Must-see TV shows
For its part, Netflix has Japanese-set episodes of popular reality series Queer Eye (November 1) and more The End of The F… World (November 5). Amazon Prime Video has new seasons of Jack Ryan (November 1) and The Man in the High Castle (November 15).
Sky TV’S Soho channels see the return of Ray Donovan (November 18) and Pose (November 1), while Jones! boasts We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story (November 13) and the star-studded Norman Lear celebration Live in Front of a Studio Audience (November 18).
Fans of free-to-air TV are also catered for via new series of The Simpsons (TVNZ2, November 3) and The Great New Zealand Bake Off (TVNZ2, November 3), a celebration of 50 Years of TVNZ News (TVNZ1, November 1), a Grand Designs-spinoff subtitled The Street (TV3) and the BBC’S latest nature series, Serengeti (TVNZ1).
Here are the eight TV shows and movies we’re most excited about diving into. Game of Thrones hole in its schedule with this lavish adaptation of Philip Pullman’s much-admired series of books set in an alternative world where all humans have animal companions called daemons. A co-production with the
BBC, the cast of this first, eight-part season includes Ruth Wilson, James Mcavoy, Linmanuel Miranda and Logan’s Dafne Keen.
Live-action Star Wars comes to the small screen with Jon Favreau’s space western set five years after the fall of the Empire as depicted in Return of the Jedi and 25 years before the emergence of The Force Awakens’ First Order.
The eclectic list of actors include Nick Nolte, Carl Weathers, Werner Herzog and our own Taika Waititi.
Hollywood heavy hitters Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell combine for this 10-part TV newsroomset dramedy.
Aniston plays a veteran anchor who is struggling to retain her job after her co-presenter is fired because of a sexual harassment scandal.
Based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta (Election, Little Children, The Leftovers), this comedy focuses on a woman (Bad Moms’ Kathryn Hahn) facing a midlife crisis. While her son heads off to college, she experiences a sexual reawakening. ‘‘Offers up wit, intelligence and a remarkable central performance,’’ wrote The Guardian’s Benjamin Lee.