What are you going to be watching in November? We round up everything coming to streaming services this month, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, Neon and TVNZ+.

The biggies

The Crown (season five on Netflix from November 9)

When the last season of The Crown ended, we had a Queen. When this fifth season of The Crown starts, we’ll have a King. Even though the bulk of this season was clearly conceived, written and shot assuming (or hoping) QEII would still be alive when it aired, that’s absolutely not the case now. That means this season carries some extra weight, along with a complete new cast. Imelda Staunton takes on the crown itself as Queen Elizabeth II, Jonathan Pryce takes on Prince Philip, while Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Debecki and Dominic West take on Princess Margaret, Princess Diana, and Prince Charles respectively. I’m pumped, what can I say? / Sam Brooks

The English (on Amazon Prime Video from November 11)

A Western revenge thriller starring Emily Blunt as an Englishwoman intent on killing the man who killed her son? Sign me the hell up. The new series from Hugo Blick, the creator of The Honourable Woman, a seriously underrated mini-series in its own right, sees Blunt’s character teaming up with a member of the Pawnee Nation, played by Chaske Spencer, to get her own. Just the sight of Emily Blunt, one of our most underrated talents, is enough to get me invested. / SB

Blockbuster (on Netflix from November 3)

Is there something cruel about Netflix making a workplace comedy about one of the most notorious brands it put out of business? Absolutely. Is it also kind of perfectly ironic and fitting that it is doing so on the eve of its decline, just as its bringing in an ad-tier platform? Absolutely, fabulous. Randall Park (Fresh Off The Boat) stars as the manager of the last operating Blockbuster Video Store, while Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) stars as his long-term crush. This feels like it has the potential to become a Happy Endings/Schitt’s Creek kind of sleeper hit, so definitely check on this one when it debuts. / SB

Dead to Me (season three on Netflix from November 18)

The notables

Mythic Quest (season three on Apple TV+ from November 11)

If you’ve been sleeping on Mythic Quest, that’s understandable. It’s a comedy on a network that is mostly known for prestige drama, prestige comedy, and however you want to categorise Severance. But if you are, you’re sleeping on one of the funniest, bleakest, and most prescient comedies out there at the moment. From It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creators Rob McElehenney and Charlie Day, with Community writer Megan Ganz, it follows a fictional video game studio producing a popular MMORPG called Mythic Quest (think World of Warcraft) and the various interpersonal dramas that inevitably come up. It’s not breezy stuff, but it’s super intelligent and funny, and more than worth your time. / SB

Boss Babes (season two on TVNZ+ from November 9)

For fans of The Kardashians, The Apprentice NZ and seeing cast members of Celebrity Treasure Island in their natural habitats, I highly recommend local reality series BossBabes. The last season ended with e-commerce entrepreneurs and old friends Iyia Liu and Edna Swart coping with the very beginning of the pandemic way back in 2020. Two years on, who knows what is in store? Will baby Summer have launched her own haircare line? Will intern Bree now be an employee? And will Edna’s lids have finally shipped over from China. I genuinely can’t wait to find out, even if it remains the least relatable thing I’ve ever seen. / Alex Casey

Yellowstone (season five on Neon from November 14)

Yellowstone is a mega-hit overseas, but the American drama has somehow flown under the radar here in New Zealand, even though we bloody love farms. Kevin Costner (or “Hot Daddy” as one IMDB reviewer calls him) stars as the patriarch of the Dutton family, who have been farming a massive Montana ranch for sixth generations. Hot Daddy simply wants to wear his cowboy hat in peace, but instead has to deal with local politicians, land developers and never ending family chaos. It’s Succession for cowboys, The Sopranos with cattle, and season five is about to drop on Neon. Get amongst it. / Tara Ward

The movies

The Lost City (on Neon from November 1)

The Lost City feels like a film from another era. A lost era, perhaps. It’s an action-comedy in the vein of Romancing the Stone (if you don’t know what that is, ask your parents) starring Sandra Bullock as a romance novelist and Channing Tatum as her cover model, who are trying to escape a billionaire (a deranged, brilliant Daniel Radcliffe) who wants to find the lost city described in one of her books. If what you’re missing from today’s cinema is charisma, chemistry and celebrity, then look no further than The Lost City for a good time. / SB

Causeway (on Apple TV+ from November 4)

