Best new shows – quick links
Netflix: best new shows
America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Season 3 – 16 June
Reality series. From making the squad and dazzling stadiums to navigating fame and passionate fans, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders return for their fiercest season yet.
I Will Find You – 18 June
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.
Voicemails For Isabelle – 19 June
Film (2026). A young woman’s hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar.
Starring Zoey Deutch, Nick Robinson, Nick Offerman and Lukas Gage.
Stan: best new shows
Alone Season 13 – 18 June
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.
BritBox: best new shows
Darcey Brussell’s Wild Coasts of Scotland Season 1 – 18 June
Documentary series. Spend some time with Dame Darcey Bussell as she explores the landscapes and islands off the west coast of Scotland while delving into her Scottish ancestry.
The Woman in the Wall Season 1 – 18 June
Series. Lorna Brady, played by Ruth Wilson, is pulled into a dark investigation tied to the town’s convent and the buried secrets of its survivors. Detective Colman Akande is determined to uncover the truth, but the deeper he digs, the more dangerous the case becomes.
Together, they uncover shocking stories of abuse, cover-ups, and missing children that have haunted the town for decades.
Starring Ruth Wilson, Daryl McCormack, Simon Delaney and Philippa Dunne.
Apple TV: best new shows
Sugar Season 2 – 19 June
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?
Binge: best new shows
Interior Design Masters With Alan Carr Season 7 – 15 June
Series. Novice designers dive into design bootcamp in this interior design show hosted by Alan Carr and Michelle Ogundehin.
Scroll. Click. Kill Season 1 – 17 June
Series. Weekly episodes put a spotlight on murder cases that began through social media.
HBO Max: recently added
Dead of Winter – 5 June
Film (2025). In a remote Minnesota blizzard, a grief-stricken loner (Emma Thompson) stumbles upon a young woman held captive by a desperate, armed couple. Forced into action, she becomes an unlikely protector in a brutal fight for survival. Starring Thompson, Judy Greer and Marc Menchaca, and directed by Brian Kirk.
Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown – 7 June
Series. Episodes drop weekly (10 episodes). Survivalists from all over the world – including Brazil, Australia, Mexico and the US – represent their homelands in a gruelling 40-day primitive bushcraft competition. Paired with a partner, their skills, toughness and teamwork will be tested as they compete for national pride and the largest cash prize in franchise history.
Australia is well represented, with the Aussie team of Ky Furneaux and Alexa Towersey stepping into the ultimate survival challenge.
Prime Video: best new shows
Your Fault: London – 17 June
Film (2025). Noah and Nick return – stronger, closer, and more in love than ever. But as life begins to pull them in different directions, their relationship faces its toughest challenge yet. Noah heads to Oxford to pursue her studies, while Nick finds himself consumed by the growing demands of work. When new people enter their lives, stirring unexpected emotions and lingering jealousy, cracks begin to form.
Starring Asha Banks, Matthew Broome and Eve Macklin.
See You At Work Tomorrow! – 22 June
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.
MUBI: best new shows
God Is Shy – 19 June
Film (2025). Jocelyn Charles’ poised and formally inventive debut short film, God Is Shy, opens with an apparently innocent game in which two young passengers sketch their fears during a train journey. However, the dynamic shifts when a mysterious woman intervenes, transforming the encounter into increasingly unsettling, ambiguous territory.
By blending animation with psychological horror, the film transitions seamlessly between ordinary reality and the uncanny. It employs distorted perspectives, shifting textures, and expressive sound design to externalise emotional unease. Both humorous and unsettling, God Is Shy exhibits a notable mastery of tone and atmosphere within its concise runtime.
David Cronenberg – 19 June
Spotlight collection. A descent into the unsettling cinematic universe of David Cronenberg, where flesh, technology, and psychology collide in visions of transformation and bodily unease. Across horror, satire, and speculative fiction, Cronenberg’s work persistently interrogates the unstable boundaries of the human body and mind.
Includes Crash, The Shrouds, Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection.
Crimes of the Future – 19 June
Film (2022). David Cronenberg’s provocative return to body horror imagines a near future where surgery, performance art, and human evolution merge into disturbing new forms of expression. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart.
ABC iview: best new shows
Supertato – 15 June
Children’s series. Set among the aisles of a supermarket, new episodes of this popular slapstick comedy animation starring the world’s greatest potato superhero.
Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club – 20 June
Children’s series. Hey Duggee is opening the Clubhouse doors for you to join your favourite Hey Duggee characters for something new.
Expect an enchanting mix of fun, goofy, loud, bouncy, educational and entertaining treats featuring the Squirrels, and a host of familiar faces, to make you laugh, learn and dance along.
SBS On Demand: best new shows
FIFA World Cup 2026 – continuing on SBS
See the full SBS World Cup viewing schedule for Australian viewers
Refugee Week Collection – 15 June
SBS On Demand celebrates stories of hope and resilience to mark World Refugee Week.
To A Land Unknown – Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash, Chatila hatches an extreme escape plan to pose as smugglers.
Baghdad Messi – Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Luke the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona–Manchester United. But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down …
Warsha follows Mohammad, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
Freemont – Formerly a translator for the United States military in Afghanistan, Donya rebuilds her life in San Francisco. She works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory and decides to send out a special message in one of the cookies.
The Brigade Season 2 – 18 June
Series. Following a shoot-out between drug traffickers and police, Saïd’s elite team of young officers finds itself at the centre of a major investigation that turns out to be far more complex than expected. As they do everything they can to take down one of Europe’s biggest traffickers, a ruthless and mysterious gang of armed robbers emerges, threatening to derail their mission.
Paramount+: best new shows
Italia Shore Season 3 – 16 June
Reality series. Twelve young adults come together for the ultimate dream holiday in a breathtaking villa. But access to the hottest summer parties won’t come easy, with the group needing to work hard before they can play even harder.
Tyler Perry’s The Oval Season 7 – 20 June
Series. Written, directed and executive produced by Tyler Perry, The Oval returns for a gripping seventh season of scandal, secrets and political drama.
Starring Ed Quinn, Kron Moore, Javon Johnson, Ptosha Storey and Brad Benedict.
The Agency Season 2 – 21 June
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.
