Best new shows – quick links
Best new shows: this week
Alone Season 13 – 18 June (Stan)
Reality series. Season 13 of Alone raises the stakes like never before – crowning the first-ever World Champion. For the first time in the series’ history, 10 elite survivalists from around the globe will be dropped deep inside the Arctic Circle, along the unforgiving Richardson Mountains of Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Representing Australia is Nero Buys from regional New South Wales. After a career in the Australian Army including serving in Afghanistan, he left the army to become a stay-at-home dad. During this time, he discovered a love for bushcraft and sharing this knowledge with others, including setting up a children’s outdoor program alongside his wife Jen. Now he is keen to bring his years of Australian bushcraft experience to the Alone challenge and compete for the title of World Champion.
I Will Find You – 18 June (Netflix)
Series. An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive – and must break out of prison to find out the truth.
Starring Sam Worthington, Britt Lower, Milo Ventimiglia and Logan Browning.
Sugar Season 2 – 19 June (Apple TV)
Series. Season 2 ushers in the return of Los Angeles’ iconic private detective and film connoisseur, John Sugar. Emmy Award nominee Colin Farrell returns for a new case, tracking the troubled older brother of an up-and-coming local boxer as his search for his beloved missing sister continues.
As the investigation expands into a citywide conspiracy with sinister intentions, Sugar must reckon with himself to answer the question – how far will he go to do what’s right?
See You At Work Tomorrow! – 22 June (Prime Video)
Series. Cha Ji-yoon, a seventh-year product planner, has sworn off dating after a painful breakup. Burned out from corporate life, she lives for efficiency, deadlines, and one small joy: fried chicken and beer after the perfect on-the-dot clock out. Calm, polite, and unflappable on the surface, her heart has long been closed – until Kang Si-woo, the company’s most avoided team leader, enters her life.
Starring Seo In-guk, Park Ji-hyun and Kang Mi-na.
The Agency Season 2 – 21 June (Paramount+)
Series. Michael Fassbender returns in the second season of the gripping political espionage thriller. The series follows Martian, a CIA agent living undercover within his own life. When his lover Samia becomes a political prisoner in Sudan, Martian is pushed to dangerous extremes in an attempt to save her, even beyond the point of treachery.
Best new shows: recently added
Coldwater – 10 June (SBS On Demand)
Series. Coldwater is a blackly comic thriller from the inimitable playwright David Ireland. John (Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead) is shocked to find himself in middle age, secretly raging at his life as a stay-at-home dad.
When his failure to intervene in a violent confrontation in a playground brings his identity crisis to a head, John up and moves his family to the small Scottish rural idyll of Coldwater, to live as far away from London as possible.
Sweet Magnolias Season 5 – 11 June (Netflix)
Series. With wedding bells on the horizon, the Magnolias chase a shared dream, explore the world beyond Serenity, and lift each other up amid a summer of change.
Starring JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott, Heather Headley and Justin Bruening.
Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 5 – 12 June (Stan)
Series. Kanan solidifies his place in the Queens drug business alongside Southside legend Breeze (Shameik Moore), and their alliance sets the stage for a reckoning that will ripple through every player in this dangerous game.
Whether it’s the Thomas family facing the collapse of their reign, Unique (Joey Bada$$) fighting to preserve his legacy or the Mafia maneuvering behind the scenes, many sacrifices will be made. However, nothing will stand in the way of Kanan’s pursuit of power.
