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There are some much-anticipated shows to stream this month. Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney are back for new episodes of Euphoria, and we\u2019ll also get the final season of superhero satire The Boys. I\u2019m particularly keen on Stan\u2019s Half Man, however, the new drama from Baby Reindeer creator and star Richard Gadd. Plus: comic dynamos Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan are pairing up in the ABC comedy Bad Company.<\/p>\n
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Dan Levy stars as Nicky in Big Mistakes.Spencer Pazer\/Netflix<\/p>\n
My top Netflix recommendation is Big Mistakes (April 9).<\/p>\n
Ever since Schitt\u2019s Creek \u2013 the little Canadian comedy that could \u2013 concluded in 2020, co-creator Dan Levy has been in demand, whether as an actor or a host. He wrote, directed and starred in one feature, the under-seen Good Grief on Netflix, but now he\u2019s back with a new show. In the crime comedy Big Mistakes, co-created with I Love LA agitator Rachel Sennott<\/a>, Levy plays Nicky, a nervy Protestant priest who along with his chaotic sister, Morgan (Taylor Ortega, The Four Seasons<\/a>), is blackmailed into aiding an organised crime syndicate. It\u2019s not a gig the duo is remotely prepared for. Definitely expect some farce.<\/p>\n Also on Netflix: Shot on location in Sydney and the Blue Mountains, Apex (April 24) stars Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road<\/a>) as an outdoors adrenalin junkie whose solo Australian tour becomes a battle for survival when a twisted hunter (Taron Egerton, Rocketman<\/a>) makes her his prey. Running for her life, Theron\u2019s character has to brave the elements, with the action choreographed by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur (Everest). The tougher challenge may be for Egerton, with the Brit having to master an Australian accent. Eric Bana (Untamed<\/a>) also features, in an unknown supporting role.<\/p>\n When it debuted in 2023<\/a>, Lee Sung Jin\u2019s Beef (April 16) was a limited series. But the twisted dynamic and telling details of the feud between Ali Wong and Steven Yeun\u2019s characters was so compelling that audiences (and executives) clamoured for more. The solution? Beef is now an anthology series. Lee\u2019s new season, unconnected to the first, follows a young couple (Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton) working at a prestigious country club who accidentally witness their powerful boss and his wife (Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan) in a horrifying incident. Coercion, corruption and control soon follow.<\/p>\n March highlights: Rachel Weisz was at the top of her game in the brilliant black comedy Vladimir<\/a>, while the documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere<\/a> shone a light on the grifters and gurus of online misogyny.<\/p>\n HBO Max My top HBO Max recommendation is Euphoria (April 13).<\/p>\n It\u2019s been more than four years since the last episode of Sam Levinson\u2019s shock-and-awe teen drama aired. Since then, numerous cast members have become film stars. Zendaya (Dune), Jacob Elordi (Wuthering Heights) and Sydney Sweeney (The Housemaid) should be too famous to return for the show\u2019s third season, but they\u2019re all back. Those HBO contracts are obviously ironclad. The narrative leaps forward five years, thankfully leaving high school behind, but the characters remain unsettled. Zendaya\u2019s Rue, for example, long plagued by addiction issues, is living in Mexico and entangled with a drug dealer debt. Levinson, whose last series, The Idol,<\/a> was an overwrought mess, has almost certainly not embraced minimalism.<\/p>\n March highlights: A bittersweet black comedy hiding inside a murder-mystery, DTF St Louis<\/a> drew telling performances from Jason Bateman and David Harbour, while Steve Carell made a welcome comedy return with Rooster<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amazon Prime Video My top Amazon Prime recommendation is The Boys (April 8).