October brings the premieres of 22 new series, seasons, films, and documentaries from the UK, Canada, and Ireland to the US.
For updates about shows from the UK, Canada, and Ireland added to US linear TV and streaming channels throughout the month, see the British TV Viewing Guide.
(For details about the premieres of shows from Australia, New Zealand, and countries in Europe and other continents, visit The Down Under TV Place, The Euro TV Place, and The Global TV Place.)
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NATIONAL PREMIERES
The Graham Norton Show: Season 33 (UK)
This BAFTA-winning talk show returns with a new season featuring the biggest celebrities and the brightest conversation on television. The initial guest lineups include: October 2: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Matthew McConaughey, James Norton, and Raye; October 9: Taylor Swift, Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Domhnall Gleeson, and Lewis Capaldi; October 16: Julia Roberts, Colin Farrell, Gloria Estefan, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Robbie Williams. The Graham Norton Show: Season 33, a BBC America Original Series, premieres in the US on Thursday, October 2, at 11pm ET/PT, on BBC America, with on-demand streaming starting October 3 on AMC+.
Karen Pirie: Season 2 (UK/Scotland)
Based on the novel A Darker Domain, the second title in Val McDermid’s “Karen Pirie” series, Season 2 of this Tartan Noir series revolves around the decades-old case of Catriona and Adam Grant, which has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Assigned to the cold case is Detective Inspector Karen Pirie (Lauren Lyle, Outlander, Broken), who’s put under intense scrutiny from her boss, the media, and sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
Back in 1984, Catriona (Julia Brown, World on Fire), the young heiress to an oil fortune, and her two-year-old son, Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish-and-chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm. But then the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again. Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnapping. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen and her team must wade through a history of love, deceit, political unrest, and class struggle in order to unlock one of Scotland’s most infamous mysteries, all while ducking media attention.
Returning cast members include Chris Jenks (Sex Education, Vigil), Emer Kenny (The Curse, Father Brown), Zach Wyatt (Timestalker, The Witcher: Blood Origin), Rakhee Thakrar (I, Jack Wright, Wonka), and Steve John Shepherd (EastEnders, Silent Witness). Joining them are James Cosmo (Braveheart), Saskia Ashdown (Annika), Frances Tomelty (Unforgotten), and John Michie (Holby City).
For the 1980s part of the story, the cast also includes Mark Rowley (One Day), Kat Ronney (Dinosaur), Conor Berry (Dept. Q), Stuart Campbell (Rogue Heroes), Jamie Michie (Back to Life), Madeleine Worrall (We Were the Lucky Ones), Jack Stewart (Outlander), Thoren Ferguson (Rebus), and Helen Katamba (The Nest). The cast for the present-day storyline also includes James Fleet (I, Jack Wright), Tom Mannion (Traces), and Tommaso Basili (Ferrari).
Karen Pirie: Season 2, a BritBox Original, premieres in North America on Thursday, October 2, exclusively on BritBox. New episodes will drop weekly through October 16.
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
“Karen Pirie” books by Val McDermid
Steve (IE-UK)
Based on Max Porter’s best-selling novel Shy, this drama is set in the 1990s on one intense day in the life of Steve (Oscar® winner Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer, Peaky Blinders), the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school. With the school slated for imminent closure, and his student, Shy (Jay Lycurgo, Titans, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself), struggling mightily, Steve strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own, not the least of which is his mental health.
Costarring Tracey Ullman (Mrs. America), Simbi Ajikawo (Top Boy), and Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves), amongst others, Steve, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Friday, October 3, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Brian and Maggie (UK)
This historical drama dramatizes the final TV interview of the “Iron Lady,” Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Dame Harriet Walter, Succession, Ted Lasso, The Crown), by the “much feared inquisitor,” journalist Brian Walden (Steve Coogan, (Philomena, The Reckoning, The Conviction: The Case of Stephen Lawrence), considered one of the most famous political exchanges of all time. The 45-minute showdown became a talking point across the UK, reshaped national opinion, and helped set in motion a series of events that ended with Thatcher’s resignation. Prior to the interview, Thatcher and Walden were old friends. After the interview, they never spoke again.
