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The Best New TV Shows to Stream in Australia: November 2026
Don't want to be left out of lunch break conversations of what's hot in the world of streaming right now? Here's what you need to watch ASAP.
Wondering what to watch on streaming in Australia this November? From Keira Knightley’s return in Black Doves and the next chapter of The Gilded Age to the long-awaited Blade Runner 2099, there’s plenty to add to your watchlist across Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ and more.
Whether you’re after an addictive new drama, a little high-society scandal or a true-crime story to get lost in, these are the best new TV shows streaming in Australia now and coming soon, with a few December releases worth keeping on your radar, too.
In This Guide
What’s New on Netflix Australia in November 2026
The New Stanford Prison Experiment
What happens when ordinary people are given total power over others? The new TV adaptation of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment is tackling one of psychology’s most disturbing studies, and we’re still trying to wrap our heads around how they’re going to bring it to the screen. The original 1971 experiment saw student volunteers assigned the roles of guards and prisoners in a simulated jail, with the situation escalating so dramatically that the study was shut down after just six days. Now, that unsettling real-life premise is being revisited for a new audience, and we have so many questions about how it’ll play out. How quickly will the power dynamics shift? What happens when the people in charge start pushing boundaries? And just how uncomfortable is this series about to make us? We’re sat.
Black Doves
Keira Knightley is back as Helen, the spy juggling a secret life and a very public marriage, as Black Doves returns for season two. With her husband Wallace on the path to becoming Prime Minister, keeping her double life under wraps is about to get a whole lot trickier. When her handler lands in hot water, Helen turns to her old friend Sam, played by Ben Whishaw, a former elite hitman whose own life has taken a decidedly quieter turn. With old enemies resurfacing and loyalties getting messy, expect plenty of sharp wit, stylish espionage and the kind of twists that make one more episode feel inevitable.
Streaming on Netflix from November 5
The Altruists
The FTX collapse is getting the prestige-drama treatment, with Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle playing crypto’s spectacularly ill-fated power couple. The Altruists follows Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried as two fiercely ambitious young idealists set out to reshape global finance, fall in love and eventually find themselves at the centre of an alleged US$8 billion fraud. Netflix is pitching them as Gen Z’s Bonnie and Clyde, while Barack and Michelle Obama are among the executive producers. Safe to say, this one has our attention.
Streaming on Netflix from November 19
Nobody Wants This, Season 3
Joanne and Noah have made it through the breakups, family drama and one very public will-they-won’t-they. Now comes the bit rom-coms usually skip — living together. The Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated series is back for a third season, with its creators calling what’s ahead “pure Champagne”, a fitting promise for more fizz, butterflies and romantic complications.
As the couple settles into life together, Joanne’s conversion brings a few new characters into the mix, from a quirky rabbi and her conversion-class nemesis to Amber, who is on her own mission to find a Jewish husband. Another new face brings a fresh complication for Joanne, while Sasha tests the dating apps and Morgan’s career takes off.
In a rare but welcome move, all ten episodes drop at once, making this one a particularly easy binge-watch.
Streaming on Netflix from October 22
The Diplomat, Season 4
The Diplomat returns with eight episodes of fast-talking political drama and the kind of intoxicating relationship dysfunction you simply can’t look away from. Created by Debora Cahn, who spent four seasons writing and producing The West Wing, it follows Kate Wyler (Keri Russell), a whip-smart US ambassador juggling international relations and a complicated marriage to her smooth-talking, line-crossing husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell). Political power plays keeps them darting from crisis to crisis, while marital arguments unfold like high-stakes negotiations. With perfect pacing and palpable cast chemistry, you’ll be rushing from one episode to the next before Googling “shows like The Diplomat” to feed your obsession.