<\/p>\n This hit American superhero satire, where those wearing capes are often corrupt and open to authoritarianism, has raised the unhinged stakes with every season: the gory body horror, blunt Trump parallels, and corporate crimes have become a supercharged norm. The challenge is to top all that and supply a satisfying ending for the fifth and final season. The all-powerful Homelander (Antony Starr, Banshee), a kind of fascist Superman, is now running America, through a puppet government and martial law, providing a final mission for the underground opposition led by super-hating former CIA agent \u2018Billy\u2019 Butcher (Karl Urban, Star Trek). The fan base, whatever their interpretation of the show, has the highest of expectations.<\/p>\n March highlights: Relocating to the Top End didn\u2019t slow down genius Australian crime comedy Deadloch<\/a>, Nicole Kidman headlined the forensics drama Scarpetta<\/a>, The Bluff<\/a> took a shot at pirate action, and Guy Ritchie gave us a detective origin story with Young Sherlock<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stan* My top Stan recommendation is Half Man (April 25).<\/p>\n How do you top Baby Reindeer<\/a>? That\u2019s the challenge for the Scottish actor and writer Richard Gadd, whose 2024 Netflix series was an absolute sensation. He returns with this tale of estranged Glaswegian \u201cbrothers\u201d, Niall (Jamie Bell, The Shining Girls) and Ruben (Gadd), who are reunited when the latter turns up at the former\u2019s wedding and promptly sets off alarm bells with his behaviour. The two are completely different in personality, but grew up relying on each other. The story charts their lives together and apart. Gadd has said \u201cdysfunctionality\u201d is central to the show. Oh, and remember how Gadd was a beanpole in Baby Reindeer? He\u2019s jacked this time.<\/p>\n Also on Stan: Equal parts relationship satire and tiny action-adventure, The Miniature Wife (April 19) pairs up Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) and Elizabeth Banks (Mrs America) \u2013 great casting! \u2013 as Les and Lindy Littlejohn, a struggling scientist and a successful author. When Les\u2019 work in miniaturisation pays off, there\u2019s a hitch \u2013 Lindy accidentally gets reduced to 20 centimetres tall, with no reversal. With a new dynamic in play, starting with Lindy literally living in a dollhouse, their love is tested and she faces unexpected survival stress. Is this the grown-up version of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids no one knew we needed? Sure sounds like it.<\/p>\n March highlights: Let\u2019s make the case for The Hunting Wives<\/a> as the ultimate guilty pleasure.<\/p>\n Apple TV My top Apple TV recommendation is Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles (April 15).<\/p>\n After a terrific run of high-profile movies \u2013 A Complete Unknown, Predator: Badlands, and Sentimental Value \u2013 Elle Fanning headlines this comic-drama in which her titular, working-class, young character has her university education derailed by a baby. Desperate for income, the single mother becomes a content creator on the adult subscription platform OnlyFans. Rufi Thorpe\u2019s 2024 novel of the same name has been adapted by the eternally prolific David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies), so the tone surrounding Margo\u2019s idiosyncratic but nonetheless explicit work is positive, as is her interaction with her parents \u2013 a retired Hooters waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer, The Madison)<\/a>, and a former pro wrestler (Nick Offerman, Parks and Recreation). Nicole Kidman also features, as a hard-nosed lawyer.<\/p>\n Also on Apple TV: Widow\u2019s Bay (April 29) is the latest showcase for Matthew Rhys. The star of The Americans and The Beast in Me<\/a> plays the mayor of an American island town quietly determined to turn the remote community into a tourist destination. His every move is opposed by sceptical locals, who believe that Widow\u2019s Bay is actively cursed, and when Rhys\u2019 Tom Loftis does make progress, inexplicable events suggest that the naysayers were not wrong. It\u2019s a character-driven drama that moves steadily into the horror realm, testing both Tom and the audience\u2019s endurance.