Wondering what series is streaming on Showmax in March 2024? Keep on reading to find out what’s binge-worthy in the third month of the year!
Here’s What Series is Streaming on Showmax in March 2024
HALO Season 2 – Binge on Showmax from 22 March 2024
Halo stars Emmy nominee Pablo Schreiber (American Gods, Orange is the New Black) as super-soldier Master Chief John-117, helping humanity fight a losing battle against an alien threat known as the Covenant.
Season 2 reached #3 on IMDb’s Most Popular TV charts recently, with Episode 4 getting a 9.1/10 rating – the highest for the series yet. Season 2 has a 94% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus says, “Halo’s streamlined second season is a leaner and meaner dose of sci-fi.”
Look out for People’s Choice winner Joseph Morgan (The Originals, Vampire Diaries), who joins the cast this season as the Spartan’s new boss. Executive produced by the likes of triple-Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, Halo is based on one of the best-selling game franchises of all time.
Resident Alien Season 3 – Stream on Showmax from 5 March
Alan Tudyk is back in his Critics Choice Super-nominated role as Harry Vanderspeigle, the no-longer-so-undercover alien posing as a human doctor in the town of Patience.
Resident Alien has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.1 score on IMDb, where it’s currently at #6 on their Most Popular TV charts. As IMDb says, it’s “one of the funniest shows – about destroying the entire human race.”
Created by five-time Emmy nominee Chris Sheridan (Family Guy), Resident Alien is a Critics Choice Super Awards nominee for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series and was named Best Cable Series, Comedy at the Hollywood Critics Association Awards.
Quantum Leap Season 2 – Stream on Showmax from 12 March
One leap can change everything as Dr Ben Song (Raymond Lee from Top Gun: Maverick) continues his thrilling journey through time in the action-packed second season of Quantum Leap.
Quantum Leap was nominated for three 2024 Saturn Awards from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, including Best Action/Thriller Television Series and Best Supporting Actor for Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters). It’s also up for a 2024 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Drama Series.
Peter Gadiot (One Piece, Yellowjackets) and multiple Teen Choice Award nominee Eliza Taylor (The 100’s Clarke Griffin) join the cast this season.
Collider praises, “Lee’s charming performance, [the] stellar writing, and remarkable direction,” saying, “Season 2 thrives on the chemistry of its cast… taking bigger chances and aiming for bigger payoffs.”
Billions Season 7 – Streaming on Showmax from 11 March 2024
In the seventh and final season of the hit drama Billions, alliances are turned on their heads, old wounds are weaponised, loyalties are tested, betrayal takes on epic proportions and enemies become wary friends…
Emmy winner Damian Lewis (A Spy Among Friends, Homeland) returns as fan-favourite Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, opposite the likes of Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti and Critics Choice nominees Corey Stoll, Maggie Siff and Asia Kate Dillon.
Boasting an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.3/10 score on IMDb, Billions won Best Television Series, Drama at the 2023 Satellite Awards.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves Season 1 – Streaming on Showmax from 1 March 2024
Emmy nominee David Oyelowo (Selma, Silo) was up for Best Actor at the Critics Choice, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards as Bass Reeves, a slave who became the first Black US Marshal west of the Mississippi, arresting more than 3 000 outlaws during the course of his career.
Created by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone), Lawmen: Bass Reeves has an 81% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was up for Outstanding Limited Series at the NAACP Image Awards. In their 4-star review, Guardian says, “this utterly distinctive western is a rare treat… a tense, thoughtful interrogation of what liberty means.”
The Paramount series’ stellar supporting cast includes the likes of Emmy winner Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games) and Emmy nominee Dennis Quaid (Far From Heaven).
Chicago Med Season 8 – Binge on Showmax from 1 March 2024
Following a fiery Season 7 finale, Chicago’s most highly skilled medical team is back at Gaffney Chicago Medical Centre. Brace yourself for several major cast shakeups this season that’ll mean saying goodbye to beloved characters – both at the start and end of the season.
Sasha Roiz (9-1-1) joins the cast as ambitious shareholder Jack Dayton, whose arrival could spell trouble for the trauma unit.
