UK history demonstrate – and these will be covered by the new season of the show. He's become a lightning rod for debate about the industry, and the new episodes will likely keep that ball rolling.

Office Romance

Streaming on: Netflix from 5 June

Sometimes Netflix knows that people don't actually want movies that shoot for the stars and look to collect awards and acclaim – they want silly romances between beautiful people against pretty backdrops. That's what's offered up by Office Romance, which has a very utilitarian name and stars Brett Goldstein opposite Jennifer Lopez.

He's a lawyer working for her, but sparks won't take long to fly between them and the romance that the title hints at is clearly going to explode fairly quickly. In fact, this doesn't look like a movie that takes itself particularly seriously, so strap in if you want a nice, uncomplicated story to enjoy one evening this week.

The Legend of Vox Machina S4

Streaming on: Prime Video from 3 June

Another Prime Video franchise that has done better than I would ever have anticipated is Vox Machina, which adapts the first Critical Role campaign into an animated show and makes it even easier to watch and digest. It's tremendous fun, making for a far more concise story than that mammoth broadcast was.

Of course, you'll want to watch the previous three seasons before tucking into these new episodes, but the arrival of a new run is always a great opportunity to discover a show for the first time, so this could get a swell of interest. At a time when D&D is bigger than ever, Vox Machina looks like it's riding the wave cannily.

Prime Video in June 2026: Top 5 new arrivals on Amazon's streaming service

Max Freeman-Mills — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Amazon runs one of the biggest streaming services in the world, in the form of Prime Video, and it knows as well as any of its rivals that it can't afford to be slow to add new material to its library. If it has a slow month, after all, subscribers and Prime members might cancel and pick up one of the other best streaming services out there.

This June is a great example of how that unfolds – with Prime Video adding a whole bunch of big-hitting shows and movies to its roster. There's plenty for people to sink their teeth into across a pretty wide range of genres, and it looks like one of the bigger months the platform has had recently. I've gathered five unmissable highlights for you to check out, each with a trailer (if it exists) and release date).

Every Year After

Streaming from: 10 June

Amazon's absolutely unafraid to go down the steamy route right now, and it seems to have a knack for developing romance series that capture people's imaginations and turn into mega-franchises. It surely hopes that Every Year After is the latest in that lineup, telling a story of "the one who got away" for the ages.

Its main character is Percy Fraser, who feels she has to go back to the town where she had a beautiful summer romance when she discovers that her ex's mother has passed away. He's distraught, obviously, but has also moved on and has a new girlfriend, which is a pretty classic setup for a messy love triangle and some big dilemmas.

Your Fault: London

Streaming from: 17 June

Another huge and extremely saucy returning franchise for Prime Video is the English-language version of Your Fault, with its London suffix. This tells the same story as Culpa Tua did, except that one was in Spanish – which means that it picks up with step-siblings Noah and Nick actually indulging in a genuine relationship.

Things look good, but this is a steamy drama, so there's no way it's staying like that. With Nick unable to suppress his bad-boy ways, there might even be some skeletons in his closet. Brace for their relationship to hit some rocky waters, and for the drama to escalate in some surprising ways.

Clarkson's Farm Season 5

Streaming from: 3 June

This is one of Prime Video's real juggernauts, despite it being quite an unlikely one. Jeremy Clarkson's transition from motoring personality to farming advocate has been a surprise, and it's also brought Prime Video one of its biggest ever successes, so the fifth season of the show is a really big deal, especially here in the UK.

This season will be a dramatic one, too, since it'll cover a period of time that involved major health complications for Clarkson himself, but also some of the biggest protests ever from the farming industry in the UK, which he also got involved with. The best bits, though, are likely to be the slapstick on-farm cockups that fill the gaps between those big moments.

The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4

Streaming from: 3 June

This animated show has been running way longer than people might have assumed it would manage when it first arrived. It dramatises and adapts some of the biggest and best stories from the world of Critical Role, taking the same party and most of the same voice actors and letting them retell their grand first campaign in style.

That means it has some really fun storytelling, since its twists and turns weren't created in a writers' room, but were the results of improvisation and fun ideas by players who at that point were relatively new to Dungeons & Dragons. This is a great opportunity to get into the show for the first time, or to return to it.

Did You Kill Emma?

Streaming from: 14 June

This one doesn't have a trailer at the time of writing but it looks like a textbook slice of UK TV excellence coming to Prime Video in the middle of June. It's a documentary about a notorious and shocking crime in Glasgow, and the incredibly slow progress towards justice that came after the event.

Did You Kill Emma follows an investigative journalist as she slowly but surely gets closer to the truth, while uncovering a litany of police failings and ways in which the criminal justice system can let things fall through the cracks. For true-crime fans, it looks like a compelling new option.

Netflix in June 2026: 5 best all-new additions for Netflix subscribers

Max Freeman-Mills — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Netflix can't ever really let a month go by without some pretty major additions – it's a massive streaming platform and knows full well that it needs to keep people's attentions. The best way to do that? Get new shows and movies onto its library all the time, ensuring that no week is empty.

Each month, therefore, I spend a little time before the calendar changes, checking out whatever Netflix is adding in the four-ish weeks to come. For those of you wondering what you'll get as part of your subscription in June, this is the place to be. I've picked out five highlights for you, and down below you'll find all of them with their trailers and release dates.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2

Streaming from: 25 June

It's been a long old wait for the second season of Avatar:The Last Airbender's live-action remake. Netflix has high hopes for the show, and it clearly has a huge budget, but you've got to hope the gap before next season doesn't end up being this same length of time.

Still, for those who enjoyed the first set of episodes, this looks like a pretty terrific step-up in scale, as the show widens its scope and escalates its stakes. The element-bending powers on show are even more amazing than before, and our slightly aged-up characters all look like they'll have the familiar and satisfying arcs from the original cartoon. Expect this one to do huge numbers when it arrives late in June.

I Will Find You

Streaming from: 18 June

Netflix has become a real factory when it comes to thriller series, and one of its most proven methods has been to adapt best-selling novels – the sort that you see in airports for those looking to enjoy a barnstorming read while flying long-haul. It's a really great way to get a great plot, but you have to pair it with the right actors and tone to really stick the landing.

This show takes a Harlan Coben story and puts Sam Worthington in the lead role as a father who's in jail for the murder of his son – expect he not only didn't kill him, but it would seem that nobody did. What begins as a murder mystery might morph into a kidnapping case, but with a whole bunch of personal feelings clouding up the characters' objectivity. Sign us up for this one!

