Best international series on Showmax this September, from 1883 to Tulsa King to White House Plumbers

6th Sep 2023 | Source: Showmax

<div><em>1st seasons of Taylor Sheridan's 1883 and Tulsa King, White House Plumbers & Fire Country; new Perry Mason</em></div>

<div><strong>1883 </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 18 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, </span><a href="https://usw2.nyl.as/t1/211/9kuvjqyad2nj8k9wy139hox7n/1/d32fe77f3bdb2523b637e18cc21a2868fb2eb8db8517a814b1e616870a98b3b2" rel="noreferrer" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #1155cc" target="_blank"><em>Yellowstone</em></a><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> origin story </span><em>1883 </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">follows the Dutton family as they flee poverty on a journey west through the Great Plains towards the last bastion of untamed America. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Oscar nominee Sam Elliott (</span><em>The Contender</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>A Star Is Born</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Hero</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) won a 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award as wiry cowboy Shea Brennan, while Isabel May won at the Women's Image Network Awards for her breakthrough role as Elsa Dutton. Also look out for Grammy-winning country music stars (and real-life couple) Faith Hill and Tim McGraw as Margaret and James Dutton, as well as guest appearances from Oscar winners Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Hanks. </span></div>

<div><em>1883</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has an 8.7/10 score on </span><em>IMDb</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and an 83% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. Taylor Sheridan (</span><em>Yellowstone </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">co-creator, </span><em>Sicario</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) won Best Episodic Drama at the 2022 Writers Guild of America Awards and </span><em>1883</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was nominated for three Emmys last year - one for its musical score and two for its cinematography. </span></div>

<div><strong>TULSA KING S1</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 4 September</span></div>

<div><em>Tulsa King</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> stars three-time Oscar nominee Sylvester Stallone (aka Rocky Balboa) as New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi, who's just been released from prison after 25 years, only to find himself exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realising that his mob family may not have his best interests at heart, Dwight sets out to build a criminal empire of his own, starting with an unlikely new crew. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Exec-produced by Oscar-nominated creator Taylor Sheridan (</span><em>Yellowstone</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Oscar-nominated co-writer Terence Winter (</span><em>The Sopranos</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">,</span><em> The Wolf of Wall Street</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Boardwalk Empire</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), </span><em>Tulsa King</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was nominated for two 2023 Critics Choice Super Awards – Best Action Series and Best Actor in an Action Series (Stallone) – as well an Emmy for its stunt coordination. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Already renewed for a second season, </span><em>Tulsa King</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has an 8/10 score on </span><em>IMDb</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>IndieWire</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> saying, "Stallone playing a fish out of water who's also a bull in a china shop proves perpetually entertaining," and </span><em>London Evening Standard </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">saying, "This is Stallone dialled up to 11, exhibiting the kind of towering, megawatt, likeable-and-funny-even-when-he's-knocking-someone-out charisma that time has forgotten, but he hasn't."</span></div>

<div><strong>WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 11 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">One of </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">' most anticipated series of 2023, </span><em>White House Plumbers</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> tells the true story of how Richard Nixon's own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Triple-Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson (</span><em>True Detective</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Triangle of Sadness</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) stars as CIA officer E Howard Hunt, with Emmy winner Justin Theroux (</span><em>The Leftovers</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as White House lawyer G Gordon Liddy.</span></div>

<div><em>Daily Telegraph (UK)</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> says, "Americans may find it depressing – but for everyone else, it is a period hoot begging to be binged."</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on the book</span><em> Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> by Egil "Bud" Krogh (who served time for his role in the Watergate scandal) and his son Matthew Krogh, the five-part HBO series is helmed by a team of Emmy-winning </span><em>Veep</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> alums – writer-creators Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck, and director David Mandel.</span></div>

