James R | On 02, May 2021

Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Walter Presents. Apple TV+. There’s so much TV to watch these days in so many places that it can be hard to keep up. Every month, we boil down what’s on the box to the essentials you need in your streaming queue.

We’ve sorted through All The TV to bring you your May watchlist – what’s worth watching and where you can sreeam it online in the UK:

RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under: Season 1

Drag Race Down Under will see 10 of the most koala-fied Aussie and Kiwi queens competing for the title of Down Under’s First Drag Superstar. Joining RuPaul on the judging panel will be Drag Race royalty Michelle Visage and Australian comedian Rhys Nicholson. The eight-part series will be available exclusively on BBC iPlayer with episodes arriving weekly.

The Girlfriend Experience: Season 3

Known as GFEs, they are women who provide The Girlfriend Experience – emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price. The third instalment of the anthology series is set amidst the London tech scene. Iris, a neuroscience major begins to explore the transactional world of The Girlfriend Experience, only to find herself deep inside the uncanny valley with the relationships she creates.Iris quickly learns that her client sessions provide her with a compelling edge in the tech world and vice versa. She then begins to question whether her actions are driven by free will, or something else altogether, and heads down a deep path of exploration. Episodes 1 and 2 debut at once, with remaining episodes arriving weekly.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Season 1

This new animated series follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of the Bad Batch – a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army – each possess a singular exceptional skill which makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew. In the postClone War era, they will take on daring mercenary missions as they struggle to stay afloat and find new purpose.

Bloods: Season 1

BAFTA-nominated Samson Kayo (Famalam, Timewasters) and Golden Globe-nominated Jane Horrocks (Absolutely Fabulous, Little Voice) star in this six-part comedy series as paramedic partners in the South London ambulance service. When tough-acting loner Maleek is paired with over- friendly divorcee Wendy, their partnership looks dead on arrival. But before long they’re acting as each other’s life support.

Jupiter’s Legacy: Season 1

This new series rom Mark Millar sees the world’s first generation of superheroes look to their children to continue the legacy, after nearly a century of keeping humankind safe,. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.

Mythic Quest: Season 2

This video game workplace comedy follows the team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time. Season 2 finds everyone back in the office (well, almost everyone), attempting to build upon the success of Raven’s Banquet by launching an epic new expansion, but Ian (Rob McElhenney) and the newly promoted co-creative director, Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao), struggle with the game’s direction. New guest stars will include Snoop Dogg and Derek Waters. After an opening double-bill, new episodes arrive weekly in pairs.

Fargo: Season 4

Created by Noah Hawley, the series will once again change things up for its fourth instalment. Set in 1950s Kansas City, Chris Rock will star as “Loy Cannon” the head of the Black crime syndicate fighting for a piece of the American dream opposite the Faddas, the rival Italian crime syndicate. Together, they control an alternate economy of exploitation, graft and drugs. Amongst the turmoil, Patrick “Rabbi” Milligan (Ben Whishaw), a man who once betrayed his own family to serve the Italians, watches carefully to ensure his survival.

The Pursuit of Love

Lily James, Emily Beecham and Andrew Scott lead this star-studded drama about freedom, friendship, sex and love. Impatiently waiting for life to begin, two cousins are thrust into a decadent, whirlwind adventure in the period three-parter. Consumed by a desire for love and marriage the two women are on the hunt for an ideal husband, but their friendship is put to the test when they choose very different paths. While Fanny settles for a steady life, Linda decides to follow her heart, to increasingly wild and outrageous places. Airing weekly, all three parts land on BBC iPlayer at the same time.

Snowfall: Season 4

Franklin faces competition from Skully and Manboy, and with violence in LA on the up, needs to head off a gang war and reassert his authority. Gustavo and Teddy are still working together, but Gustavo doesn’t know Teddy’s real identity, and they’re now facing supply problems. Local reporter Irene Abe is chasing a big story and wants to get to the root of the city’s crack cocaine problem.

Men in Kilts: Season 1

This eight-part series is a buddy travelogue through Scotland led by Outlander stars Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish. The two will reunite for an epic adventure, exploring their heritage and meeting an incredible collection of people who truly showcase what it means to be Scottish.

