WE’RE never short of exciting new TV releases at the moment, and this week is no exception.
There are plenty of hot new series and movies set to come out over the next few days, and we’ve rounded them all up for you.
Selling Sunset’s Jason Oppenheim has a team of men and women at his new office in Orange County
Selling The OC – Netflix
Selling Sunset’s Jason Oppenheim has a team of men and women at his new office in Orange County
The luxury real-estate market must be booming because here’s the second Selling Sunset spin-off in as many years.
But unlike Selling Tampa, which focuses on an all-black, all-female company in Florida, Selling The OC is connected to the main show by property guru Jason Oppenheim, who has now left Sunset to open a second Oppenheim Group office, and this one’s in the equally unaffordable-to-most-of-us coastal city of Newport Beach, Orange County.
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One major difference here is that OC features male agents as well as female – and it will come as no surprise whatsoever that they’re hunky and love a bit of drama…
Available Wednesday, August 24
Welcome to Wrexham – Disney+
When movie stars Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) and Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia) invested their Hollywood megabucks in the historic lower league Welsh football – sorry, soccer – team Wrexham AFC in 2020, it seemed more like a cheesy movie plot than real life.
This charming series takes us to the north Wales town and explores the impact of this unlikely development on both the locals and Ryan and Rob, who come across as likeable, hands-on owners.
Available Thursday, August 25
Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes – Amazon Prime
Produced by Oscar-winning director and cricket fanatic Sam Mendes, this film gets intimate with England cricket ace Ben, exploring his World Cup triumph and heroics at the Headingley crease, as well as the headline-making lows which saw him banned from playing the sport.
Ben is open throughout, discussing his mental health struggles, and we see his final visit to his terminally ill father, while the late Shane Warne also features.
Available Friday, August 26
Who Murdered Meredith Kercher? – Paramount+
This grim two-part true-crime docuseries takes us back to November 2007 in Perugia, Italy, where British exchange student Meredith Kercher, 21, was brutally murdered.
The case became a huge international story, with US student – and Meredith’s flatmate – Amanda Knox one of those accused of the crime.
Knox’s co-accused, Raffaele Sollecito, is among the interviewees here and the programme re-examines the media coverage, the highly criticised original investigation and the trial that followed.
Available Thursday, August 25
Dog – Amazon Prime
Channing Tatum has chosen an unusual sidekick for this pet project, which he directs and co-stars in – a Belgian shepherd named Lulu.
Channing plays Jackson Briggs, an army ranger who transports his late friend’s difficult dog to his funeral, em-bark-ing on a road trip with challenges along the way as both man and canine come to depend on each other.
Lulu’s a scene-stealer and it’s heartwarming, sincere and cheesy in the best possible way.
Available Sunday, August 28
See – Apple TV+
Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Game Of Thrones) is back for the third and final chapter of this post-apocalyptic dystopian drama, created by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight.
If you haven’t Seen the show before, it’s set several hundred years in the future, with our planet’s population down to less than two million people, thanks to a 21st-century virus bumping off most of humanity (a deadly global virus? Imagine that…)
Unfortunately, the descendants of those few survivors have been left without vision and the way of life on Earth has regressed back to a more brutal and primitive hunter-gatherer existence.
Jason plays Baba Voss, chief among the hunters and also Chief of the Alkenny Tribe. Everything kicked off when Baba’s wife Maghra (Hera Hilmar) gave birth, with the two children having the precious gift of sight.
Maghra’s older sister Queen Sibeth Kane (Sylvia Hoeks), the ruler of a water-powered dam in the Payan Kingdom, has proven to be a ruthless, murderous monarch, while Baba’s younger brother Edo (Dave Bautista) was a vengeful nemesis (what’s with the sibling relationships on this show?).
Season three begins one year after Baba defeated Edo and set off on his own. He is soon forced to leave his forest home and return to society, though, when a scientist comes up with a new kind of sighted weaponry that looks to put everyone in grave danger.
His plan – which will please fans of the show’s truly epic battle scenes – is through the “elegant solution” of war. “I have spent my life trying to protect my family,” says Baba Voss. “The battle begins today.”
While not exactly overflowing with laughs, See is a delightfully weird and ambitious big-budget action-adventure series, while fantasy fan favourite Jason adds a commanding physical presence.
New episodes weekly from Friday, August 26
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have bought a football club in Wrexham, north Wales
