THERE is a whole host of new shows ready to binge online this week.
The Sun's TV Mag has rounded up all you need to know to get your streaming fix this week…
NETFLIX
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
THRILLER Available from Thursday
Anyone who loved super-creepy series The Haunting Of Hill House and The Haunting Of Bly Manor is sure to enjoy this eight-part horror story from the man behind both those shows, Mike Flanagan. Based on the classic book by Edgar Allan Poe, this new take on the story introduces us to Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood), patriarch of the Usher family and boss of their massively powerful Fortunato Pharmaceuticals empire alongside his sister Madeline (Mary McDonnell). When Roderick discovers that one of the family has been selling company secrets to the government – secrets that could bring the family down and the business with it – he sets about trying to discover the identity of the informer. But a mysterious and sinister force soon brings death to the House of Usher – bringing past horrors to light. A suspense-laden, fright-filled gothic thriller. Also stars Mark Hamill, Kate Siegel and Henry Thomas.
The Conference
FILM Available from Friday
Team-building events are rarely dramatic – unless, of course, someone gets tipsy and makes a fool of themselves. But a group of local municipal workers are in for the shock of their lives when they attend what’s supposed to be a run-of-the-mill conference but which turns into a bloodbath. Hot on the heels of accusations of corruption circling among the group, a mysterious masked person starts bumping people off in rather unpleasant ways. Creepy and enjoyably quirky, this comedy horror from Sweden – which stars Dexter’s Katia Winter – is refreshingly unlike the usual slasher flick and is well worth sticking on your list of films to catch for Halloween.
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Last One Standing
COMEDY Available from Tuesday
The first series of this madcap crime drama/reality comedy mash-up became Netflix’s most popular show in its homeland, Japan. If you’ve never seen it before, we’ll attempt to explain how it works: a group of Japanese celebrities and comedians are cast in an exciting, serious crime drama. Whenever a key moment in the plot arrives, the cast must break from character and tell a funny story. If their story doesn’t pass muster, they’ll be thrown off the show. Not a million miles from Murder In Successville, it’s a show that entertains on many levels, while its hosts – Japanese comedy duo Daigo and Nobu – keep the laughter flowing. This second series is built around some shocking events inside a hospital, including monsters running riot, explosions and terrifying infections. Expect chaos, thrills and plenty of laughs along the way.
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The Greatest Show Never Made
DOCUSERIES Available from Wednesday
Let’s take a trip back to 2002. With the country still bathing in a post-Millennium glow of optimism, reality TV is taking off, fuelled by Channel 4’s hit show Big Brother. With the public waking up to the exciting possibility of becoming famous just by being yourself, a bunch of young folk were tempted by an ad asking for people to audition for a new reality show with a whopping £100,000 prize. The man behind it was an entrepreneur called Nik Russian, who promised the participants fame and fortune if they gave up their jobs and moved to London to take part in the year-long show. The trouble was, when they got there, there was no show – he’d made the whole thing up, leaving the contestants high and dry, before disappearing. This compelling new three-parter tells the story of the show, catching up with some of the contestants and asking what happened to Nik. Filled with plenty of nostalgic retro Noughties touches, it’s a compelling account of a mystifying and mysterious con.
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Mud, Sweat And Tears: Premiership Rugby
DOCUMENTARY Available from Thursday
With the rugby World Cup in full swing, Mud, Sweat And Tears could not have chosen a better time to burst on to our screens. This two-part documentary tells the full and dramatic story of the 2022-2023 Gallagher Premiership season, which featured shocks both on and off the pitch – not least two huge clubs going into administration and a race for the title that went right down to the wire. Featuring interviews with a host of big names, including England stars Owen Farrell, George Ford and Maro Itoje, it reveals exactly what it takes to be the best in a sport that takes no prisoners.
John Wick: Chapter 4
FILM Available from Friday
The huge success of the John Wick movies – and new Prime spin-off The Continental – isn’t hard to understand. Take lashings of highly-choreographed action, over-the-top violence and gloomy glamour, then throw in a sombre Keanu Reeves in a stylish suit and you’ve got a winner. This fourth film in the franchise finds John (Keanu) hiding out in New York, hell bent on revenge against the High Table, that shadowy group of crime bosses in control of the underworld. The trouble is, they’re equally determined to get rid of him, particularly scheming High Table member Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont (Bill Skarsgard). A titanic struggle ensues. It’s over-long, perhaps – the film clocks in at nearly three hours – but the pace never relents and the climax is heart-in-your-mouth stuff.
DISNEY+
Goosebumps
HORROR Available from Friday
The creepy horror novels of American novelist R. L. Stine have given kids and grown-ups the shivers for more than 30 years. Now, following a 90s TV show adaptation and two movies, here comes a scare-stuffed new 10-episode series inspired by the books. In this new version, five high-schoolers find themselves scared witless as they investigate the death, 30 years earlier, of a teenager called Harold Biddle – an investigation that will bring them face to face with powerful supernatural forces and unearth dark secrets about their parents’ pasts. Boasting a strong teen cast, which features former EastEnders star Zack Morris, it promises to be a chilling and atmospheric thrill. The first five episodes land on Friday, as part of Disney+’s annual Hallowstream celebrations, and the remainder follow weekly.