<div><em>White House Plumbers </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">dominated the nominations in the Supporting Actress category at this year's Hollywood Critics Association Awards, with Judy Greer (Leah Askey in </span><em>The Thing About Pam</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Ant-Man</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s</span><em> </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Maggie Lang, Karen in </span><em>Halloween</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Halloween Kills</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, Karen in </span><em>Jurassic World</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), multiple-Emmy nominee Lena Headey (</span><em>Game of Thrones</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">' Cersei Lannister) and Oscar nominee Kathleen Turner (</span><em>The Kominsky Method</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) all vying for the award. </span></div>

<div><strong>PERRY MASON S2 </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 11 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Reluctant private investigator Perry Mason (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys from </span><em>The Americans</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) is now an attorney, defending two Mexican brothers accused of the brutal murder of the son of a powerful oil family. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Up for 2023 Emmys for its 1930s era production design and costumes, S2 of </span><em>Perry Mason</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has an 84% critics' rating on</span><em> Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>ABC News</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> hailing the HBO series as "haunting and hypnotic." They even compare it to the film noir classic </span><em>Chinatown</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. "Yup, it's that good," they say.  </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Juliet Rylance (</span><em>The Knick</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Chris Chalk (</span><em>When They See Us</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>12 Years A Slave</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) are back as Della Street and beat cop Paul Drake, while new cast this season include Oscar nominees Paul Raci (Joe in </span><em>Sound of Metal</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Sean Astin (Bob Newby in </span><em>Stranger Things</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, Samwise Gamgee in </span><em>The Lord of the Rings</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> trilogy), Emmy nominee Hope Davis (</span><em>Succession</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Sandi Furness, Sandy Borden in </span><em>Asteroid City</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, Gina Baxter in ??</span><em>Your Honor</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Teen Choice nominee Katherine Waterston (Tina in the </span><em>Fantastic Beasts</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> movies, Daniels in </span><em>Alien: Covenant</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).     </span></div>

<div><strong>WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY S2</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| First on Showmax | Binge from 18 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2 of </span><em>Winning Time</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> continues to explore the professional and personal lives of the legendary 1980s Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, building to the first professional rematch of the era's greatest stars: Magic Johnson (Quincy Isaiah) and Larry Bird (Sean Patrick Small). ??</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2 is even more of a hit with critics than its Emmy-nominated debut, with an 88% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, where the consensus calls it "</span><span style="color:#2a2c32; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">some of the best courtside seats to sports history that television can provide." Using words like </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"dazzling... electric... a damn good time... hilarious, exasperating, and even heartbreaking", Variety concludes, "The magic has indeed returned." </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2's returning cast includes Oscar winner Adrien Brody (</span><em>Asteroid City</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Oscar nominee John C Reilly (</span><em>Chicago</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Boogie Nights</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Magnolia</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Critics Choice winner Jason Segel (</span><em>Shrinking</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>How I Met Your Mother</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Emmy nominee Gaby Hoffman (</span><em>Transparent</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), alongside new cast like Emmy winner Michael Chiklis (</span><em>The Shield</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).</span></div>

<div><strong>MINX S2 </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| First on Showmax | Binge from 11 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Set in 1970s Los Angeles, </span><em>Minx </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">follows Joyce, an earnest young feminist (Ophelia Lovibond from </span><em>Feel Good, Elementary </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><em>This England</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) who joins forces with low-rent publisher Doug (Critics Choice nominee Jake Johnson from </span><em>New Girl</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) to create the first erotic magazine for women. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2 picks up as Doug and Joyce sell Bottom Dollar to a retired shipping magnate and </span><em>Minx </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">becomes a commercial success. Under new leadership, Doug struggles to maintain his control within Bottom Dollar while Joyce loses sight of her core beliefs as she rises to stardom. As our Bottom Dollar misfits go mainstream, they start to question who they're becoming and what they really want from this newfound success.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">With five-time Emmy nominee Paul Feig (</span><em>Bridesmaids</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Office</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Love Life</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) among its exec producers, Season 1 was nominated for Best Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy (Lovibond) at the 2023 Satellite Awards.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2 has an 88% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, where the critics' consensus says, "Still getting great mileage from its marriage of the feminist and the frivolous, </span><em>Minx'</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">s second season is smart, sexy, and fun."</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Look out for Elizabeth Perkins from </span><em>Weeds</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Sharp Objects</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> joining the cast this season, which is rated 18SNL.</span></div>

