David Farnor | On 21, Sep 2018

Autumn is here and that means nights in on the sofa on increasingly dark evenings. Fortunately, there’s no end of things to catch up with on NOW or Sky before they depart from the streaming ether.

Sky’s box set collection is bidding farewell to The Night Of, The Sopranos, Succession, Sharp Objects and a whole host of ITV classics, such as Victoria, Cold Feet and Broadchurch.

Sky Cinema, meanwhile, is waving goodbye to a diverse array of movies, from Frozen and The Girl with All the Gifts to Doctor Strange and Nocturnal Animals.

Whichever you subscribe to, this coming month is your last chance to stream the following:

 

TV

The Sopranos: Season 1 to 6 – 22nd September

Every episode of the multi-award-winning mob drama – named the best-written television show in history by the Writers Guild of America – returns to Sky Box Sets. Over the course of six seasons, James Gandolfini and a superb ensemble cast, including Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli, deal with myriad personal and professional problems, from power struggles and affairs, to violence and the threat of exposure and betrayal. Hailed as a masterpiece by critics, The Sopranos is one not to miss.

Sharp Objects: Season 1 – 26th September

Amy Adams is exceptional in this intriguing psychological thriller based on Gillian Flynn’s novel. Adams plays Camille Preaker, a reporter who returns to her small hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Trying to put together a psychological puzzle from her past, she finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too closely. Patricia Clarkson provides chilling support as her controlling mother, while director Jean-Marc Vallée (Big Little Lies) stitches the pieces of the mystery together with a lyrical style that allows flashbacks to bleed into the plot and weaves historical trauma into the present.

Broadchurch: Season 1 – 30th September

“I can’t be outside. I don’t want to be.” That’s DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) to DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) in Broadchurch Season 1. The ITV drama follows their investigation into the death of a local boy – 11-year-old Danny Latimer – who is found lying on a beach. When forensics suggest strangulation rather than suicide, the familiar procedural plot begins to unravel. But Broadchurch is more than a compellingly plotted and densely layered crime thriller: it’s a study in grief that reverberates with humanity, even as it pulls it apart. A tragedy, the saying goes, can bring people together. This is a distressingly brilliant piece of television.

Victoria: 1 and 2 – 30th September

Jenna Coleman is magnificent in ITV’s royal drama.

The Gifted: Season 1 – 30th September

A new series set in the X-Men universe, The Gifted tells the emotional story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their teenage children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family seeks help from an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.

Marcella: Season 1 and 2 – 30th September

Co-created by Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge), ITV’s crime thriller brings Scandinavian chill to the streets of London, as we follow police detective Marcella, whose husband leaves her just as a serial killer appears to return out of her past. Anna Friel delivers an impeccable performance, making for a compelling binge-watch.

Cold Feet: Season 1 to 7 – 30th September

The idea of watching an ITV drama that first premiered in 1997 might sound odd in 2018, but Cold Feet came back to our screens just in time for its 20th anniversary, and the revival reminded us exactly why it was such a hit to begin with. Written and created by Mike Bullen, the series stars Adam (James Nesbitt), Pete (Robert Bathurst), Jenny (Fay Ripley), David (John Thomson) and Karen (Hermione Norris), a group of friends in Manchester, whose love lives and professional careers inevitably interweave and intersect. Cold Feet’s signature style was rooted in rat-a-tat dialogue and whip-smart editing, and that witty back-and-forth between the quartet (both in episodes new and old) remains as rapid, amusing and heartfelt as ever. With each character given equal screen-time, and the ensemble on fine form, who says reunions are always a bad thing?

Succession: Season 1 – 4th October

In the Loop’s Jesse Armstrong is on scathingly sharp form with this new drama about a wealthy New York family, whose dynasty slowly begins to crumble. Brian Cox rants his way through board rooms and living rooms alike as the bullying patriarch who refuses to name a successor – sending each of his heirs into a ruthless scramble to take up the company’s mantle. Jeremy Strong is superb as Kendall, the needy second eldest son who is in pole position for the empire, but it’s Matthew Macfadyen as clueless waste-of-space Tom and Kieran Culkin as flying-high rich kid Roman who steal the show. Darkly hilarious, watching wealthy people being nasty shouldn’t be this gripping or compelling.

