What to watch on Disney+ – quick links
Disney+: new this week
Hoops, Hopes & Dreams – 19 January
Documentary Short. This 20-minute film by artist Glenn Kaino sheds light on the untold story of how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an all-star team of civil rights activists took to basketball courts to connect with young voters, and how their strategy echoed in politics through President Obama’s historic campaign.
The documentary made its debut at Sundance 2025 before snagging “Best Documentary Short” at the Cleveland International Film Festival. It blends historical footage, vivid animation, and thoughtful interviews with voices like Andrew Young, Jemele Hill, and Jerry West, among others.
FX’s The Beauty – 22 January
Series. This new science-fiction series created by Ryan Murphy and Matt Hodgson takes a leaf (or, a limb?) from Hollywood’s newfound obsession with body horror (think The Substance). When international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways, FBI Agents Cooper Madsen (Evan Peters) and Jordan Bennett (Rebecca Hall) uncover a conspiracy that threatens the future of humanity. The investigation leads them directly into the crosshairs of The Corporation (Ashton Kutcher), who will stop at nothing to protect his trillion-dollar empire.
Disney+: recently added
Tell Me Lies Season 3 – 13 January
Series. The third season of this romantic drama follows Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) as they’ve rekindled their tumultuous romance, just in time for spring semester at Baird College.
While they promise things will be different this time, past indiscretions hinder their best intentions, and Lucy finds herself embroiled in a controversy she wants nothing to do with. Meanwhile, the disastrous repercussions from the previous year also force Lucy and Stephen’s friends to face their own destructive behaviours. As scandalous secrets fester around campus, vicious consequences threaten Lucy and everyone in her circle.
Pole to Pole with Will Smith – 14 January
Series. Inspired by his late mentor to explore life’s big questions, Will Smith throws himself into incredible challenges for 100 days: skiing to the South Pole, catching a giant anaconda, milking a venomous tarantula, climbing mountains, and diving under the ice of the North Pole. He will venture from pole to pole in the company of scientists, explorers and local experts.
Hey A.J.! – 14 January
Children’s Series. This brand-new, high-energy animated series is based on the Hey, A.J. books by the former Super Bowl Champion and children’s book author, Martellus Bennett. The show follows A.J., a curious and extremely imaginative 7-year-old girl. Whether imagining a long car drive is an exciting rocket ride or turning a grocery store line into a dance party, A.J. uses her big imagination to make any situation more fun and exciting.
A Thousand Blows Season 2 – 9 January
Series. This British historical drama series is inspired by the Forty Elephants, an all-female crime syndicate who clash with the world of illegal bare-knuckle boxing in 1880s East London.
Picking up a year after the events of the first season, season two finds Hezekiah as a shadow of the man he once was, while Sugar Goodson is estranged from his family and drinking himself to death. Just as Wapping is about to sigh its last breath, Mary Carr bursts back into town with her loyal second, Alice Diamond. In Mary’s absence, Eliza’s failed reign as Queen has led to her exile, while Indigo Jeremy has taken back control of the Elephants.
Meanwhile, Mary is back to reassemble the Forty Elephants and reclaim her crown. She sobers Sugar up, as she has a use for him yet, and forms a reluctant alliance with Hezekiah to take down Indigo Jeremy once and for all. As always, Mary has a plan. And this time it’s riskier than ever.