Also look out for the welcome return of April Sexton (Teen Choice nominee Yaya DaCosta), who we last saw in Season 6.
Time Season 2 – Streaming on Showmax from 8 March 2024
Season 2 of the BAFTA-winning prison drama Time shifts its focus to a women’s jail, where a trio of new inmates must confront the dangers and violence of prison life.
Emmy nominee Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us, Game of Thrones), Critics Choice Super nominee Jodie Whittaker (aka Doctor Who, and Beth Latimer in Broadchurch) and BAFTA Scotland nominee Tamara Lawrence (Small Axe, Kindred) star as Kelsey, Orla and Abi respectively, with BAFTA nominee Siobhan Finneran (Downton Abbey, A Confession, Happy Valley) reprising her Season 1 role as prison chaplain Marie-Louise.
Season 2 has a 92% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Times (UK) saying, “It gets stronger and more moving with every episode.”
Colin from Accounts Season 1- Streaming on Showmax from 25 March 2024
Colin from Accounts follows Ashley and Gordon, two single-ish, complex humans who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog.
Created by and co-starring real life couple Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, the Australian comedy series has an 8.3/10 score on IMDb and a 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
In their 5/5-star review, Guardian says, “This unfailingly funny, perfectly acted Australian sitcom features a lead that’s neither a hot mess nor a manic pixie dream girl. It’s honest, kind and goes from strength to strength… It is ordinary life with all the good lines jammed closer together… It’s really rather wonderful.”
The show also cracked a spot on Guardian’s Best of 2023 list, and won the 2023 Logie Award, the 2023 Australian Writers’ Guild Award and the 2024 Australian Academy of Television and Cinema Arts Award for Best Comedy.
The Lovers Season 1 – Streaming on Showmax from 4 March 2024
A foul-mouthed supermarket worker (Roisin Gallagher) doesn’t care about anything, including her life, until she begins an unexpected relationship with a self-centred political television broadcaster (Critics Choice nominee Johnny Flynn from Genius and Emma), who already has a seemingly perfect London life and celebrity girlfriend (Alice Eve) .
Directed by BAFTA winner Justin Martin (Together), The Lovers has an 80% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with London Evening Standard calling the Sky Original “a brilliant rom-com with as much bite as it has heart” in their 5/5-star review. As they say, “This surprisingly gritty take on the genre is a must-watch.”
Found Season 1 – Streaming on Showmax from 19 March 2024
In any given year, more than 600 000 people are reported missing in the US. More than half that number are people of colour that the country seems to forget about.
Nominated for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing at the 2024 NAACP Image Awards, Found centres on recovery specialist Gabi Mosely and her crisis management team as they work tirelessly to find missing people forgotten by the system. But this everyday hero is hiding a chilling secret of her own…
Created by Nigerian-American Nkechi Okoro Carroll (All American and All American: Homecoming), Found stars award winner Shanola Hampton (Veronica Fisher in Shameless) opposite the likes of Kelli Williams (Dr. Gillian Foster in Lie to Me, Lindsay Dole in The Practice), Teen Choice winner Brett Dalton (Grant Ward aka Hive in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Paul Johnson in Mixed-ish, Detective John Clark, Jr. in NYPD Blue).
AV Club calls the show “a compelling character study of how differently people heal (or don’t) from traumatic, life-changing events – all while shining a light on the real-life efforts of non-profit organisations such as the Black and Missing Foundation.”
Found is also up for Outstanding New Series at the 2024 GLAAD Media Awards.
ZeroZeroZero – Streaming on Showmax from 6 March 2024
ZeroZeroZero traces a shipment of cocaine on its journey through Mexico and across the Atlantic Ocean to the Italian cartel buying it.
The Sky and CANAL+ co-production has an 8.1/10 score on IMDb and a 94% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Independent (UK) saying, “This dark cocaine opera is brilliant, bleak escapism… a little of The Godfather, a splash of Sicario and a dash of Succession: a tasty recipe.”