Motherland: Season 3

The mums – and dad – will be back to navigate the pitfalls of parenting and the clash of cliques formed at the school gate in Season 3. While the gang tackle a nit pandemic, a school trip and Mothers Day, Amanda (Lucy Punch) endures lunch with her mum Felicity (played by Joanna Lumley)

Inside No 9: Season 6

The anthology series, created by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, combines the scary, the silly, the surreal and the strange to craft a slice of darkly comic – and sometimes surprisingly poignant – TV. Season 6 will once again comprise six darkly comic half-hour tales, with a cast that included everyone from Sian Clifford (Fleabag) and Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty) to Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso). Episodes arrive weekly.

Three Families

Northern Ireland, 2013. A mother is forced to question her own beliefs when her teenage daughter reveals she’s pregnant. Intent only on protecting her child, Theresa (Sinéad Keenan) makes a hard choice. But as word starts to get out, she discovers that she could face a prison sentence for breaking one of Northern Ireland’s most controversial laws. Young newlyweds Hannah (Amy James-Kelly) and Jonathan (Colin Morgan) are devastated when they learn that their much-wanted baby will not survive the pregnancy. In their grief the couple speak to their doctor about their options, only to realise how limited their choices are. Written by Gwyneth Hughes (Doing Money, Vanity Fair) and directed by Alex Kalymnios (The White Princess, Becoming Human), the two-part drama is made by Studio Lambert, the producers of Three Girls. Episode 2 airs the following night.

Danny Boy

Toby Jones and Anthony Boyle co-star in this factual drama about a young man’s journey from medal-winning hero to alleged killer, and his search for truth in the fog of war. Boyle plays soldier Brian Wood, accused of war crimes in Iraq by the determined human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, played by Jones. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry. Written by Robert Jones (Party Animals) and directed by Sam Miller (I May Destroy You, Luther).

Castlevania: Season 4

The dark medieval fantasy, inspired by the classic videogame series, returns for a fourth and final chapter.

The Underground Railroad: Season 1

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, this 10-episode drama from Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumoured Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

Halston: Season 1

Ewan McGregor is playing fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick in Ryan Murphy’s new series.

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: Season 2

East High’s favourite drama students return as they prepare to perform ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for their Spring musical. The second season will include reimagined musical numbers from both the High School Musical movies and the stage production of Beauty and the Beast in addition to brand-new songs that join hits from Season One like ‘All I Want’, ‘Born to be Brave’, and ‘Just for a Moment’. Episodes arrive weekly.

Domina: Season 1

Created and written by Simon Burke (Fortitude), Domina brings to life the power politics of Ancient Rome, told through the eyes of Livia Drusilla. This epic eight-part, highly topical drama follows the life and extraordinary rise of Livia (Kasia Smutniak, Perfect Strangers). As the story begins we meet a naïve young girl whose world crumbles in the wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination. In the years that follow, she must navigate her way through a brutal society to find revenge, secure her family’s legacy and eventually become Rome’s most powerful and influential Empress. All episodes will be available at once on-demand.

Love, Death + Robots: Volume 2

What do giants, Christmas demons, and robots-gone-wild have in common? The answer, of course, is this distinctly adult animated anthology, which returns with a vengeance for Volume 2.

The Nevers: Part 1

In the last years of Victoria’s reign, London is beset by the “Touched”: people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True (Laura Donnelly), a mysterious, quick- fisted widow, and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place. All six episodes of Part 1 will be available at once on-demand.

The Pact

When a drunken prank goes wrong, their lives will change forever… What really happened that night in the woods? Starring Julie Hesmondhalgh and Laura Fraser star in this six-part drama that follows Anna, Nancy, Louie and Cat, who have had enough of their tyrannical young boss, Jack Evans, and make a drunken snap decision at a work function that has shocking repercussions. The result is an unexplained death – and a group of friends bound together by a fragile pact of silence. Episodes air on Mondays and Tuesdays over three weeks, with the whole box set immediately available on-demand.

Jurassic Park: Camp Cretaceous: Season 3

This entertaining Jurassic Park animation is a surprisingly dark ride.

