VOD News | On 26, Oct 2025

Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Apple TV+. Paramount+. All 4. 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 2025 UK TV highlights – what’s worth watching and where you can stream it online in the UK.

Week 1

 

How Are You? It’s Alan Partridge

Alan Partridge returns to make Britain’s first ever documentary about mental health.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story

You know the iconic horror films his twisted legacy inspired, but you may not know his name… yet. This October, Ryan Murphy’s Monster Anthology Series returns with its third – and darkest – season yet.

Frauds

Suranne Jones (Maryland, Vigil) and Jodie Whittaker (Time, Doctor Who) star in this thriller about complex duo Bert and Sam, whose intertwined past resurfaces in the setting of Southern Spain after a decade of separation. As Sam has sought a low-key life, Bert’s release from a Spanish prison for compassionate reasons reignites her ambition for one final, significant score. On the pretext of one final, multi-million-pound art heist, Bert attempts to lure Sam out of retirement, but at what cost? Can Sam stay one step ahead of her former friend, who is clearly capable of treachery? Or will the push and pull of their toxic friendship see them both ruined before they are able to pull off the job?

Saturday Night Live: Season 51

Get ready for a fresh batch of hosts and musical guests… Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night! Stretching into its second half-century, the US late-night comedy institution returns to Sky ahead of the launch of the highly anticipated UK edition next year.

Film Club

For Evie (Aimee Lou Wood), film club is her weekly escape – a chance to create a world of wonder, deck her mum’s garage out in whatever the movie calls for, and spend a few uninterrupted hours with her best friend Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan). Filled with warmth and wit, Film Club is about love, family, whether we should follow our hearts or heads, and falling in love with a friend.

Murder Before Evensong

Murder mystery drama starring Matthew Lewis, based on Reverend Richard Coles’s novel.

The Celebrity Traitors

Claudia Winkleman returns for a star-studded version of the competition series. Episodes arrive on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Dreaming Whilst Black: Season 2

The new season of Adjani Salmon’s brilliant comedy finds Kwabena at the start of his professional career in a new era: the age of diversity, equity and inclusion, where empowering marginalized voices are seemingly at the top of everyone’s agenda. Whilst the entertainment industry might look progressive from the outside, it doesn’t feel that way to Kwabs.

Victoria Beckham: Season 1

Step into Victoria Beckham’s London atelier, as the Spice Girl-turned-powerhouse designer opens up about her life while preparing for Paris Fashion Week. From the makers of the Emmy award-winning Beckham and the director of Michelle Obama’s Becoming.

Grey’s Anatomy: Season 22

After a catastrophic hospital explosion, Grey Sloan’s staff scrambles to save not only their patients’ lives but also their own. Confronted with impossible surgical decisions and emotional turmoil, they fight to preserve life amid devastation.

The Last Frontier

The 10-episode thriller follows Frank Remnick (Jason Clarke), the lone U.S. marshal in charge of the quiet, rugged barrens of Alaska. Remnick’s jurisdiction is turned upside down when a prison transport plane crashes in the remote wilderness, setting free dozens of violent inmates. Tasked with protecting the town he’s vowed to keep safe, he begins to suspect the crash wasn’t an accident, but the first step of a well-crafted plan with far-reaching and devastating implications. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive together, followed by episodes weekly until the finale on 5th December.

Week 2

 

Riot Women

No apologies – just noise. Five fierce women crank up the volume to get their voices heard. Sally Wainwright’s riotous drama with Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig and Rosalie Craig.

The Chair Company

Former SNL writers Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin – the creators of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson – are back with a new labyrinthine mystery-comedy. After an embarrassing incident at work, William Ronald “Ron” Trosper (Robinson) finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy. Also starring Lake Bell, Sophia Lillis, Will Price and Lou Diamond Phillips. Episodes arrive weekly.

Murdaugh: Death in the Family

Maggie and Alex enjoy a lavish life of privilege as members of one of South Carolina’s most powerful legal dynasties. But when their son Paul is involved in a deadly boat crash, the family is faced with a test unlike any they’ve ever encountered. As details come to light and new challenges emerge, the family’s connections to several mysterious deaths raise questions which threaten everything Maggie and Alex hold dear. Inspired by the popular Murdaugh Murders Podcast, and starring Jason Clarke as Alex Murdaugh and Patricia Arquette as Maggie Murdaugh.

Loot: Season 3

Season 3 of the Apple TV+ comedy continues to follow the antics of the beloved group of misfits at the Wells Foundation as they work together so Molly can live up to her promise of giving away all of her vast fortune. Alongside Maya Rudolph, the returning ensemble cast includes Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Nat Faxon, Ron Funches and Joel Kim Booster. The first two of 10 episodes arrive together, followed by episodes weekly until 10th December.