<div><strong>BASED ON A TRUE STORY</strong><span style="color:#ff0000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now</span></div>

<div><em>Based on a True Story</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is the gripping tale of a realtor, a former tennis star and a plumber whose lives collide when they seize a unique opportunity to capitalise on America's obsession with true-crime. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Triple-Emmy nominee Kaley Cuoco (</span><em>The Flight Attendant</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Big Bang Theory</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Critics Choice nominee Chris Messina (</span><em>Sharp Objects, The Mindy Project</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) play Ava and Nathan, a married couple with a baby on the way. They are facing the harsh realisation that their youthful dreams are not going to come true; that is, until they meet Matt (Tom Bateman from </span><em>Murder on the Orient Express</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Death on the Nile</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), an enigmatic plumber who they quickly come to suspect is an infamous serial killer. Ava has a brilliant idea, which could end up costing them everything... </span></div>

<div><em>The Los Angeles Times</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls the Peacock Original "a hilarious indictment of the public's preoccupation with morbid crime and the media's fire hose of content in service of that addiction."</span></div>

<div><em>Based on a True Story</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Emmy-nominated creator Craig Rosenberg (</span><em>The Boys) </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">exec produces alongside Emmy winner Jason Bateman (</span><em>Ozark</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Oscar nominee Alexander Buono (</span><em>Russian Doll, Documentary Now!</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), who also directs two episodes. </span></div>

<div><strong>FIRE COUNTRY</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 18 September</span></div>

<div><em>Fire Country</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> follows Bode Donovan (Max Thieriot from </span><em>SEAL Team </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><em>Bates Motel</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). A young convict seeking redemption, he joins an unconventional prison release firefighting programme in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires. It's a high-risk, high-reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode is assigned to the programme in his rural hometown, where he was once a golden all-American son. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Executive-produced by ??Jerry Bruckheimer (the Oscar-nominated and 10-Emmy-winning producer behind mega-franchises like </span><em>Pirates of the Caribbean</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Bad Boys</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Top Gun</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, and the hit </span><em>CSI </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">shows), </span><em>Fire Country</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was co-created by Thieriot and Emmy-nominated </span><em>Grey's Anatomy</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> writers Joan Rater and Tony Phelan.</span></div>

<div><em>Fire Country</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s cast includes award winner Kevin Alejandro (</span><em>Lucifer</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Dan Espinoza), Jordan Calloway (</span><em>Black Lightning</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Khalil Payne aka Painkiller), and Billy Burke (</span><em>9-1-1: Lone Star</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s</span><em> </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Billy Tyson and </span><em>The Twilight Saga</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Charlie Swan).</span></div>

<div><strong>THE SUSPECT </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 15 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on Michael Robotham's bestselling novel, </span><em>The Suspect </em><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">stars Empire Award winner Aidan Turner (aka Ross in </span><em>Poldark</em><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, Kili in </span><em>The Hobbit</em><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> trilogy, and Glenn Lapthorn in </span><em>Fifteen-Love</em><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as clinical psychologist Dr </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Joseph O'Loughlin. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">With a devoted family, a </span><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">successful practice, a publishing deal and hero status in the media, Joe's life seems near perfect. </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">But even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling ...</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">When the body of a young woman is found in a shallow grave in a West London cemetery, veteran police officer Vince Ruiz (BAFTA nominee Shaun Parkes from </span><em>Small Axe</em><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and his young partner Riya Devi (Anjli Mohindra from </span><em>Vigil</em><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) call on Joe's expertise to help them understand her disturbing death. But it soon emerges that Joe is closer to the case than anyone imagined. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In their 4-star review, </span><em>The Guardian</em><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> said, "Aidan Turner cranks the creepiness up to 11 in [this] fun, sadistic thriller."</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Turner was nominated for Best Actor for the role at the</span><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Irish Film and Television Awards. The five-episode series also stars BAFTA winner Sian Clifford (</span><em>Fleabag</em><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Claire). </span></div>