Futurama: Season 1 to 4 – 14th October

“Welcome! To the world of tomorrow!”

 

Other TV shows leaving in September / October 2018:

23rd September
Early Doors: Season 1
The Royle Family: Season 1 to 3

24th September
Shades Of Blue: Season 1 and 2

27th September
Our Cartoon President: Season 1

29th September
Big Time In Hollywood Fl: Season 1
Naked And Afraid XL: Season 3
Robson Green’s Australian Adventure: Season 1
South Park: Season 16 to 18

30th September
Jordskott II: Season 1 and 2
Liar: Season 1
Modern Family: Season 6
Prime Suspect: Season 1 to 7
Prime Suspect 1973: Season 1
The Durrells: Season 1 and 2
The Only Way Is Essex: Season 1 to 12
Threesome: Season 2
The Only Way Is Essex: Season 12 to 21
The Only Way is Essexmas
The Smoke: Season 1
Vera: Season 1 to 7
Da Ali G Show: Season 1 and 2
100 Code: Season 1
Ashley Banjo’s Big Town Dance: Season 1
Benidorm: Season 1 to 10
Discovering: Yves Saint Laurent: Season 1
Doc Martin: Season 1 to 8
Endeavour: Season 1 to 5
Grantchester: Season 1 to 3

1st October
The River: Season 1

2nd October
David Jason: My Life on Screen: Season 1
The Blacklist: Season 2
UFOs: The Lost Evidence: Season 1

3rd October
I’m Dying Up Here: Season 2
The Blacklist: Season 1

4th October
Cooper’s Treasure: Season 2

5th October
Catfish: The TV Show: Season 7

6th October
Inside Evil: Season 1

7th October
Stan Lee’s Lucky Man: Season 1 to 3

9th October
Close Encounters: Season 2

10th October
The Librarians: Season 1 to 4

11th October
Deadliest Catch: Season 14

12th October
Bitten: Season 1 to 3

13th October
Akira Kurosawa: The Directors: Season 1
Law & Order True Crime: Season 1

15th October
Detroiters: Season 2
FlashForward: Season 1
Spanish Civil War with Michael Portillo: Season 1
Killjoys: Season 1 to 3

16th October
House Of Lies: Season 3

 

Movies

Doctor Strange – 23rd September

Benedict Cumberbatch delivers a charismatic lead performance in this overly familiar but visually stunning Marvel blockbuster.

Queen of Katwe – 24th September

A chess movie starring David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o with a moving maternal bond at its centre? Checkmate.

Air Force One – 26th September

Air Force One is, without a doubt, the greatest movie about Air Force One ever made. Harrison Ford as the US President? Gary Oldman as a Russian terrorist? A plane where the electrical wiring is colour-coded red, white and blue? This is wonderfully trashy stuff with an old-fashioned bombastic score. (Interesting fact: Randy Newman was originally hired to do the soundtrack.) After all, there’s nothing to make you feel more patriotic than Indiana Jones punching a foreigner in the face and shouting “GET OFF MY PLANE.”

Frozen – 26th September

A tale of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, this charming Disney flick is more a tale of female relationships than a rom-com or adventure – refreshing, amusing and moving stuff. It leads a wave of Disney films all leaving at the end of the month, including Finding Nemo, Lilo & Stitch, The Aristocats, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets Most Wanted, The Muppet Movie, Up, Zootropolis, The Incredibles and the Toy Story trilogy.

The Lone Ranger – 1st October

Misjudged or misunderstood? Gore Verbinski’s take on the iconic Western character sees Armie Hammer wear the mask of outlaw Reid and Johnny Depp don the face paints of his sidekick, Tonto. Whatever your view on the film, the finale – complete with an arrangement of the famous theme by Geoff Zanelli and Hans Zimmer – is rousing stuff.

