Queenie and her Aunty Maggie.
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Despite the series retaining elements of the novel that frustrated me, this time, I saw things a bit differently.
Jan Thijs/Prime Video
The Boys are back and this season there’s more blood, violence and contradictions
ABC
ABC’s new comedy series Austin is a unique show in its depiction of autism and neurodiversity, as it follows an autistic man connecting for the first time with his biological father.
Disney Media
The mixture of ideology, competition and greed that fuelled this turning point in history, is explored in Shardlake.
Untitled design.
Niko Tavernise/Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures/A24/Vertigo Releasing
Two vengeful women in love, a daughter on a mission to save her father, female spies and two ambitious wives.
Prime Video
A brilliant post-apocalyptic tale that expands the lore of a universe fans of the game love.
(L-R) Enzo Mari, Daisy Ridley, Taylor Swift and Andrew Scott.
Wiki Commons/Landmark Media/Associated Press/Alamy Stock Photo/Netflix
An album of easter eggs, a film about a woman with worrying dreams, a series about an unknowable man, new Welsh music and the last chance to see a design great.
Narelle Portanier/Binge
From the opening of this new eight-part series on Binge, High Country feels in steady hands.
Tony Curran (centre) as James I and Nicholas Galitzine (right) as George Villiers.
Rory Mulvey/Sky UK
It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
ABC
House of Gods is a gripping new Australian TV drama, written by Arabs, featuring Arabs.
A24
A harrowing portrayal of banal evil, a nuanced look at black fiction, a historically accurate TV series, a story about the power of love and a seriously cute exhibition.
PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy
From two shows that have reignited franchises to an exhibition about drug-taking monks.
Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures
A film adapted from a radical piece of Scottish Literature, powerful dramatisations of abuse and miscarriages of justice and a game show about deception
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December 18, 2023
Beth Johnson , University of Leeds ; Ciara Molloy , University of Sheffield ; Gill Jamieson , University of the West of Scotland ; Kadian Pow , Birmingham City University ; Kristyn Gorton , University of Leeds ; Matthew Higgins , University of Portsmouth ; Matthew Wills , University of Bath ; Thi Gammon , King's College London , and Tim Rock , University of Bath
These are the shows that had our creative experts glued to the small screen in 2023.
A scene from The Peasants.
Vertigo
An oil-painted instant cult classic, the Game Awards nominees and more.
Kane Skennar/Binge
The new Binge series Strife is a fictionalised adaptation of Mia Freedman’s 2017 memoir.
Disney
The new Australian series The Artful Dodger is a surgical reworking of Oliver Twist, where the savagery is played for laughs.
Sarah Enticknap/Stan
The new series on Stan is most successful through its links to rural crime noir, pulling apart the vulnerability and deception of this small town.
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Samuel Taylor/Netflix
There’s less sex but more exploration as the Moordale crew embark on new adventures in the show’s last season.
Our experts bring you the best new shows, films and seasons. From comedy to reality television to crime drama, we hope you’ll find your new streaming favourite here.