From Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives to Them: The Scare on Prime Video – the best new TV and films to stream next week

IT’S that time of the week again when we release a list of the best TV and films coming to your screens next week.

We’ve done the hard work for you and hand-picked the most compelling shows that will be landing on Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV, Disney+, Channel 4, and Discovery+ in just a few days’ time.

NETFLIX

Dead Boy Detectives

Available Thursday

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Dead Boy Detectives starring Kassius Nelson, will be landing on Netflix next week[/caption]

A new eight-part series bursting with gloriously gloomy but spectacular and spooky supernatural teen adventures.

Teenage ghost detectives Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) aren’t like most detective duos.

For starters, they’re both ghosts, born decades apart, who only found each other in the afterlife.

Now, these unlikely best friends are using their talents to solve some of the world’s most perplexing paranormal mysteries and help other ghosts find peace, all the while trying to avoid being claimed by Death herself.

Miller’s Girl

Available Thursday

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Martin Freeman & Jenna Ortega will be starring in Netflix’s new show Miller’s Girl[/caption]

Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega will be starring in this new unenlightened and cliched modern movie, which has elements of a steamy psychological thriller.

Talented young writer Cairo (Jenna) craves inspiration for something to write, so sets out to start a relationship with her teacher Jonathan (Martin), himself a frustrated writer.

However, as they become closer, their relationship looks set to have terrible consequences.

Goodbye Earth

Available Friday

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Goodbye Earth will be arriving on Netflix on Friday[/caption]

When it’s announced that an asteroid is set to collide with Earth in just 200 days—with the epicentre being Korea—there’s complete panic and chaos.

With martial law in effect, civilised society breaks down, criminals escape prison, and people become desperate to move to areas they think will be safer.

Meanwhile, a teacher, Se-kyung (Ahn Eun-jin) tries to come to terms with the death of one of her students, who’d been kidnapped during a protest.

The Asunta Case

Available Friday

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Netflix drama, The Asunta Case will be hitting screens next week[/caption]

This new six-part drama from Spain is based on a shocking true crime that takes viewers back to September 2013, when worried parents Rosario Porto (Candela Peña) and Alfonso Basterra (Tristán Ulloa) contacted the police to report the disappearance of their adopted daughter Asunta.

Tragically, just hours later, the 13-year-old’s body was found next to a road outside a nearby town.

As the police begin their investigations, the evidence begins to suggest that Rosario and Alfonso themselves are behind the death of the young girl.

City Hunter

Available Thursday

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City Hunter starring Ryohei Suzuki as Ryo Saeba and Misato Morita as Kaoru Makimura, will be on screens soon[/caption]

Manga fans are in for a special treat with this live-action, exhilarating mix of comedy, action and romance adaptation of the legendary and massive-selling comic series of the same name.

Ryo Saeba (Ryohei Suzuki) is a wise-cracking but highly skilled private investigator who lives and works among the strange characters to be found in Tokyo’s shadowy criminal underworld.

His world is turned upside down one day when his partner, Hideyuki, is killed during an investigation.

Ryo suddenly finds himself on a very personal mission—joined by Hideyuki’s colourful tomboy sister Kaori (Misato Morita).

Together, they set out on a dangerous mission to discover the truth behind Hideyuki’s death.

Deliver Me

Available Wednesday

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Deliver Me will be hitting Netflix on Wednesday[/caption]

A new intense crime thriller series set in Inner-city Stockholm which is sure to get viewers thinking about what can happen when poverty, negligence and social alienation are allowed to thrive.

When young teenage best friends Dogge (Olle Strand) and Billy (Yasir Hassan) become drawn into a violent local gang, it results in Dogge dramatically shooting Billy.

As the police investigation digs deeper into what led to the crime, many of those in positions of responsibility are forced to question who else might be responsible for the tragedy – even if it was Dogge who actually pulled the trigger.

APPLE TV+

The Big Door Prize

Available Wednesday

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Season two of The Big Door Prize, starring Chris O’Dowd and Justine Lupe, is back on Wednesday[/caption]

The critically acclaimed mystery-laden comedy hit is back for a second run, reintroducing viewers to the residents of Deerfield, who are more obsessed than ever with the Morpho machine that made them rethink their lives last season.

