Looking for something new to watch this weekend? The Daily Mail’s TV experts have sifted through hundreds of shows and films to bring you 19 of the best available to stream on demand.
The top picks include the next installment of Aussie rom-com Colin From Accounts and the 1998 film Practical Magic, starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.
So grab the TV remote, put your feet up and prepare to make the most of what is on offer this weekend.
Colin From Accounts
Boy meets girl – and dog – in this offbeat Aussie rom-com now back for its final series
Year: 2022-2026
Certificate: 18
A big hit with UK audiences when it first aired here, this Australian comedy was created by its married-in-real-life stars Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, who play the dysfunctional pair brought together by a dog they name Colin (From Accounts) or Collie for short.
As they share custody of the pup after it is injured in a car accident they were jointly culpable for, the antagonistic spark between student doctor Ashley (Dyer) and microbrewery owner Gordon (Brammall) slowly blooms into romance.
As series two opens, Ashley and Gordon are desperately trying to get Colin back (after he was adopted by a terrifying new family). Ashley worries that without the disabled dog they have nothing in common: ‘With our age gap, and the different friendship groups, and just where we’re at with our lives, and your knees…’ Then, a new complication gets thrown into the mix. The third and final series opens three years later, and returns us again to the question that started it all. Will they or won’t they end up together?
Colin, as cute as he is, plays second fiddle to Ashley and Gordon, and their largely chaotic friends, with notable mentions to Genevieve Hegney as Gordon’s business partner Chiara and Emma Harvie as Ashley’s best friend, Megan or ‘Meggles’. (Three series)
Britain’s Forgotten Girls
Disturbing one-off documentary that hears testimony from survivors of grooming
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
For decades, evidence has been mounting that tens of thousands of young girls are being groomed, intimidated, drugged, raped and blackmailed by criminal gangs. Even after the Rochdale and other grooming scandals, the police and safeguarding services are still ignoring them, blaming them and treating them like criminals.
This film lets the brave testimony of some of these young women, including Christine, speak for itself. ‘I had to go to school like nothing had happened,’ says one of the victims, who come from all over the UK including London, Coventry and Manchester, and even the rural South West. ‘I was so scared to tell anyone.’
Shockingly, as well as recounting their own harrowing experiences, they also reveal how their abusers are continuing to groom girls, some as young as nine or ten, while police still refuse to take them seriously, dismissing them as simply troubled teenagers. We also hear from campaigners and charity leaders, including former Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz, who describe how their pleas for action have fallen on deaf ears. Now it’s time we listened. (62 minutes)
Last Seen (2026 series)
Colin From Accounts’ Patrick Brammall goes serious with this Aussie missing-daughter thriller
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
Patrick Brammall is on very serious form in this six-part thriller based on the 2011 novel The Dispatcher. Brammall stars as Ian Ridley, an Aussie police dispatcher who used to be a detective until his daughter Maggie went missing 11 years ago. This tragedy triggered a spiral into a booze hell from which the poor soul has only recently recovered. Then, one day, Ian gets a call that makes him think Maggie is still alive, and he simply won’t stop until he finds her – to hell with the consequences for him, and everyone else.
Will his quest land him in prison or permanently at the bottom of a bottle, or does he actually have a hope of reuniting his broken family? You’ll have an inkling of which way it’s going to go by the end of episode one, in which Brammall sets out his stall as an engaging leading man. Ian is driven by love for his daughter, yes, but also towards actions you may not always find sympathetic. There’s an obvious Liam Neeson-in-Taken comparison to be had here, but Last Seen is much more of a thriller than it is an action series.
Among the rest of the cast, Britain’s Maxine Peake co-stars in a supporting role that should become more intriguing as the show goes on. (Six episodes)
The Perfect Lie
Sexy, Big Little Lies-style drama about lies and hidden lives in suburban Norway
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
If you can imagine a Norwegian Big Little Lies – but then shift your expectations just a little lower – then you’ve got the gist of The Perfect Lie, a seven-part thriller about the secrets kept by hot suburban couples in fancy houses. Our way into the story is Karen, who moves to the fancy enclave of Bergen, where she joins an exclusive group of friends called ‘The Dinner Club’.
