What’s leaving Sky and NOW TV in December 2020 / January 2021?
David Farnor | On 27, Dec 2020
Sky’s growing number of original shows and ever-expanding catalogue of blockbusters is ideal for keeping your days and nights occupied, but before you break open new box sets or devour some big-hitting films, don’t miss your chance to catch some modern gems before their rights expire and they depart.
That means taking care not to miss out some of Sky’s exclusives, such as The Undoing and The Good Lord Bird. Or, if you’ve got Sky Cinema, don’t miss a Kubrick masterpiece, some Disney classics and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
This is your last chance to stream the following:
TV
Brave New World: Season 1 – 27th December
Aldous Huxley’s classic novel gets a stylish, if superficial, screen adaptation.
The Undoing: Season 1 – 30th December
Hugh Grant is fantastic in HBO’s twisting crime thriller.
The Twilight Zone: Season 1 and 2 – 7th January
This glossy, promising reboot of The Twilight Zone is entertaining but still needs to find its feet.
The Good Lord Bird: Season 1 – 9th January
Ethan Hawke is astonishing in this timely, telling abolitionist romp.
The Strain: Season 1 to 4 – 16th January
Guillermo del Toro’s horror thriller, based on his novels, dresses vamp lore for the modern age: gone are capes and fangs, in their place a viral plague. So when an airplane full of dead bodies – and a large, suspicious-looking coffin – lands on the tarmac in New York, the immediate response isn’t a priest or hunter, but a virologist: Ephraim Goodweather, played by Corey Stoll. The cast are as enjoyably hammy as the creature design is seriously creepy – a gross, clammy revision of Dracula and co., which casts the exotic, erotic myth as a bottom-of-the-chain parasite; a disease that worms its way under your skin and makes it crawl.
Other TV shows and box sets leaving in December 2020 / January 2021:
28th December
Monster Fish: Season 5 and 6
30th December
Diesel Brothers: Season 3
Jon Richardson’s Channel Hopping: Season 1
Ancient Aliens: Ultimate Evidence: Season 1
Brockmire: Season 1 to 4
Midnight Sun: Season 1
Mysteryquest: Season 1
Public Enemy: Season 1
31st December
Awkward: Season 3 to 5
Brotherhood: Season 1
Ghosted: Love Gone Missing: Season 1
I Live With Models: Season 1
Most Ridiculous: Season 1 and 2
Punk’d: Season 1 to 9
Soho Theatre Live: Season 1
Teen Mom 2: Season 5 to 8
Teen Mom OG: Season 5
Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant: Season 1
TripTank: Season 1
Why We Hate: Season 1
Baskets: Season 4
Game On: Season 2 and 3
A League Of Their Own: Season 10
Africa’s Hunters: Season 1
Ancient Aliens: Season 8
Black Monday: Season 2
Catherine The Great: Season 1
Chicago PD: Season 1 to 6
Common Ground: Floyd: Season 1
Heavy Lifting: Season 1
In Treatment: Season 1
Madam Secretary: Season 3
The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Sol: Season 1 and 2
1st January 2021
Blockbusters: Season 1 and 2
Comedy Central Live: Season 1
Detroiters: Season 2
Ex on The Beach: Season 5
Ex on The Beach: Season 9
Most Ridiculous: Season 3
Roast Battle: Season 4
South Park: Season 23
Takeshi’s Castle: Season 1 to 8
Teen Mom UK: Season 1 to 3
Teen Mom 3: Season 2
The Ricky Gervais Show: Season 1 to 3
Your Face or Mine: Season 6
Ice Road Rescue: Season 5
2nd January
LA’s Finest: Season 2
Riviera: Season 3
3rd January
Trackers: Season 1
5th January
The Comedy Store: Season 1
6th January
In Ice Cold Blood: Season 3
Warrior: Season 1
7th January
Prodigal Son: Season 1
Drain The Oceans: Season 3
8th January
Warrior: Season 2
9th January
Comedy Legends: Sid James
12th January
SWAT: Season 3
Perfect Harmony: Season 1
A Wild Year On Earth: Season 1
14th January
MTV Cribs: Season 1
Room 104: Season 3
16th January
Alaskan Bush People: Season 5
Geordie OGs: Season 3
Discovering: Jon Voight
FBI: Most Wanted: Season 1
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Season 7
The Russell Howard Hour: Season 4
Gomorrah: Season 3
17th January
The Crusaders: Season 1
19th January
Siren: Season 3
20th January
Fast N’ Loud: Demolition Theater: Season 3
Lesley Garrett: The South Bank Show Originals: Season 7
21st January
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Season 3
22nd January
Moonshiners: Season 9
The Explosion Show: Season 1
Minority Report: Season 1
23rd January
Food Factory: Season 1 and 2
24th January
Siren: Season 1 and 2
25th January
Gold Divers: Season 8
Sky Cinema
Scott Pilgrim vs the World – 30th December
Mature, childish and energetic, Scott Pilgrim is awesome, surprising no one.