Office Romance

Streaming from: 5 June

Sometimes Netflix knows it can just go for the low-hanging fruit, and this rom-com seems like it isn't shooting for the stars. It stars none other than Jennifer Lopez as a high-flying boss, literally. She runs an airline and has absolutely no time to waste on frivolous romances, with a reputation for hard management and low patience.

That all changes, though, when Brett Goldstein walks into her office as a new lawyer for the company. They have an instant spark, and it's fairly clear from the spoilerish trailer above that they're not exactly going to sit on their hands and ignore their urges. This seems to be a classic romantic tale, and might even be less rom-com and more pure rom.

Little Brother

Streaming from: 26 June

Well, for those looking for the "pure com" equivalent to the above option, here's one for you. Little Brother looks like it might have just come from an extended experiment in which John Cena let longtime absurdist comic Eric Andre see if he could make him break into laughter while shooting scenarios, since the movie sees the former very much playing the straight man to the latter's wild card.

Cena's character accidentally finds himself reconnecting with someone he last knew at school, discovering that Andre's just as weird as ever, and watching his entire life start to revolve around this one totally bizarre dude. The movie's chances of being genuinely great are slim, but Cena is always game and you never know what Andre's going to pull, so we'll be watching this with interest.

Voicemails for Isabelle

Streaming from: 19 June

My final pick is the rom-com we've been looking for. This movie stars Zoey Deutch as a young woman grieving the loss of her sister and using voicemail messages to her now-defunct number as a way to feel connected to the sibling she lost. What she doesn't realise is that the number has now been reassigned, and that the man of her dreams is listening in.

When he figures out why he's been getting these voicemails out of nowhere, he starts to wonder if he can help her out, and his innocent intentions quickly blossom into what looks like a fairly swooning love affair. Sure, it's a lot like You've Got Mail, but that's no real bad thing, and a charming pair of lead actors could make sure this one ends up being a great little bit of fun.

Netflix's steamy new romance might look like a tearjerker, but this one big reason means it's going to be a hit

Max Freeman-Mills — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

It's always nice to see an actor you rate doing well, and I think Netflix has found itself a really reliable romcom performer in the form of Zoey Deutch. She's already anchored one of my favourite little cult Netflix movies, opposite Glenn Powell in Set It Up, and now she's starring in another Netflix movie some eight years later.

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Deutch plays Jill, one of two main characters in Voicemails for Isabelle, which might not have the catchiest title of all time, but does look like a great bit of romantic fun nonetheless. Netflix gave the movie a proper trailer this week, ahead of a release date of 19 June, and I'm quite taken with it.

Jill is a young woman grieving the loss of her sister, Isabelle, and has found a relatively sensible way to process the loss; she still phones Isabelle's old number every so often and leaves her voicemails updating her on what's going on in her life, including both her professional travails as a chef and the challenges of modern dating.

Little does she know, though, that the number has been reassigned, and an extremely eligible and handsome man is listening in sheepishly. He's Nick Robinson as Wes, and when he starts to figure out her routine he can't help but introduce himself. The trailer doesn't exactly disguise the fact that they'll end up falling for each other, either.

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Still, we'll clearly get some tension in the middle act, as Wes wrestles with the fact that Jill doesn't know he can listen to her voicemails, and confronting her with that information is likely to not go down all too well. Whether they can get past that isn't too hard to guesstimate, but the journey is always most of the fun in this sort of heady romcom.

The trailer makes its own comparisons to You've Got Mail, one of the most imitated romantic movies ever, so I don't have to – but in Deutch I think Netflix has one of the few actors who can hold a candle to Meg Ryan's level of chutzpah. Here's hoping the film lives up to that lofty comparison when it arrives in a couple of weeks' time.

3 best new Netflix and Prime Video additions for a mid-week binge (May 25-29)

Max Freeman-Mills — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Streaming never stands still. While broadcast TV was never exactly a slow world, it still feels almost wild how much content the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video pump out on a weekly basis to keep their subscribers happy. If you're a paid-up member of either of those streaming services (or both), you're probably wondering what's coming this week, in fact.

Well, good news – both Netflix and Prime Video have a major new arrival to boast about, and one of them is long-awaited. I've taken a look at every new original project coming to the pair of them and picked out three that you should know about, and you'll find them below with trailers and release dates for your convenience.

Spider-Noir

Streaming on: Prime Video from 27 May

This is a really big one for Prime Video – when it first announced that it would spin out Nicolas Cage's character from the Spiderverse movies, it was a little hard to visualise what that might look like. Now, though, we're on the verge of being able to watch Spider-Noir, and successive trailers have made it look like a really good time.

Uniquely, the show is going to be available to watch in two distinct formats – a traditional black and white version, but also a vivid colour version, and you can choose between the two as you go (or watch one after the other if you're sufficiently taken with it). That's a fun twist, but the core story also looks pulpy and enjoyable, so there's every chance this turns into a real hit.

The Four Seasons – Season 2

Streaming on: Netflix from 28 May

First The Morning Show and now this – Steve Carell has a habit of appearing in the first season of shows before his role is much reduced moving forward. Luckily, that seems to work well for him and the shows both, and The Four Seasons seems to be going from strength to strength in this new season, with the rest of the cast all returning to pick up the story of adult friends.

They'll go on another series of trips through a year, processing grief and working out the kinks in their relationships. It looks like parenthood is in the crosshairs this time around, too, which means we could get some really touching moments as they work out what they want from the rest of their lives.

My 2 Cents

Streaming on: Netflix from 27 May

For those who want something a little more out of left field, this Italian animated show looks like a perfect choice to experiment with. It comes from celebrated creator Zerocalcare, and tells what looks like a semi-surreal story of figuring out what your middle age is actually going to look like.

The main character is, in fact, a version of Zerocalcare, sharing his life with Cinghiale, a literal wild boar, in a world where some animals do live alongside humans (or possibly are just metaphors for the types of people you meet). They're trying to run a neighbourhood spot, but struggling with the weight of organised crime, financial demands and more. It's a melting pot and could just steal in as your favourite new show if you let it.

Amazon's dark twist on a Marvel classic is going to be must-watch TV this week

Chris Hall — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

When Amazon first teased us with the trailer for Spider-Noir, we were excited by its presentation in black and white, as well as "True-Hue" colour, as something unique is happening here: it's going to be available to watch in both formats.

Best of all, it's going to be available to watch this week, as it streams from 27 May on Prime Video. That's right, this is a Marvel spin-off that lands on Amazon's Prime service, rather than Disney+ like the majority of other Marvel content.