Based on political program producer/editor Rob Burley’s account of the Walden-Thatcher interview in his book, Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV, Brian and Me premieres in the US on Sunday, October 5, at 8pm ET, on PBS (check your local listings), and concludes on October 12 at the same time. Streaming will be available on PBS.org and the PBS app.
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV by Rob Burley
Maigret (UK)
Inspired by the “Inspector Maigret” novels by Belgian author Georges Simenon, this new mystery-crime drama series reimagines the internationally-popular stories by setting them in the present day and making the lead character a bit younger and more slender than he’s described in the books. In the TV series, Chief Inspector Maigret (Benjamin Wainwright, Belgravia: The Next Chapter, The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim) and his team of maverick but loyal detectives, affectionately known as “Les Maigrets,” solve a series of complex crimes in modern-day Paris. While dealing with his own troubled past, Maigret must outwit some of Paris’s most cunning and violent criminals, applying unconventional methods and his own unique sense of justice, which put him at odds with both his superiors and the judicial system he is supposed to represent.
Maigret premieres in the US on Sunday, October 5, at 9pm ET, on PBS (check your local listings), with streaming available on PBS.org, the PBS app, PBS Passport (6-episode binge), and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.
“Inspector Maigret” novels by Georges Simenon
Murdoch Mysteries: Season 19 (CA)
In Season 19 of this hit whodunit, Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) and the team at the Toronto Constabulary have plenty of puzzlers to solve, such as: the murder of a fashion mogul that everyone had reason to kill; a politically-charged kidnapping of a Japanese scholar; a game show in which Murdoch participates turns lethal; wild animal attacks in High Park; a dangerous standoff when customers are taken hostage at a roadside inn; and more. In addition, Murdoch and Chief Constable Thomas Brackenreid (Thomas Craig) go to the very first Stampede in Calgary, and another mystery has them fighting spies atop a speeding train to the nation’s capital.
Other returning characters include Constables George Crabtree (Jonny Harris), Henry Higgins (Lachlan Murdoch), and Teddy Roberts (Kataem O’Connor); Detective Llewellyn Watts (Daniel Maslany), Chief Coroner Violet Hart (Shanice Banton), and Inspector Albert Choi (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Kim’s Convenience, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Mandalorian); and Margaret Brackenreid (Arwen Humphreys) and Crown Attorney Effie Newsome-Crabtree (Clare McConnell). Agent Terrence Myers (Peter Keleghan) and Louise Cherry (Bea Santos) also make appearances, as well as Station House #4’s nemesis, Mayor Chadwick Vaughan (Mark Caven).
Guest stars in Season 19 include Luann de Lesseps (The Real Housewives of New York City), who returns to the series in the premiere episode; Dave Foley and Scott Thompson of The Kids in the Hall, who appear in a special Christmas episode that also features Steven Page of The Barenaked Ladies; and Jason Mewes (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back).
Murdoch Mysteries: Season 19 premieres in the US on Monday, October 6, at 8pm ET, on Ovation TV.
“Murdoch Mysteries” books by Maureen Jennings
Ozzy: No Escape from Now (UK-US)
Produced in collaboration with the Osbourne family, this feature-length documentary is the definitive account of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne’s life during the last six years. It was never intended as a posthumous film, but unfortunately became one after Ozzy’s death on July 22, 2025. Alongside Ozzy and his wife, Sharon, children Aimee, Kelly, and Jack speak candidly about the late-night fall their father suffered in February 2019, and the subsequent life-changing impact of that accident, which ultimately led to him canceling his two-and-a-half-year farewell tour. Detailing his numerous corrective surgeries, escalating health issues, and the progressive effects of his Parkinson’s diagnosis, the film delivers a brave, unvarnished, and relatable portrait of a man, highlighting how Ozzy’s ongoing chronic pain impacted his mental health and informed the music he made during this period.
The singer reveals how “Take What You Want,” his collaboration with Post Malone that was released in October 2019, kick-started a new musical phase in his storied career. Said Ozzy in the documentary, “It got me out of the blues. It helped me. That was the best medicine I ever had at that point.” Fans are also treated to the inside story of the two albums that followed: 2020’s acclaimed Ordinary Man and 2022’s double Grammy®-winning Patient Number 9 — both of which contain some of the singer’s most reflective work.
