Fear you’ll have nothing to watch this weekend? Worry not, as the Daily Mail’s TV experts have rounded up the best 19 shows to stream on demand right now.
The top hits available to watch include the conclusion of a landmark documentary series, a recent Emmy-award-winning comedy horror and the latest instalment of a true-crime anthology series.
With plenty of shows to stream, there’s certainly enough TV to fill this weekend.
MobLand
Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan star in Guy Ritchie’s gangster drama, now back for series two
Year: 2025
Certificate: 18
With Pierce Brosnan as a merciless old-school Irish mob boss, Helen Mirren as his conniving Lady Macbeth-esque wife and Tom Hardy getting his hands bloody as their no-nonsense fixer, you’d watch this British mobster series for the lead trio alone.
The fact that it’s also created (with a few episodes directed) by Snatch and The Gentlemen’s Guy Ritchie and boasts a wider cast that includes House Of The Dragon’s Paddy Considine, Sherlock’s Lara Pulver and Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt turns it into pretty much essential viewing.
This series offers everything you’d expect from a Guy Ritchie show, from knife-sharp dialogue to lashings of over-the-top violence, as the Harrigan family headed by Brosnan, Mirren and Hardy faces a threat to its London crime empire from a tough new upstart gang. Series one ends in explosive style and the second opens with the Harrigans weakened but facing yet more enemies on the horizon. There will be a third series. (Two series)
70 Up
The conclusion of this landmark documentary series
Year: 2026
We’ve reached the end of an era for a television institution. Six decades in the making, this is the final catch-up with the seven-year-olds we first met back in 1964 in Michael Apted’s ground-breaking series 7 Up.
Two of the original 14, Nick and Lynn, have sadly passed away (as has Mr Apted, in 2021, with Oscar-winning film-maker Asif Kapadia, of Amy and Senna, taking over as director) but the 12 survivors (including Peter, Symon, Paul, Tony, Neil, John, Andrew, Bruce, Jackie, Suzy and Sue) all feature in this two-part final chapter.
They came from all backgrounds with social class being the main talking point, and it is remarkable to see how their childhood hopes and dreams have changed and to find out where life has taken them. It’s also a snapshot of how Britain, too, has changed around them – and in that respect, the fact that only four women took part is a far more noticeable imbalance than it would have seemed in 1964. (Two episodes)
Slow Horses (Series 6)
Familiar faces return for the sixth series, which adapts Joe Country and Slough House
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb returns for a sixth series of darkly comedic espionage adventures, a run that compresses the novels Joe Country and Slough House into just six episodes. It finds Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) firmly installed as First Desk over at the Park, but forced to deal with an unsavoury and unexpected new threat. The plot results in the Slough House crew being forced to go on the run, and features the return of two characters – first the hapless Struan Loy and later and more significantly Sid Baker (Olivia Cooke), who was thought dead way back in series one.
This series has a new face behind the camera, with Gaby Chiappe taking over from Will Smith as lead writer. Slow Horses has felt a little tired in the last two series so a fresh set of eyes seems sensible, as does the choice to switch up the structure by adapting two books instead of one.
Even if you’re familiar with Joe Country and Slough House there will be some surprises in the way the story is told here, but the books’ essential theme remains: loss. That’s set in motion right in episode one, as River prepares to give a speech at the funeral of his spy legend grandfather. The show’s dry, dark sense of humour is never far away to leaven that heavy theme as it goes on and there are a few cracking action scenes, too.
A seventh series based on just one book – Bad Actors – will follow, and an eighth after that. (Six episodes)
Neagley
Spin-off series starring Maria Sten as Reacher’s military protégée turned private eye
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
This spin-off from Reacher has the honour of featuring Reacher himself – Alan Ritchson – in the opening scenes. Its main character, though, is Frances Neagley, the Chicago-based private eye (and former military protégée of Reacher) who’s been part of the original series throughout. She’s played by Maria Sten as a sort of leaner, female equivalent of the hulking man mountain – the strong silent type – and her first case involves the death of an old friend in a highly suspicious accident.
Reacher is a reliable hit for Amazon in the ‘white guy with a gun’ genre, and Neagley is a very watchable gender expansion of that, with a performance from Sten that’s appealing in the same way as Ritchson’s is as Reacher. Neagley’s a little more conversational, though, and less interested in pies and cheesesteaks – so expect fewer silent scenes and quiet chomping in diners.