Spider-Man has been the thorn in the MCU's side to a certain extent, with Sony Pictures having the rights to Spider-Man live action films. Spinning out of the Spider-Noir comics, having appeared in the Spider-Verse comes Spider-Noir, with Nicolas Cage in the leading role.

That's going to be enough excitement for many, as Spider-Noir looks to capture the film noir aesthetic of 1930s crime genre, with Cage as a slightly older Spidey. Ben Riley (Cage) is a private investigator, fitting the setting into which it is pitched.

Spider-Noir sees a range of characters pop into the frame - Tombstone, Silvermane, Sandman, Black Cat - to pull the plot along.

What's really interesting about Spider-Noir is that we have Cage leading the show, taking on a TV role that he's previously avoided. There's no doubting that his name alone has the pulling power to attract audiences.

That's why Spider-Noir is going to be must-watch television, not just for fans of Spider-Man, but for fans of Cage too, just to see how it all hangs together.

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On that front, the early reviews are in and while Spider-Noir is appraised for its visual beauty, it's also being called "all style and no substance" (Variety). Meanwhile The Hollywood Reporter calls it "an inconsistent disappointment".

But there is a glimmer of hope, with Empire saying "it just gets better and better, with a finale that delivers on every level". It's fair to say, then, that Spider-Noir is dividing opinion.

That suggests that it's not universally appealing, which will make it more interesting to watch, discuss and contemplate.

The big question, of course, will be whether Spider-Noir returns after its first outing. It's said that the showrunners have deliberately left it open for expansion into future seasons, while the detective nature of the plot line makes it a versatile platform for new story lines.

But perhaps the biggest question will be whether to watch it in black and white or colour. If nothing else, this perfects reflects some of the madness that comes with Spider-Noir.

Spotify update coming that's bound to court even more controversy – the disco ball was just the start

Britta O'Boyle — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Quick Summary

Spotify has announced a number of features coming to the app this year, including an AI tool for remixing your favourite tracks.

The tool will allow fans to remix tracks and create cover versions using AI and share them on Spotify itself. There's a feature for reserving tickets too.

Spotify changed its app icon to a disco ball this week and it caused quite the scene. It seemed not many were fans of the redesigned logo – even though it was always attended to be temporary and merely part of the service's 20the anniversary celebrations.

But while you wait patiently for the previous logo to make its return, the music streamer has announced a couple of new features that could prove even more divisive, and these are set to be more permanent.

Revealed as part of its Investors Day 2026, Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced that they've reached “landmark licensing agreements” that will introduce a new tool allowing fans to use AI to remix tracks from participating artists and even create their own cover versions.

The new tool will use generative AI and will be a paid add-on for Spotify Premium subscribers, so it won’t be included in the current monthly fee. Perhaps most controversially, the AI-generated versions can then be shared again on Spotify for others to stream.

It all sounds fun, but could end up filling the service with a whole tonne of AI slop.

Elsewhere, there’s a new feature for concert tickets, too. Reserve will be based on a user’s listening and targeted at true fans. The feature promises to hold two concert tickets so you can buy them, hopefully mitigating hours of waiting in virtual queues before general sale tickets are released.

Spotify posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Reserved would be coming to Premium users in the US but it didn’t specify exactly when. What we all really want to know for now, though, is when will the standard Spotify logo be back?

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hits streaming so you can finally watch it at home

Chris Hall — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Quick summary

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now available for home viewing, with rentals and purchases from a range of services.

The star-studded Nintendo movie is available from £15.99 / $24.99 now.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has been a huge hit in cinemas, and when we're talking about a movie that's estimated to have made $964 million (£713 million) at the box office (via Forbes), there's no doubt that the appetite for home streaming will be strong.

While we originally thought that it was going to land on 5 May, the hit Nintendo movie actually landed on streaming services on 19 May, meaning you can rush out and rent it today.

That's the bad news here: we're still in the early stages of this movie's life, so it's not bundled into any streaming services quite yet, but it's widely available to rent or to buy.

A quick search reveals that it's on Amazon Prime to rent for $24.99 in the US, while in the UK it will cost you £15.99, which sounds like a great choice for Bank Holiday entertainment.

It's also listed on Apple TV for the same price, while Google TV and Rakuten are also offering rental and purchase. In the UK it's also available to rent and buy on the Sky Store.

The appeal of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is broad, with the animation not only appealing to kids, but the sheer nostalgia and lore of Nintendo's beloved characters resonating with older viewers who have grown up with generations of Nintendo consoles.

The latest Nintendo movie stars Chris Pratt, Brie Larson, Jack Black, Charlie Day and others, and follows Mario and Luigi around a plot that's loosely based on the Mario Galaxy games, but interweaved with plenty of easter eggs and characters for fans to enjoy.

Despite being a huge success in cinemas, IMDb currently has it sitting on a 6.3 star rating, while Rotten Tomatoes sees it sitting on 42%. For all the visual treats that it offers, some have the audacity to call the storyline "threadbare", which probably comes as a surprise to nobody.

If that doesn't fill you with excitement, then you'll probably have to wait until August before it appears to stream for free, by which point the buzz around The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will surely have worn off.

HBO and Sky TV's blockbuster epic returns in June - but this time I want blood

Chris Hall — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:30:00 +0000

The Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon will return to screens in June 2026, with Season 3 streaming on HBO Max, and Sky Atlantic in the UK. It will hit screens on 21 June in the US and 22 June in the UK and the bad news is that it will be released weekly, so you won't be able to binge the whole thing in one go.

That will at least give the freshly-announced companion podcast breathing space, dissecting the eight episodes that will make up the run for this next instalment of House of the Dragon. Season 1 was 10 episodes, while Season 2 was 8 episodes.

And I know what you're thinking: is anything going to happen this time around?

When House of the Dragon returned to screens in 2022, it was warmly greeted by fans, following the (controversial) finale of Game of Thrones in 2019. Back in Westeros, House of the Dragon explores the rift in House Targaryen, centred around the succession.

Fans of George R.R. Martin's works already know who "wins", because that succession leads into Game of Thrones. What's perhaps more important about this dynastic story is how it sets up the downfall of the House Targaryen that leads us into Game of Thrones.

House of the Dragon got off to a strong start, with stars like Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Olivia Cooke and Rhys Ifans, but it stumbled a lot along the way. The whole setup of House of the Dragon is the dynastic war between the Black and Green factions, massive destruction and the loss of basically all the dragons.