<div><strong>THE BAY S4</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Binge from 8 September </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In Season 4 of popular British crime drama </span><em>The Bay</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, DS Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason from </span><em>Lost</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Morecambe Police's family liaison officer, must gain the trust of a broken family to uncover the truth behind an arson attack. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Back at home, Jenn has troubles of her own as she tries to get to grips with the realities of having a blended family full of teenagers. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">BAFTA nominee Barry Sloane and Daniel Ryan return as Chris and DI Tony Manning respectively. Joe Armstrong (</span><em>Gentleman Jack</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Samuel Washington, and Gildas in </span><em>Britannia</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) joins the cast this season as Dean Metcalf. </span></div>

<div><em>The Bay</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has picked up nominations at the BAFTAs in both Scotland and Wales, as well as an Irish Film and Television Award nomination for series co-creator and writer Daragh Carville. A fifth season is on the way. </span></div>

<div><strong>AVENUE 5 S2</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 25 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Captain Clark's space cruise ship has been thrown off course, making its eight-week scenic flip around Saturn a life-threatening, years-long journey back home to Earth. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As Season 2 begins, Avenue 5 is on course for a close encounter with the sun, while the captain is still trying to work up the courage to tell his passengers the truth about their "adjusted" ETA. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Judd Mission Control is under threat, and a planned rescue mission drums up less support than a TV dramatisation of the events aboard the ship. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ten-time Emmy nominee Hugh Laurie (</span><em>House M.D.</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) stars as Clark, opposite the likes of Kids' Choice winner Josh Gad (Olaf in </span><em>Frozen</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Screen Actors Guild nominee Zach Woods (</span><em>The Office</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Silicon Valley</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Nigerian-born BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (</span><em>Knock at the Cabin</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Old</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). BAFTA nominee Leila Farzad (Naomi in </span><em>I Hate Suzie</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) joins the cast this season as Clark's love interest, Elena. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">From Oscar-nominated creator Armando Iannucci (</span><em>Veep</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), </span><em>Avenue 5</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Season 2 has an 89% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>Decider</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> praising the show's "manic absurdity" and "stream of jokes hurling along at roughly the speed of light".</span></div>

<div><strong>TOTALLY COMPLETELY FINE</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| 2 episodes every Wednesday from 6 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Critics Choice nominee Thomasin McKenzie (</span><em>Last Night In Soho</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Jojo Rabbit</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Power of the Dog</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) stars in </span><em>Totally Completely Fine </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">as Vivian, who inherits a cliffside property only to discover it's a suicide site and she's tasked with rescuing lost souls on the verge.</span></div>

<div><em>Totally Completely Fine</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has a rare 100% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes,</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> with </span><em>The Guardian</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> saying, "McKenzie ... imbues the lead role with a compelling, slightly dangerous and volatile energy, as if parts of her psyche could combust at any moment."</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The quirky Aussie comedy also stars Rowan Witt (</span><em>Spreadsheet</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as her brother, John, and the likes of Critics Choice winner John Noble (</span><em>Fringe</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Sleepy Hollow</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).</span></div>

<div><em>The Sydney Morning Herald</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls it, "one of the most ambitious Australian series of the streaming age."</span></div>

<div><strong>NOLLY</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 4 September</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Two-time Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter (</span><em>The Crown</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The King's Speech</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) stars in </span><em>Nolly</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, the new series from BAFTA winner Russell T Davies (</span><em>It's a Sin</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Years and Years</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>A Very English Scandal</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As flame-haired widow Meg Richardson in the long-running UK soap opera </span><em>Crossroads</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, inimitable star Noele Gordon (Nolly to her friends) was one of the most famous people in Britain. Then in 1981, at the height of the show's success and the peak of Nolly's fame, she was axed without ceremony, without warning and with no explanation. With the boss's words "all good things must come to an end" ringing in her ears, Noele found herself thrown out of the show that had been her life for more than 18 years.</span></div>