A return that has been a long time coming: Jennifer Lawrence returning to indie cinema, the genre that made her famous, and made her a star. This film, directed by Broadway stalwart Lila Neugebauer, sees the actor playing a soldier who suffers from a traumatic brain injury while deployed in Afghanistan, and, as things tend to be in indie dramas, she has a hard time adjusting. Brian Tyree Henry, and a bunch of American stage legends (Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jayne Houdyshell) support. For the literary types, Ottessa Moshfegh is one of the co-writers here. One to watch, given all those names. / SB

My Policeman (on Apple TV+ from November 4)

It’s that film with Harry Styles. No, the other one. The one where he plays a closeted gay cop. If that sounds like your thing, congratulations, this film is for you. If it doesn’t, keep on scrolling. / SB

The rest

Netflix

November 1

Young Royals: Season 2

The Takeover

Gabby’s Dollhouse: Season 6

The Witches

Flipped

Daddy Day Care

Dirty Dancing

November 2

Killer Sally

November 3

Blockbuster

Panayotis Pascot: Almost

The Dragon Prince: Season 4

November 4

Buying Beverly Hills

Manifest: Season 4: Part 1

Enola Holmes 2

Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman

Lookism

November 5

Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste

November 7

Deepa and Anoop: Season 2

November 8

Behind Every Star

Triviaverse

The Claus Family 2

Neal Brennan: Blocks

Medieval

November 9

The Crown: Season 5

The Soccer Football Movie

FIFA Uncovered

November 10

Love Never Lies: Destination Sardinia

Warrior Nun: Season 2

Falling for Christmas

State of Alabama vs Brittany Smith

November 11

Down to Earth with Zac Efron: Season 2: Down Under

Don’t Leave

My Father’s Dragon

Monica, O My Darling

Capturing the Killer Nurse

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Ancient Apocalypse

November 14

Stutz

Teletubbies

November 15

Run for the Money

Deon Cole: Charleen’s Boy

Johanna Nordstrom: Call the Police

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure

The Polar Express

Black Mass

November 16

Mind Your Manners

One of Us is Lying: Season 2

Off Track

The Wonder

The Lost Lotteries

Racionais MC’s: From the Streets of Sao Paulo

In Her Hands

November 17

1899

Dead to Me: Season 3

Christmas With You

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?

I Am Vanessa Guillen

November 18

Elite: Season 6

Somebody

Reign Supreme

Inside Job: Part 2

Slumerland

The Cuphead Show!: Part 3

November 21

StoryBots: Answer Time

My Little Pony: Winter Wishday

November 22

Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would

November 23

Wednesday

The Unbroken Voice

The Swimmers

Who’s a Good Boy?

Christmas on Mistletoe Farm

Lesson Plan

Taco Chronicles: Cross the Border

Blood, Sex and Royalty

November 24

First Love

The Noel Diary

November 25

Blood and Water: Season 3

Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich

November 28

The Action Pack Saves Christmas

November 29

Romesh Ranganathan: The Cynic

Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields

November 30

Snack VS Chef

My Name is Vendetta

The Lost Patient

A Man of Action

Take Your Pills: Xanax

The Creature Cases: Season 2

Neon

November 1

Dora’s Enchanted Forest Adventures

Dora’s Royal Rescue

The Lost City

Unforgiven

November 2

Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After

November 3

Fantastics: The Deep End

Tom and Jerry Cowboy Up!

The Colour Purple

November 4

A Question of Justice

Love Island Australia: Season 4

Fireheart

Zodiac

November 5

Dakota

November 6

Young Rock: Season 3

A Day to Die

November 7

A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

Year One: A Political Odyssey

November 8

Out of Sight

Rebel Without a Cause

November 9

Mulan Princess Warrior

November 10

One Tree Hill: Season 1-9

Say Hey, Willie Mays!