But what we got was hand-wringing about the inevitable conflict without actually getting there. At times, House of the Dragon has been ponderous, with what felt like a huge amount of time with Rhaenyra standing at the Painted Table, while the audience didn't get the battles that are so obviously being setup.

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House of the Dragon will run to four seasons and we left Season 2 just on the precipice: the episode 8 build-up felt like it should seque straight into battle, but instead the credits roll. It's said that HBO cut the Season short, pushing that battle into Season 3, so I'm left hoping for a big opener - and an even bigger follow through.

It feels like it's time for House of the Dragon to really deliver. For fans, having invested plenty of time into the show already, Season 3 needs to give us what we want - and that's a complete unravelling of House Targaryen, Westeros set alight, devastating betrayal and a lots and lots of blood.

After all, what we've had so far is mostly posturing.

HBO Max subscribers in the UK get an unexpected major upgrade

Chris Hall — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Quick summary

HBO Max is adding companion podcasts to its top franchises, with the video podcast exclusive to HBO Max.

That will give fans another way to enjoy Game of Thrones or the universe of Harry Potter, in more detail.

HBO Max is giving subscribers a little extra to expand the offering from the UK's newest streaming service. Podcasts have now been added, including companions for some of the service's most popular shows.

That means that fans will get to experience a little more of the universe that they are immersed in, including behind-the-scenes access and deep discussions.

While podcasts are easy enough to find these days, HBO Max has confirmed that there will be franchise-led podcasts, meaning that fans of Game of Thrones or Harry Potter will have something else to dive into.

These podcasts will be right in the mix on HBO Max, so they will be easy to find.

Starting in June, HBO Max will be offering podcasts to support House of the Dragon - with Season 3 due to start the same month - while A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will also be explored.

From 19 June, the Harry Potter: The Official Film Podcast will launch, diving into the eight original movies, with special guests bringing excitement to the deep analysis and discussion of the Potterverse.

The addition of podcasts to HBO Max jumps on a trend that's seen many of the most popular TV series accompanied by additional content. On the BBC, for example, The Traitors: Uncloaked provided immediate reaction and interviews with participants, extending the experience by an additional hour.

Disney+ has also jumped on the trend, with a companion podcast for Daredevil, including the stars of the show. For fans, it's a great insight into the stories, while for the streaming services, they get to own the conversation, rather than having subscribers jump off to sample unofficial podcasts and analysis elsewhere.

HBO Max has confirmed that shows like The Pitt, The Last of Us, The Comeback and Sinners: In Proximity will also benefit from podcasts.

These podcasts are included in the subscription price, with the video version exclusively on HBO Max. Audio version of the podcasts will also be available through other podcast apps.

Disney's tense thriller renewed for second season ahead of this week's finale

Chris Hall — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Nothing quite hits home like a dystopian thriller and the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale is no exception. The Testaments has racked up over 45 million hours of streaming across Disney+ and Hulu, so confirmation of Season 2 will come as a relief for Margaret Atwood fans.

The Testaments was published in 2019 as a sequel to the original 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale and was instantly snapped up for TV production. Of course, with The Handmaid's Tale running to six seasons - and extending well beyond the premise of the original novel - The Testaments has seen some adaptation.

The first season - with the finale scheduled for 27 May - is mostly focused on the first half of the source novel, leaving plenty of scope for what comes next in the coming-of-age story based in the Gilead universe.

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That was the plan all along, so the renewal shouldn't come as a surprise. Showrunner Bruce Miller has split The Testaments narrative down into a multi-season run and because The Handmaid's Tale show contained so much, there are plenty of threads to pull on.

What really works about these adaptations, is that Margaret Atwood worked with the showrunners with this sort of development in mind, resulting in a coherent story that really expands on the original novels, while still paying homage to the universe that they created.

At the moment we don't have a trailer for the new season - as that would surely contain spoilers - but we know that The Testaments novel contains some plot lines set well into the future, which are perfect for later seasons of the show.

Exactly how the next season will unfold remains to be seen, but it's sure to focus on Agnes and Daisy's storyline, the destiny of Aunt Lydia, and a whole lot more. Will we see the return of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) in Season 2? That all remains to be seen.

Will the Champions League final be screened for free? Controversial UK streaming decision revealed

rik.henderson@futurenet.com (Rik Henderson) — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

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TNT Sports will not be screening the 2026 Champions League final live.

The match between Arsenal and Paris Saint Germain will be locked behind a paywall only, for the first time in 34 years.

Arsenal fans have been celebrating all through the night after their team won the Premier League yesterday, but those festivities may be cut short once they learn the latest on the Champions League final.

Unlike the last 34 years, the season's showcase match between Arsenal and PSG for the coveted trophy will not be be available to watch live for free in the UK.

Previously, rights holder TNT Sports has (when also known as BT Sport) screened all three European finals on its paid platforms, but also for free on the likes of YouTube. However, it has decided not to do so again.

Instead, fans unable to travel to the game in Budapest will be forced to watch it as part of a TNT Sports subscription on Sky, Virgin Media or EE TV. Alternatively, you'll need HBO Max and a TNT Sports plan.

It is thought that the decision has been made after TNT Sports lost the bid to continue its live UEFA matches from 2027.

The Champions League rights have been picked up by Paramount instead, while the Europa League and UEFA Conference League will switch to Sky Sports from the 2027/28 season.

Ironically, considering Paramount is very likely to soon be the owner of Warner Bros. Discovery and, therefore, HBO Max and TNT Sports, it could be the Champions League continues on the service anyway.

As things stand though, it is thought that UEFA is angry with TNT Sports and we may even see some action taken. According to sources (via The Guardian), the broadcaster's contract states that it must undertake its "best endeavours" to ensure the finals are shown for free.

But with the Europa League final (featuring Aston Villa) taking place tonight, the Conference League final (featuring Crystal Palace) next Wednesday, and the Champions League final ending the season on Saturday 30 May, there's clearly not enough time left to change broadcast plans.

Netflix's most profane show is back for a second season, and it's escalating matters

Max Freeman-Mills — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

We're living in an attention economy, as agreed upon by brainiacs paid a lot more than me, and that means that the best streaming services, from Prime Video to Netflix, all know that they need to work hard to get hold of people's eyes. Sometimes that means high-concept fantasy and sci-fi shows that have long runtimes and big budgets. Other times it means frenetic sketch shows like Tom Segura's Bad Thoughts.

