The best new TV to stream next week – from WHAM! to Olivia Attwood: Getting Filthy Rich

HERE’s the best new telly to binge on next week – from WHAM! to Olivia Atwood’s Getting Filthy Rich – there’s something for everyone.

The Celeb Report’s TV Mag has compiled a list of the latest and greatest shows that you can start streaming from next week.

NETFLIX

WHAM! Available from Wednesday

Iconic pop groups from the 80s don’t get much bigger than WHAM!.

For four short but intense years, the band – comprised, of course, of childhood best friends George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley – dominated the charts, adding serious amounts of energy and fun with songs like Club Tropicana, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go and Last Christmas.

Forty years later, WHAM!’s story is being told in this fabulously nostalgic documentary from Tiger King director Chris Smith, who was given unprecedented access to the much-missed George and Andrew’s personal archive.

As a result, it features a treasure trove of never-before-seen footage and rare and candid interviews, which will are guaranteed to thrill still-devoted fans. A warm and wonderful slice of pop nostalgia.

The Lincoln Lawyer

CRIME Available from Thursday

The first season of The Lincoln Lawyer was a huge hit, with viewers instantly warming to charming and idealistic criminal defence attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo).

Always busy and allergic to the thought of being stuck behind a desk, Mickey does much of his business from the back seat of his chauffeur-driven Lincoln car – hence the show’s name – deftly manoeuvring his way through complex Los Angeles legal mazes, trying to keep some colourful clients happy along the way.

Now it’s time to buckle up once again because season two is here, with Mickey embarking on a new relationship with a glamorous local chef, only to find himself having to defend her when she’s accused of a serious crime.

Also starring Neve Campbell and Becki Newton as Mickey’s two surprisingly supportive ex-wives, this is legal drama at its most bingeable.

And this time, the season is divided into two parts, the first landing on Thursday, with the second to follow on 3 August.

The Out-Laws

FILM Available from Friday

If you thought your in-laws were bad, at least they’re not infamous bank robbers.

That’s the reality facing Owen Browning (Adam Devine) – a straight-laced bank manager on the verge of getting hitched – in this uproarious action comedy.

In the week leading up to his wedding, Owen’s bank is robbed by notorious criminals the Ghost Bandits, an experience that leaves him convinced his fiancée Parker’s (Nina Dobrev) parents, Billy (Pierce Brosnan) and Lily (Ellen Barkin), are the ones responsible.

When Parker is then taken hostage by an angry criminal who says the Ghost Bandits owe her money, Billy and Lily have to admit that Owen was right all along.

Can this unlikely trio work together to save Parker? A silly but amusing crime caper.

PRIME VIDEO

Robots

FILM Available from Friday

Do you ever wish you had a robot version of you, which you could send out to do all the annoying stuff in life that you’d rather not bother with? Well, that’s the situation in this enjoyably silly but satirical romcom, which is set 10 years from now.

Unwilling to do all the running himself, egotistical womaniser Charles (Jack Whitehall) gets his robot double to woo women for him to sleep with, while gold-digger Elaine (Shailene Woodley) gets hers to seduce men so she can fleece them of their cash.

Things go spectacularly wrong when, unknowingly, Charles dispatches his robot out on a date with Elaine’s robot, and the two androids fall for each other and decide to make a break for it.

With the robots on the run, can Elaine and Charles work together to hunt them down?

The Horror Of Dolores Roach

THRILLER Available from Friday

After spending 16 years behind bars for a crime she didn’t commit, Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) returns to her home neighbourhood, only to find it gentrified, unfamiliar and unwelcoming.

Looking for somewhere to live, she reconnects with an old friend who lets her move into his basement and work there as a masseuse.

However, after an unpleasant encounter, things take an unexpectedly violent and gory turn for Dolores, and she sets off down a very dark path indeed.

Based on the hit podcast of the same name and with more than few echoes of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber, this is a blackly funny, blood-splattered eight-part horror that you won’t forget in a while.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.3

SCI-FI Rent or buy from Friday

Easily the most fun bunch of characters to emerge from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, those Guardians set off on one final adventure.

Still mourning the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) and his fearless friends find themselves in a deadly race against time to save the life of Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), who’s being pursued by his creator, the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji).

But will this dangerous – not to mention spectacular and highly entertaining – mission prove too great for our intergalactic heroes? What do you think? Neatly bringing the Guardians…trilogy to a close, it’s one of the best MCU movies in a long time.

ITVX 

Olivia Attwood: Getting Filthy Rich

DOCUSERIES Available from Thursday

Former Love Islander Olivia returns for a second series of her award-winning and immersive docuseries, which shines a light on the sex industry and people who both work in it and make money from it.

This time round, Olivia will turn her attention to TikTok, stripping, sex toys, dominatrixes and the growing Girlfriend Experience market, throwing herself wholeheartedly into each subject in order to discover what life is really like for those who make their living that way.

At times shocking but never judgemental, the series not only talks about adult subjects in a grown-up way, it also proves what an accomplished presenter Olivia is becoming.

DISNEY+

Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire

Available from Wednesday

It’s a skill that has traditionally been dominated by America and Japan, but this forward-looking anthology series celebrates the exciting emerging talent in animation to be found in Africa.

