James R | On 05, Oct 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 October watchlist – what’s worth watching and where you can stream it online in the UK:

Maid

Inspired by the New York Times Best-selling memoir about one woman’s incredible story of hard work, low pay, and a mother’s will to survive. Starring Margaret Qualley, from the Producers of Shameless and Promising Young Woman.

Saturday Night Live: Season 47

The Emmy Award-winning late-night comedy showcase, enters its 47th season for another year of laughs, surprises and great performances. In the UK, episodes arrive weekly on Sunday nights.

Fear the Walking Dead: Season 6

Your chance to catch up with the latest chapter in The Walking Dead’s first spin-off series, which sees its group of survivors scattered and struggling to stay alive.

Ridley Road

In 1960s London, Vivien, a young Jewish hairdresser, discovers the 62 Group – an intelligence-gathering underground movement trying to stop the rise of the far right. That’s the starting point for Sarah Solemani’s thrillingly timely adaptation of Jo Bloom’s 2014 novel, which stars Rory Kinnear, Eddie Marsan and Agnes O’Casey.

On My Block: Season 4

Netflix goes one last time around the block in the fourth and final season of its drama.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond: Season 2

The Walking Dead’s latest spin-off returns for a second and final season.

Miracle Workers: Season 3

Adventure! Romance! No GPS! The comedy anthology series starring Daniel Radcliffe and
Steve Buscemi returns to follow the pioneers of the American West circa 1844. Reverend Ezekiel Brown (Radcliffe) leads his dying, famine-stricken town to head for a better life on the Oregon Trail, taking in notorious outlaw Benny the Teen (Buscemi) as trailmaster.

Murder Island

A body has been discovered and a murder investigation has begun. But this is no ordinary murder; it’s a murder mystery written by Ian Rankin, one of Britain’s most successful crime writers. Trying to unpick his plot and solve the crime are eight ordinary members of the public who believe they have what it takes to find the murderer and win the £50,000 reward. In this genre-bending crime reality format that blends factual, drama and competition, the four teams of amateur detectives arrive on an island by boat, greeted by senior investigating officer Parm Sandhu and her two deputies, Simon Harding and Graham McMillan (Maca). They are whisked off to the crime scene, the Manse, where the body of Charly Hendricks was discovered a few hours earlier.

Brassic: Season 3

Bigger, bolder and more bonkers than ever. The gang are back in a brand new series of misadventures, specially extended to eight episodes. Facing pressure from both the law and crime boss Mr McCann, Vinnie and the gang enter back into a world of bulls, snakes, kidnappings, betrayal and, this time, a full-sized horse.

Sexy Beasts: Season 2

Hoping to say goodbye to superficial dating, real-life singles sport elaborate makeup and prosthetics to put true blind-date chemistry to the test.

Dave: Season 2

Rapper/comedian Lil Dicky returns for the second chapter of his comedy about a neurotic mid-20s suburbanite who is is convinced he is destined to be a great rap star.

The Larkins: Season 1

Set in the late 1950s, this new take on The Darling Buds of May follows the golden-hearted wheeler dealer Pop Larkin (Bradley Walsh) and his wife Ma (Joanna Scanlan).

Angela Black: Season 1

Angela Black’s life appears idyllic, with a charismatic and hard-working husband, Olivier (Michiel Huisman). However, beneath this façade of charmed domesticity, Angela is also the victim of domestic abuse…

Scenes from a Marriage

Adapted from Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 Swedish classic and starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, Scenes from a Marriage reexamines the original’s iconic depiction of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage, and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple.

Reservation Dogs: Season 1

From Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, Reservation Dogs is a half-hour comedy series that follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, faraway land of California. The show’s first-of-its kind Indigenous creative team invites audiences into a surprisingly familiar and funny world. The series stars D’Pharoah Woon-A-Ta, Devery Jacobs, Paulina Alexis and Lane Factor. Episode 1 and 2 arrive together, then new episodes arrive weekly.

Just Beyond: Season 1

Inspired by the writings of RL Stine, Just Beyond is an eight-episode anthology series that tells astonishing and thought-provoking stories of a reality just beyond the one we know. Each episode introduces viewers to a new cast of characters who must go on a surprising journey of self-discovery in a supernatural world of witches, aliens, ghosts and parallel universes. All episodes arrive at once.

Another Life: Season 2

The sci-fi series, starring Katee Sackhoff, follows Commander Niko Breckinridge, who leads humanity’s first interstellar mission when a mysterious alien artefact lands on Earth.

Guilt: Season 2

The four-part sequel to Neil Forsyth’s darkly comic thriller picks up the action two years after the dramatic Season 1 finale, as two disparate brothers, Max (Mark Bonnar) and Jake (Jamie Sives), face the consequences of their guilt after accidentally killing an old man.

I Know What You Did Last Summer: Season 1

This eight-episode thriller is based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel, which was also the basis of the iconic 1997 film. Written and executive produced by Sara Goodman, the series is set one year after the fatal car accident that haunted a group of teenagers’s graduation night. They find themselves bound together by a dark secret and stalked by a brutal killer. As they try to piece together who’s after them, they reveal the dark side of their seemingly perfect town — and themselves. The first four episodes arrive at once, with the remaining four episodes released weekly.

