Best new shows – quick links
Best new shows this week
Badly in Love Season 2 – 4 August (Netflix)
Series. School’s back in session in Okinawa as yankiis gather from across Japan. Will they find love and friendship – or will chaos erupt at their seaside campus?
Starring Megumi, AK-69 and Nagano.
Sterling Point – 5 August (Prime Video)
Series. Created by Megan Park, Sterling Point is a heartfelt, coming-of-age drama led by 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin). Raised in New York City with her twin brother (Keen Ruffalo) and loving adoptive father (Jay Duplass), Annie’s life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada.
There, she finds new friends, budding romances and untold family secrets.
Ted Lasso Season 4 – 5 August (Prime Video)
Series. Ted return to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.
Starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Jason Sudeikis, season four welcomes the return of Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Emmy Award winner Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt and Jeremy Swift, and introduces new cast members Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern and Grant Feely.
Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz – 5 August (Stan)
Documentary. Premiering on the 15th anniversary of his death, Revealed – Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz explores how internet phenomenon Australian bodybuilder Aziz ‘Zyzz’ Shavershian constructed a viral persona powerful enough to outlive him.
Featuring never-before-seen archival material, the documentary explores the circumstances of his tragic death in 2011 at just 22 years old. With testimony from those who were closest to him at the time, including Zyzz’s brother Said ‘Chestbrah’ Shavershian, Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz is an intimate perspective on the man who sparked a cultural movement, one that shaped young men’s identities and may still resonate with young men today.
The Good Ship Murder Season 3 – 7 August (SBS On Demand)
Series. Former police detective Jack Grayling, pursuing his dream of becoming a cabaret singer on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship, investigates a series of murders on board with the help of the ship’s first officer, Kate Woods. Season Three, Episode One: Alicante When a passenger is murdered during a trip to a monastery, Jack and Kate join forces to investigate. Jack is eventually reinstated as the ship’s crooner, and is reunited with Kate.
Recent best new shows
Colin From Accounts Season 3 – from 27 July (Binge)
Series. One of Binge’s most successful original scripted series, and a global phenomenon in the UK on the BBC and the US on Paramount+ with a certified fresh score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the final season of Colin from Accounts picks up in the aftermath of Gordon’s ill-fated proposal. Double episode premiere followed by weekly episodes.
Fightland – 1 August (Stan)
Series. A new crime drama from executive producer Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson, Fightland is a gripping story of redemption and relentless ambition within the brutal and power-hungry world of British boxing.
It follows Maduka ‘Duke’ Kilroy, a disgraced and formerly incarcerated boxing champion who returns to London, seeking vengeance against the crime family he thinks betrayed him. Starring Howard Charles (Top Boy), Nicholas Pinnock (For Life, Long Bright River), Deborah Ayorinde (Them), and Charles Babalola (The Outlaws, Black Mirror), Fightland dives into a world of money, power and betrayal.
