With quality returns from The Last of Us, Andor and Hacks: The best shows to stream in April
Some of the best shows of the last decade – including Star Wars spin-off Andor, award-winning comedy Hacks and zombie hit The Last Of Us – are returning to our screens in April.
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With the return of some top sci-fi and comedy shows, as well as new dramas and thrillers, there’s something for everyone to stream
BINGE
THE LISTENERS
APRIL 1
Author Jordan Tannahill adapted his 2021 novel of the same name for this eerie looking drama inspired by a phenomenon that has been reported around the world called The Hum. Rebecca Hall stars as Claire, an English teacher who is tormented by a persistent humming noise that only a select few seem to be able to hear. With her doctors baffled and her family worried and sceptical, she’s relieved to find others experiencing the same thing – including one of her students and a charismatic couple who believe only a “chosen few” can hear it – but whether it’s a blessing or a curse remains to be seen.
SUPER NETBALL
APRIL 5
With the Commonwealth Games looming next year and a World Cup the year after, this season of Super Netball is shaping up as a big one for the country’s top sport for women and girls. For the first time, every match will be available live on Binge starting with the Thunderbirds V Vixens game on Saturday April 5. Paige Hadley (NSW Swifts), Eleanor Cardwell (Melbourne Mavericks) and Kate Moloney (Melbourne Vixens) will mix their playing commitments with game day analysis and sideline commentary at select games across the season, alongside renowned callers and experts Hannah Hollis, Cath Cox, Bianca Chatfield, Kim Green, Sue Gaudion, Caitlin Bassett, Sam Poolman, Madison Browne, Emily Beaton, Kierra Trompf, and Ben Homer.
ALSO SHOWING
Line of Duty Seasons 1-6 – April 4
Moonlighting Seasons Seasons 1-5 – April 4
90 Day Fiance Season 11 – April 7
Great American Bake Off Season 6 – April 15
STAN
HACKS
APRIL 10
One of the best comedies going around is back for a fourth season on the back of a swag of well-deserved awards earlier this year, including top comedy wins at the Golden Globes and the Emmys for the show itself and leading lady Jean Smart. It’s a show that just keeps getting better too, and will build on the ever more dysfunctional co-dependency between Smart’s veteran comedian Deborah Vance and her ambitious protégé Ava (Hannah Einbinder). Ava may have gained her boss’s grudging respect by strongarming her way into the chief writing gig on Deborah’s new talk show, but now she actually has to pull it off in the highest pressure environment imaginable. Expect more fireworks, biting sledges and vicious take-downs of ageism and sexism in showbiz.
SCRUBLANDS: SILVER
APRIL 17
Luke Arnold returns to the role of investigative journalist Martin Scarsden for a second season of the homegrown crime thriller, adapted from Silver, the second book in Chris Hammer’s best-selling Scrublands trilogy. This time, Martin returns to the small coastal down he’d fled decades earlier when his childhood friend Jasper is murdered not long after panicky phone call between the two men. Jasper’s partner Mandy (Bella Heathcote) emerges as the chief suspect, but Martin’s search for the truth will also uncover long-hidden secrets that could rock the community to its core.
ALSO SHOWING
Love Triangle Season 3 – April 6
Godfather Of Harlem Season 4 – April 13
Me And My Sugar Daddy – April 23
Sullivan’s Crossing Season 3 – April 28
PARAMOUNT+
MOBLAND
MARCH 30
Former James Bond Pierce Brosnan oozes quiet menace as London crime boss Conrad Harrigan with the words: “We shake the right hands, we break the wrong ones. We don’t ask, we take.” This new 10-part crime drama – with an outstanding pedigree that also includes Oscar-winner Helen Mirren as Harrigan’s scheming wife Maeve and the ever reliable Tom Hardy as their brutal fixer Harry – started its life as an origin story for the hit Ray Donovan series before being reworked into a stand-alone story. And with gangster specialist Guy Ritchie on board as executive producer and directing some episodes, the saga of two rival crime empires looks to be the absolute business.
THE THUNDERMANS UNDERCOVER
APRIL 10
Fans of the long-running kids adventure comedy series The Thundermans will be stoked to know that the adventures of the superhero teens will continue beyond last year’s The Thundermans Return with this nine-part spin-off series. Thunder Twins Phoebe and Max are sent undercover to a seaside town to tackle a new threat, but this time they have to take their younger sister Phoebe along, who is just starting to get a handle on her superpowers.
ALSO SHOWING
Sumotherhood – April 2
Teen Mum UK: Next Generations Season 2 – April 9
Ford V Holden – April 20
Depravity – April 30
DISNEY+
DYING FOR SEX
APRIL 4
Inspired by a true story, Michelle Williams stars as Molly, a woman diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer and facing the prospect of death with the realisation that she hasn’t lived the life she wanted. When a therapist encourages her to create a bucket list of experiences, beginning with having an orgasm with another person, she ends her 15 year marriage so she can explore herself and her sexuality in whatever time remains to her. With her bestie Nikki (Jenny Slate) riding shotgun, she throws herself into the frank, forthright, sometimes filthy and frequently funny world of dating, hook-up culture and finding joy and connection in the face of tragedy.
ANDOR
APRIL 23
Hands down the best of the Star Wars spin-off shows – and one of the best shows of the last decade – is back for a second and final season, which should neatly dovetail into the events of the Rogue One movie. The action will unfold in four weekly chapters of three episodes each as Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor becomes more and more involved in the Rebel Alliance, the spectre of war with the Empire draws closer and the stakes are raised with the impending construction of the Death Star. And as an added bonus, Aussie Ben Mendelsohn’s odious officer Orson Krennick is back to sneer lines like “Resistance is absurd”.