Capturing Ozzy at home and in the studio, the film also documents his heroic, last-minute decision to play the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in the UK in the summer of 2022 and his preparations for that performance; an exclusive soundcheck performance from his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in October 2024; and his journey to play the Back to the Beginning show at Villa Park in his hometown of Birmingham on July 5, 2025.
Alongside the Osbourne family, the film also features contributions from band mates and friends, including Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Duff McKagan and Slash (Guns N’ Roses), Robert Trujillo and James Hetfield (Metallica), Billy Idol, Maynard James Keenan (Tool), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ozzy’s longstanding guitarist Zakk Wylde, producer Andrew Watt, Billy Morrison, Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Mike Inez (Alice in Chains), and Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), all of whom provide intimate, heartfelt perspectives on the man himself.
Ozzy: No Escape from Now premieres in the US and internationally (excluding Japan) on Tuesday, October 7, exclusively on Paramount+.
Take What You Want (feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott)
Patient Number 9 by Ozzy Osbourne
Victoria Beckham (UK-US)
This three-part docuseries gives viewers a front row seat as designer Victoria Beckham prepares for the fashion show of her life. From the teenager who restyled her school uniform, to the Spice Girl who fought to be accepted by a notoriously demanding fashion industry, hers is the story of resilience, reinvention and self-discovery.
Victoria Beckham, a Netflix Docuseries, premieres globally on Thursday, October 9, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
The Woman in Cabin 10 (US-UK)
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel The Woman in Cabin 10, the first title in the “Lo Blacklock” series by Ruth Ware, this thriller stars Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game, Pride & Prejudice) as Laura “Lo” Blacklock, a journalist on board a luxury yacht for a travel assignment. Late at night, she hears a muffled scream followed by a splash, and sees the woman from the cabin next door in the water. Following the “overboard” alert, Lo is told that what she saw couldn’t have happened. The captain states there wasn’t another guest staying on the yacht and that all passengers and crew are accounted for. Despite no one believing her, Lo continues to look for answers and puts her own life in grave danger in the process.
The cast includes Guy Pearce (A Spy Among Friends, Jack Irish), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso, Sex Education), David Ajala (Star Trek: Discovery, The Jetty), Gitte Witt (Cadaver, Varg Veum), Art Malik (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Borgia), Daniel Ings (The Gentlemen, The English Game), David Morrissey (Sherwood, The Long Shadow), Christopher Rygh (Vikings: Valhalla, Granite Harbour), Paul Kaye (Shardlake, Vera), Kaya Scodelario (The Gentlemen, Skins), Lisa Loven Kongsli (The Shift, Occupied), and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki, The Morning Show), amongst others.
The Woman in Cabin 10, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Friday, October 10, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
“Lo Blacklock” books by Ruth Ware
Beyond Paradise: Season 3 (UK)
In the new season of this hit Death in Paradise spin-off, DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall, Sanditon) and fiancée Martha (Sally Bretton, Not Going Out) face more challenges in their new life by the coast. Set against the idyllic backdrop of Devon and Cornwall, the Shipton Abbott team solve more intriguing crimes, including a body found in the river on the county border, a baffling chocolate box poisoning, a historic farming feud, and a spiking incident on the water, amongst others.
Away from the police station, Martha and Humphrey try to overcome unexpected hurdles as foster parents, while the reappearance of Martha’s old flame, Archie (Jamie Bamber, Law & Order: UK), presents an unexpected challenge. Meanwhile, Esther (Zahra Ahmadi, The Bay) navigates a surprise encounter in her private life, Anne’s (Barbara Flynn, Kate & Koji) health scare stirs up painful memories, and Kelby (Dylan Llewellyn, Derry Girls) embarks on a journey of personal growth.
Beyond Paradise: Season 3, a BritBox Original, premieres in North America on Tuesday, October 14, exclusively on BritBox. New episodes will drop weekly through November 18.
Obituary: Season 2 (IE)
The new season of this deliciously dark crime comedy-drama series sees Elvira (Siobhán Cullen, Bodkin, The Dry) struggling with the death of her beloved father. Again, she seeks relief in killing, but is beaten to the act by a mysterious new murderer in town. How ironic, then, that local cop Detective Rose (Noni Stapleton, Fair City, Harry Wild) suspects Elvira of the crime, which she actually didn’t commit. Elvira becomes determined to solve the murder herself and meets a potential kindred spirit. Meanwhile, eccentric newspaper editor Vivienne Birch (Máiréad Tyers, Extraordinary) pits Elvira against boyfriend Emerson (Ronan Raftery, Moone Boy, The Rook) in the newsroom.