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Shining Vale
COMEDY Available from Friday
Just in time for spooky season, Courteney Cox returns for more deliciously dark horror comedy. Last time we were in Shining Vale, author Pat, her husband Terry (Greg Kinnear, You) and their two kids found that leaving the city for a crumbling Connecticut mansion in a small town came with some extras. Namely, the previous occupant, dead' 50s housewife Rosemary (Mira Sorvino). Now, after a breakdown, Pat is about to embark on a book tour to promote her new novel, but are the rest of her family now also experiencing psychosis Co-creator Sharon Horgan has concocted another wild ride.
ITVX
C*A*U*G*H*T
COMEDY Available from Thursday
When four Australian soldiers are taken hostage while on a secret mission in a war-torn country, they sense an opportunity to become famous. All they have to do is produce the best hostage video of all time, and hope it goes viral. Meanwhile, a diplomatic time bomb is ticking, fuelling some serious international tension. Written, directed and starring Aussie actor Kick Gurry and featuring cameos from Susan Sarandon as a top-ranking US politician, Matthew Fox, Bella Heathcote and Sean Penn, this is no-holds-barred, hyper-irreverent comedy that’s more than happy to make light of some very heavy subjects and certainly isn’t for the easily offended. Riotous.
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Lessons In Chemistry
DRAMA Available from Friday
Since its publication early last year, US author Bonnie Garmus's novel Lessons In Chemistry has sold millions of copies globally. Now here's the highly anticipated TV adaptation, which moves the action a decade earlier to the early 1950s and stars Brie Larson as the brilliant, barrier-breaking Elizabeth Zott. Our heroine is working as a lab technician and dreaming of becoming a scientist until she is fired. The opportunity to use her technical skills as the host of a TV cooking show turns her into an icon for a generation of taken-for-granted housewives. If you miss Mad Men, this stylishly-made drama is for you.
HAYU
House Of Villains
REALITY Available from Friday
Here's a ready-made formula for reality TV fireworks: take 10 combustible US reality stars known for causing drama on their respective shows, put them all under one roof and make them compete in challenges which push them to their limits. At stake is the title of America’s Ultimate Supervillain and a cash prize of $200,000. The ever-reliable Joel McHale is your host, and the contestants include Omarosa Manigault Newman (Celebrity Apprentice), Jax Taylor (Vanderpump Rules) and Tiffany Pollard (Celebrity Big Brother UK). With Carole Baskin (Tiger King) and Spencer Pratt (The Hills) also showing up, this could get very messy.
DISCOVERY+
90 Day Fiancé
REALITY Available from Monday
Prepare for some seriously spectacular relationship fireworks because season 10 of 90 Day Fiancé has arrived. Boasting six exciting new couples – Manuel and Ashley, Anali and Clayton, Citra and Sam, Justin and Nikki, Nick and Devin, and Rob and Sophie – the series will also see the return of Gino and Jasmine from spin-off show Before The 90 Days. As ever, the set-up is simple: one half of the couples travels from overseas to the US to live with their partner for the first time. They then have 90 days to decide whether to get hitched or go their separate ways. All the couples look certain to bring the drama but one definitely worth watching is Rob and Sophie, a Brit who likes a little luxury in her life. How will she cope when she realises Rob’s background is more modest than she thought?
PARAMOUNT+
A Really Haunted Loud House
FILM Available from Saturday
Those excitable Louds are back in a feature-length Halloween-flavoured adventure. Desperate to attend a lavish party thrown by Xander, the cool new kid at school, Lincoln (Wolfgang Schaeffer) decides to give the Loud family’s annual Halloween Spooktacular a miss, leaving his 10 sisters to arrange everything. But when Xander and his ghoulish gang of followers decide that it’s time for tricks rather than treats and attack the Loud house, Lincoln, his sisters and his best pal Clyde (Jahzir Bruno) must find a way to save the day. Meanwhile, can dad Lynn (Brian Stepanek) avoid being captured by teenage werewolf hunters? Ghoulish kids’ fun.
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Harry Wild
CRIME Available from Monday
The schedules are peppered with shows about unlikely amateur sleuths. But few are as unlikely as mystery-solving former literature professor Harry (Jane Seymour) and her even more improbable sidekick, teenage ne’er-do-well Fergus (Rohan Nedd). Still, the first series was an entertaining, if sometimes formulaic, slice of crime drama – and the second promises more of the same. This time, Harry and Fergus get set to take on a new batch of cases that include murders and missing persons. There’s also an emotional twist, with the return of Fergus’ mother, years after she abandoned her family. And, just like last time, there’s plenty of black humour stirred into the mix, much of it coming from Harry’s tricky relationship with her disapproving police detective son Charlie.
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