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8th Nov 2022 | Source: Showmax

<div class="v1v1msg3306921520847451986"><strong>THE WHITE LOTUS S2 </strong><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| New episodes every Monday, first on Showmax</span>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The next chapter of </span><em>The White Lotus</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> swaps Hawaii for Sicily, following a new group of vacationers jetting off to a different White Lotus resort. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 1 was the most awarded show at the 2022 Emmys, winning 10 awards, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Directing and Writing - and Supporting Actress for Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya, who returns in Season 2 opposite Teen Choice nominee Jon Gries (</span><em>Napoleon Dynamite</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Get Shorty</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Greg. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The new cast includes Peabody Award winner Aubrey Plaza (</span><em>Parks and Recreation</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), People's Choice winner Theo James (</span><em>Divergent</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (</span><em>Amadeus</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Grand Budapest Hotel</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Emmy winner Michael Imperioli (</span><em>The Sopranos</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Teen Choice nominees Meghann Fahy (Sutton in </span><em>The Bold Type</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Haley Lu Richardson (</span><em>Five Feet Apart</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), BAFTA winner Tom Hollander (</span><em>The Night Manager</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), BAFTA nominee Will Sharpe (</span><em>Landscapers</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Giri/Haji</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), multi-award-winning Italian actress Sabrina Impacciatore and Adam DiMarco (Todd/Elliott in </span><em>The Magicians</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).  </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2 has a 91% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">: as </span><em>Independent (UK)</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> raves, "There is nothing more enjoyable to watch on television right now than </span> <em>The White Lotus</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">."</span></div>

<div><strong>HACKS S2 </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 23 November 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In September 2022,</span><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jean Smart took home the Emmy for Outstanding Actress In A Comedy for the second year running for her performance as legendary Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance. </span><em>Hacks S2</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> also won Emmys for Outstanding Guest Actress </span><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">(Laurie Metcalfe from </span><em>The Big Bang Theory</em><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and</span><em> Lady Bird</em><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Contemporary Costumes from its 17 nominations, which included Best Comedy. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2 continues to</span><em> </em><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">explore </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">the evolving mentorship between the acerbic Deborah and her young, entitled writer, Ava (Hannah Einbinder, nominated for back-to-back Emmys for this breakthrough role). </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2 has a 100% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, where it's the fourth best-reviewed show of 2022 so far. </span><em>IndieWire </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">praised </span><em>Hacks </em> <span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">as "a series of endless wonders"; </span><em>AV Club </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">wrote that the new season is "pitch-perfect" starring "a never-better Jean Smart"; and </span><em>The Wrap </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">adds, it "remains one of the most consummately funny shows on TV." </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">HBO Max has already renewed </span><em>Hacks </em> <span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">for a third season. </span></div>

<div><strong>THE HANDMAID'S TALE S5</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge the whole season from 10 November 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, </span><em>The Handmaid's Tale</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States, where the few fertile women, known as Handmaids, struggle to survive as reproductive surrogates.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Having got her revenge in the Season 4 finale, June is facing its consequences in Season 5, while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise in power. June, Luke and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite with Hannah.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The show's 15 Emmy Awards include wins for Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Bradley Whitford, and Samira Wiley, with nominations for Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, O-T Fagbenle, and Madeline Brewer, all of whom return for the new season.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 5 has an 81% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>Variety</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> writing, "</span><em>The Handmaid's Tale</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has found itself — or a version of itself, at once leaner and stranger — again... </span><em>Handmaid's </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">is in a new, fascinating era."</span></div>

<div><strong>THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH S1</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 7 November 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In </span> <em>The Man Who Fell To Earth, </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">an alien arrives on Earth with a mission: to learn to become human and find the one woman who can help save his species. Together they discover that in order to save his world, they must first save ours.</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 shows of 2022, </span><em>The Man Who Fell To Earth</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was up for Best Special Visual Effects at the Emmys, while Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris were nominated for Best Actor and Actress respectively at the 2022 Black Reel Awards, where Clarke Peters was up for Best Supporting Actor. BAFTA winner Bill Nighy and Emmy nominees Jimmi Simpson (</span><em>Westworld</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Rob Delaney (</span><em>Catastrophe</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) co-star. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on the Walter Tevis novel of the same name and the iconic film that starred David Bowie, </span><em>The Man Who Fell To Earth</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has an 87% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes, </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">with</span><em> Salon</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> praising Ejiofor in particular</span><em>. "</em><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It's an incredible performance bursting with tenderness, humour and the requisite level of oddity one would expect of a being thrust into an unfamiliar place."</span></div>

<div><strong>THE IPCRESS FILE (AKA HARRY PALMER)</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 9 November 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler-turned-reluctant-spy Harry Palmer (BAFTA nominee Joe Cole from </span><em>Gangs of London</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover mission to find a missing British nuclear scientist.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on the classic Len Deighton spy novel, </span><em>The Ipcress File (aka Harry Palmer)</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has a 94% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes,</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> where the critics' consensus says, "Slick, stylish, and packing sly nods to present politics, </span><em>The Ipcress File</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is a classic spy caper with a modern sensibility."</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The six-part miniseries also stars BAFTA winner Tom Hollander (</span><em>The Night Manager, The White Lotus</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Screen Actors Guild nominee Lucy Boynton (</span><em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).  </span></div>