The Diplomat: Season 3

Caught in a whirlwind of crisis diplomacy, Kate must navigate a fragile new administration and a deadly threat with world-shaping consequences. No alliance lasts forever.

The Iris Affair

When enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Algar) cracks a string of complex online puzzles, she’s led to a piazza in Florence where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Hollander). He invites her to come and work for him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device’s activation sequence – and vanishes. The first four episodes arrive over two days, followed by episodes weekly.

Mr Scorsese

Mr Scorsese is a film portrait of a man through the lens of his work, exploring the many facets of a visionary who redefined filmmaking, including his extraordinary career and unique personal history. With exclusive, unrestricted access to Martin Scorsese’s private archives, the documentary series is anchored by extensive conversations with the filmmaker himself and never-before-seen interviews with friends, family and creative collaborators. All five episodes arrive together.

Leonard and Hungry Paul

A gentle, meandering tale of friendship, board games and finding your way in the world. Starring Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell.

Week 3

 

The Ridge

Lauren Lyle stars in this psychological thriller about Mia, who is fleeing addiction and leaving behind a professional life in tatters in Scotland. She accepts a wedding invitation from her estranged sister in New Zealand – only to find the would-be-bride dead upon arrival. Caught up in grief and pulled by a dark attraction to her late-sister’s fiancé Ewan (Jay Ryan), Mia soon finds that familiarity among a small community breeds secrets and tensions, endangering the brittle fabric of the town itself. Directed and co-written by Douglas Mackinnon and created by novelist Nora Chassler. The series debuts on BBC Scotland and will air on BBC from 23rd October.

Harlan Coben’s Lazarus: Season 1

Harlan Coben’s Lazarus follows Joel Lazarus (Sam Claflin) who returns home after his father Dr. Jonathan Lazarus (Bill Nighy) dies by suicide and begins to have disturbing experiences that can’t be explained. He quickly becomes entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he grapples with the mystery of his father’s death and his sister’s murder 25 years ago.

Nobody Wants This: Season 2

The beloved comedy series, Nobody Wants This, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody returns for a second season. Joanne and Noah’s whirlwind romance encounters some turbulence as they deal with family drama, career struggles and one very big looming question.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Season 3

The Walking Dead universe returns to our screens for the third instalment of Daryl Dixon’s post-apocalyptic odyssey. Season three follows Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) as they continue their journey to somehow return home and to the ones they love. As they struggle to find their way back, the path takes them farther astray, leading them through distant lands with ever-changing and unfamiliar conditions as they witness the various effects of the Walker apocalypse. All episodes arrive together.

Week 4

 

Trigger Point: Season 3

Lana Washington (Vicky McClure) and her team of bomb disposal officers – known as Expo’s – return as they dedicate themselves to keeping the capital safe from explosive devices and terrorist threats. Season 3 sees the experienced team investigate a bomb threat that soon reveals itself to be the start of a sinister vendetta: someone is targeting individuals and demanding revenge. Working alongside the Police Counterterrorism Unit, the Bomb Disposal Squad race against time to find the bomber before they claim their next victim.

IT: Welcome to Derry

A drama set in the world of Stephen King’s IT universe, IT: Welcome to Derry is based on King’s IT novel and expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films IT and “IT Chapter Two. Episodes arrive weekly.

Star Wars: Visions: Season 3

Nine celebrated anime studios join forces to create an anthology of Star Wars short stories, including returning contributors Kamikaze Douga, Kinema citrus Co., Production I.G, and TRIGGER, plus five new studios: ANIMA (in co-production with Kamikaze Douga), david production, Polygon Pictures, Project Studio Q and WIT Studio.

Down Cemetery Road

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbor Sarah Trafford (Ruth Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Emma Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. The first two of eight episodes arrive at once, with episodes then arriving weekly until the finale on 10th December.

The Witcher: Season 4

The Continent awaits, as Liam Hemsworth steps into the shoes of Geralt of Rivia.

Tales of the Walking Dead

This anthology series features six life-or-death, high-stakes stories of survival set against the walker apocalypse

Return to Paradise: Season 2

DI Mackenzie Clarke’s made a name for herself in London. Now she’s back in the last place she wants to be – her hometown of Dolphin Cove, Australia. Anna Samson returns for Season 2 of the spin-off from Death in Paradise, which sees Mackenzie solving more perplexing cases, while grappling with her ex-fiancé, Glenn (Tai Hara), still having feelings for her.

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