One of the rites of passage for The Dinner Club (also the name of the book this is based on) is that the women all have to jump into a swimming pool naked, and there’s certainly no shortage of hormones, booze and giant wine glasses flying around in this close-knit community of gym-toned high-earners.
Then, one day, one of their fancy homes goes up in flames, someone dies, and it becomes apparent to Karen that all her ‘friends’ are hiding something. Karen takes it upon herself to learn the truth of it all in a glossy, sexy thriller that benefits from being stuffed full of characters and plotlines. The acting feels much better if you watch it with subtitles, but the English dub isn’t too bad, either. (Seven episodes)
The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives
The #MomTok scandal and everything that came after, now back for series five
Year: 2024
Certificate: 15
‘So Taylor, tell us how a couple of Mormon moms getting together, making TikToks, suddenly turns into this crazy swinging sex scandal.’ So begins this glossy, Real Housewives-style series about a group of Mormon women who decided to step outside the strict gender norms for their church.
The central figure at the start is Taylor, the creator of the MomTok group of Mormon wives on TikTok and the root of the scandal goes back to 2022, when Taylor revealed that she and husband Tate Paul were getting a divorce – after ‘soft swinging’ with their friendship group. She and Tate had an agreement on what was to be allowed in this ‘soft swinging’ and Taylor, in her words, stepped ‘outside of that agreement’. ‘No one was innocent, everyone has hooked up with everyone,’ she went on.
If you want to learn more, this series meets the women and digs into their lives. Series one was a hit and series two featured a fresh brace of soapy revelations, including the return of one of the original swingers.
Call My Agent! The Movie
The movie version of the French talent agency comedy, set five years after the show
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
The original French version of Call My Agent! was a hit on Netflix, and efforts to translate it elsewhere, including the UK and Germany, have been patchy at best. So now we have a movie that picks up five years after the end of the original when (spoiler alert) the Paris talent agency finally fell apart and everyone went their separate ways.
The main plot is about agent-turned-movie director Andréa (Camille Cottin), whose debut project starts to fall apart when the star drops out to do a Wes Anderson movie. Who better to call on to fix it than Noémie (Laure Calamy), one of her old underlings, who is now a reality TV producer?
There’s a real sense of ‘getting the band back’ together for the film, which shoots for just the same kind of high-energy farce that the series did, and it’s certainly good to see everyone back. The show was known for its celebrity cameos and that’s in place here too, with appearances from French citizen George Clooney and Eva Longoria who has, in the real world, been involved with developing on a Spanish-language version of the series. Both cameos are gently self-satirising – Longoria’s crops up early on but Clooney’s is around 34 minutes in, and is the funnier of the two. (117 minutes)
Practical Magic
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play witchy sisters on the run
Year: 1998
Certificate: 12
This starry mix of romance and fantasy wasn’t a hit when it came out. Like Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic is one of those movies that has slowly become a seasonal favourite in the years since its release, first on DVD and now on streaming.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman star as witchy sisters Sally and Gillian, who must find a way to evade a family curse if they are ever to find true happiness – the men they fall in love with are all doomed to an early death. L
The original is based on Alice Hoffman’s 1995 novel and the sequel on her 2021 follow-up, The Book Of Magic. Practical Magic 2 brings its own special kind of magic – the eerily unchanged visages of its stars, more than a quarter of a century later. (104 minutes)
Vigil (Series 3)
Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie return for a political mystery in the Arctic
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
For this third series we’re in the Arctic Circle, setting for many a chilly, claustrophobic mystery, from Ice Station Zebra to Fortitude. As Rose Leslie’s DI Kirsten Longacre flies out to Svalbard to investigate the murder of a British national, her partner and boss DCI Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) is left holding the babies while heading up the British side – though if you think Silva has the safer option, think again.