Focusing on sci-fi and shot through the prism of black culture, the series features 10 imaginative and original short films executively produced by Peter Ramsey, who co-produced Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.

The directors and screenwriters involved hail from countries including Egypt, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, and show the continent in a whole new, futuristic light.

In the wake of Marvel’s Black Panther, it looks like African culture is finally getting its chance to shine.

DISNEY+

Disney shorts

ANIMATIONS Available from Friday

There’s surely very few people alive now who’d be able to remember a time before Disney.

Indeed, this year marks the iconic film studio’s 100th anniversary and, as part of the celebrations, they’re turning back the clock and treating us to a selection of newly restored classic shorts, ranging from Disney’s earliest to animations from the 50s and 60s featuring much-loved characters.

Released in four batches, the fun begins this week with six films including the Goofy-starring Aquamania from 1961, 1933’s Building A Building – which features Mickey Mouse – and The Skeleton Dance, from 1929, about four skeletons who dance the night away to the music of Edvard Grieg in a spooky graveyard.

A treat for all cartoon nuts.

PARAMOUNT+

Around The World With 30 Kilos

DOCUSERIES Available from Tuesday

It was a story that captured headlines. In 2016, two glamorous young Canadian influencers – Isabelle Lagace and Melina Roberge – were arrested after an Australian customs official found millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine in their luggage aboard the luxury cruise liner they’d been holidaying on for seven weeks.

This intriguing three-part series tells their staggering story and features the first-ever interview with Isabelle, a former porn star, who was sentenced to 54 months behind bars in 2017 for drug smuggling, finally getting out in February 2021.

Once you’ve binged all three episodes, you can get another hit by watching Sugar, a movie inspired by the story, starring Katherine McNamara and Jasmine Sky Sarin as – yes – two influencers who get caught up in a drug-smuggling operation aboard a cruise. 

PARAMOUNT+

A Thin Line

THRILLER Available from Thursday

It’s off to Germany for this gloomy but engrossing six-part crime thriller, featuring an explosive cocktail of computer hacking, violent environmental activism and a family divided.

Inseparable twin sisters Anna (Saskia Rosendahl) and Benni (Hanna Hilsdorf) run an anonymous but notorious online platform where they expose environmental and climate crimes.

However, when they hack the government, their cover is blown and Anna is arrested.

Benni manages to flee, joining a new terrorist group, who are planning an attack to force the world to take climate change seriously.

Anna, meanwhile, is persuaded by her godfather, the head of the government’s cybercrime unit, to help them. And before long, the two sisters find themselves on opposing sides…

DISCOVERY+

Outback Opal Hunters

REALITY Available from Monday

It might look like the last place on Earth where you’d find something beautiful and highly valuable, but scratch below the surface of the unforgiving Australian outback and you might just spot the so-called queen of gems: opal.

The determined men and women who feature on Outback Opal Hunters know this only too well, and they’re willing to push themselves to their physical limits to uncover some.

As we rejoin the teams – including The Blacklighters, the Mooka Boys and the Digi Diggers – it seems that the usual obstacles of bad weather, faulty machinery and a lack of funds are going to get in their way once again.

ACORN TV

Lost Letter Mysteries

DRAMA Available from Monday

Forget cops investigating gruesome murders – that’s been done a billion times – this six-part series takes a rather more unusual investigative route, following a kind-hearted group of US Postal Service employees – Oliver, Shane, Rita and Norman – as they attempt to track down the recipients of undeliverable mail.

Starring Ugly Betty’s Eric Mabius as the group’s leader Oliver, the mysteries include delivering a damaged letter from a military veteran, attempting to reunite a couple separated after a hurricane and tracing a possibly kidnapped boy.

So if you’re looking for a warm, gentle mystery series, this has our seal of approval.

PRIME VIDEO

Soundproof

FILM Available now

This gritty, gripping British thriller was made on a small budget but has already won big acclaim, picking up awards at a host of film festivals last year, including for Best UK Feature and Best Cinematography.

Even Spice Girl and Women’s Aid ambassador Mel B has lavished praise on the film for its handling of the subject of domestic abuse.

“It’s such a powerful, deeply sensitive piece of filmmaking,” she says.

“Threaded throughout on so many levels are the very real consequences of living with abuse and trauma.” The victim of that abuse is single mum Jo (Georgina Rich), whose family life in south London is torn apart after a shocking incident, so she flees with her two kids to a remote caravan on the Kent coast.

But with a criminal pursuing her, can she keep her children safe? And can she trust the drifter she lets into their lives? Also available on Google Play and Apple TV.

FILMS

It’s In Us All

Sky Cinema & NOW Sunday

Repressed Londoner Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis) is involved in a car crash in Donegal that brings fascinating teenager Evan into his life. Highly-charged thriller.

PREMIERE

Fast X

Sky Store Monday

Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and the gang come up against a ghost from the past who’s spent the last 12 years plotting their downfall.

Prisoner’s Daughter

Prime Video Tuesday

Brian Cox and Kate Beckinsale star in an emotionally-draining drama about a man who tries to reconnect with his wary daughter after 12 years behind bars.

Wifelike

Paramount+ Friday

The Stepford Wives meets Bladerunner in this sci-fi flick about an artificial human (Elena Kampouris) assigned to a grieving man (Jonathan Rhys Meyers).