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It really isn't all that long since the show's first season came out, but it looks like Netflix either enjoyed the day one metrics it put up, or had a feeling that it would do good numbers even before that, because we just got a trailer for a new season, dropping on 24 May.

The trailer confirms that much is the same about the show, meaning it stars Segura in a whole heap of sketches, many of them putting him in frankly outrageous costumes and prosthetics to sell the comedy. From the looks of the sketches we see, there will be some insane props for him to interact with, too.

If you're hoping for a sketch show that carefully keeps itself to matters of good taste, this isn't going to be the one for you. The first season of the show got mixed reviews, but one thing everyone could agree on was that it wasn't afraid to take things into touchy territory, and some of the sketches we glimpse in the trailer underline that policy again.

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Frankly, it's worth paying attention to some of the sheer production design on offer in the trailer, too, since it looks more intricate than the first season's. The costuming, styling and effects are all pretty on-point, which suggests that Netflix is standing behind Bad Thoughts as something of a flagship.

It's also clearly able to produce the show at a fair old clip, so don't be surprised if Segura has a third season up his sleeve and already at the concept stage right now.

HBO's new sci-fi show looks like it knows it's bad –but that's not the point

Max Freeman-Mills — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Okay, this isn't one I saw coming. We're now a good numbers of years on from the end of The Big Bang Theory, a show that changed the landscape of sitcom TV but obviously has its fair share of detractors. I'm in the camp that thinks clips with the laugh track stripped out show its quality quite nicely, but you can't argue with its almost absurd popularity, particularly in the US.

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That popularity is presumably the best explanation for the show that HBO just unveiled with a fairly wild trailer: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. This is a spin-off, but not like any other I've seen in recent memory. Rather than going for a straightforward sitcom, it's taking things into absurdist sci-fi satire territory, which might just give it a chance at actually doing something different.

The series will, as the title very obviously hints at, star Stuart, a side character from The Big Bang Theory who grew into a returning role as that series snowballed. Played by Kevin Sussman, he was the owner of the gang's local comic book store, a store they obviously patronised a whole heap given their interests, and was one of those cultish characters who seems to have some staying power.

Now, the spinoff will see him confronted by a dimension-crossing version of himself from a dark and twisted future. He's going to have to avert that future by going on a trans-dimensional adventure, from the looks of things, largely accompanied by his sometime sidekick Bert (complete with monotone delivery of every line he gets).

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That adventure seems like it'll involve crossing through pastiches of a whole heap of famous sci-fi subgenres, from The Matrix to Fallout and Mad Max, all with little plots to be resolved and danger to be escaped. Interestingly, the show actually looks fairly ambitious, and clearly has some budget behind it, which is borderline baffling given how niche it looks on paper.

Still, don't underestimate the fact that it's associated with The Big Bang Theory, since that's presumably what HBO is betting on hooking people in. This could be a sleeper hit, but we'll get a better temperature check when it starts streaming on 23 July, in a couple of months' time.

Netflix's new show puts Florence Pugh in a surprising role, adapting a huge novel

Max Freeman-Mills — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I've written recently about how Netflix seems to have found an approach (like others of the best streaming services on the planet) around adapting bestselling novels to fuel its search for new franchises and series. While many of these novels are modern page-turners, it's also clear that Netflix is happy to adapt older and more storied material, too.

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It's underlined that point once again this week by unveiling a sweeping-looking trailer for East of Eden, a major new adaptation of the seminal novel by John Steinbeck from 1952. It has a huge star in a leading role, in the form of Florence Pugh, but also takes a quite surprising approach to the source material, making for a really quite interesting project.

East of Eden doesn't yet have a release date, although that teaser trailer does narrow things down a little and confirm that it'll come out this autumn. What it does show us is a whole lot of Pugh, in various costumes and parts of the novel, before revealing who she's playing: Cathy Ames.

For those who've read the book, that seems to be something of a shock, since Cathy isn't actually necessarily the main character of the novel. She's seemingly a huge part of it, though, and in many people's eyes is a fairly classic villain – so it would seem that the show's creator Zoe Kazan is deliberately trying to give her a new framing and take a different look at the story in question.

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Kazan has real form, of course, as an actor herself but also having jumped to fame by writing and starring in The Big Sick back in 2017, which was a real critical darling. East of Eden is arguably her most ambitious project yet, though, not least because the novel is considered one of the masterpieces of mid-century writing in English.

The series will run to seven episodes in total, and it's not like it's going to tell Cathy's story at the exclusion of other beloved characters. The life and times of the Trask family will indeed be told in full, so I've personally got a bit of a countdown running in my head, now. I like to read great books before I watch adaptations of them, so I'd better get a move on and put East of Eden on my to-read list soon.

Netflix plans to add a new feature, but you're not going to like it

rik.henderson@futurenet.com (Rik Henderson) — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Quick Summary

Netflix will introduce extra advertising measures next year as it seeks to capitalise on the growing number of viewers willing to see them.

Ads will be coming to vertical videos and podcasts, and it's not yet clear whether this is across all tiers or not.

Netflix is on a roll right now, with its multi-tiered subscription model seemingly paying off. It claims that it now has 250 million monthly active viewers on its cheapest, ad-supported plan. That's up by 60 million in just a matter of months, and shows that there are plenty out there willing to put up with adverts to keep the costs down.

Sadly though, it looks like the streaming service is taking this to heart. It's doubling down on ad-supported content.

According to Variety, Netflix will expand its ad-tier to 15 new countries next year, including Ireland, the Netherlands and other locations in Europe and South America. It will also roll it out in Thailand and New Zealand.

That's only to be expected, really. However, it also plans to bring adverts to its new vertical video feeds and podcasts, which will also start to appear in 2027. There's also no word on whether this will be for those on an ad-supported tier, or if it will also appear on that sort of content for subscribers on all of its plans.

Vertical video is a new addition by Netflix – which joins Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video in TikTok-ifying its service. However, the Netflix Clips are fairly innocuous at present and are simply snippets from shows on the platform.

They are effectively trailers, therefore.

Adding commercials doesn't seem to make much sense in that context – after all, they are adverts in themselves.

As for podcasts, that's a more natural fit. It's rare to see or hear a podcast or influencer feed without some form of sponsorship or advertising these days. The audience pretty much expects it.

Still, considering how much profit Netflix regularly posts anyway, and how dominant it is in the streaming market, it's a shame that it's not more concerned with viewer value than trying to eke extra pennies from its viewers. It's not exactly the cheapest service anyway.