The series isn’t adapted from a Lee Child book but the British author is very much on board with the whole thing and Zero Margin, the first Neagley novel, is due out in March 2027. (Eight episodes)
All Creatures Great And Small (2020 series)
Well-received remake of the classic Yorkshire vet drama, now back for series seven
Year: 2020-
Certificate: 12
The Yorkshire Vet was a huge hit for Channel 5, so commissioning this remake of All Creatures Great And Small made perfect sense – James Herriot mentored vet Peter Wright after all.
Happily it also proves to be great fun, right from the moment Samuel West steps on screen as pipe-puffing vet Siegfried, a man who takes a sadistic delight in putting his nervy new assistant, Glaswegian city boy James (Nicholas Ralph), through his paces. Ralph is more Scottish than Christopher Timothy ever was – and if you’re missing the original theme tune, stay tuned until the closing credits.
In the most recent seventh series (on 5) the war is finally over, and the family are back together and looking forward to a bright future. In the first episode, James impresses as a mature vet, while there’s a new face in the practice as Granville Bennett (Caolan McCarthy) roars into Darrowby at the wheel of a fancy red sports car – and immediately gets on the wrong side of Tristram.
There will be an eighth series after this. (Seven series)
Widow’s Bay
Creepy comedy horror set in small-town New England, starring an Emmy award-winning Matthew Rhys
Year: 2026
Certificate: 18
Widow’s Bay is a mix of small-town comedy and slow, creeping horror, and one of those series that has you wondering if horrible things are really about to happen – or if it’s all in the mind of the stressed main character. Matthew Rhys stars as that main character – Mayor Tom Loftis, a tense man who is determined to turn around the fortunes of Widow’s Bay, an ailing island town off the coast of New England that he wants to transform into a tourist hotspot, like Bar Harbor in Maine or, heaven forbid, Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts (where they filmed Jaws).
Widow’s Bay is a town full of superstitions, and when Tom begs a reporter to come and write about it, an old story resurfaces about cannibalism that does nothing for his stress levels. There are plenty more question marks around the town. Is the inn really haunted? Is there a mist that kills people? And are all these horrors just a metaphor for the resentment that’s been building up from years of downward economic drift?
These questions are what pull you into this ten-parter from Kate Dippold (Parks And Recreation), and Rhys’s performance is what keeps you there, along with the smattering of shocks. Few leading men handle intensity as deftly as Rhys, and he’s fascinating to watch whenever he’s on screen – no surprise then, that he scooped an Emmy for his performance. It turned out to be a double win, actually – the proud Welshman also picked up a gong for his performance in The Beast In Me on the same night.
There will be a second series. (Ten episodes)
Hey Beautiful: Anatomy Of A Romance Scam
Documentary mini-series investigating an online catfishing scam
Year: 2025
Certificate: 15
What do a business owner in Germany, a waitress in Canada and a married woman in Connecticut all have in common? They all thought that they had fallen in love with the same chisel-jawed middle-aged stranger that they had chatted to online. And they all sent him money to help with problems in his life only to never hear from him again once the cheques cleared.
This three-part documentary series tells their story – and the stories of countless other women – all of whom fell for the same scam. But they weren’t the only victims here. As the films trace back the photos and videos that the stranger sent – under assorted different names – they find one further victim: the man whose identity had been stolen to create those online profiles. It’s a twisty and fascinating modern story of catfishing and deceit. (Three episodes)
The Fitbit Killer
The story of the shocking murder of British woman Caroline Crouch, in Athens in 2021
Year: 2026
Certificate: 12
In May 2021, beautiful young couple Caroline Crouch, 20, and her husband Babis Anagnostopoulos were the victims of a horrifying attack in their home in a suburb of Athens. Caroline was killed, while Babis was found bound and gagged in the same room, with their infant daughter. The family dog had also been killed.
News of the shocking crime quickly went global, in particular with the British press because Caroline was British – born in Liverpool she’d moved to Greece as a youngster. As well as the gut-wrenching tragedy of Caroline’s young life being cut short and her 11-month-old baby being deprived of a mother, there was also an outpouring of sympathy for Babis.