Obituary: Season 2 premieres in the US on Tuesday, October 14, exclusively on Hulu.
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch (US-CA)
In this new adult animated spy thriller series, the first-ever adaptation of the acclaimed stealth video game, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, legendary agent Sam Fisher (voiced by Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan, The Perfect Couple) is drawn back into the field when a wounded young operative seeks out his help to unravel a global conspiracy.
Featuring the voice talents of Janet Varney (The Legend of Vox Machina), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Barry), Joel Oulette (Trickster), and Miranda Raison (Sister Boniface Mysteries), Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Tuesday, October 14, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
The Diplomat: Season 3 (UK-US)
In the new season of this political thriller series, Ambassador Kate Wyler (Keri Russell, The Americans, Felicity) lives the particular nightmare that is getting what you want. She just accused Vice President Grace Penn (Allison Janney, Palm Royale, Mom) of hatching a terrorist plot and admitted she’s after the VP’s job. But now the President is dead, Kate’s husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell, The Man in the High Castle, Victoria), may have inadvertently killed him, and Grace Penn is leader of the free world. None of this slows Hal’s campaign to land Kate the vice presidency. Kate steps into a role she never wanted, with a freedom she never expected, an increasingly complicated friendship with Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi, Carnival Row, The A Word), and an unnerving bond with First Gentleman Todd Penn (Bradley Whitford, The Handmaid’s Tale, The West Wing).
The Diplomat: Season 3, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Thursday, October 16, exclusively on Netflix.
R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead (CA)
Inspired by The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R.L. Stine, this new young adult horror movie follow Sam, a teenager who thought moving to Redhaven was the worst… until his brother, Finn, vanishes and no one, not even their mom, remembers he existed. With Halloween ticking down, Sam, his friend Becka, and Rusty, the town’s most eccentric outcast, must stop a harvest curse before Finn is lost forever.
Starring Bean Reid, Adeline Lo (Sorry For Your Cost), Kevin McNulty (Snakes on a Plane), Bob Frazer (Motherland: Fort Salem), Matty Finochio (The Order), and Seth Isaac Johnson (The Killing), R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead, a Tubi Original, premieres in the US on Friday, October 17, exclusively on Tubi.
The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R.L. Stine
Who Killed the Montreal Expos? (CA)
This documentary investigates the downfall of the Montreal Expos, Canada’s first Major League Baseball team, and who was ultimately responsible. Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, a Netflix Documentary, premieres globally on Tuesday, October 21, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Harlan Coben’s Lazarus (UK-US)
Based on an original story idea, written by the New York Times best-selling author Harlan Coben and BAFTA winner Danny Brocklehurst (The Stranger, Stay Close), this new mystery-thriller series follows Dr. Joel Lazarus (Sam Claflin, Peaky Blinders, “The Hunger Games” films), who has an unnerving conversation with a patient who implies that he will punish him in some way. Joel then learns that his father, Dr. Jonathan Lazarus (Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Living), has died. By his own hand.
That’s not all. Joel starts having disturbing experiences that can’t be explained, like his talking with dead people. And as he grapples with the mystery of his father’s death, plus the murder of his sister twenty-five years ago, he becomes entangled in a series of cold-case murders. Could he be the culprit?
Costarring Alexandra Roach (No Offence), David Fynn (The Pembrokeshire Murders), Jack Deam (Father Brown), Karla Crome (Toxic Town), and Kate Ashfield (Sanditon), Harlan Coben’s Lazarus, an Amazon Original Series, premieres globally as a six-episode binge on Wednesday, October 22, exclusively on Prime Video. (You can add it to your watchlist now.)