Netflix's new series is based on some of the most famous novels ever

Max Freeman-Mills — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Netflix knows, just like every other one of the biggest and best streaming services on the market, that it has to find ways to create franchises and series that people want to not just watch, but keep coming back to. After all, that's not only its stated mission, but also its best route to keeping its shareholders happy and paid-up. This means that picking up intellectual property with established fans is sort of its dream scenario, if it can do so affordably.

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For obvious reasons, I don't have any insight into what Netflix paid for the rights to Little House on the Prairie, but given how beloved the novels are in the US, it wouldn't surprise me if it was quite a chunky deal. Now we're getting closer to the series actually arriving, and it just got another teaser underlining how charming it's likely to be when it does start streaming.

Telling the story of a family making the huge decision to move out into the great expanse of the prairie in Minnesota, the show promises to adapt at least the first novel in a series that eventually spanned dozens of books. That's why Netflix is likely so keen to drum up interest in the show – if it does well then it could run and run, like the original network TV adaptation did in the 1970s and 1980s.

This show will be much more high-budget, of course, since that seems to be the default for basically any streaming production. Still, its tone looks to be very similar, since it's based on the same source material. This means that while it might have some thoughtful moments ruminating on the truthfulness of the heroic American origin story, it's likely to be fairly saccharine overall.

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In point of fact, this teaser shows us more of the local town that the family will come to know, and it looks like a surprisingly integrated one, given the time period being showcased. Whether that's a major part of the plot, or whether this is a slightly utopian version of the stories, we'll have to wait and see, but I'd assume it's more likely to be the former than the latter.

Still, Bridgerton has already shown how you can rewrite history into a sort of alternate world and still attract legions of fans, and Netflix will doubtless hope that Little House on the Prairie can imitate that sort of impact when it arrives on 9 July.

Amazon's steamy new drama looks like it could be a homewrecking modern classic

Max Freeman-Mills — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The age of steam is upon us, as far as I'm concerned. Sure, the real-life industrial revolution might now be long in the rearview mirror, but the world of streaming has had something of a revivalist attitude recently when it comes to, well, smut. Okay, perhaps that's a strong word for it, but people can't seem to stop hoovering up romance shows, and the likes of Amazon and Netflix have clearly figured that out.

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You only have to look at Prime Video's recent output and its upcoming slate to get a sense of how much it's prioritising raunchy shows and movies, and a perfect case in point just arrived – a trailer for Every Year After. This new show is based on the first of a best-selling romantic novel series, and looks like it'll scratch that itch for fans of the genre.

The show stars Sadie Soverall as Percy, a young woman who finds herself coming back to the small town where she spent some memorable summers. She's back to attend the funeral of her first love's mother, a sad circumstance that brings her back into contact with that love, Sam, who clearly hasn't forgotten the time they spent together before Percy called it off to move to the city.

Now she's back and stirring up all sorts of confused emotions in them both, made even more awkward by the fact that he has a girlfriend that he loves and is considering proposing to. With an equally chiselled older brother watching out for his wellbeing, Sam's clearly going to have absolutely no idea how to navigate this thorny emotional situation.

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The trailer ends by confirming that the show will start streaming on 10 June, so it's around a month away, and it looks like a canny new project from Amazon's commissioning team. After all, the Carley Fortune novels it's based on seem to come out at quite a clip, which makes this a real franchise in the making.

That's basically the dream scenario for any streamer right now – just look at Bridgerton on Netflix for the clearest template. Whether or not that comes to fruition this time, it certainly looks like some one-off raunchy fun is guaranteed as a minimum.

HBO Max is my new favourite streaming service – it's just a shame it could be dead within a year

rik.henderson@futurenet.com (Rik Henderson) — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:59:47 +0000

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HBO Max launched in the UK earlier this year, but if the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger is approved, there's a danger that it could be combined with Paramount+.

That could even come in the next 12 months.

There was a lot of hype and excitement around the launch of HBO Max in the UK, and for good reason. Having been a major player in the US and several other regions for years, the streaming service arrived in Britain with a bang.

Home to the likes of The White Lotus, House of the Dragon, The Last of Us, and plenty of archive series that are on the essential list, HBO Max has a catalogue of pure hits. And that's not including the movies – Superman, One Battle After Another, and Sinners are just the tip of the iceberg.

And, of course, it's completely free with Sky.

Indeed, with this much quality content and a platform that even includes TNT Sports (in the UK), it has rapidly risen to be my current favourite streaming option. There's just one problem – longevity.

Sadly, if the proposed merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount is approved, it seems like HBO Max will be gone. Or at least, it'll be squished together with Paramount+ going forward. And what that means for subscribers is not yet clear.

According to Variety, Paramount's chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, has argued that the only way for both HBO Max and Paramount+ to survive is to merge them into one streaming service. Whether that would keep either name or be something new is yet to be determined, but it does mean one of them is destined to be absorbed by the other.

What this would mean for global licensing deals – such as the one WBD currently has with Sky – is unclear, but it could result in HBO Max disappearing again just as it's getting started.

Both of the platforms "lack the scale to compete effectively against the leading SVODs," wrote Delrahim in a letter to the Attorney General in California to argue the case for the merger.

"Absent something transformative, neither party is positioned to grow to a scale where they would catch up to the leading streamers."

The argument is that only a combined service could compete with Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video.

As things stand, Paramount+ and HBO Max share 10.8% of the overall streaming market in the US. Amazon has 15.3%, Disney 16.7%, and Netflix is way out in the lead with 32.5%.

Hopefully, if approved, this would result in a service with all of the shows and movies we enjoy across HBO Max and Paramount+, but for a single monthly fee. So it could benefit our pockets.

Still, it's worrying that just as I've found a new favourite, it might be gone again in a matter of months.

Every Spotify user gets a great free gift today – including Premium and free accounts

rik.henderson@futurenet.com (Rik Henderson) — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:15:00 +0000

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As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Spotify is giving every user a "free gift" – an in-app journey through your history of using the service.

This will reveal the first song you ever listened to, and a whole lot more.

Spotify is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, having been founded in April 2006 and while the app wasn't ready for public consumption until 2009, it has effectively changed the way we listen to music in those two decades.

But do you remember the first song you listened to on Spotify? And which artist have you streamed most since you first signed up? Well, thanks to a special free gift from the service, you can now find out.

As part of its birthday shenanigans, Spotify has updated its app to include a sort-of supersized Wrapped. A new feature is now available to all Spotify listeners, whether you are a Premium subscriber or have a free account, which will give you insights on your entire Spotify streaming journey.