<\/p>\n Oscar-nominated as an actor for Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street, Jonah Hill has been focused on making his own movies in the 2020s. His latest is Outcome (April 10), a black comedy about a beloved Hollywood star, Reef Hawk (Keanu Reeves), who has reached sobriety and calm, only to learn that someone has a video of him from his dark days that would destroy his career. Advised by his lawyer (Hill), and accompanied by his best friends (played by Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer), Reef goes on a personal apology tour to everyone he\u2019s wronged, trying to make amends and checking if they\u2019re his blackmailer. Done right, this really could be a great role for Keanu.<\/p>\n March highlights: Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara combined for the secrets-and-lies murder mystery Imperfect Women<\/a>.<\/p>\n Binge My top Binge recommendation is Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale<\/a> (April 17).<\/p>\n It\u2019s 16 years since this British period drama, crafted with aristocratic alacrity and period authenticity by Julian Fellowes, became a powerhouse television success. The last episode aired in 2015, but the demand for more Downton Abbey has resulted in a steady supply of feature film sequels. The latest now reaches streaming, bringing back the majority of the cast to the stately Yorkshire manor, less the late, great Maggie Smith\u2019s Dowager Countess. The year is 1930, the Great Depression is wreaking havoc, and rumours are spreading that Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) is a divorcee. This is expert fan service.<\/p>\n March highlights: Pride and Prejudice was just the starting point for charming spin-off The Other Bennet Sister<\/a>.<\/p>\n Disney+ My top Disney+ recommendation is The Testaments (April 8).<\/p>\n This continuation of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale <\/a>is no quick spin-off. It\u2019s adapted from Margaret Atwood\u2019s 2019 novel of the same name, with Bruce Miller returning as the show\u2019s creator after overseeing all six seasons of the original dystopian drama. The setting remains Gilead, aka America under a monstrous theocratic dictatorship, but a few years have passed, and the younger generation is the focus. One Battle after Another <\/a>breakout star Chase Infiniti stars as Agnes MacKenzie, a young woman raised by a powerful Gilead family and sent to the regime\u2019s elite finishing school for teenage girls. She\u2019s joined by an outsider, Daisy (Lucy Halliday), and both are watched closely by the school\u2019s headmistress, Ann Dowd\u2019s Handmaid antagonist, Aunt Lydia.<\/p>\n Also on Disney+: Television\u2019s 2000s revival continues, with Scrubs<\/a> being followed by Malcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair (April 10). Originally conceived as a movie, but now four half-hour episodes, this revival of the madcap family comedy that aired between 2000 and 2006 sees an adult Malcolm (Frankie Muniz) forced back into proximity with his dysfunctional clan when he and his own family are summoned to the 40th wedding anniversary of Malcolm\u2019s parents, Hal (Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad) and Lois (Jane Kaczmarek, Raising the Bar). Can the former child genius fare any better as an adult? Hopefully not. This franchise thrives on domestic chaos.<\/p>\n March highlights: Marvel fans got more of the revival that actually mattered with a new season of Daredevil: Born Again.<\/p>\n Paramount+ My top Paramount+ recommendation is Curfew (April 8).<\/p>\n This detective thriller is a work of speculative fiction. Adapted from Jayne Cowie\u2019s novel After Dark, it\u2019s set in a Britain where the movement to protect women from male violence has led to a curfew and electronic monitoring for all men from 7pm to 7am each night. That\u2019s changed the culture, society and relationship dynamics. But when a woman is found murdered, the investigating police officer, Detective Inspector Pamela Green (Sarah Parish, Industry), suspects that a man is somehow the culprit. Partnered with a young male colleague, Eddie Wilson (Mitchell Robertson, A Very British Scandal), Pamela has to handle both the investigation and her doubting superiors. The world-building and the characters will have to click in this one.<\/p>\n March highlights: Taylor Sheridan got a little touchy-feely with his grief-laden new Michelle Pfeiffer drama The Madison<\/a>.<\/p>\n ABC iview My top ABC iview recommendation is Bad Company (April 26).