<div><em>Nolly</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is a bold exploration of how the establishment turns on women who refuse to play by the rules, the women it cannot understand and the women it fears. A love letter to a legend of TV – and to the madcap soap she starred in – </span><em>Nolly</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is an outrageously fun and wildly entertaining ride through Noele Gordon's most tumultuous years, and a sharp, affectionate and heart-breaking portrait of a forgotten icon. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed by BAFTA winner Peter Hoar (</span><em>The Last of Us</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>It's A Sin</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Umbrella Academy</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), the three-part series has a 100% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>The Guardian</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> saying, "Helena Bonham Carter is brilliantly camp in Russell T Davies's impeccable drama... It's a joy to watch this warm, thoughtful tribute to soaps, fabulous older women – and showbiz itself."</span></div>

<div><strong>DREAMLAND</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on Sharon Horgan's 2018 BAFTA-winning short, </span><em>Dreamland</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is a story of sun, sea and secrets from the makers of the 2023 Emmy nominee </span><em>Bad Sisters. </em></div>

<div><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Eldest sister Trish (Freema Agyeman from </span><em>New Amsterdam</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Doctor Who</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) is pregnant for the third time. This time, she's decided: it's going to be a girl. Her two sisters, their mum and their Margate- legend nan rally around her, "manifesting" a little girl at Trish's 'mani-festival'. But when their other sister, Mel (Grammy nominee Lily Allen in her TV debut), makes an unexpected reappearance back into their lives, her return threatens to destabilise the entire family. A knock on their door and their 'Dreamland' is no more...</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Set in the British seaside town of Margate, the Sky Original has an 86% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. In their four-star review, </span><em>The Evening Standard</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls </span><em>Dreamland </em><span style="color:#1e1e1c; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"a breath of fresh sea air in more ways than one", adding that </span><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">watching the sisters "</span><span style="color:#1e1e1c; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">bicker and squabble and show up for each other is a real joy" and that "the performances pack a punch".  </span></div>

<div><strong>MATERNAL</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | First on Showmax | 2 episodes on Mondays from 4 September</span></div>

<div><em>Maternal </em><span style="color:#2d2d2d; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">follows three female doctors returning to post-pandemic frontline medicine after maternity leave and trying to balance the intense demands of life on the ward and motherhood.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#2d2d2d; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Paediatric registrar Dr Maryam Afridi (Teen Choice nominee Parminder Nagra from </span><em>Bend It Like Beckham</em><span style="color:#2d2d2d; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>ER</em><span style="color:#2d2d2d; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) is full of doubt that she can cope with the emotional demands of treating children now that she has her own. Catherine MacDiarmid (Critics Choice nominee Lara Pulver from </span><em>Sherlock</em><span style="color:#2d2d2d; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) is a single mother and successful surgeon determined to be one of the boys in the macho world of surgery. And Dr Helen Cavendish (Lisa McGrillis from </span><em>Mum</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">)</span><span style="color:#2d2d2d; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is a registrar in Acute Medicine, who is wrestling with a self-prescribed role that sees her mothering everyone in her life.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The British medical drama has a 100% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>The Guardian</em><span style="color:#2d2d2d; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> saying, "This wonderful drama about doctors going back to work after having children is a spot-on exploration of female friendship – and how to survive in a system stacked against you."</span></div>

<div><strong>EVERYTHING ON SHOWMAX IN SEPTEMBER 2023</strong></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">To see everything on Showmax in August 2023, including the Showmax Originals </span><em>Outlaws</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>The Real Housewives of Lagos S2</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">; the Oscar-nominated </span><em>Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">; and the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award winner </span><em>Breaking</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, click </span><a href="https://usw2.nyl.as/t1/211/9kuvjqyad2nj8k9wy139hox7n/16/28903142d0e700a9c666d45cfba6e81f4fd77ac958f3cbf20421d41558ccae37" rel="noreferrer" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #1155cc" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>