The investigation at the Svalbard research station involves a missing Chinese scientist, some uncooperative Russians and a gruffly entertaining Norwegian official and, as the British government also has skin in the game, getting to the truth in this slippery zone of political intrigue is sure to be an uphill struggle. (Six episodes)
Trigger Point
Line Of Duty’s Vicky McClure stars in this explosive drama
Year: 2022-
Certificate: 15
This police drama stars Line Of Duty’s Vicky McClure, and comes from the production company of Jed Mercurio, that show’s creator. It introduces us to some new police lingo as Explosives Officer – ‘Expo’ – Lana ‘Wash’ Washington and her colleagues race to defuse explosive situations all around London, and it proved a massive hit with audiences.
Now in its fourth series, not all of Lana’s colleagues have stayed the distance in a show that consistently ratchets up the wire-cutting, nail-biting tension. In each series there’s a different bomb-based peril, laced with elements of a police procedural so that you follow a complex investigation alongside all the high-stress, high-stakes action.
McClure is a charismatic lead, all but carrying the show on her own, especially by series four, which finds the team on the backfoot as a highly organised plot unfolds that pushes even Lana to her already psychologically strained limits. She really does need to stay in therapy, or get a new job… (Four series)
Ludwig (Series 2)
David Mitchell returns as the puzzle-setter-turned-sleuth
Year: 2026
Did you know that David Mitchell turned down the lead role in Caribbean crime drama Death In Paradise? The Peep Show star admitted he has always wanted to play a detective ever since he saw Joan Hickson as Miss Marple and John Thaw as Inspector Morse on TV in the late 80s, though the Death In Paradise offer came at just the wrong time for him to accept. Well, he finally got his wish when he took on the role of puzzle-setter-turned-sleuth John Taylor in the hugely entertaining Ludwig, and he’s back for a second series here.
Ludwig was one of the best shows of 2024, and fans will be pleased to know that Mitchell’s Ludwig (John’s pen name) is still terrible at so many things – even opening a door is a struggle in the opening episode – but excels at solving seemingly impossible cases.
This time John has a fancy new title and will be helping Cambridge police with more ‘impossible’ cases as a crime scene consultant. Picking up from the end of the last series, the disappearance of John’s identical twin brother remains unsolved but with sister-in-law Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin) by his side again, it’s a case he’s determined to crack. New faces in the cast include Mark Bonnar and Sian Clifford, and look out for guest stars such as Stephen Merchant. (Six episodes)
Flack
Anna Paquin stars as a PR professional with a messy private life
Year: 2019-2020
Certificate: 15
Getting an Oscar for your screen debut isn’t bad going. At the tender age of 11, Anna Paquin won the Supporting Actress gong for her performance in 1993’s The Piano. She survived the pitfalls of child stardom and, after a long stint on hit vampire series True Blood, she planted her feet in the UK for this comedy-drama, set in the world of public relations. As publicist Robyn she’s adept at tidying up her clients’ messes – and it’s fun guessing which celebs the drama is based on – but guess what, her personal life is a total car crash.
Among the strong supporting cast, special mention has to go to Sophie Okonedo as the fearsome head of Robyn’s firm and the wonderfully snarky Lydia Wilson as her best friend, Eve. (Two series)
Untold Mr. T: I Pity The Fool
The story of how Laurence Tureaud became Mr T, told by the man himself
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
From the jewellery to the Mohawk to his trademark catchphrase ‘I pity the fool’, Mr T – aka Laurence Tureaud – is one of the most memorable figures in pop culture. He first appeared on TV in a bodyguard contest, before going onto global fame with The A-Team, but where did he come from?
Mr T sits down to tell his story here, wearing a full-body American flag outfit and looking very much not like a man in his mid-seventies. First up are his formative years in 1960s and 70s Chicago, living in the projects with his seven brothers and four sisters. ‘You gotta be tough. You don’t show no pain,’ he recalls of those days, recounting a story of what happened when his mother was robbed. Tureaud went looking for those responsible with a 12-gauge shotgun and it was then he had his lightbulb moment. He would protect people for a living.