<\/p>\n No pairing in April excites me more than the headliners of this new Australian comedy. Anne Edmonds (Get Krack!n) and Kitty Flanagan (Fisk) star in this tale of a prestigious but floundering theatre company whose chaotic artistic director (Edmonds) has to deal with the corporate executive (Flanagan) brought in to save the institution from collapse. I strongly suspect this show, created by Edmonds, will have dialogue exchanges that gloriously cross the deranged with the deadpan. Hopefully, the supporting cast allows some very fine actors to cut loose as very silly actors. Can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n March highlights: Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker made a heist thriller so much more in Frauds<\/a>, village comedy Can You Keep a Secret?<\/a> was a showcase for Dawn French\u2019s comic brilliance, plus a new panel quiz show with Tonight at the Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n SBS on Demand My top SBS On Demand recommendation is Riot Women (April 2).<\/p>\n Sally Wainwright is one of British television\u2019s crucial voices, having created Last Tango in Halifax, Happy Valley and Gentleman Jack. Her latest show \u2013 with a second season already commissioned \u2013 is a feedback-friendly drama about a group of female friends struggling with the demands and dismissals of life in their fifties. The London quintet finds a balm for their dissatisfactions when they form a band to play a local fundraiser. Discovering their roles in the group, and making a righteous racket, helps the women figure out who they might yet be. The cast includes Tamsin Greig (Belgravia) and Joanna Scanlan (A Very Royal Scandal), who get the kind of lived-in roles, complete with humour as a coping mechanism, that Wainwright does so well.<\/p>\n Also on SBS On Demand: In the 2010s, shows about the hub of American corporate technology such as Silicon Valley were exaggerated satires. That moment has passed. The Audacity (April 15) returns to the privileged Californian enclave, but the humour is altogether darker as an ambitious tech CEO (Billy Magnussen, Made for Love) and his self-serving therapist (Sarah Goldberg, Barry), cross all kinds of lines. If you\u2019re thinking that this show sounds like a Succession successor, you\u2019re spot on. Creator Jonathan Glatzer wrote several episodes of the media mogul masterpiece.<\/p>\n March highlights: A real-life imprisonment without cause in an Iranian jail was the inspiration for British drama Prisoner 951.<\/p>\n * Stan is owned by Nine, the owner of this masthead.<\/p>\n![\"Zendaya](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b985c2a73b44ec27e6476d97253409dc4d9105fc.jpeg\")
Zendaya returns as Rue in season three of Euphoria.HBO Max<\/p>\n![\"Solider](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/081c7797e3df2911b97d091e791c1f2843c26663.jpeg\")
Solider Boy (Jensen Ackles) and Homelander (Antony Starr) return in the final season of The Boys.Jasper Savage\/Prime Video<\/p>\n![\"Richard](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e03143c1e7cfd98a45ad818f48ecf2d4a739234b.jpeg\")
Richard Gadd, of Baby Reindeer fame, returns in new series Half Man.BBC\/Mam Tor Productions\/Anne Binckebanck<\/p>\n![\"Michelle](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8c3403e7274ec83dde23d4cd4876f606a70d4f1d.jpeg\")
Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning in Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles.Apple TV<\/p>\n![\"Allen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8441066ad52b2222b655cfe7d749750b2402195e47c8ae616aebe496fecf6462.jpeg\")
Allen Leech as Tom Branson and Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.<\/p>\n![\"Chase](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/050f86f29ed3779f0fcb5584ffb7e04b00e27efa.jpeg\")
Chase Infiniti stars as Agnes in The Testaments, a sequel series to The Handmaid\u2019s Tale.Disney<\/p>\n![\"Sarah](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bb8f62e8e33d0615960db634647abe194d1775f0.jpeg\")
Sarah Parish stars as\u00a0Detective Inspector Pamela Green in Curfew.Paramount<\/p>\n![\"Kitty](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/532bf303951a60553b4fd52806acc232aae713f2.jpeg\")
Kitty Flanagan and Anne Edmonds star in new ABC comedy Bad Company.ABC<\/p>\n![\"Riot](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/90c4ab18d1ccbbbef9afdadd67eb861a41ad960f.jpeg\")
Riot Women is a new show from one of British television\u2019s crucial voices, Sally Wainwright.Helen Williams<\/p>\n