Add Harlan Coben’s Lazarus to your watchlist
Secrets of the Dead: Mary Queen of Scots (UK-US)
This episode of PBS’s Secrets of the Dead series delves into how three code-breaking enthusiasts, after a year of dedication and collaborative efforts, had succeeded in decoding the secret correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots. Composed of 57 letters written in a code consisting of at least 150,000 different symbols, the correspondence between Mary and the French ambassador to England details Mary’s efforts to free herself from imprisonment and gain advantage over her rival, Queen Elizabeth. After four centuries, Mary’s urgent pleas can now be revealed. Secrets of the Dead: Mary Queen of Scots premieres in the US on Wednesday, October 22, at 10pm ET, on PBS (check your local listings), with streaming available on PBS.org and the PBS app.
The Light in the Hall: Season 2 (UK/Wales)
In the new season of this drama thriller, a controversial plan to expand a nearby reservoir reignites old tensions, a story that piques the interest of trainee journalist Caryl (Siân Reese-Williams, Hidden). As familial secrets and mysteries resurface, doubts are raised about the imprisonment of Rhys Owen (Mark Lewis-Jones, Keeping Faith) for the murder of his cousin during the 1995 protests against the reservoir’s expansion. The Light in the Hall: Season 2 premieres in the US with two episodes on Thursday, October 23, on Acorn TV and AMC+. One new episode will drop weekly through November 20.
Ballad of a Small Player (UK-Germany)
Adapted from Lawrence Osborne’s novel The Ballad of a Small Player, lauded as a “best book of the year” by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and NPR, this thriller stars Academy Award® nominee Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin, The Penguin, Sugar) as the titular character, Lord Doyle. Doyle, a corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, is a high-stakes gambler whose past and debts start to catch up with him.
Now laying low in the gambling mecca of Macau, Doyle meets Dao-Ming (Fala Chen, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Undoing), an enigmatic Chinese woman who appears to be a denizen of the casinos just like himself, a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
Costarring Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, We Need to Talk About Kevin), Alex Jennings (The Crown), and Jason Tobin (Warrior), Ballad of a Small Player, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Wednesday, October 29, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
Down Cemetery Road (UK)
This new thriller is based on the novel Down Cemetery Road, the debut novel and the first title in the “Zoë Boehm” series by award-winning author Mick Herron. In it, a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, sparking neighbor Sarah Tucker’s (Ruth Wilson, The Affair, Mrs. Wilson) obsession with finding her. Sarah enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Emma Thompson, Howards End, Sense and Sensibility), and the two women suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals people long-believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
Down Cemetery Road, an Apple TV+ Original, premieres globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, October 29, exclusively on Apple TV+. New episodes will drop every Wednesday through December 10.
Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron
Secrets of the Dead: Chasing the Plague (UK-US)
This Secrets of the Dead episode looks at the societal impacts of the bubonic plague on medieval Europe. As scientists track down the earliest known bubonic plague victims, they study the virus in hopes of preventing future outbreaks. Secrets of the Dead: Chasing the Plague premieres in the US on Wednesday, October 29, at 10pm ET, on PBS (check your local listings), with streaming available on PBS.org and the PBS app.
Ten Pound Poms: Season 1 (AU-UK)
Set in 1956, the first season of this period drama follows a group of Brits who respond to an emigration advertisement that promises a prosperous new life in Australia for just ten British pounds. Expecting to be exchanging rationed Britain for exotic food, white-washed houses, and sun-soaked adventures, the new British migrants, colloquially referred to as “Poms” in Australia and New Zealand, arrive in Sydney to find that life Down Under is a far cry from what they were sold.
The cast includes Michelle Keegan (Fool Me Once), Warren Brown (The Responder), Faye Marsay (Bancroft), Rob Collins (Total Control), Stephen Curry (Pine Gap), Leon Ford (The Letdown), and Emma Hamilton (RFDS Royal Flying Doctor Service), amongst others.
Ten Pound Poms premieres in North America with two episodes on Wednesday, October 29, exclusively on BritBox. One new episode will drop each week through November 26.
NON-PREMIERE PROGRAMS BEING ADDED TO LINEAR CHANNELS
The Gold: Season 1 (UK)
This historical crime drama is inspired by the real-life events that took place on November 26, 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26 million (roughly £112.3 million / US$143.3 million / €130.3 million in today’s value). What started as a typical armed robbery became a seminal event in British criminal history, not only for the scale of the theft but for its wider legacy. It was the biggest theft in world history then, leading to the heist being called “the crime of the century.” The subsequent disposal of the bullion led to the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left controversy and murder in its wake.