Cobra: Season 2

Robert Carlyle is back as Prime Minister Robert Sutherland in the second season of the taught, suspenseful drama. In the aftermath of both the solar and political storm for Season 1, democracy is under threat from cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and subversive fake news movements. It’s up to Sutherland and his ever-dependable Chief of Staff Anna Marshhall (Victoria Hamilton) to steer the country on a more even course.

You: Season 3

They’re just the nice, normal neighbours next door… right? Any hope for that disappears the moment you start watching the trailer for the third chapter of this unsettling thriller, which sees Joe (Penn Badgley) settle down with his perfect partner – but simple domestic bliss is far from on the cards.

Succession: Season 3

Logan Roy begins Season 3 in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.

Fear The Walking Dead: Season 7

After the explosive end to Season 6 of The Walking Dead’s spin-off series, it is up to those who survived to decide what the new beginning will look like. Where the outside air is as deadly as the walkers they face, the survivors will find out who they really are and whether they can rise to the occasion.

Impeachment: American Crime Story

Written by Sarah Burgess, Impeachment unravels the national scandal that swept up Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters in the country’s first impeachment proceedings in over a century. It features a stellar cast, including Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky, and Annaleigh Ashford as Paula Jones. The limited series is based on Jeffrey Toobin’s bestselling book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story Of The Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down A President.

American Horror Story: Season 10

In American Horror Story: Double Feature, a struggling writer, his pregnant wife, and their daughter move to an isolated beach town for the winter. As they settle in, the town’s true residents make themselves known. American Horror Story: Double Feature is the 10th instalment of the horror anthology created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Episodes arrive weekly.

Leverage: Redemption: Season 1

The rich and powerful take what they want, and the Leverage team is back to take them down. Sophie Devereaux (The Grifter), Parker (The Thief), Eliot Spencer (The Hitter), and Alec Hardison (The Hacker) have watched the world change over the last eight years. It’s become easier—and sometimes legal—for the rich to become richer and the powerful to squash anyone who gets in their way. The Leverage team finds new blood in Harry Wilson, a corporate lawyer who is looking for redemption after realising he’s been sitting on the wrong side of the table for his entire career, and Breanna Casey, Hardison’s foster sister who has a knack for computers, robotics and getting into trouble.

Invasion, Season 1

This 10-episode science fiction drama series hails from writer/producer/director Simon Kinberg (“X-Men” films, “Deadpool” films, “The Martian”) and David Weil (“Hunters”), Set across multiple continents, “Invasion” follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. The series stars Shamier Anderson (“Bruised,” “Awake”), Golshifteh Farahani (“Extraction,” “Paterson,” “Body of Lies”), Sam Neill (“Jurassic World: Dominion,” “Peaky Blinders”), Firas Nassar (“Fauda”) and Shioli Kutsuna (“Deadpool 2,” “The Outsider”). The first three episodes arrive together, then arrive weekly.

Locke & Key: Season 2

Locke & Key follows 3 siblings who, after the murder of their father, move to their ancestral home only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities.

The Outlaws

Stephen Merchant’s comedy follows seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a Community Payback sentence in Bristol. At first, they seem like archetypes we can easily pigeonhole, but gradually we see behind their façades, understand their hidden depths and what made them the people they are today. We are reminded that no one is all good or all bad. Everyone has a story.

Frankie Boyle’s New World Order: Season 5

In an attempt to make sense of the bewildering world we live in, Frankie Boyle dissects the week’s news using stand-up, review, discussion and audience interaction. Returning for its fifth season, things kick off with guests Sophie Duker, Miles Jupp, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Rob Delaney and Erika Ehler.

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 11

Surviving a fatwa; barely navigating the post-#metoo landscape unscathed; pioneering an influential new retail model powered entirely by spite. All par for the course for Larry David – still living the good life out in Los Angeles and stumbling through one faux pas after another. Episodes arrive weekly after their US broadcast.

Stath Lets Flats: Season 3

From the award-winning writer-performer and comedian Jamie Demetriou (Fleabag), the series follows incompetent letting agent Stath (Demetriou). The six-part third season will pick up from the shock cliff-hanger ending of Season 2, as Stath is faced with rescuing the family business, Michael & Eagle, and his relationship with Katia. Meanwhile his sister, Sophie, and best friend, Al, deal with the fallout of finally declaring their feelings for each other.

The Good Fight: Season 5

In the fifth season of CBS’ hit legal drama, Diane (Christine Baranski) is forced to question whether it’s appropriate for her to help run an African-American law firm with Liz (Audra McDonald) when the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa (Sarah Steele) and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner (Mandy Patinkin), a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his own courtroom in the back of a copy shop.

Temple: Season 2

Mark Strong is back as Daniel Milton in the second series of the whip smart and morally ambiguous drama. Season 1 saw Daniel look after his wife, Beth, in an illicit clinic underneath Temple tube station. But Season 2 sees everything come crashing down. Rhys Ifans joins the cast as the unpredictable underworld fixer Gubby.

Colin in Black and White: Season 1

Some people play the game. Others change it. From Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay, follow the path of one ordinary high school kid who became extraordinary. Jaden Michael stars as young Colin Kaepernick in Colin in Black & White.

Doctor Who: Season 13

Jodie Whittaker returns for her final full season as the Doctor – three specials will follow in 2022 – and is joined for the six-episode story by Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Dan Lewis (John Bishop) plus recurring ally Vinder (Jacob Anderson). Opposite them will be a gist of returning monsters – Sontarans, Weeping Angels, Cybermen, and the Ood – as well as a range of new additions, one of whom is named Karvanista.

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