The cast includes Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie), BAFTA nominee Dane DeHaan (Oppenheimer), Emmy nominee Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment), award winner Tcheky Karyo (The Missing), and Harold Torres, who was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series for his performance as Manuel Quinteras.
Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, the series is co-created by Gomorrah’s Stefano Sollima and Leonardo Fasoli with Writers Guild of America nominee Mauricio Katz (Maniac).
Infiniti – Streaming on Showmax from 4 March 2024
Produced by Empreinte Digitale (Spinners) for CANAL+, Infiniti was nominated for Best Mini-series at the International Emmy Awards.
The International Space Station (ISS) has gone silent when a decapitated and waxed body is found on a roof in Kazakhstan. Positive identification leaves no room for doubt: the body belongs to an American astronaut currently on a mission on the ISS. A French astronaut, dismissed from the space programme, and a Kazakh cop, disowned by his ranking hierarchy, set out to solve this mysterious paradox.
The international cast includes the likes of award-winning Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov (Snowpiercer, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), French actress Céline Sallette (If Only, Marie Antoinette), Kazakhstani actor Daniyar Alshinov, and Lex Shrapnel (A Town Called Malice, Domina, Captain America), and Ellora Torchia (Midsommar).
The Sixth Commandment – Streaming on Showmax from 22 March 2024
In The Sixth Commandment, a meeting between an inspiring teacher and a charismatic student sets the stage for one of the most complex criminal cases in recent memory – the gaslighting and deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton – and the extraordinary events that unfolded over the following years.
Multiple-BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall (Wicked Little Letters, Mr Turner, and Spencer) and Éanna Hardwicke from Normal People co-star, opposite the likes of two-time BAFTA nominees Anne Reid (Sanditon, Last Tango in Halifax) and Sheila Hancock (Unforgotten, A Discovery of Witches, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas).
The four-part BBC series has an 89% 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.”
You & Me – Stream on Showmax from 11 March 2024
You & Me is a three-part British romcom about finding love when you least expect it.
In their four-star review, Guardian says, “You can’t fail to love this deftly written romance’s big, healing heart.”
Award winner Jessica Barden (Alyssa in The End of the F***ing World), Sophia Brown (Giri/Haji, The Witcher: Blood Origin, The Capture, Marcella), and Harry Lawtey (Industry) co-star.
BAFTA nominee Tom Vaughan (The Flight Attendant) directs, with Emmy nominee and multiple-BAFTA winner Russell T. Davies (Nolly, It’s a Sin, A Very English Scandal, Doctor Who) among the producers.
Killing It Season 1- Streaming on Showmax from 4 March 2024
Killing It, from the creative team behind Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is a comedy about class, capitalism and one man’s quest to achieve the American dream. And also about hunting really big snakes.
As Craig, MTV Movie Award winner Craig Robinson (Darryl Philbin in The Office, Doug Judy in Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Ray in Mr. Robot) was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Series, Comedy, or Musical. Emmy-nominated comedian Claudia O’Doherty (Mary Bonnet in Our Flag Means Death) co-stars.
Season 1 has an 89% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. As the New York Times says, “This isn’t one of those moody, barely-a-comedy dramedies; it’s gut-bustingly, grotesquely funny.”
Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 1 – Available to binge on Showmax
As Detective Nikki Batista in Alert: Missing Persons Unit, Dania Ramirez (Sweet Tooth, Devious Maids and Heroes) was nominated as Best Actress – Drama at the 2023 Imagen Awards.
Batista joins the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Person’s Unit after her son, Keith, goes missing. Along with her partner and ex-husband, Detective Jason Grant (Golden Globe nominee Scott Caan from Hawaii Five-0 and the Ocean’s trilogy), Nikki works tirelessly to help other people find their loved ones, even as she searches for her own.
Created by Oscar winner Jamie Foxx (They Cloned Tyrone, Django Unchained) and writer-producer John Eisendrath (Alias, The Blacklist), Alert: Missing Persons Unit was a ratings hit in the US, averaging over 3.2m viewers, and has already been renewed for Season 2.
Well, there you have it, all the series that’s streaming on Showmax in March 2024. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up HERE.
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