Now, the Morpho – a mysterious machine that claimed to be able to predict people’s potential- has moved onto its “next stage”, and those who choose to do so can receive life-changing visions.

Chris O’Dowd shines once again as Dusty, leading a talented ensemble cast who are joined this time by Succession’s Justine Lupe.

DISNEY+

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story

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Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story will be landing on Disney+ in a few days[/caption]

This four-part docu-series chronicles Jon and his band’s meteoric rise from Jersey Shore clubs to the music charts as they mark those incredible four decades in the business.

After all, the rock and roll frontman has been a global superstar for 40 years now and pretty much seen it all along the way.

But, as cameras catch up with them in February 2022, the band’s future hangs in the balance due to Jon’s vocal cord injury.

With access-all-areas to the group – including former guitarist Richie Sambora – this is certainly no puff piece and features warts-and-all interviews that don’t hold back.

High Hopes

Available Saturday

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High Hopes will be arriving on Disney+ on Saturday[/caption]

“Work hard – and smoke harder” is the mantra Belarus-born brothers and business partners Slava and Mishka live by.

The siblings are co-owners of MMD, aka Medical Marijuana Dispensary, one of Hollywood’s oldest cannabis companies, and they’re now hoping to reach new heights.

They’ve decided to let a camera crew into their workplace to document their attempts to achieve their dream of expanding nationwide and releasing their own cannabis brand.

As the brothers attempt to navigate the ups and downs, crashes and burns of the process, it’s down to their quirky bud-tenders to help make sure business booms—and, for some, that means arriving at work sober for the first time ever.

Disneynature’s Tiger

Available Monday

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In this groundbreaking nature documentary featuring narration from Priyanka Chopra Jonas, prepare to get up close and personal with one of the planet’s most charismatic creatures: the tiger.

viewers will be introduced to Ambar, a young Tigress who majestically pads through the forests of India as she raises her young, playful cubs.

While nurturing them, Ambar also needs to protect them from the challenging climate and predators, including pythons, bears, and the ever-present marauding male tigers.

It’s a mother’s love like you’ve never seen before.

Secrets of the Octopus

Available Monday

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Secrets of the Octopus will be landing on Diney+ this Monday[/caption]

A new refreshing, insightful, and awe-inspiring nature documentary, narrated by Hollywood star Paul Rudd and produced by deep-sea movie-making maestro James Cameron.

But the real stars of the show are those enigmatic creatures with three hearts and blue blood.

The three-part programme shows just how remarkable these stunning and socially adept animals are.

With their astonishing intelligence and shape-shifting capabilities (they can change their skin colour, texture, and body shape in mere moments), octopuses are really unlike any other invertebrate—they even have distinct personalities.

PRIME VIDEO

Them: The Scare

Available Thursday

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Them: The Scare, starring Pam Grier as Athena and Deborah Ayorinde as Dawn, is landing on Prime next Thursday[/caption]

Chilling horror anthology show Them returns for its second season.

The new season is set in 1991, and LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve (Deborah Ayorinde) has just walked into the most gruesome crime scene she’s ever witnessed.

The victim is a murdered foster home mother, and it becomes startlingly clear that the twisted perpetrator has struck before.

Now it’s up to Dawn to stop the serial killer – but as she gets closer to their identity, a dark force takes hold of her and her family, delivering a truly frightening watch…

CHANNEL 4

Morten

Available Friday

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This new political thriller Dutch drama’s premise is certainly promising.

The eight-parter follows Morten Mathijsen (Peter Paul Muller), a politician who dreams of becoming the Netherlands’ answer to Kennedy – and has the ideas and allure to make it happen.

But the women in his life are making that increasingly difficult, from his wife and daughter to the female members of his party and his anonymous stalker, who is blackmailing him for small sums of money at a time.

However, none of those are as much of a threat as his new intern.

DISCOVERY+

Outback Opal Red Dirt Roadtrip

Available Monday

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Outback Opal Red Dirt Roadtrip is back for a second season[/caption]

Season two of the brutal reality series opens with James ‘JC’ Caruana driving 36 hours from his home in Sydney to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, where opal mining legend Rod Manny is waiting.

Once again, Rod has plenty to teach the younger man about becoming a true bushman and opal miner, but WA is new territory for both of them.

Since their last adventure, JC has become a first-time dad, and he’s feeling the financial pressure.