But steadily, over the days that followed, something did not ring true about the crime and in particular with Babis’s story. While armchair internet sleuths pored over the details and shared their own theories, police were collecting the evidence and, as you can probably tell from the title, it was a digital activity tracker that eventually led them to the killer’s door.
Daily Mail reporter Nick Fagge covered the case and is one of the key contributors to this two-parter which follows the timeline from desperate police call to the killer’s conviction. It does a very good job of setting the scene, hearing from police, lawyers, friends of the family and neighbours as well as from Caroline’s devastated father. (Two episodes)
Forever Home
Graham Norton’s mystery novel gets a TV adaptation with Douglas Henshall and Amy Nuttall
Year: 2026
Certificate: 12
The second of Graham Norton’s novels to get a TV adaptation after 2022’s Holding, this switches the location from Ireland to England and sets its stall in the opening flashback as secrets are buried. It’s set around the extended family of Douglas Henshall’s Robert Barrie, who, in the present day has Alzheimer’s and is living with his partner of ten years Carol (Amy Nuttall), while the whereabouts of his first wife is unknown.
After a few violent outbursts, it’s clear that Robert’s dementia is worsening and he needs residential care, leading his grown-up children, Sally and Kaden (Jenny Walser and Lewis Cope), to eye up their inheritance – the now valuable family home where the secrets are buried in the basement.
The six-part series is built around its core characters, blending domestic drama and light humour with an overarching mystery about the fate of Robert’s first wife. The rest of the cast boasts Denise Welch as Carol’s mum, plus Kevin Whately and James Baxter. And if you’re one of the thousands who read Norton’s best-seller there have been some other major changes, aside from the location, which will be a big surprise. (Six episodes)
Gemma Collins: Everything. All At Once.
Emotional series following reality star Gemma Collins through IVF
Year: 2026
Certificate: 15
‘I had it all planned out.’ Sky expected to make a very different show when they started following Gemma ‘The GC’ Collins about, and so did she. Marriage and babies with her fiancé Rami was the key plank of that plan – along with plenty of larger-than-life GC-style antics, you’d imagine – but what actually happened was one of those years where everything seems to happen at once, and very little of it was good.
You expect extremes from Gemma Collins of course, but not of the raw and vulnerable variety, and there’s plenty of that here as the former TOWIE star deals with a challenging journey into the world of fertility that puts her relationship on shaky ground. However, the biggest emotional event is the death of her 70-year-old mum.
Gemma spent a long period caring for Joan in the run-up to her death in July 2026, and remembers that ‘I got a frozen shoulder pushing her around the shops in a wheelchair’. It’s those kinds of comments that, intentionally or not, also add lightness to the show in a distinctly Gemma Collins way. And, yes, Gemma’s mum was actually called Joan Collins. (Eight episodes)
Britain’s Forgotten Girls
Disturbing one-off documentary that hears testimony from grooming survivors
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 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
You may be familiar with Patrick Brammall from the Australian comedy Colin From Accounts, but he’s 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)
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Ella Beatty, daughter of Warren and Annette Bening, stars as Borden in the true-crime horror series
Year: 2026
Certificate: 18
The divisive but much-watched true-crime anthology marks a change in direction for series four. For the first time, the subject at its murderous centre is a woman and she’s also the first to have been acquitted of the killing. Lizzie Borden was cleared of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in part because no one believed a woman could be capable of such a crime at the time. ‘How could the deed be done by a woman?’ observed the judge. As such, the case remains technically unsolved.
For this eight-part imagining of the motivations and the act, the role of Lizzie is powerfully played by Ella Beatty (daughter of Warren and Annette Bening), while her stepmother and father, Abby and Andrew – whom the series presents as squashing their daughter with their expectations – are played by the excellent Rebecca Hall and Charlie Hunnam. In series three, Hunnam memorably went all out in his portrayal of Ed Gein. Less is required of him here. The last elements of this combustible household are Lizzie’s sister Emma and the new maid, Bridget, with whom Lizzie is having an affair.
Steel yourself for the usual mix of style and shocking scenes underpinned by good acting, with a storyline that branches out to take in other infamous female figures across time, including Elizabeth Bathory and Aileen Wuornos. If you don’t like grisly murder, steer clear, because Monster earns that 18 rating. (Eight episodes)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
