New to Disney+ this week – quick links
Disney+: new this week
Solar Opposites Season 6 – 11 March
Series. This adult animated sci-fi sitcom follows a team of four aliens – Korvo, Terry and their replicants Yumyulack and Jesse – who crash-land in suburban America after their planet is destroyed.
In the sixth and final season, the aliens are living on a budget after their diamond-making machine is destroyed. Meanwhile, there’s a romantasy subplot for Terry, and the family might finally embrace life on Earth.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 4 – 12 March
Series. The stakes for #MomTok are at an all-time high as their sisterhood faces the forces of their expanding fame.
When Taylor is announced as The Bachelorette and Jen and Whitney head to Dancing with the Stars, competition creates chaos, temptations arise and traditions turn upside down. Up against unravelling marriages, personal demons and family secrets, they must choose to lean on each other or face their fates untethered and alone on the world’s stage.
Disney+: recently added
O11CE Seasons 1-3 – 4 March
Series. Produced by Pol-ka Producciones in association with Disney Channel Latin America, this Argentine youth sports telenovela focuses on Gabo Moreti, a talented young soccer player from a small town who receives a scholarship to the prestigious Sports Academic Institute in Buenos Aires, aiming to join their team, the Los Halcones Dorados (Golden Hawks).
Ghost Elephants – 8 March
Documentary (2025). Legend says there are ‘ghost elephants’ hidden in the highlands of Angola that have never been seen by humans. In this stunning documentary film, acclaimed director Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) follows an epic quest to the Angolan highlands led by National Geographic Explorer and conservation biologist Dr Steve Boyes to find these majestic and elusive creatures.
Paradise Season 2 – 23 February
Series. Hulu’s post-apocalyptic political thriller, set in a city-sized underground bunker in Colorado three years after a mysterious doomsday event, is back for a second season.
Xavier (Sterling K Brown) searches for his wife Teri (Enuka Okuma) out in the world, and learns how people have survived the three years since ‘The Day’. Back in Paradise, the social fabric frays as the bunker deals with the aftermath of the events of season one, and new secrets are uncovered about the city’s origins. Watch the trailer.
Scrubs – 26 February
Series. Zach Braff and Donald Faison are reunited in this new reboot of the much loved early-2000s medical sitcom.
JD (Braff) and Turk (Faison) scrub in together for the first time in a long time – medicine has changed, interns have changed, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way.
In The Blink of an Eye – 26 February
Film (2026). This brand new science-fiction film from director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E, Finding Dory) follows three interconnected stories spanning thousands of years, exploring the history of the world and reflecting on hope, connection and the circle of life.
In the past, a Neanderthal family displaced from their home struggles to survive, protect the children, and use primitive tools. In the present day, Claire, a driven, post-grad anthropologist studying ancient proto-human remains, begins a relationship with a fellow student Greg. And two centuries later, on a spaceship bound for a distant planet, Coakley and a sentient onboard computer confront a disease afflicting the ship’s oxygen-producing plants.
Starring Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs, Tanaya Beatty, Jorge Vargas and Skywalker Hughes.