The Girl With All The Gifts – 6th October

Following a deadly fungal outbreak, survivors live in secure military bases while the infected roam outside as mindless, flesh-eating ‘hungries’. But children born to hungries are different – they can think. Although treated like dangerous animals, symptomatic youngsters like Melanie (newcomer Sennia Nanua) are key to any cure. So when the base is breached, Melanie finds herself accompanying her kindly teacher Helen (Gemma Arterton), chief scientist Caldwell (Glenn Close) and skeptical soldier Parks (Paddy Considine) on the ultimate survival mission. Eerie, intelligent, moving horror.

Nocturnal Animals – 12th October

Icy LA gallery owner Susan (Amy Adams) receives the manuscript of an unpublished novel from her ex-husband Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal), the man whose heart she broke two decades before. She reads the novel, which tells the terrifying story a family terrorised by a wild gang on a remote stretch of desert road. Then she realises that Tony may be trying to tell her something… Michael Shannon and a menacing Aaron Taylor-Johnson lend mesmerising support to writer-director Tom Ford’s chilling and compellingly layered tale of revenge.

 

Other movies leaving Sky Cinema and NOW in September / October 2018:

23rd September
Life On The Line
The Hurricane Heist

24th September
Australia

25th September
Beautiful Devils

26th September
101 Dalmatians (1996)
101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
A Street Cat Named Bob
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Arachnophobia
Atlantis II: Milo’s Return
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
BURN-E
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3
Blank Cheque
Boundin’
Candleshoe
Chicken Little
Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen
Cruel Summer
Dick Tracy
Disney’s Teacher’s Pet
Dug’s Special Mission
Fantasia
Finding Dory
Finding Nemo
For The Birds
Freaky Friday
Heavyweights
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Homeward Bound II: Lost In San Francisco
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
Ice Princess
Into The Woods
Invincible
Jack-Jack Attack
Jungle 2 Jungle
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
Kronk’s New Groove
Leroy & Stitch
Lifted
Lilo & Stitch
Maleficent
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
Mike’s New Car
Mulan
Mulan II
Muppet Treasure Island
Muppets Most Wanted
My Favorite Martian
News Boys
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
Old Dogs
One Magic Christmas
Operation Dumbo Drop
Ouija: Origin Of Evil
Paperman
Partly Cloudy
Party Central
Pete’s Dragon
Piglet’s Big Movie
Planes 2: Fire & Rescue
Pocahontas
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
Pooh’s Grand Adventure
Presto
Prom
Race To Witch Mountain
Remember The Titans
Return To Oz
Robin Hood
Secretariat
Snow White and The Seven Dwarves
Spooky Buddies
Tarzan II
Terminator Salvation
Tex
The Aristocats
The Big Green
The Black Hole
The Emperor’s New Groove
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Muppet Caper
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame II
The Many Adventures Of Winnie the Pooh
The Muppet Movie
The Return Of Jafar
The Shaggy Dog
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
The Sword in the Stone
The Tigger Movie
Tinker Bell
Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue
Tinker Bell And The Legend of the NeverBeast
Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
Tinker Bell And The Pirate Fairy
Tron
Up
Willow
Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
Your Friend The Rat
Zootropolis

27th September
Denzel Washington: Reel Life
Mr. Magoo
Planes

29th September
The Infiltrator
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

30th September
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
A Shot In The Dark
After Love
Batman
Batman Returns
College Road Trip
Days Of Thunder
Dog Eat Dog
Eddie Murphy Raw
Enchanted
Escape From L.A.
Flubber
Girl, Interrupted
Hercules
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Home Alone 3
I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
Indecent Proposal
Million Dollar Arm
Monster Family
My Internship In Canada
Oliver & Company
Shaft (2000)
Son Of Flubber
Spider-Man 2
The Bridge On The River Kwai
The Dark Knight
The French Connection II
The Here After
The Incredibles
The Karate Kid Part II
The Little Mermaid II: Return…
The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s…
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Wall Street
What We Become
Year One

2nd October
The Birth of a Nation

3rd October
The Machinist

5th October
Pet (2016)

7th October
Anon

8th October
Troy

14th October
Finding Altamira
Max Payne
The Day The Earth Stood Still

18th October
You Don’t Mess With The Zohan

19th October
Super Furry Animals
Why Him?

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