ALSO SHOWING
Pets – April 11
Doctor Who Season 2 – April 12
Secrets of the Penguins – April 21
Vanderpump Villa Season 2 – April 24
MAX
THE LAST OF US
APRIL 14
The second season of the post-apocalyptic zombie thriller has very big boots to fill – not only was the first sea
son widely hailed a masterpiece, but the sequel video game on which it is based was also a huge improvement on its predecessor. The action picks up five years after the shocking conclusion of the season one finale, in a walled off safe haven from the monsters that lurk outside and a rift forming between Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey). New characters include Apple Cider Vinegar’s Kaitlyn Dever as a vengeful soldier, Abby, and Jeffrey Wright reprises his role from the game as hard-nosed resistance leader Isaac Dixon. The trailer also teases some bigger and badder beasties, as well as Game of Thrones level zombie face-offs.
THE REHEARSAL
APRIL 21
The first season of The Rehearsal was like nothing we’d quite seen before, blending comedy, documentary, fiction and reality as ordinary people were given the opportunity to rehearse for tricky situations or conversations through the use of sets and hired actors. Star, writer, director and executive producer Nathan Fielder is back again but with just a short, cryptic teaser available so far, details are sketchy. Creator HBO says that “the urgency of Fielder’s project grows as he decides to put his resources toward an issue that affects us all” but no doubt the projects will once again spin off into unexpected territory.
ALSO SHOWING
Fast Friends – April 1
Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life – TBC
PRIME VIDEO
THE BONDSMAN
APRIL 3
“You’re still a bounty hunter but now you hunt demons – for the Devil” just about sums up this fun, violent and brilliantly silly looking horror-comedy from the twisted team at Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activities, Insidious). Kevin Bacon stars as bounty hunter Fred Herbert, who meets a sticky end in the course of his duties but is resurrected with a job upgrade that involves returning rogue evil spirits to where they belong. As he dispatches the malevolent beasts hiding in plain sight with extreme prejudice and whatever weapons come to hand, in death he also spies a second chance at life and reconnecting with his wife and son.
THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH
APRIL 18
Aussie Euphoria and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi cements his status as one of the hottest talents around by headlining this five-part WWII drama alongside an all-star homegrown cast including Odessa Young, Simon Baker, Olivia De Jonge and Heather Mitchell. Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize winning novel of the same name, it tells the harrowing story of Dorrigo Evans (Elordi, with Ciaran Hinds as the older version) and his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, the love that sustained him during his darkest hours, and his later years as a respected surgeon and reluctant war hero.
ALSO SHOWING
Marked Men – April 4
G20 – April 10
#1 Happy Family USA – April 17
Etoile – April 24
APPLE TV+
YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS
APRIL 11
Author turned show-runner Johnathan Tropper (See, Warrior) is the creative force behind this drama starring and executive produced by Jon Hamm, which has already been renewed for a second season. The Mad Man veteran plays Andrew “Coop” Cooper a recently divorced hedge fund manager with a taste for the good life, who comes across like a slightly cracked alter-ego of Don Draper. When he’s fired from his high-paying job in disgrace he looks to other means to support his lifestyle – namely robbing his neighbours in the filthy rich enclave he calls home. But apart from the riches inside the lavish houses, he also uncovers secrets that might mean the cops are not the worst of his problems.
GOVERNMENT CHEESE
APRIL 16
Versatile British actor David Oyelowo does an about face on his serious roles in Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Silo and Les Miserables in a goofy comedy drama set in California’s San Fernando Valley in 1969. The Golden Globe and Emmy nominee plays Hampton Chambers, a burglar recently released from jail who wants to turn his life around and provide for his wife and sons as the inventor of a self-sharpening power drill. But he finds that his unconventional family has changed radically during his stint behind bars and his criminal past and entanglements with shady gangster types are standing in the way of his dreams.
ALSO SHOWING
Jane Season 3 – April 18
Careme – April 30
NETFLIX
NORTH OF NORTH
APRIL 10
You’ve literally never seen a sit-com quite like this life-affirming Canadian production before, set as it is in a tight-knit community in the Arctic Circle, with its stunning, otherworldly scenery and a mostly indigenous cast. Anna Lambe (True Detective: Night Country) plays Siaja, a young Inuk woman who shocks the residents of Ice Cove when she bails out of her marriage to the tiny town’s golden boy after his carelessness leads to an accident. But she finds that reinventing herself and her life isn’t so easy in a place where everyone knows each other’s business.
HAVOC
APRIL 25
There are shades of John Wick and his breakout film The Raid in the latest action thriller from Gareth Evans, who has spent the last five years as the driving force behind the excellent Gangs Of London. A bruised and battered looking Tom Hardy is in his element as a detective who has to battle his way through the criminal underworld to save a politician’s estranged son after a drug deal goes wrong. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker brings his Godfather Of Harlem menace to one of the shady figures who stands in his way.
ALSO SHOWING
Love On the Spectrum Season 3 – April 2
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing – April 9
Devil May Cry – April 3
Moonrise – April 10
Black Mirror Season 7 – April 10
WWE WrestleMania 2025 – April 20
You Season 5 – April 24
Turning Point: The Vietnam War – April 30
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