The profile is framed as a superhero origin story for how that moment put him on the path to become a man everyone would know as powerful. Tureaud named himself Mr to stop people calling him ‘boy’ and the film as a whole is a lesson in how things that later feel cartoonish can still be very real indeed. Certainly, Mr T commands respect in every frame here. ‘Next to God, there’s no better protector than I,’ went the line on that early business card. (46 minutes)
Welcome To The Family: The Murder Of Dan Markel
A divorce and custody battle that led to family conspiracy and murder in Florida
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
When Wendi Adelson filed for divorce from her husband in 2012, she hoped to take her two children with her to southern Florida – but a judge ruled they had to stay with their father, Dan Markel, in Tallahassee. On 18 July 2014, Markel was shot at home and died one day later.
These are the opening events of an immensely tangled case that would reveal a family conspiracy and result in five convictions, with the last taking place in 2025. This four-part documentary takes us through every alarming turn of this murderous, real-life soap, which includes outlandish suspects, a murder-for-hire plot and a surprising connection to the Adelson family dentistry business.
The series focuses on the members of the Adelson family who, we are told, ‘hated’ Markel – and hears from those who have not spoken publicly about the case before. These include FBI agent Pat Sanford, who spent half his career toiling away on the case, and Rob Adelson, the oldest and estranged son of the family. Rob says, ‘My mom’s willing to have me killed for telling the truth.’
‘This is scumbaggery of the highest order,’ remarks another contributor. It’s hard to disagree. (Four episodes)
The Grand Tour (2026 series)
A new generation of presenters takes on the mantle of Clarkson, Hammond and May
Year: 2026
Certificate: 12
Fast cars and boyish enthusiasm were always the key to Top Gear and The Grand Tour, and that’s even more true of this reboot of the latter in which the torch is passed from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to a younger generation. Meet Francis Bourgeois, James Engelsman and Thomas Holland, two nerdy Brits and a beardy Canadian who feels like the dad of the piece as the trio embark on a six-part adventure into automotive excitement.
Clarkson pops up at the start of part one to give his blessing to the trio, in a comedy skit-style scene that is inarguably the most awkward moment of the entire opener. Matters steadily improve once the boys (and Thomas) are out on their own, driving three extremely fast cars around eerie locations in California and running into Jenson Button in the process. For this, the infectiously cheerful Francis is behind the wheel of a true monster – the $2.75 million, 2000hp Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution Evolution, a car that really earns the length of that name out on the road.
Bourgeois may already be familiar from his Channel 4 series Mission To Space, or one of the many enthusiastic videos he has made on YouTube about trains. He’s a natural, singular joy to watch while James and Thomas feel more like a duo and that’s not a coincidence. The two run a YouTube channel called Throttle House that dates back to 2015, and which is also all about fast cars and adventure. It’ll take a while for the three to find their feet as a trio but the cars provide a lot of fun in the meantime and the competitive edge that Clarkson, Hammond and May had is there, too – the teasing is just a little gentler.
The rest of the series features, in order: a trip to Malaysia; tiny cars in the US; putting tough cars through their paces in Wales; a race against public transport across Europe, and a desert challenge in Angola. May turns up in episode two and Hammond in the fourth. (Six episodes)
Paul C Brunson: Red Flag
The Married At First Sight relationship expert on how to recognise the signs of toxic partnerships
Year: 2026
Certificate: 12
You might know him from Celebs Go Dating and Married At First Sight and now relationship expert Paul C Brunson is hosting his own show designed to help people recognise the warning signs in toxic relationships. Following the format of a true-crime series, Paul meets people who have survived abusive relationships, exploring with them the early stages and the points at which their partners became coercive and controlling.
From first dates to family homes, Paul joins the victim at the very locations where the relationship played out and hears from family and friends as they describe the fallout and the impact of these poisonous partnerships. With Paul, you’ll be able to spot a red flag coming. (Eight episodes)
The Gentlemen
Crime thriller series based on Guy Ritchie’s movie The Gentlemen, now back for series two
Year: 2024
Certificate: 15
Full of dangerous Cockney geezers, treacherous aristos and all manner of other colourful underworld characters, Guy Ritchie’s 2019 movie The Gentlemen was a brutal thriller romp. This series may not use any of the same characters but it captures the same wisecracking sense of violent excess as its movie big brother (no surprise really, as Ritchie produces the whole thing and even directs a few episodes).