<div><strong>SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now</span></div>

<div><em>Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">tells the rollercoaster story of upstart transportation company Uber, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The season pivots on Travis Kalanick (two-time Emmy winner Joseph Gordon-Levitt from </span><em>Inception</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Uber's hard-charging CEO, who was ultimately ousted in a boardroom coup, and his sometimes tumultuous relationship with his mentor Bill Gurley (Emmy winner Kyle Chandler from </span> <em>Super 8</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), the plainspoken, brilliant Texan venture capitalist who bets his sterling reputation on Uber's success – and then has to live with the consequences. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Oscar nominee Uma Thurman (</span><em>Pulp Fiction</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Kill Bill</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) stars as Uber board member Arianna Huffington, the co-founder of </span><em>The Huffington Post</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span></div>

<div><strong>SHOWTRIAL</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Binge from 28 November 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Celine Buckens (</span><em>Warrior</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>War Horse</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2022 BAFTAS and International Emmys as Talitha Campbell. She plays a wealthy entrepreneur's arrogant daughter, who is arrested following the disappearance of fellow student Hannah Ellis, the hard-working daughter of a single mother.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">From the makers of </span><em>Vigil </em> <span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><em>Line of Duty</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Showtrial </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">switches between both sides of the legal battle, as defence and prosecution fight for their version of what really happened to Hannah, and the truth about Talitha: Falsely accused? Or callous murderer?</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As </span> <em>Metro</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> (UK) says, "</span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">By this point, it seems the makers of </span><em>Line of Duty</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> can do no wrong. The verdict on their intriguing legal thriller is in, and it's another triumph."</span></div>

<div><strong>CHAPELWAITE S1 </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Oscar winner Adrien Brody was nominated for Best Actor: Horror at the 2022 Critics Choice Super Awards for his performance as Captain Charles Boone in</span><em> Chapelwaite</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. The horror series is based on the short story </span><em>Jerusalem's Lot </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">by Stephen King (</span><em>It</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Shining</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Carrie</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family to his ancestral home in the small, sleepy town of Preacher's Corners in Maine. Here Charles will soon have to confront his family's secrets and fight to end the darkness.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nominated by both the American and Canadian Society of Cinematographers, </span><em>Chapelwaite</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> also stars multi-award winner Emily Hampshire (</span><em>Schitt's Cree</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">k) as Rebecca Morgan, while Jordan Poole was nominated for a Young Artist Academy Award as Emory Spicer. </span></div>

<div><strong>WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA S2</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Binge now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Set in early 1990s New York, at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, </span><em>Wu-Tang: An American Saga</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is the fictionalised account of the formation of legendary hip-hop supergroup Wu-Tang Clan. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">MTV Movie Award winner Ashton Sanders (</span><em>Moonlight</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Judas and the Black Messiah</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Black Reel winner Shameik Moore (the voice of </span><em>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Vers</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">e's Miles) co-star as Bobby Diggs and Sha Raider respectively. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nigerian-American Uyoata Udi (</span><em>This is Us</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Watchmen</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) takes over from Joey Bada$$ as Jason Hunter/Rebel/Inspectah Deck as the series explores the backstory behind some of Wu-Tang's biggest tracks.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Created by Grammy nominated Wu-Tang leader RZA with Alex Tse (</span><em>Watchmen</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Season 1 of the series was nominated for an Emmy and three Black Reel Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. The show has also already been renewed for a third and final season.</span></div>

<div><strong>THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF DUBAI </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from 25 November 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Move over Durban and Lagos: this new series of the popular international franchise </span><em>The Real Housewives</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> follows a powerful group of women in Dubai as they run business empires and expertly navigate a highly exclusive social scene within this ultra-luxe billionaire's playground. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Whether they're dining on a mountainside overlooking a valley of 1 000 camels or hosting the wedding event of the year, these ambitious and glamorous women prove everything is more extravagant in the City of Gold. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">When new group dynamics threaten long-standing friendships, tensions inevitably reach a boiling point, so if you can't handle the heat... get out of Dubai. </span></div>

<div><strong>ALL AMERICAN: HOMECOMING S1</strong><span style="color:#222222; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Binge now</span></div>

<div><em>All American: Homecoming</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> follows a young tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills and an elite baseball player from Chicago at a prestigious historically Black college. Here they must contend with the high stakes of college sports while navigating the highs, lows and sexiness of unsupervised early adulthood. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The spinoff of acclaimed drama series </span><em>All American</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> sees GeffriMaya reprise her role as Simone Hicks opposite Peyton Alex Smith (</span><em>Legacies</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Damon Sims and Emmy nominee Kelly Jenrette (</span><em>The Handmaid's Tale</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Amara Patterson. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Created by Nigerian-American Nkechi Okoro, the young adult sports drama has a 100% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>Variety</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calling it a "a big-hearted, worthy spinoff."</span></div>
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