May leaned on new arrivals across drama, comedy, and crime, with Prime Video’s Spider-Noir and Off Campus among the month’s strongest debuts. Sky Open’s Bust Up also made a sharp entrance, while Hulu’s Rick and Morty returned at the top of the ratings. Netflix had a notably strong presence, rounding out a month where fresh starts led the way.
Updated Oct 16, 2026
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Use this month as a jumping-off point: three current premieres with a clear reason to follow the same taste thread.
If you liked Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine
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Oct 16 · Season 1
Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine makes elaborate cons fun through smooth talk, quick improvisation, and plans that keep springing surprises.
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Nov 6 · Season 1
Off Campus makes campus romance feel swoony and close to everyday life, with chemistry, roommate banter, and young adults making messy choices.
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Oct 23 · Season 1
Perfect Match finds warmth and comedy in a family pulling together through change, while Fading Grandeur turns family troubles into light, affectionate farce.
A plane crash strands a group of British boys on an unoccupied tropical island, where they gradually slide into anarchy as social conventions disappear and attempts at responsible rule divide them into warring factions.
Restless in the Florida Keys, Etta Tiger Jonze dreams of a life in Miami's glittering, subtropical kingdom. But when her family's drug-running business shatters in tragedy, she embarks on a dangerous journey through the city's neon-lit underbelly. With the help of her new friends Lovely and Stanley, Etta sets out to take down one of the city's most powerful cartels. As the cartel's ambitions threaten Miami and internal rivalries erupt, her pursuit for revenge will push her to the edge, defining who she is and what she's ultimately capable of.
The Chestnut Man is set in the quiet suburb of Copenhagen, where the police make a terrible discovery one blustery October morning. A young woman is found brutally murdered in a playground and one of her hands is missing. Above her hangs a small man made of chestnuts. The ambitious young detective Naia Thulin is assigned to the case, along with her new partner, Mark Hess. They soon discover a mysterious piece of evidence on the chestnut man evidence connecting it to a girl who went missing a year earlier and was presumed dead - the daughter of politician Rosa Hartung.
Wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, one man faces secretive doctors, dangerous patients, and something even worse …
25-year-old Amadeus arrives in Vienna, unemployed after his father's death. He allies with singer Constanze Weber, who helps bring him into the orbit of court composer Salieri, igniting a rivalry that defines their legacies.
A young athlete enters Punjab's dangerous rap scene to probe a drug ring, but becomes caught between love, family, guilt, and brotherhood.
A legendary Joseon villainess is reborn in the body of a modern actress and finds herself colliding with a ruthless chaebol heir. Their clash sparks a chaotic love-hate romance that stretches across centuries.
The Japanese drama series "Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem," internationally titled "Song of the Samurai," follows Toshizo Hijikata and the warriors of the Shinsengumi as they fight through the violent final years of the Edo period. Blending historical drama with intense "Japanese Sword Action," the series depicts the bonds, rivalries, and fiery lives of men who chose to burn brightly and fall with honor.
It follows the victims of a serial rapist as they fight to get their cases heard after police failures set him free. Eight years after his conviction, they fight again to keep him imprisoned.
Seth and Jeremy enjoyed relative success from 'Eternal', a hit television vampire drama. Five years after their show has ended, they lean on each other as they struggle to reclaim their previous level of success and relevance, awkwardly navigating the perils of life and love amidst a humorously painful coming of age.
When a mysterious villain threatens to open the gates of Hell, a devilishly handsome demon hunter could be the world's best hope for salvation.
A tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an eleven-year-old Antichrist, and a doom-saying witch.
A college-set romantic drama chronicling the unexpected love story between a music student and the university's star hockey player, exploring themes of love and the complexities of adulthood through deep friendships and enduring bonds.
Wealthy Mrs. Li moves her family from Luoyang to Bianjing to find husbands for her five daughters. Despite initial struggles, the family works together to establish a business and search for suitable matches.
Berlin reunites his crew in Seville for an elaborate con targeting a powerful duke and his wife who've made the mistake of trying to blackmail him. Their plan involves faking the theft of a priceless painting as cover.
Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler fight to survive on their cherished 7,000-acre ranch amid tough times and stiff competition, while ensuring young Carter becomes the man he's supposed to be.
Follows Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Baddingham as they have a longstanding rivalry that comes to a head.
In 1999, a spirited girl and her neighbors develop imperfect supernatural abilities after a strange incident. As disappearances rock their city, they’re drawn into a tense struggle against a dangerous force behind it.
A nun and priest, each dedicated to their religious calling, unexpectedly fall in love and must confront what this means for their vows and faith.
Caro Pardíaco, bubbly influencer and full-time diva, has it all
A divorced mom gets caught up in a perilous web of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer.
In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don't have - time.
After a vicious internal fight, two brothers are expelled of their beloved team's gang. Alone, without money or political protection, they will start a war that will put their brotherhood to the test.
Brings out the animal within to unleash our natural instincts in the pursuit of true love.
On Chicago's south side, an average day finds kids prepping for school as their parents head off to work, young adults trying to make a living, and the elders keeping an eye on things from their front porches. But in this tough neighborhood, real dangers threaten daily to squelch dreams, and the simplest decisions can have life or death consequences. From Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.
An animated series on adult-swim about the infinite adventures of Rick, a genius alcoholic and careless scientist, with his grandson Morty, a 14 year-old anxious boy who is not so smart. Together, they explore the infinite universes; causing mayhem and running into trouble.
Student doctor Mundill Mahil accused Gagandip Singh of assault. She and admirer Ravi lured him back, where he was beaten, placed in a car boot, and burned alive. All three received different convictions and sentences for his death.
An aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero.
"Bust up" is a so called Buddy Cop Crime Series on german ZDF and sky New Zealand.
When their convenience-store-magnate father dies, a pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba's secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld.
A lawyer attends a mindfulness retreat to restore work-life balance but unexpectedly becomes a murderer and mastermind for the mob.
Three suburban couples vacation together each season, but tensions arise when one couple splits up and the husband brings a much younger woman on subsequent trips.
Soviet cosmonauts, engineers, and intelligence officers risk everything in an ambitious space program aiming to be the first to reach the moon.