In the eight-part first series, Theo James (The White Lotus) takes the lead as the black sheep of a noble family who discovers that unexpectedly inheriting his family estate puts him in the crosshairs of a number of dodgy characters, not least those played by Skins’s Kaya Scodelario, Better Call Saul’s Giancarlo Esposito and crime-drama legends Vinnie Jones and Ray Winstone.
In series two, Eddie (James) is very much in his criminal stride, and rubbing up against the Mafia in Italy. (Two series)
Meet The Owens
Inside family life and horse-racing business for Michael and co
Year: 2026
Certificate: 12
The ex-England striker and his family are the subject of this lively fly-on-the-wall series, which also provides an insight into Owen’s post-football horse-racing empire. Family and business blur in truth here, because two of the children are deeply connected to equestrianism – youngest daughter Jessica dreams of Olympic showjumping success, while eldest daughter Gemma is an accomplished dressage rider who, in this series, is training at her dad’s stables to compete at Glorious Goodwood.
For Michael and his wife Louise, though, there’s another stage on the horizon – that of being empty nesters, with 18-year-old daughter Emily looking to become the first Owen to attend university and 20-year-old son James poised to join the family business.
Expect plenty of larking about at the Owen estate, and both plenty of self-deprecating footage of Michael and shots of him in his finest, watching his horses at work. (Six episodes)
Lanterns
Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre and Kelly Macdonald star in a noirish murder mystery from DC
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
The HBO series might be set in the DC superhero universe, but it looks and feels more like a noirish crime thriller. Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights) stars as Hal Jordan, the holder of the legendary Green Lantern ring – making him essentially an intergalactic cop – with Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) as his resentful trainee, John Stewart. Earth is only allowed to have one Lantern at a time, so John is playing a waiting game while Hal behaves in an increasingly erratic fashion as the two of them start to investigate a murder.
One roadblock in that investigation is local sheriff Kerry (Kelly Macdonald), who doesn’t approve of the Lanterns’ way of doing business. With a storyline that ties into the schism in the US, militia mindsets and the fear of aliens of all kinds, this should be a show that, like Peacemaker, bypasses superhero genre appeal and taps into a wider audience.
Chandler is always a welcome presence on screen but he has a particularly appealing charm here, with his character riding the line between arrogance and actually knowing what he’s talking about, and delivering some neat one-liners in the process. Meanwhile, Pierre’s lantern-in-waiting is interesting precisely because of what he hides from others, and because of where he’s headed – but more of that later on. (Eight episodes)
Furious
Brilliant cat-and-mouse thriller about a female serial killer from the writer of Dying For Sex
Year: 2026
Certificate: 18
A female serial killer is taking out men one by one in this dark and edgy thriller, and new FBI Agent Alice Black (Emmy Rossum) seems to be the only one who can catch her. That’s the premise of Furious, the title of which hints toward the righteous anger that drives the killer, and the shifting perspectives on justice it features along its eight-part length. Both lead actresses are terrific – Rossum rose to fame on the US version of Shameless and gives Alice a simmering depth, while Lola Petticrew (Trespasses, Say Nothing) is on awards-worthy form in the showier role as the killer she’s tracking.
Writer Elizabeth Meriwether has a history of writing strong shows about very different women, from chirpy sitcom New Girl with Zooey Deschanel as a manic pixie figure, to the corporate fraud Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout, to Dying For Sex, with Michelle Williams as a woman rediscovering life in the face of a cancer diagnosis. Furious feels like another intriguing entry in that ever-deepening on-screen CV.
Eight episodes may feel like a lot for a cat-and-mouse story but this is also a show that’s really tangling with an issue – what women should do with righteous anger, what society expects of them, and the consequences of the difference between the two things. For anyone who’s seen one too many TV dramas that open with the body of a dead blonde, Furious should certainly strike a chord.
There will be a second series. (Eight episodes)
