New shows streaming this week – quick links
My Life is Murder Season 5 – 9 February (Acorn TV & AMC+)
Series. The new season of this Australian-New Zealand murder mystery crime comedy-drama series sees eight thrilling new cases featuring dangerous villains that only Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless, Xena: Warrior Princess) can catch. As always, she’s bringing her friends and family along for the ride; and Alexa’s cantankerous cat, Chowder, also continues to stir up trouble in his own mischievous way.
This season, while soaking up the sun in Fiji, Alexa’s holiday takes a dark turn when a familiar foe resurfaces. But catching a killer isn’t her only unfinished business – she’s also reunited with Jesse (Craig Parker, Spartacus, Xena: Warrior Princess), her former police partner. Is he the one that got away? With her whānau (extended family) backing her every step of the way, Alexa is diving headfirst into a new wave of high-stakes cases – where buried secrets resurface and justice is never as simple as it seems, but one thing’s clear: Alexa’s not backing down.
The Artful Dodger Season 2 – 10 February
Series. Disney’s hit Australian original show returns for a second season off the back of the rave-reviewed first season. Thomas Brodie-Sangster returns as one of Charles Dickens’ most memorable characters – Jack Dawkins, aka the Artful Dodger – and he’s in deep trouble. He’s got an appointment with the noose, he’s being hunted by new lawman Inspector Boxer, and if he sees the woman he loves, Lady Belle, he’ll be hanged.
Meanwhile, Belle (Maia Mitchell) is determined to forge her future in medicine, driven by ambition and a love already hanging in the balance. With Boxer competing with Jack for Belle’s affection, the crafty Fagin drags him into their most dangerous heist yet, and a killer is on the loose. Watch the trailer.
Read: The Artful Dodger’s David Thewlis and Damon Herriman speak to ScreenHub
The Pact Season 1 – 12 February (BritBox)
Series. In this six-episode crime thriller, four colleagues at a brewery make a reckless decision after their tyrannical young boss humiliates them at a centenary party. As a drunken prank, they abduct him and decide to leave him abandoned in the woods overnight to fend for himself. The next morning, they return only to discover him dead.
Bound by a fragile pact of silence, the women navigate a tense web of police investigations, blackmail and suspicion. As secrets unravel, shocking revelations surface, and one friend takes the fall, altering their lives forever.
Starring Rakie Ayola (Grace), Laura Fraser (Irvine Welsh’s Crime, Breaking Bad), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Broadchurch, Happy Valley), Eiry Thomas (Keeping Faith), Jason Hughes (Midsomer Murders, Marcella) and Aneurin Barnard (Steeltown Murders, The Catch).
Rise of the Raven – 12 February (SBS On Demand)
Series. This 10-episode mini-series set in the 15th century is based on the bestselling Hungarian novels by Mór Bán. The story of Janos Hunyadi (Gellért L Kádár) is the epic tale of a modest hero who against all odds, vanquished the much larger Ottoman army and halted its drive to conquer the Vatican and overrun Western Europe. In so doing, Hunyadi not only shaped the history of Hungary, but all of Europe.
With a visually-striking contemporary approach, the series chronicles Hunyadi’s lifelong struggle against the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire as well as his enemies at home. It all culminates in Hunyadi’s climactic victory against seemingly insurmountable odds when he defeats the invading Ottoman army at the siege of Nandorfehervar (contemporary Belgrade), a triumph that forever altered the fate of Europe.
The series is produced by Robert Lantos and directed by Academy Award nominated director Robert Dornhelm, with Orsi Nagypál, Attila Szász and showrunner Balázs Lengyel.
Professor T Season 3 – 13 February (ABC iview)
Series. The multi award-winning much-loved crime drama Professor T starring Ben Miller, Frances de la Tour and Juliet Stevenson is back for a third season. The Professor is in jail and must find a way to get his old life and job back.
Like Water for Chocolate Season 2 – 15 February (HBO Max)
Series. In the second and final season of Like Water For Chocolate, Tita glimpses the possibility of a new future with Dr Brown – one where gentleness offers refuge and reinvention. But Pedro’s return rekindles a forbidden passion that challenges every rule and tradition she has been bound to.
Set against a Mexico undergoing violence and profound social change, each character is driven to confront past traumas, long-buried secrets and the true cost of love and freedom. Amid the magic of the kitchen – where traditional Mexican dishes and ancestral alchemy shape their world – Tita and Pedro learn that some loves are destined to burn bright, no matter the obstacles.
Blending magical realism with rich cultural heritage, the series delivers a visually captivating story of family, emotion and enduring desire.
Dark Winds Season 4 – 15 February (AMC+)
Series. Dark Winds’ gripping fourth season focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito from the safety of Navajo Nation to the gritty terrain of 1970s Los Angeles in a race against the clock to save her from an obsessive killer with ties to organised crime.
Executive produced by Robert Redford, George RR Martin and star Zahn McClarnon, Dark Winds boasts a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score for its first three seasons. Also stars Kiowa Gordon (The Red Road, Roswell, New Mexico) as Jim Chee, Jessica Matten (Rez Ball, Tribal, Burden of Truth) as Bernadette Manuelito, and Deanna Allison (Accused, Edge of America) as Emma Leaphorn.