2001: A Space Odyssey – 31st December
A bona-fide ground-breaking, psychedelic sci-fi classic.
Sister Act – 31st December
Whoopi Goldberg as a lounge singer pretending to be a devout nun to hide from Harvey Keitel? Sister Act’s premise may be a font of easy jokes, but they don’t miss a beat – helped by a killer soundtrack of Motown classics.
Easy Rider – 31st December
Dennis Hopper’s counterculture classic follows two friends heading cross-country in search of their American Dream – one of the most iconic slices of Americana ever to hit the cinema screen.
Dumbo (1941) – 31st December
One of the few remaining Disney classics on Sky Cinema flies off into the Disney-shaped sunset.
Gemini – 31st December
Lola Kirke and Zoe Kravitz shine in this atmospheric modern Hollywood noir.
The Mule – 3rd January
Clint Eastwood’s crime drama follows an horticulturist who becomes a courier for a drug cartel.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – 7th January
This recasting of Wild West myth is bursting with nonchalant invention.
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – 9th January
This moving, exciting, stunning final chapter in DreamWorks’ dragon franchise soars with the best of them.
Other movies leaving in December 2020 / January 2021:
27th December
Motherhood
30th December
Toys & Pets
31st December
48 Hrs.
A Christmas In Royal Fashion
A League Of Their Own
A Wedding For Christmas
American Pie
American Pie 2
American Pie: Reunion
American Pie: The Wedding
Another 48 Hrs
Antz
Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
Bean
Being Frank (2018)
Brother Bear
Changeland
Elmore Leonard’s Gold Coast
Finding Nemo
Hotel Room
Inglourious B*****ds
Joseph: King Of Dreams
Kiss The Girls
Lego Batman The Movie DC Super Heroes Unite
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes….
Lego DC Comics Super….
Lego Scooby Doo!: Haunted Hollywood
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Made Of Honour
Mr Bean’s Holiday
Mulan II
National Lampoon’s Dad’s Week Off
November Criminals
Red Eye
Rules Of Obsession
Saving Private Ryan
Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit
Snake Eyes
Spirit Stallion Of The Cimarron
Sword Of Trust
Tarzan
Tarzan II
The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Padre
The Prince Of Egypt
The Recruit
The Road To El Dorado
The Rock
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
The Wedding Guest
UFO
Underdog
Where Hands Touch
Zathura: A Space Adventure
1st January 2021
The Kid (2019)
2nd January
All Is True
Don’t Go
5th January
Need For Speed (2014)
9th January
Abominable
Galveston
Instant Family
Terror Of Hallow’s Eve
12th January
Transference (2019)
Up And Away (2018)
We Have Always Lived In The Castle
14th January
The Incredible Hulk
15th January
Aladdin (2019)
16th January
Boy Erased
17th January
Head Full Of Honey (2018)
Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Mean Girls
18th January
You Don’t Mess With The Zohan
19th January
Becks (2017)
20th January
Sanjay’s Super Team
The Good Dinosaur
23rd January
Happy Death Day 2U
Jellyfish
What They Had
24th January
Despicable Me 2
25th January
Total Recall (2012)