The Gold: Season 1 begins airing Sunday, October 5, at 10pm ET, on PBS (check your local listings), with streaming available on PBS.org, the PBS app, PBS Passport (6-episode binge), and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.
NON-PREMIERE PROGRAMS BEING ADDED TO STREAMING SERVICES
Titles in this section begin streaming in the US and Canada on the dates shown below on Acorn TV and its digital channels, including Acorn TV on Prime Channels.
Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence (UK)
The husband-and-wife sleuthing team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford investigate several mysteries. Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence begins streaming Monday, October 6.
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials Mystery (UK)
In this mystery movie, Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent is a pert, aggressive young aristocrat who insinuates herself into a series of murders, stolen state secrets, and a mysterious secret society. Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials Mystery begins streaming Monday, October 13.
Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide (UK)
Another TV Movie, this one sees Rosemary Barton, the beautiful wife of a top attorney, die during their anniversary party at an exclusive restaurant. Later, a suicide note is found along with traces of cyanide in her drink, but murder cannot be ruled out. Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide begins streaming Monday, October 13.
Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (UK)
Rounding out an Agatha Christie movie hat trick is this one, in which Bobby Jones, while golfing on the Welsh coast, apparently hits a stranger. The man falls off the sea cliff, with his enigmatic last words being, “Why didn’t they ask Evans?”Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? begins streaming Monday, October 13.
Being Human: Seasons 1-5 (UK)
In this BAFTA-nominated supernatural drama series, vampire Mitchell (Aidan Turner, Rivals), werewolf George (Russell Tovey, The Job Lot), and ghost Annie (Lenora Crichlow, Avenue 5) try to lead normal lives in the world of humans. But they face dangers at every turn, from others as well as from their own predatory urges. Being Human: Seasons 1-5 begins streaming Monday, October 20.
Blithe Spirit (UK+)
Based on the eponymous play by Noël Coward, this supernatural comedy film sees a spiritualist medium (Judi Dench, Skyfall) hold a seance for a writer (Dan Stevens, Downton Abbey) suffering from writer’s block. But she accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife (Leslie Mann, Knocked Up), which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years (Isla Fisher, Wedding Crashers). Blithe Spirit begins streaming Monday, October 27.
Byzantium (UK+)
In this supernatural horror-thriller film, mayhem follows when two female vampires (Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird; Gemma Arterton, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), on the run from a kindred group, take refuge at a seaside British community. Byzantium begins streaming Monday, October 27.
Mary Shelley (UK)
In this biopic drama, Mary Wollstonecraft’s (Elle Fanning, A Complete Unknown) family disapproves when she and poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth, The Dirt) announce their love for each other. Family members are horrified when they find out that the couple has eloped, accompanied by Mary’s half-sister, Claire (Bel Powley, The Diary of a Teenage Girl). While staying in the home of Lord Byron (Tom Sturridge, The Sandman) at Lake Geneva, the guests are challenged to write a ghost story, which leads Mary to conceive her novel, Frankenstein. Mary Shelley begins streaming Monday, October 27.
Titles in this section begin streaming in North America on the dates shown below on BritBox and its digital channels, including BritBox on Prime Channels.
Ripper Street: Seasons 1-3 (UK)
This period mystery-crime drama series follows Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, Succession, Stonehouse) and his team at the notorious H Division, the toughest police district in the East End. Charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel, the men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law, while fear of the Ripper lurks in the background. Costarring Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones, 1923), Adam Rothenberg (Ozark, Castle Rock), MyAnna Buring (The Responder, The Witcher), and Charlene McKenna (Vienna Blood, Raw), Ripper Street: Season 1 begins streaming Friday, October 10, followed by Season 2 on October 17 and Season 3 on October 24.
Apple Tree Yard (UK)
Based on the eponymous novel by Louise Doughty, this psychological thriller stars Emily Watson (Dune: Prophecy, Chernobyl) as Dr. Yvonne Carmichael, a married scientist who begins an affair with a charismatic stranger (Ben Chaplin, Press, Mad Dogs) and finds herself taking risks she’d never dreamt of before, all while being completely unaware of his background. Apple Tree Yard begins streaming Wednesday, October 22.
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
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