Wondering which series you can stream on Showmax in October 2024? Don’t stress! I’ve got you covered. There’s a wide selection of content available on this streaming service in the 10th month of the year…
Here are 8 Series You Can Stream on Showmax in October 2024
1. Hacks Season 3 – Streaming on Showmax from 11 October 2024
Winner of this year’s Emmy for Best Comedy, Hacks S3 picks up with Deborah Vance riding high off the success of her standup special while Ava pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles.
As Deborah Vance, Jean Smart has won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy for all three seasons, with HBO’s comedy about comedians also taking home Best Writing this year, for the second time, bringing its Emmy count to nine wins overall. As Ava, Hanna Einbeinder has been nominated every season.
S3 is at #8 on Rotten Tomatoes’ Best TV Shows of 2024 (So Far) list, with a 98% critics’ rating. Look out for Emmy nominated cameos from Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future’s Doc Brown) and Kaitlin Olson (Dee Reynolds in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia), as well as appearances from the likes of Oscar winners Helen Hunt and Whoopi Goldberg.
Hacks has already been renewed for a fourth season, expected in 2025.
2. The Penguin Season 1 – New episodes on Mondays on Showmax
Following the events of The Batman, Oz Cobb, AKA the Penguin, makes a play to seize the reins of Gotham’s crime world.
Directed by Emmy nominee Craig Zobel (Mare of Easttown), The Penguin co-stars an unrecognisable Colin Farrell as The Penguin, with Critics Choice Super Award winner Cristin Milioti (Palm Springs, Made for Love, Fargo) as Sofia Falcone.
Executive produced by The Batman director Matt Reeves, The Penguin is at #2 on IMDb’s most popular TV chart, with an 8.8/10 rating – the highest of the top 8.
The HBO show also has a 94% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Guardian giving it five-stars and saying, “Colin Farrell deserves all the awards…
The Irish actor is a revelation in a series that’s so twisty it leaves you breathless.”
3. Julia Season 2 – Streaming on Showmax from 17 October
Based on the true story of trailblazing TV chef Julia Child, Julia enters its second and final season with Julia returning from France to discover that her success has changed everything, and the kitchen just got a whole lot bigger.
Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) returns in her BAFTA-nominated title role alongside Emmy winner David Hyde Pierce (Frasier’s Dr Niles Crane) as her husband.
Emmy winner Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) joins the cast this season, with Emmy nominee Hannah Einbinder (Hacks) among the guest appearances.
Julia is created by Emmy nominee Daniel Goldfarb (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel), who was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for the show, which also picked up a nomination for Best Television Series: Drama at the Satellite Awards.
The series has an 8.3/10 score on IMDb, and on Rotten Tomatoes, Season 2 has a rare 100% critics’ rating, with the critics’ consensus calling it “a delectable trifle that viewers will savour.”
4. Fargo Season 5 – Available to binge watch on Showmax already
Lamorne Morris (Winston in New Girl) won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series at this year’s Emmys, as North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr.
Juno Temple (Ted Lasso) stars as Dot, a Midwestern housewife who finds herself in hot water with the authorities and plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind, with Jon Hamm (Mad Men) as the sheriff who has been searching for her for a long time. Both actors are up for Emmys for their lead roles.
Season 5 has a 93% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus says, “A back-to-basics caper populated by the likes of a mesmerising Juno Temple and a thick slice of Hamm, Fargo’s fifth season is a superb return to peak form.”
5. The Sixth Commandment – Available to binge on Showmax already
At the International Emmys, BBC One’s The Sixth Commandment is up for Best TV Movie / Mini-Series and Best Actor (Timothy Spall) – both categories the true-crime drama won at the BAFTAs. The four-part mini-series also took home Best Limited Series at this year’s Royal Television Society Awards.
Spall plays Peter Farquhar, an inspirational teacher whose meeting with a charismatic student (Éanna Hardwicke in a BAFTA-nominated and Royal Television Society-winning performance), sets the stage for one of the most complex and confounding criminal cases in recent memory.
Anne Reid was nominated for a Leading Actress BAFTA as Ann Moore-Martin, Farquhar’s deeply religious neighbour, and fellow murder victim.
The Sixth Commandment has a 90% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Irish Independent calling it, “Not just a great true-crime drama – one of the best of the year in any genre.”
Winners will be announced in New York City on Monday, 25 November 2024.
6. Extended Family – Streaming on Showmax from 14 October 2024
Following an amicable divorce, Jim and Julia decide to continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns to stay with them. Navigating the waters of divorce and child-sharing gets more complicated for Jim when Trey, the owner of the Boston Celtics, enters the picture and wins Julia’s heart.
Emmy winner Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men), Teen Choice nominee Donald Faison (Scrubs), and Critics Choice nominee Abigail Spencer (Rectify) co-star.
Extended Family is created by Emmy-nominated and Teen Choice-winning Glee and Heels actor Mike O’Malley, who created Survivor’s Remorse, and wrote on Heels and Shameless.
7. Belgravia: The Next Chapter – Streaming on Showmax from 14 October 2024
The Victorian period drama Belgravia: The Next Chapter picks up in 1871, three decades after the events of the 2020 limited series by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey, The Gilded Age).
Belgravia: The Next Chapter tells the love story of Frederick Trenchard (Benjamin Wainwright), the third Lord Trenchard, and Clara Dunn (Harriet Slater from Pennyworth), a newcomer to London society.
8. All American Season 6 – Streaming on Showmax from 18 October 2024
In All American, two worlds collide when a star high school football player from South LA is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High.
Inspired by the life of pro footballer Spencer Paysinger, All American was nominated as Outstanding Drama Series at both the Black Reel and Image Awards.
As Spencer, Daniel Ezra earned an Image Award nomination, while Karimah Westbrook was nominated for a Black Reel Award as his mother, Grace. Also look out for Critics Choice winner Taye Diggs (the Best Man movies).
All American reaches its 100th episode this season (in episode 9, directed by Ezra). The show’s already launched a spinoff, All American: Homecoming, and been renewed for a seventh season.
Well, there you have it, 8 Series You Can Stream on Showmax in October 2024. Which series are you most looking forward to watching? Leave a comment below and let me know.
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