From a Dune prequel and the return of Yellowstone: here’s what to stream in November

From a flashy-looking Dune prequel and a rebooted classic thriller to Yellowstone post-Costner and more of those Bad Sisters, here’s what’s worth your time on streaming this month.

We’ve sifted through the latest offerings from TV and streaming platforms to find the best shows you should be watching this coming month.

Eddie Redmayne in a scene from The Day of the Jackal.

BINGE

THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

NOVEMBER 7

Frederick Forsyth’s best-selling 1971 thriller has already been adapted twice for the big screen, in 1973 with Edward Fox and again in 1997 with Bruce Willis as the titular master assassin. This time it’s the turn of Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne in a flashy, big-budget, 10-part TV series that has been reimagined to reflect the advances and technology and the modern political environment. Lashana Lynch – who played the new 007 in No Time To Die – plays Bianca, the agent tasked with tracking him down before he kills again, setting up a deadly, globetrotting game of cat and mouse.

Emily Watson and Olivia Williams in Dune Prophecy.

DUNE PROPHECY

NOVEMBER 15

Denis Villeneuve’s masterful pair of Dune films finally gave Frank Herbert’s seminal science-fiction novels the screen adaptation they deserved, and this 10-part prequel looks similarly lavish and dramatic. Set 10,000 years before the events of Dune, it focuses on the origins of the Bene Gesserit, the shadowy religious sect that aims to shape the future of humanity through their intense training and careful curation of bloodlines. Emily Watson and Olivia Williams star as sisters who lead the divisive and increasingly powerful sect, with the always reliable Mark Strong as the Emperor trying to keep a fragile peace. Aussies Travis Fimmel, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Yerin Ha and Josh Heuston also star.

ALSO SHOWING

Taskmaster Junior – November 10

Based On a True Story – November 21

The Sex Life Of College Girls Season 3 – November 22

Outlander Season 7 Part 2 – November 23

Brilliant Minds – November 23

Get Millie Black – November 26

The Real Housewives of Beverley Hills Season 14 – November 27

Yellowstone returns for a final season, without Kevin Costner.

STAN

YELLOWSTONE

NOVEMBER 11

“Everyone has forgotten who runs this valley – it’s time to remind them,” says departing Kevin Costner’s John Dutton in the trailer for the second half of the fifth and final season of Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western drama. Whether it can continue to resonate without the Oscar-winner who has been at its centre since the beginning as the rugged, tough and cunning cattle baron – and whether he is written out – remains to be seen, but there seems to be no end to the internal and external threats facing the Yellowstone ranch as it hurtles towards the finish line with the final six episodes. Jamie and Beth Dutton are still at loggerheads, which is threatening to escalate into an all-out family war … and not everyone might survive.

ALSO SHOWING

Drag Race Down Under – November 1

Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story – November 17

ARIA Awards – November 20

Billy Bob Thornton in a scene from Landman on Paramount+

PARAMOUNT+

LANDMAN

NOVEMBER 18

The prolific Taylor Sheridan is the creative force behind this new drama adapted from the hit podcast Boomtown and comes with a very Yellowstone vibe, but with oil instead of cattle. Billy Bob Thornton stars as hardman Tommy Norris, a crisis executive at a Texas oil company tasked with putting out spot fires both literal and figurative. Billed as an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires in the high-stakes, dirty-dealing, fortune-seeking world of oil rigs, it also stars Demi Moore, Jon Hamm, Michael Pena, Andy Garcia and Ali Larter.

Michael Fassbender and Jodie Turner-Smith in The Agency.

THE AGENCY

NOVEMBER 30

Two-time Oscar-nominee Michael Fassbender returns to small screen fiction for the first time in 17 years to head up an all-star, action-packed remake of the acclaimed hit French drama, Le Bureau des Legendes. He plays a covert CIA agent whose life is up-ended when he’s ordered to return to the London bureau to find a missing agent. When the love he left behind reappears, his personal and professional lives begin to collide as he discovers the emotional, physical and psychological cost of international espionage. Richard Gere, Jeffrey Wright and Jodie Turner-Smith also star and Joe Wright (Atonement, Darkest Hour) directs the first two episodes.

ALSO SHOWING

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial – November 8

The Tiger’s Apprentice – November 8

The Smurfs Season 3 – November 13

SpongeBob SquarePants Season 14 – November 20

The Really Loud House Season 2 – November 20

Frenchie Shore – November 27

Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price in Say Nothing.

DISNEY+

SAY NOTHING

NOVEMBER 14

This nine-part historical drama set during the Troubles is adapted from Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2018 bestseller, which was subtitled, A True Story of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland. Beginning with the 1972 disappearance of single mother of ten Jean McConville, who was abducted from her home and never seen again, it spans four decades of a society deeply divided by violence, religion and reprisal. Lola Pettigrew and Hazel Doupe, star as Dolours and Marian Price, who were raised in an IRA family and prepared to go to unexpected extremes for the cause, becoming potent symbols of radical politics.

