Every TV show and movie on Apple TV+ from today

Apple TV+ launches in Australia today so we’ve put together a guide on everything you can watch and how you can watch them.

Apple’s long awaited streaming service launches today — so how do you watch it and what’s on it?

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Apple TV+ is a subscription streaming service so it has a monthly fee, like Netflix.

For Australian customers, that cost is $7.99 a month, but there is a free seven-day trial, and anyone who has bought a new Apple device since September (ie. iPhone, MacBook) will get an included yearly membership.

Six family members can share the same subscription through Family Sharing.

The easiest way to access the service is through the Apple TV app (a black icon with the Apple symbol next to “tv”), which is pre-installed on iPhones, iPads, Apple TV consoles, iPod Touch devices and on Macs if you’ve updated to the Catalina OS.

The Apple TV app is also on some Samsung smart TVs, Amazon’s Fire TV Stick basic edition and will roll out to LG and Sony platforms soon.

You can also sign up and watch through a web browser at the tv.apple.com website.

WHAT CAN YOU WATCH?

Apple TV+ will have eight TV shows and one movie on day one, with more titles to come. Because the service is focused on its original content, it won’t have a back catalogue of old favourites.

These are the nine titles launching on Apple TV+ today that you can watch on-demand either online or download for offline viewing.

MORNING WARS (The Morning Show in other countries)

Jennifer Aniston’s salary was reportedly $US1.25 million per episode

This splashy Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon drama is the centrepiece of Apple’s TV offering, costing a reported $US15 million per episode to make.

It’s set in the cutthroat world of breakfast TV with Aniston starring as Alex Levy, a veteran host whose TV partner Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) is sacked over sexual misconduct allegations.

Alex has to wrest control of her show while facing challengers including Witherspoon’s fiery field reporter and Billy Crudup’s wily network executive who’s determined to show her the door.

Morning Wars is a heightened drama of the #metoo era that examines the toxic power structures in society, and where better to set that than in the world of TV?

SEE

He can’t see but he can SEE

With a budget of $US17 million per hour, See reportedly cost even more to make than Morning Wars, according to Variety.

Starring Jason Momoa, Alfre Woodard, See is set hundreds of years into a dystopian future where a virus has made humans blind. Mankind now lives a tribal life and have adapted to an existence without sight

When Baba Voss (Momoa)’s wife gives birth to twins who can see, the event sends ripples of fear and hope throughout the land. The most formidable threat comes from a powerful queen who wants the twins eliminated.

The series was written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and directed by Francis Lawrence, a man with considerable genre experience having previously helmed Constantine, I Am Legend and three Hunger Games movies.

DICKINSON

Hailee Steinfeld stars as a young Emily Dickinson

Starring Oscar-nominee Hailee Steinfeld, Dickinson promises to be a twist on a traditional historical project.

Based on the life of acclaimed 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson, this series will focus on her youth, reimagining the famously reclusive artist as a rebellious teenager at a time of social repression.

Dickinson is clearly aimed at younger viewers and is billed as a coming-of-age story.

The series co-stars Toby Huss and Jane Krakowski as Emily’s parents, and Wiz Khalifa as Death.

FOR ALL MANKIND

To save mankind, you need womankind

For All Mankind comes from Ronald D. Moore, who sci-fi fans know as a writer on three Star Trek TV shows but, more significantly, as the man responsible for the beloved Battlestar Galactica reboot.

The series posits what if America didn’t win the space race and it never ended? In this alternate version of the world, the Soviets beat the US to the moon and NASA was left humiliated.

The series is told through the perspectives of the astronauts, engineers and their families as they challenge the Russians anew.

It stars Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, and Sarah Jones.

GHOSTWRITER

Literary mysteries to be solved

Kids who grew up in the 1990s would have vivid (or, maybe only hazy) memories of Ghostwriter, a TV show about a group of plucky kids in New York who discovered a ghost (manifested as a blinking dot) that only they could see. With the help of their spectral friend, they solved mysteries.

This reboot features a ghost that haunts a local bookshop and releases fictional characters from books into the real world so four kids can solve that character’s unfinished business.

Aimed at primary-age kids, it’s a series designed to instil a love of reading and literature.

HELPSTERS

So helpful

Helpsters is a live-action puppet show from the Sesame Street guys, aimed at preschool kids.

It features colourful “monsters” that solve the kinds of problems only very little kids have.

SNOOPY IN SPACE

What pale blue dot.

Snoopy follows his astronaut dreams by launching into space while he and the Peanuts gang take command of the International Space Station to explore the Moon and beyond.

THE ELEPHANT QUEEN

The Elephant Queen premiered at Sundance this year

This nature documentary premiered at Sundance earlier this year and features the voiceover of Chiwetel Ejiofor.

It follows the story of a 50-year-old elephant matriarch who rules over a herd that calls a beautiful, waterhole-dotted area home. But when drought hits, the herd has to migrate.

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB

Oprah’s Book Club will have a new episode every two months. (Photo by NOAH BERGER / AFP)

Oprah Winfrey’s famous book club has a new home, moving to Apple TV+.

Oprah said she’ll build a global community of book lovers through the platform with the promise that every book she recommends that’s sold through Apple Books will result in a contribution to the American Library Association.

New episodes will debut every two months — which gives you plenty of time to read the next book — and the first one will be The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who she’ll interview on the show.

Share your TV and movies obsessions | @wenleima