What’s New on Prime Video in November 2026
Blade Runner 2099
With AI becoming everyone’s favourite existential crisis, Blade Runner couldn’t have picked a better moment to return. Set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049, this eight-part miniseries finds Los Angeles under Replicant control, with humans relegated to second-class citizens. Hunter Schafer plays a fugitive masquerading as a Blade Runner, while Michelle Yeoh is a dying Replicant with precious little time left. Ridley Scott executive produces this dystopian homecoming, where the line between human and artificial feels more uncomfortably relevant than ever.
Stream on Prime Video, from November 25
Carrie
Prom night is about to get bloody again. Mike Flanagan, one of our horror heroes and the brilliant mind behind The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, is giving Stephen King’s Carrie its first television adaptation, dragging Carrie White’s nightmare into the social-media age. Summer H. Howell stars as the bullied teenager whose increasingly brutal high-school experience coincides with the awakening of her telekinetic powers, alongside Samantha Sloyan, Matthew Lillard and Amber Midthunder. All eight episodes arrive at once, so there goes your evening come October 7.
Streaming on Prime Video from October 7
What’s New on Paramount+ in November 2026
The Gilded Age, Season 4
Consider this our standing invitation back into New York’s most scandal-prone drawing rooms. The Gilded Age returns for season four, with Carrie Coon back as Bertha Russell, whose ambitious social climbing is set to have consequences, while the ever-formidable Agnes van Rhijn, played by Christine Baranski, sees a chance to reclaim her place in society. Elsewhere, Marian is finding her own way and Peggy is navigating the delicate business of winning over her future in-laws. Between lavish period costumes, simmering rivalries and society’s ever-shifting pecking order, there’s plenty to get dressed up for.
Streaming on Paramount+ from November 2
Yellowjackets, Season 4
The wilderness is finally ready to give up its last secrets. Yellowjackets returns for its fourth and final season with the teenage timeline creeping ever closer to rescue, while the adult survivors scramble to stop everything they buried from following them home. Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Hilary Swank are all back, with an old flame roaring into town to make an already unstable situation worse. After four seasons of cannibalism, cults, secrets and spectacularly bad coping mechanisms, we might finally get some answers.
Streaming on Paramount+ from November 20
What’s New on Disney+ in November 2026
Rivals (Season 2, Part 2)
The Cotswolds have never been so magnificently badly behaved. Jilly Cooper’s gloriously scandalous Rivals returns for six more episodes of champagne-fuelled excess, sexual politics and spectacular betrayals. Following that devastating mid-season finale, David Tennant’s ruthless Tony Baddingham has scores to settle, while Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) faces the increasingly inconvenient prospect of emotional maturity. Throw in a vicious television franchise war, some extraordinarily questionable decisions and enough 1980s decadence to bankrupt a small county. We’re seated.
Stream on Disney+, from November 11
Adults, Season 2
If Friends were made for people with private stories, fake IDs and an unhealthy awareness of their digital footprint, it might look a lot like Adults. FX’s very funny Gen Z hangout comedy is back with its five codependent Queens housemates entering what the creators have dubbed their “f**king and feeling phase of life”. Season 2 picks up after Anton and Paul Baker’s chaotic marriage-and-kiss situation, then piles on quarter-life crises, dating disasters and the creeping horror of real responsibility. Raven-Symoné, Gaten Matarazzo and Zosia Mamet also drop by. Fair warning though: it’s far too easy to binge in one sitting…
What’s New on BINGE in November 2026
Dig
Amy Poehler and Hugh Laurie are heading to Greece for a comedy that proves a little archaeological curiosity can go a long way. Dig follows a team of archaeologists and a less-than-enthusiastic group of university students spending their summer at an excavation site, where the discovery of a rare artefact sends their plans delightfully off course. With Parks and Recreation favourite Poehler teaming up with The Good Place creator Mike Schur behind the scenes, expectations are high for this new comedy. The full 10-episode series drops at once, making it an easy addition to your next binge-watch list.