This includes details on your first ever day using the platform, the total number of unique tracks you've listened to over the years, your all-time most streamed artist, and you all-time top songs. You can also take part in a mini quiz on the first track you streamed.

This will take you down memory lane for sure, maybe even remind you of old favourites you may have forgotten. Of course, it'll have less impact if you only joined Spotify in the last couple of years, but for those of us who have used the service since the late 2000s, early 2010s, it could prove to be an interesting experience.

The app update should be available to you now, so check your app library for a download if you don't have them set to install automatically.

How much does Spotify cost?

Spotify is available as a free download and there are two account types – Free and Premium.

Free is ad-supported and is limited in what you can listen to. You can search for and play tracks, and access personalised playlists. You can also listen to podcasts, but lossless streaming, offline listening, and a whole bunch of other features are locked behind a Premium subscription.

There are four Premium tiers, priced from £5.99 / $6.99 per month (for students). A standard Individual account will cost £12.99 / $12.99 per month, while you get discounts for dual membership with one another (Duo for £17.99 / $18.99 per month) or a Family account for up to six people (£21.99 / $21.99 per month).

A Premium account also includes 15 hours per month of audiobook access.

Those in the US who only want to listen to audiobooks can sign up for a dedicated plan at $9.99 per month.

Amazon Prime Video turns into TikTok with new vertical video feed – streaming apps rapidly abandoning TV-first design

rik.henderson@futurenet.com (Rik Henderson) — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Quick Summary

Amazon is rolling out an update for its mobile app – on iPhone and Android – that adds vertical video clips for popular shows.

First arriving in the US, there are plans to expand the rollout to include other countries soon.

Vertical video is the hottest trend in streaming today, with the likes of Disney+ and Netflix jumping on board the bandwagon. Now another service has seen the potential in the TikTok style form factor, having added it in its latest update.

Amazon's Prime Video is currently rolling out vertical video "Clips" on its mobile app, first in the US and then, we assume, globally.

Appearing in a new Clips rail, the vertical snippets give you a glimpse of some of the content available on Prime Video, in order to help you choose your next binge.

It first launched with highlights from NBA games during the last season, but has now expanded further, to include shows and movies. They appear on your homepage and are perfectly suited to the mobile app – on iPhone and Android.

They also match the latest design that rolled out to all users of Prime Video, including those in other countries. This uses vertical imagery too, to allow more library content to be seen on the same screen.

US users can see the Clips rail by scrolling down the homepage. You can then tap on a clip to enter a personalised menu screen with additional vertical video. And you can access the full show or film directly from a clip, too.

Sharing is also possible, with a dedicated share button allowing you to post it to a social feed or email a link to friends and family.

At present, clips are solely of Prime Video shows and movies, although there's the possibility of dedicated vertical video content in future. The same is true with Netflix, which also now has a Clips menu.

With Netflix also investing heavily in podcasts for the future, we can see TikTok-like videos also appearing on the platform in the future. The same is true with Disney+.

Ironically, while YouTube is doubling down on horizontal videos and the TV experience (more now watch on TV than mobile), the streaming services seem to want to expand in the opposite direction.

How you feel about that will mainly come down to how you watch shows. My teenage daughter and her friends barely even watch on a television screen anymore, so there's an ever-growing market for this sort of thing.

3 best new Netflix and Prime Video additions for a mid-week binge (May 11-15)

Max Freeman-Mills — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

A new week is upon us, and we're in the depth of May now, which means the weather is changing for the better here in the UK and sunsets keep getting later – which can make it feel all the more lovely to sit and watch some streaming action while the sun does set. It's a beautiful time of year, and the likes of Netflix and Amazon are having to work extra hard to own your eyeballs of an evening.

That means a pretty constant tide of new arrivals on both streaming services, such that every week has some big new hit to check out. If you're casting about for your next obsession and you've wondered what's coming to Prime Video and Netflix this week, I've got answers. Here are three brand-new additions that might float your boat this week, with trailers and details of when they're available.

Good Omens 3

Streaming on: Prime Video from 13 May

This one has been quite a long time coming. Amazon had a lovely little cult hit on its hands when it released Good Omens, years ago at this point. The main duo of David Tennant and Michael Sheen have brilliant chemistry, as other projects have repeatedly underlined, and their double act as an angel and demon working together with reluctance has been a fan favourite.

The show ground to a halt a little, though, when it ran out of material to adapt (and when co-creator Neil Gaiman was accused of a heap of impropriety). Now, it's getting one final outing to give the characters a proper send-off. Although Amazon's billing it as Season 3 in some places, it's really a feature-length special to close things out, and should be a joy for those who've wanted a more final ending to the show.

Nemesis

Streaming on: Netflix from 14 May

Netflix knows how to do cheese. I'm not saying that Nemesis will be pure silliness, and it definitely seems like a show that's going to take some big swings at serious plotlines and dramatic twists. Still, when you watch its trailer it's impossible to get the sense that the show has at least a bit of its tongue in its cheek.

This story of a powerful criminal who moves in high circles, alongside the detective who's convinced he can bring him down, looks like a fairly classic one. What I love about it, though, is how much dramatic slow-mo there is, and how ridiculously pristine all the costuming and haircuts are. Everyone is drop-dead gorgeous, and looks perfect at all times, making for almost a superhero movie level of unreality. We'll see if it can pull the tone off when it comes out midweek.

Devil May Cry Season 2

Streaming on: Netflix from 12 May

Netflix is impressive in quite a few ways, but one of the interesting subplots in its streaming dominance has been its approach to animated shows. It's slowly become a good producer of niche shows that attract rabid fanbases, and these shows are often enjoyably profane and adult. Devil May Cry, like Castlevania, is a great example, adapting a videogame series without compromising its tone.

The show features some dynamite fight scenes, which will be familiar to those who've played the series over the years, and its second season looks like a thrill-ride. This time around our main character Dante is going to be dicing with his estranged brother Virgil, a huge character in the canon. That means some massive fights are incoming, and it looks like a fun escalation over what came before.

Netflix's new thriller has a massive Severance star, and it looks twisty

Max Freeman-Mills — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Netflix has known for a while that people love thrillers – it's a genre that has consistently proved its worth on the streaming charts, whether that's for Netflix itself or its many rivals. In recent times it's also one of the streaming platforms that's realised how to churn out reliably-plotted thrillers at a fair old clip: adapt best-selling novels.