The Postman Always Twice

November 11

The Nut Job

The Nut Job 2, Nutty by Nature

November 12

This is The Night

November 13

Downton Abbey: A New Era

November 14

Yellowstone: Season 4

Risky Business

November 15

RIPD

November 16

See How They Run

The Tiger Rising

November 17

The Theory of Everything

November 18

The Sex Lives of College Girls: Season 2

Waharoa: Art of the Pacific

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Storks

November 20

Small Town Secrets

Off the Rails

November 22

The L Word: Generation Q: Season 3

Crazy Stupid Love

November 23

Purple Rain

November 24

Twelve Monkeys

November 25

Love, Lizzo

A Boy Called Christmas

A Starstruck Christmas

A Christmas Mystery

A Christmas Story Christmas

Holiday Harmony

Christmas Takes Flight

Christmas Comes Twice

Christmas on Wheels

Christmas Waltz

Cranberry Christmas

Five Star Christmas

Last Train to Christmas

A Christmas Number One

Santa Camp

November 29

Awkwafina is Nora from Queens: Season 2

TVNZ+

November 1

This Time with Alan Partridge: Season 2

Uncle

This Country

Moment of Truth

Bad Boys

Bad Boys II

Spider-Man 3

Britt-Marie Was Here

Two of Us

Bureau 39: Kim’s Cash Machine

Soyalism

Post Truth Times

Banking Nature

Big Lies in a Small Town

Girl in the Box

Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever

Christmas Reservations

Trev Gowdy’s Monster Fish: Season 4

Wild Ops: Season 5

Camp Wannakiki: Season 4b

China Doll: A Many Splendored Queen

Face to Face with David: Season 4

Banksy Most Wanted

Revolt She Said

The Man on the Island

The Pinkies Are Back

November 3

The Office

Parks and Recreation

November 5

Dead Pixels

Misfits

Save Our Skins

The Aotearoa History Show: Seasons 1-2

November 6

Spector

November 7

The Mighty Boosh

Stath Lets Flats

November 9

BossBabes

Red Dwarf

November 10

The Guilt Trip

November 11

Threesome

The Catherine Tate Show

Extras

November 12

Killer Motive

November 13

Tulsa King

November 15

About a Boy: Season 1-3

November 18

Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know

Harry Styles: Live in Manchester

In and Out of Hell: The Meat Loaf Story

Sam Smith: Live in London

Kylie’s Secret

November 19

Dying to Belong

November 20

Top of the Lake; Season 2

November 21

In My Skin

Climate Change: The Facts

November 23

Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin

November 25

Beauty and the Beast

November 26

Final Appeal

Up and Vanished

November 27

SS-GB

Great Expectations

November 28

Barracuda

November 30

Twilight Zone: Season 1-2

Disney+

November 1

God Forbid; The Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty

November 2

Donna Hay Christmas

Dynasty: Season 1-5

Grown-ish: Season 5

American Horror Story: Double Feature

November 3

Marvel Studios Assembled; The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

November 4

Director by Night

Marvel Studios Legends – Season 1

November 9

Save Our Squad with David Beckham

Los Montaner

The Next Thing You Eat

The Stolen Cup

Good Trouble: Season 4

Zootopia+

November 11

The Great American Tag Sale with Martha Stewart

Mary Poppins Returns (Sing-Along Version)

Fire of Love

Two Men at War

November 16

Limitless with Chris Hemsworth

The Santa Clauses

Ben Gri

Me and Mickey

November 17

Fleishman Is In Trouble

November 18

Disenchanted

Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

The Wonderful Summer of Mickey Mouse

Kate Berlant: Cinnamon in the Wind

Byron Bowers: Spirital N***ga

Shortsgiving

November 22

Welcome to Chippendales

November 23

Marvel Studios Legends: Season 1

Papas for Encargo

The D’Amelio Show

The Come Up

Big Bet

Limbo

Ally McBeal Season 1-5

November 25

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

The Hip Hop Nutcracker

November 30

Willow

Wild Crime: Season 2

Attack on Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute

Bleach: Season 1-15

Rescue Me: Season 1-6

Amazon Prime Video

November 4

My Policeman

November 5

Ida Red

Two and a Half Men: Season 1-12

Blacklight

November 9

Savage X Fenty Show Volume 4

Mammals

November 11

The English

November 18

The People We Hate At The Wedding

Sugar

November 23

Good Night Oppy

November 25

American Underdog

Call Jane

Meet Cute

Operation Mincemeat

Apple TV+

November 4

The Mosquito Coast: Season 2

Causeway

Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me

Slumberkins

November 11

Mythic Quest: Season 3

November 18

Interrupting Chicken

Spirited

November 23

Echo: Season 3

AMC+

November 1

Kevin Can F**K Himself

November 3

True Crime Story: Indefensible

November 6

Mood

Acorn

November 14

Poquelin & De Beaumont

November 28

Whitstable Pearl: Season 2

Transport

Shudder

November 3

The Walking Dead: Season 1

November 4

Satan’s Slaves: Communion

November 10

Mandrake

The Walking Dead: Season 2

November 13

Slash/Back

November 17

The Walking Dead: Season 3

November 22

Blood Relatives

November 24

The Walking Dead: Season 4