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This month’s new-to-streaming selection
includes everything from a harassed space
captain to, er, another harassed space captain
Doctor Who
Jodie Whittaker’s ageless timelord
returns as the 12th season of ‘new
Doctor Who’ kicks off on the very
first day of 2020. Details are scant,
but we do know that Stephen Fry
and Lenny Henry will be putting in
guest appearances and that it will
kick off with a two-part special
called ‘Spyfall’. Whovians, start
your hype engines.
S12 / BBC iPlayerThe Deuce
David Simon’s follow-up to The
Wire might not quite have grabbed
us by the short and curlies quite
as tightly, but its sleazy, scuzzy
recreation of ’70s and ’80s New
York, packed with small-time
hustlers and hoodlums, will secure
it a spot in the TV annals. This
third and final season should tie
everything up nice and neatly.
S3 / Now TVIt’s Always Sunny
in Philadelphia
The world’s longest-running
current live action sitcom returns
for a 14th season – with exactly the
same main cast as the first. Always
Sunny virgins are better off starting
at S1 (don’t worry, Netflix has every
episode), but veterans will be itching
to get back with the gang and their
awful, selfish, offensive adventures.
S14 / NetflixThe Outsider
It might be yet another adaptation
of a Stephen King novel, but who’s
complaining? This one stars Jason
Bateman as a man accused of
a gruesome murder, backed up
with cast-iron forensic evidence...
except there’s also cast-iron proof
he wasn’t even in town when it
happened. The always-great Ben
Mendelsohn also stars.
S1 / Now TVTreadstone
A spin-off from the Jason Bourne
movie series, Treadstone delves
into the murky world of CIA black
ops, in particular the creation of
a gaggle of elite sleeper-agent
assassins who don’t even
know they’re elite sleeper-agent
assassins. Expect bone-crunching
bust-ups, shadowy spymasters
and conflicted killers.
S1 / Amazon Prime Video
Avenue 5
From The Day Today and The Thick
of It to Veep and The Death of
Stalin, Armando Iannucci is the
mind behind some of the best
satire of the past 25 years – and
now he’s pointing his comedic lens
at the future of tourism... in space.
Hugh Laurie stars as the captain
of a luxury cruise starship where
sailing is anything but smooth.
S1 / Now TV
Star Trek: Picard S1 / Amazon Prime Video
The best-loved, boldest and baldest captain of the Enterprise makes an overdue return
in this 10-part Amazon exclusive. Yes, almost 20 years after last playing Jean-Luc Picard,
the great Patrick Stewart is back. Picard is now retired, mourning lost friends and making
wine rather than exploring the far reaches of space, but something is about to drag him
back to the stars. Promising to be a more contemplative and slow-paced series than the
action-packed Star Trek: Discovery, it features a number of old faces...