Streaming on BINGE from November 23
American Horror Story: 13
Ryan Murphy is raiding the American Horror Story archives for lucky number 13. Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates and Emma Roberts are among the all-star alumni returning, alongside familiar nightmares including Constance Langdon, Cordelia Goode, Madison Montgomery, Marie Laveau, Rubber Man and Twisty the Clown. The 13 half-hour episodes effectively play like an AHS greatest-hits reunion, reconnecting characters and stories from across the anthology before a fitting Halloween finale. If you abandoned the franchise somewhere around Season 9, this might be the reason to come crawling back.
What’s New on HBO Max in November 2026
War
Sienna Miller and Dominic West are getting the divorce from hell in War, a sharp new legal drama from the creator of Lupin and Hijack. West plays tech mogul Morgan Henderson opposite Miller’s international movie star Carla Duval, whose explosive separation becomes the case every London lawyer wants to win. Two powerhouse firms take opposing sides, dragging their partners, associates and clients into a battle fuelled by money, ambition, betrayal and reputations with plenty to lose. Archie Renaux, Nina Sosanya, Phoebe Fox and James McArdle join the seriously good cast.
Streaming on HBO Max from October 1
What’s New on Apple TV in November 2026
Brothers
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have spent years joking that they might actually be brothers. Now they’ve turned the rumour into television. In Brothers, the longtime friends play fictionalised versions of themselves whose lives implode when McConaughey’s mother, played by Holland Taylor, lets slip a decades-old family secret suggesting they could share a father. Woody promptly moves his family onto Matthew’s Texas ranch and starts digging for answers, while Matthew considers an equally chaotic run for Governor of Texas.
The best bit? The brother theory comes from a very real revelation made by McConaughey’s own mum years ago.
Nocturne
Stephen Graham as a serial killer is enough to make this an immediate yes. Apple TV’s new 10-part crime thriller stars Liev Schreiber as Jonah Lynn, an ex-soldier turned homicide detective who leaves Philadelphia for a quieter life in small-town Pennsylvania, only for killer Jurek Walter to start circling his family and community.
Zazie Beetz plays FBI agent Saga Bauer, who goes undercover to get close enough to Walter to uncover what happened to his last missing victim, while Graham brings exactly the level of menace you’d expect to the role of the man at the centre of it all.
Based on Lars Kepler’s Lazarus and The Sandman, this is all cat-and-mouse tension, bruised detectives and the sort of serial-killer psychology that makes one episode accidentally become four.
Streaming on Apple TV from October 30
What’s New on Stan in November 2026
American Hostage
Jon Hamm is stepping back into the ’70s for a true-crime story so wild it hardly needs embellishment. In 1977, Indianapolis radio reporter Fred Heckman is pulled into a terrifying 63-hour hostage crisis when gunman Tony Kiritsis, played by Giovanni Ribisi, demands to speak to him live on air. With a mortgage broker being held at gunpoint and every word capable of changing what happens next, Heckman suddenly finds himself doing far more than reporting the news. Based on the gripping true story, American Hostage turns one of America’s strangest media spectacles into a tense psychological thriller.
What’s New on 10 Play in November 2026
The Celebrity Traitors UK
If you thought watching strangers lie to each other in a Scottish castle was addictive, just wait until you add a few familiar faces to the mix. The Celebrity Traitors UK is back for a second season and to say we’re excited is an understatement. As always, Claudia Winkleman will preside over all the devious proceedings, with celebs including James Blunt, Maya Jama, Miranda Hart, Joe Lycett and Bella Ramsey all swapping their day jobs for a game of secret identities and backstabbing. With all these comedians, actors, broadcasters and musicians trying to sniff out the Traitors (or get away with being one), we just know it’s going to be entertainment central. So, get ready to shout at the screen and discuss the latest round-table revelations with the person sitting next to you, and consider our evenings officially booked out.