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Anyone who's ever nipped into an airport book shop will know the many, many paperbacks that line the shelves with easy to understand prose, and plots that might be a little outlandish, but keep you turning the pages. Harlan Coben's written plenty of them, and now he's got another adaptation coming in the form of I Will Find You, which just got its first teaser trailer.

The show will star Sam Worthington and Britt Lower, the latter of whom is basically a massive star by default thanks to her major role in Apple TV's Severance, and it looks like a typically twisty and unpredictable story from Coben. It looks like Worthington's character will start out in jail for the crime of killing his own son, knowing full well that someone set him up, without a way to prove that.

Lower will visit him, though, and show him a photograph that changes everything – evidence that his son might still be alive, and was never killed in the first place. It's not clear how they'll get Worthington out of prison, but I can only assume he'll end up free one way or another, so that he can start to hunt down whoever ruined his life in such a dramatic fashion.

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The show looks like it'll have a fairly dark tone, as is typical of Coben's material – he's not one of those thriller writers who keeps things light, and is perfectly happy to delve into distressing topics. This looks like a classic story of a tortured parent doing whatever he can to set things right, but the big question will be whether such a resolution is even possible.

The show's coming to Netflix on 18 June, so it's well over a month away. If I know anything about Netflix's hype scheduling (and I do), I'd put money on our getting another, longer trailer in a couple of weeks' time, to get people more excited for what could be a very popular new show.

Apple's new thriller series has one of the scariest trailers ever –and a huge star in the lead

Max Freeman-Mills — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I watch a whole heap of trailers in my working week, as part of keeping on top of everything coming to the best streaming services on the market, and few of those trailers make particularly lasting impressions. When they do, though, it tends to mean that the streamer in question is doing something right.

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So, when I say that Cape Fear on Apple TV has one of the most chilling trailers you'll see this year, trust me on it. This is a show that looks like it oozes with menace, with twists and turns aplenty and some imagery that seems really striking and memorable. After a shorter teaser a few weeks back, now it has a proper trailer ahead of its arrival in June.

The show stars Javier Bardem in the main role, playing the frankly terrifying Max Cady, a longtime criminal who's spent years behind bars for a murder that he (surprisingly) didn't commit. He knows exactly why he was convicted, too, even if the audience is a little more in the dark, and it clearly involves his old lawyers, played by Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson.

When Max manages to get out of prison for presumably good behaviour, he starts to make good on years of promises to himself by terrorising the now established family of his lawyers. He doesn't leap straight to violence, though, choosing a scarier route instead by simply showing them that he's around and that he knows what they did to him. He even looks like he'll get close to their kids.

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Throughout the trailer, we get glimpses of the violence that Max is capable of, but also the sins that others might have in their pasts, too. It's creepy stuff, with an equally unsettling soundtrack and a really careful use of green lighting and colours to give the whole thing a yucky, skin-crawling feeling.

I'm pretty sure this is going to be a hit for Apple TV, with a cheesy bit of gory fun being just about the worst it could be. We'll know more when it starts on 5 June, though, ahead of a weekly release schedule that could see it become a sleeper hit.

Amazon's new series aims to please fans of a cult 2001 hit –and its trailer looks great

Max Freeman-Mills — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

If you scroll back in your mind to the early 2000s, you can probably think of a fair few movies that really do feel like they're from another era, and like the sort of project that just isn't getting made today. That's not because they're somehow inappropriate, but rather because Hollywood's finances have changed to make lower-budget films seem like rarer things.

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In amongst those cult favourites, Legally Blonde is a total classic, telling a really enjoyable story of how people's looks can lead to misjudgements from others, starring Reese Witherspoon in the iconic role of Elle Woods. Now the character is coming back, just as pink as ever, in a charming prequel series that just got its first trailer ahead of arriving on Prime Video.

The show will pick up with Elle a little earlier in her life, well before she heads off to law school, in her home of LA in 1995. She's the queen bee, unsurprisingly, embedded in a gang of similarly fun-loving girls and living life with absolutely no troubles at all in constant sunshine. That will have to change, though, when her parents reveal that they have to move to the famously more rainy Seattle.

At the tail-end of this trailer we get a quick look at what that's going to look like, and it basically casts Elle as a dot of pink among a sea of blue and grey tones, making for a very fun contrast. She's sure to find friends and perhaps some rivals, though, and there will doubtless be plenty of fun to come.

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The show looks really charming, and in Lexi Minetree as Elle it seems to have found a young actress who has the same charming ability to take the world at face value, like Witherspoon's version did back in 2001. Whether there's enough material here for a series to keep people's interest will be harder to know until the show comes out, of course.

It'll start streaming on 1 July, so there's still just less than a couple of months to go before then. We'll almost certainly get a lengthier trailer before that date, too, and I'd expect that one to tell us a bit more about what'll happen to Elle once she's in Seattle. For now, though, this is a pretty fun little teaser to get Legally Blonde fans hyped.

Yellowstone fans, this one's for you –Dutton Ranch has a trailer at last

Max Freeman-Mills — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

For those who might have doubted the staying power of the Yellowstone franchise when the main show ended, the last few months have been a pretty cogent counter-argument. After the massive success of Marshals on Paramount+, we're now getting another spin-off show, and it has its full trailer at last.

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Starting on 15 May, Dutton Ranch picks up the story of Rip and Beth Dutton after the end of their time in Yellowstone when the main show wrapped up its storyline. Where Marshals saw Beth's brother Kayce head to pastures new, Dutton Ranch looks like it'll follow a similar template, sending Beth to Texas to fight for a new ranch that she'll buy with her husband.

Of course, this is the world of Yellowstone, so you can't move to a new state and buy a ranch without pretty much immediately running into nefarious new enemies, and it looks like Paramount has recruited two big names to fill that brief. Ed Harris and Annette Benning are brilliant actors, and will play a couple who own a more established ranch nearby.

The trailer makes it clear that they won't take kindly to the arrival of new blood in their area, and it's fairly obvious that conflict is going to spring up one way or another. Harris has form when it comes to playing evil cowboys, given his starring role in Westworld, of course, but it's perhaps more intriguing to see Benning playing a more scheming character than she arguably normally does.

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How the show manages to tread new ground will be an interesting question, though. It's arguable that the biggest Yellowstone fans don't necessarily demand huge new tonal shifts and different topics to cover, but the show does look mighty similar to the one that spawned it. A world of ranch disputes and land-grabs seems to hold fascination for millions of viewers still.

We'll know more very soon, of course, since the show is now less than two weeks away. Paramount has left it surprisingly late to give it a full trailer, but that might pay off with a rapid spike in hype.

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