Marvel’s MODOK: Season 1

The megalomaniacal supervillain MODOK has long pursued his dream of one day conquering the world. But after years of setbacks and failures fighting the Earth’s mightiest heroes, MODOK has run his evil organisation (AIM) into the ground. Ousted as AIM’s leader while also dealing with this crumbling marriage and family life, the Mental Organism Designed Only For Killing is set to confront his greatest challenge yet: a midlife crisis. Episodes arrive weekly.

Trying: Season 2

The first British original show for Apple’s subscription streaming service, Trying follows Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall), who want a baby more anything, but it’s the one thing they just can’t have. After ruling out every other option, Nikki and Jason decide to adopt and are confronted by a world of bewildering new challenges. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball family, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they’re ready to be parents?

Solos: Season 1

Created by David Weil (Hunters), the seven-part series explores the strange, beautiful, heart-breaking, hilarious, wondrous truths of what it means to be human. It spans our present and future and illuminates that even during our most isolated moments we are all connected through the human experience. Bringing this to life is an impressive cast that includes Academy Award-winning actors Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway and Helen Mirren, Emmy Award-winning actor Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Anthony Mackie, Dan Stevens and Constance Wu.

Master of None: Season 3

Aziz Ansari’s comedy returns with Lena Waithe and Naomi Ackie taking the lead as Denise and her partner Alicia. Their modern love story intimately illustrates the ups and downs of marriage, struggles with fertility, and personal growth both together and apart. Fleeting romantic highs meet crushing personal losses while existential questions of love and living are raised.

Bake Off: The Professionals

Benoit Blin, Cherish Finden, Liam Charles and Tom Allen get back in the kitchen this May for another quest for pâtisserie perfection, complete with the impressive craftwork and wittily self-knowing commentary we’ve come to expect from this likeable spin-off.

Before We Die

Lesley Sharp stars as a detective who faces impossible choices in a murky world where loyalties are tested and lines are blurred. She plays Hannah Laing, who becomes deeply conflicted when she discovers her son, Christian, is playing a crucial role as an undercover informant in a brutal murder investigation. Patrick Gibson (The Tudors, The OA) co-stars as Christian. A remake of the Swedish crime drama of the same name, expect equally fast-paced thrills..

Breeders: Season 2

Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard return as the loving parents and exhausted human beings who are doing their best to hide that they are winging their way through it all. With Ava now ten years old and Luke almost thirteen, Paul and Ally now must confront their burgeoning independence, and question whether their tried and tested parenting style is still going to hold up.

Ragnarok: Season 2

From the writer of Borgen, this fantasy teen drama returns to ask that age-old question: what do you do when you’re a 17 year-old high schooler who has just learned that you may have super powers and you’re up against an ancient and extremely powerful enemy that is holding an entire town, perhaps even an entire country, in an iron grip?

The Beast Must Die: Season 1

The Beast Must Die is a five part revenge thriller which tells the story of a grieving mother who infiltrates the life of the man she believes killed her son. The stellar cast includes Bafta, Golden Globe & Emmy nominated Jared Harris, Cush Jumbo OBE, Billy Howle, Nathaniel Parker, Geraldine James, Maeve Dermody and newcomers Mia Tomlinson and Barney Sayburn. Three more episodes then follow weekly.

Friends: The Reunion

Matthew Perry, Courtney Cox, Matt Le Blanc, Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer are getting back together for a special looking back at the seminal comey series. The anniversary will see all six stars return to the iconic comedy’s original soundstage, Stage 24, on the Warner Bros Studio lot in Burbank for a real-life unscripted celebration of the beloved show. Special guests will include David Beckham, Justin Bieber, BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, Tom Selleck, James Michael Tyler, Maggie Wheeler, Reese Witherspoon and Malala Yousafzai. Available on-demand from 8.02am.

Lucifer: Season 5, Part 2

Netflix’s revived series, based on comic book characters created by Neil Gaiman, returns once more for the second part if its penultimatee season, with Tom Ellis once again turning on the charm as Lucifer.

Panic

Based on the best-selling novel by Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall), this young adult series takes viewers to a small town in America, where every year, the graduating seniors engage in a competition they believe is their one chance to escape. But this year, the rules have changed and they must decide how much they are willing to risk in order to get out.

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