We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
If you love celebs out of their comfort zone: Celebrity Treasure Island (TVNZ+, starting September 9)
We’re back on the beach for a new season of celebrity hijinks, as 18 well-known New Zealand personalities compete to solve an ancient family mystery and win $100,000 for their chosen charity. Against a stunning new backdrop of Te Whanganui-o-Hei in the Coromandel, this year’s Celebrity Treasure Island cast includes broadcaster Duncan Garner, comedian Bubbah, politican Carmel Sepuloni and infomercial queen Suzanne Paul, as well as a new co-host in CTI legend Lance Savali. Expect more wacky CTI challenges and unexpected emotional moments, and based on this year’s sneak peek teaser, the season looks like an absolute cracker.
If you love property property property: AA Insurance Location Location Location NZ (TVNZ+, September 15)
Friendship ended with Kirstie and Phil, now Jayne Kiely and Paul Glover are your best friends. The local reboot of the iconic property series begins on TVNZ1 and TVNZ+ this Sunday night, and promises a swagbag of nervous New Zealanders looking to make their property dreams a reality. Episode one takes viewers inside the notoriously chilled out housing market in Tāmaki Makaurau, where one buyer teases she is known to “dry wretch” when she gets nervous. If that’s not high stakes television, we don’t know what is.
If you love a dystopian take on Botched: Uglies (Netflix, September 13)
Absolutely loving this current wave of film and television grappling with the cosmetic industry and the endless pursuit of perfection. The film festival brought us the likes of The Substance and Grafted, and now Netflix are dipping their toes in with Uglies. An adaptation of the 2005 dystopian novel, set in a world where everyone is considered an “ugly”, until they receive cosmetic surgery to be turned “pretty” at the age of 16. “All my life, I wanted to be pretty, I thought that it would change everything”, says Tally Youngblood (Joey King) in the trailer. “I hope that is still true.”
If you love wholesome reality television: Four Go Flatting (TVNZ+, September 9)
Four Go Flatting is the latest series from the folks at Attitude Pictures, whose last reality television show Down For Love was a breath of fresh air in the reality romance hellscape. Following four young men living with intellectual disabilities as they move out of home and learn to live independently for the very first time, it looks to be an insightful and often hilarious exploration of an extremely relatable rite of passage. As the opening voiceover teases: “no parents, no rules… what could possibly go wrong?” We’ll be watching for sure.
If you love animals getting revenge on humans: Chimp Crazy (Neon, September 10)
From the people who made Tiger King comes bonkers HBO documentary Chimp Crazy, which delves into the bizarre subculture of women who raise wild primates as their own babies. Tonia Haddix is our new Joe Exotic, an eccentric with false eyelashes, big blonde curls, and a “son” named Tonka (a chimpanzee). What transpires appears to be a crazy true crime journey – one for fans of Planet of The Apes, Grizzly Man, or any story where the animals have the last laugh.
If you love 90s fashion: In Vogue: The 90s (Disney, September 13)
“The 90s changed our world,” Vogue editor Anna Wintour declares in the trailer for In Vogue: The 90s, Disney’s new documentary series about the world of, you guessed it, 90s fashion. Vogue was a defining publication in the 1990s, and the doco gathers together a dazzling array of fashion icons to look back at how the magazine influenced popular culture. Everyone from Posh Spice to Sarah Jessica Parker to Liz Hurley to Naomi Campbell pop up to say things like “whirlwind”, “messy”, “amazing” – and of course, “Vogue”. A must watch if you remember the 90s, and also if you miss those little free samples of moisturiser that magazines use to paste in between the pages.
The rest
Netflix
Hot Wheels Let’s Race S2 (September 9)
Ahih Shah Ends (September 10)
Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood with My Father (September 10)
Boxer (September 11)
Outlaw (September 11)
Techno Boys (September 11)
The Circle S7 (September 11)
Aeon Flux (September 12)
Angel di Maria (September 12)
Billionaire Island (September 12)
Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter (September 12)
Midnight at the Pera Palace S2 (September 12)
Boy Kills World (September 13)
Officer Black Belt (September 13)
Sector 36 (September 13)
Timetest Audition: The Process (September 13)
Not Friends (September 14)
The Marksman (September 14)
Drive-away Dolls (September 15)
TVNZ+
The Never Mets (September 9)
Unbreakable (September 10)
Dream Home (September 11)
The UnXplained with William Shatner (September 11)
For the Love of Dogs with Alison Hammond (September 11)
Olivia Attwood: the Price of Perfection (September 12)
Mary Berry Makes It Easy (September 14)
Under the Vines S3 (September 15)
The Revenant (September 15)
ThreeNow
The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot (September 9)
The Real Housewives of Dubai Season 2 (September 14)
Neon
The Losers (September 10)
Reasonable Doubt S4-5 (September 11)
The Prestige (September 12)
Men in Black: International (September 12)
Wonka (September 13)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (September 13)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (September 14)
Drive-Away Dolls (September 15)
Taken Together: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth (September 15)
Prime Video
Pimpinero: Blood and Oil (Sep 9)
Thiago Ventura (September 11)
Manes S2 (September 11)
Self/Less (September 11)
The Grand Tour: One For The Road (September 13)
WNBA: New York Liberty At Dallas Wings (September 13)
Asphalt City (September 15)
Disney+
Los Chavez (September 11)
Seoul Busters (September 11)
Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy (September 13)
Muslim Matchmaker (September 12)
How to Die Alone (September 13)
Acorn/AMC+/Shudder
Frankie Drake Mysteries S4 (Acorn TV, AMC+, September 9)
AMC+ On Stage at San Diego Comic-Con (AMC+, September 12)
In A Violent Nature (Shudder, AMC+, September 13)