Jimmy O. Yang and Ronny Chieng in Interior Chinatown.

INTERIOR CHINATOWN

NOVEMBER 19

Taika Waititi executive produces and directs the first episode of this wacky looking 10-part action comedy based on Charles Yu’s book of the same name. Jimmy O Yang (Silicon Valley) stars as Willis Wu, a background player trapped in a police procedural call Black and White but with dreams of becoming a central character. After he witnesses a crime and crosses paths with the kick-ass cop of his dreams, he becomes embroiled in the Chinese underworld and discovers that the spotlight might not be all that it’s cracked up to be. Aussie Chris Pang and adopted Aussie Ronnie Chieng also star.

ALSO SHOWING

Music By John Williams – November 1

Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny – November 22

Beatles’ 64 – November 29

Aldis Hodge in the Prime Video crime drama Cross.

PRIME VIDEO

CROSS

NOVEMBER 14

James Patterson’s much loved detective Alex Cross has now featured in 30 books, which have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, and has been brought to life on the big screen by Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry. Aldis Hodge (Straight Outta Compton, Black Adam) picks up the mantle of the forensic psychologist with the Washington police department, who is also a widowed father of two, in a series that promises to dig deeper into his own psychology, while he chases down a sadistic serial killer. Father of two and true crime fan Hodge says he brought his own experiences to the role, particularly as a dad. “Being a parent in real life, helps inform your character’s parental instincts,” he says. “There is a beautiful vulnerability to Cross that we get to see because he is a father.”

Cruel Intentions is back for more rich-kid shenanigans.

CRUEL INTENTIONS

NOVEMBER 21

It’s been 25 years since the cult classic, teen retelling of the 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon hit our screens and now it’s back in TV form in a 10-part series. This time the action has moved to an upscale Washington college, with privileged step-siblings Caroline (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lucien (Zac Burgess) working hard to stay on top of the social pecking order after a hazing incident goes wrong. Together they hatch a plan to seduce the Vice President’s daughter (Gossip Girl’s Savannah Lee Smith) leading to lying, cheating and all manner of steamy shenanigans of rich kids behaving badly.

ALSO SHOWING:

Citadel: Honey Bunny – November 7

In Cold Water: The Shelter Bay Mystery – November 12

Pimpinero – November 22

The Garvey sisters are not out of the woods in the second season of Bad Sisters on Apple TV+

APPLE TV+

BAD SISTERS

NOVEMBER 13

After literally getting away with murder in the acclaimed first season of Sharon Horgan’s jet black comedy-thriller, things seem to be finally looking up for the Garvey sisters Eva (Horgan), Grace (Anne Marie-Duff), Ursula (Eva Birthistle), Bibi (Sarah Greene) and Becka (Eve Hewson). But two years on not everyone has forgotten the “accidental death” of Grace’s abusive husband as she prepares to remarry and the sisters find themselves back in the spotlight again as suspicions linger, complicated by the discovery of a new dead body. The sisters are just as tight – and raucous – as ever but struggling to move on from their actions, and dogged by the police and nosy church lady Angelica (the always excellent Fiona Shaw), who seems to know their deepest secrets.

Rebecca Ferguson the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama Silo.

SILO

NOVEMBER 15

The first season finale of this excellent dystopian sci-fi drama saw protagonist sheriff Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) exiled from the giant underground silo protecting the last remnants of humanity and cast into the “dangerous toxins of an unsafe world”. While the residents assume her to be dead – and many revere her name as a martyr who stood up to the corrupt and lying authorities – it’s no spoiler to say that Juliet lives. Meanwhile back in the silo, the authorities led by Tim Robbins’ oily Bernard, are facing the prospect of an open rebellion, setting up a showdown between the haves of the upper levels and the have-nots from the “down deep”.

ALSO SHOWING

Blitz – November 22

Bread & Roses – November 22

Ted Danson goes undercover in a retirement home in A Man On the Inside.

NETFLIX

A MAN ON THE INSIDE

NOVEMBER 21

Creator of The Good Place, Michael Schur, has reunited with Emmy-winner Ted Danson for a new comedy series based on the Oscar-winning 2020 documentary, The Mole Agent. Danson stars as Charles, who has been aimlessly wasting away his days since the death of his wife. Challenged by his daughter to find a new purpose, he answers an ad in the paper from a detective who wants him to go undercover in a retirement home, where some valuable jewellery has gone missing. Equipped with hi-tech camera glasses and secret recording equipment, he sets about compiling a list of suspects, but the new connections and lease of life he finds from the residents might put his mission in jeopardy.

ALSO SHOWING

Countdown: Paul Vs Tyson – November 7

Outer Banks: Season 4 Part 2 – November 7

Arcane: Season 2 – November 9

Sprint: Season 2 – November 13

Cobra Kai: Season 6 Part 2 – November 15

Joy – November 22

Spellbound – November 22

The Piano Lesson – November 22

Our Little Secret – November 27