Coming to Streaming in Australia: December 2026
Pride and Prejudice
Another Mr Darcy is preparing to ruin our standards. Dolly Alderton is writing Netflix’s new six-part Pride and Prejudice, with Emma Corrin stepping into Elizabeth Bennet’s muddy boots and Slow Horses star Jack Lowden taking on Darcy. Olivia Colman is Mrs Bennet, while Rufus Sewell, Daryl McCormack, Louis Partridge and Jamie Demetriou join the ensemble. Netflix is promising a witty, intimate spin on Austen’s enemies-to-lovers blueprint, and the first glimpse already has us emotionally invested.
Coming to Netflix in December 2026
The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey
For true crime fans, this is one of those cases you’ve probably fallen down a late-night rabbit hole about. Nearly 30 years on, one of America’s most infamous unsolved murders is getting the limited-series treatment. The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey revisits the 1996 killing of six-year-old JonBenét and the media frenzy that followed, with Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen stepping into the roles of her parents, Patsy and John Ramsey. Expect a layered look at a case still shrouded in speculation, scrutiny and unanswered questions.
Coming to Paramount+ from December 10
I Am Helen
Nicola Coughlan is leaving Bridgerton ballrooms behind for something far rawer in I Am Helen. The two-part drama pairs her with Gangs of London star Joe Cole in the latest chapter of Dominic Savage’s BAFTA-winning I Am anthology, following previous instalments led by Kate Winslet, Gemma Chan and Letitia Wright. Developed collaboratively with Coughlan, Helen’s story examines womanhood, control and toxic relationships inside a world shaped by masculine power. Given this anthology’s history, emotional devastation feels fairly likely.
Coming later in 2026. Australian streaming details TBC
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, Yellowjackets season four is the show’s final season, streaming on Paramount+ in Australia from Friday 20 November 2026. The teenage timeline creeps closer to rescue, while the adult survivors scramble to stop the secrets they buried in the wilderness from following them home. Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Hilary Swank all return, along with an old flame who arrives to make an already unstable situation worse. After four seasons of cults, cannibalism and closely guarded secrets, the final season promises long-awaited answers.
The Gilded Age season four streams on Paramount+ in Australia from Monday 2 November 2026. Carrie Coon returns as Bertha Russell, whose ambitious social climbing is set to have consequences, while Christine Baranski’s Agnes van Rhijn sees a chance to reclaim her place in New York society. Marian continues to find her own way, and Peggy navigates the delicate task of winning over her future in-laws. Expect the lavish period costumes, simmering rivalries and ever-shifting social pecking order the series is known for, making it an easy pick for fans of high-society period drama.
Blade Runner 2099 streams on Prime Video in Australia from Wednesday 25 November 2026. The eight-part miniseries is set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049, in a Los Angeles now under Replicant control, where humans have been relegated to second-class citizens. Hunter Schafer plays a fugitive posing as a Blade Runner, while Michelle Yeoh stars as a dying Replicant with very little time left. Ridley Scott is an executive producer on the series, which explores the increasingly blurred line between human and artificial life at a moment when AI is rarely out of the headlines.
Black Doves season two streams on Netflix in Australia from Thursday 5 November 2026. Keira Knightley returns as Helen, a spy keeping her secret life hidden while her husband Wallace moves closer to becoming Prime Minister. When her handler lands in trouble, Helen turns to her old friend Sam, played by Ben Whishaw, a former elite hitman now living a much quieter life. The new season brings old enemies back into the picture and tests loyalties on every side, with the same sharp wit and stylish espionage that made the first season such an easy binge.
Black Doves season two leads the November 2026 streaming slate, with Keira Knightley returning to Netflix from Thursday 5 November. Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099, starring Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh, arrives on Wednesday 25 November, while The Gilded Age season four lands on Paramount+ on Monday 2 November. Netflix’s FTX drama The Altruists, starring Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle, streams from Thursday 19 November. Yellowjackets returns for its final season on Paramount+ from Friday 20 November, and Rivals season two, part two, arrives on Disney+ from Wednesday 11 November.
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