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Top 5 new streaming shows
1) Watson Season 1 – 27 Jan (Paramount+)
Series. A year after the death of his friend and partner Sherlock Holmes (a consulting detective you might have heard of previously) at the hands of Moriarty, Dr. John Watson resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders.
Watson’s old life isn’t done with him, though – Moriarty and Watson are set to write their own chapter of a story that has fascinated audiences for more than a century.
Yas!
Starring Tommy O’Brien, Eve Harlow and Morris Chestnut.
2) Optics – 29 Jan (ABC iview)
Australian comedy series. Written by and starring Jenna Owen, Vic Zerbst and Charles Firth, Optics follows two whip-smart 20-something women (Owen and Zerbst) who are unexpectedly promoted to run crisis management PR firm Fritz & Randell, after the death of office patriarch Frank Fritz.
As they battle weekly public relations crises from celebrities, sports stars and corporate titans, and power challenges from veteran PR flack Ian Randell (Firth), they slowly come to realise that their firm might have a scandal brewing of its own, and start to wonder: have they been set up to fail?
High hopes for this one!
3) Mythic Quest Season 4 – 29 Jan (Apple TV+)
Series. Back under the same fluorescent office lights, the reunited team at Mythic Quest (the biggest multiplayer game of all time) confronts new challenges among a changing video game landscape as stars rise, egos clash, relationships bloom and everyone tries to have a little more ‘work work’ life balance.
You can expect entertainment with a suitably nerdy hoot.
From creators Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz, the comedy ensemble stars alongside McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, Jessie Ennis and Naomi Ekperigin.
And yep, Seasons 1–3 are currently available to stream on Apple TV+, so get off that PS5 or whatever it is you’re playing on and start watching …
4) Playing Nice – 29 Jan (SBS On Demand)
Series. Playing Nice is based on the JP Delaney book of the same name. Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child
Couple Pete (James Norton) and Maddie (Niamh Algar) are thrown into the world of the other couple, Miles (James McArdle) and Lucy (Jessica Brown Findlay). But while they initially agree on a solution, Pete and Maddie soon learn they can’t trust the other couple, and ulterior motives are at play.
As tensions escalate, Pete and Maddie are forced to go to extreme lengths to protect their family.
5) The Recruit Season 2 – 30 Jan (Netflix)
Series. A new graymail case sends Owen to Seoul, where a spy threatens to leak US secrets unless the CIA assists him on a dangerous personal mission.
Starring Noah Centineo, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn, Fivel Stewart and Kristian Bruun.
