'I'm a TV writer and these are my 10 best TV and film picks for November'

As we adjacent the extremity of 2024, TV and streaming platforms are ramping things up with the motorboat of immoderate epic caller films and shows. November is shaping up to beryllium a packed month, with caller titles from immoderate of the hottest franchises and respective returning favourites.

This period welcomes the latest instalment successful the Dune franchise, documentaries celebrating immoderate of the biggest names successful euphony and film, positive the latest large surface offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). All of this comes from the likes of Disney+, Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Sky and Apple TV+, each of which are disposable with a raft of money-saving deals.

Disney+ present starts astatine £4.99 a month, portion Netflix is escaped with Sky’s TV bundles. Telly fans tin try Prime Video escaped for 30 days, portion Apple TV+ tin beryllium enjoyed with a seven-day escaped trial.

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So, work connected for our prime of the champion caller films and shows heading to screens successful November.

Music by John Williams

This caller documentary offers a fascinating and insightful look astatine the prolific beingness and vocation of legendary composer John Williams. From his aboriginal days arsenic a jazz pianist to his 54 Oscar nominations and 5 wins, the movie takes an in-depth look astatine Williams’ countless contributions to film, including galore iconic franchises similar Star Wars and Harry Potter, arsenic good arsenic his euphony for the performance signifier and his interaction connected fashionable culture.

Music by John Williams premieres November 1 connected Disney+, get it here.

Day of the Jackal

Eddie Redmayne fronts this caller thriller based connected the classical 1971 publication by Frederick Forsyth. It centres astir an unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin known arsenic the Jackal (Redmayne), who makes his surviving carrying retired hits for the highest fee.

But pursuing his latest kill, helium meets his lucifer successful a tenacious British quality serviceman (Lashana Lynch) who starts to way down the Jackal successful a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit crossed Europe, leaving demolition successful its wake.

Day of the Jackal premieres November 7 connected Sky Atlantic, get it here.

Deadpool & Wolverine

Marvel’s epic blockbuster is yet here, and it has immense ramifications for the aboriginal of the MCU. The movie finds Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) with his past arsenic the morally flexible Deadpool down him, until helium abruptly finds himself successful a combat for the endurance of his location satellite and indispensable suit-up again – and person a reluctant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to assistance him.

Deadpool & Wolverine premieres November 12 connected Disney+, get it here.

Bad Sisters: Season two

Sharon Horgan’s achromatic drama returns to travel the lives of the Garvey sisters, Eva (Horgan), Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), Ursula (Eva Birthistle), Bibi (Sarah Greene) and Becka (Eve Hewson). Two years aft the ‘accidental death’ of Grace’s abusive husband, the close-knit sisters whitethorn person moved on, but erstwhile past truths resurface, the ladies are thrust backmost into the spotlight, suspicions are astatine an all-time high, lies are told, secrets revealed and the sisters are forced to enactment retired who they tin trust.

Bad Sisters premieres November 13 connected Apple TV+, try it escaped here.

Cross

Starring Black Adam’s Aldis Hodge, this caller transgression thriller follows Alex Cross, a decorated Washington D.C. homicide detective and forensic scientist who faces a sadistic serial slayer leaving a drawstring of bodies strewn astir the city. As Alex and his spouse way this killer, a mysterious menace from Cross’ past appears, aiming to destruct what he’s done to support his grieving family, career, and beingness together.

Cross premieres November 14 connected Prime Video, try it escaped here.

Silo: Season two

This deed sci-fi play tells the communicative of the past 10 1000 radical connected Earth, their mile-deep location protecting them from the toxic and deadly satellite outside. However, nary 1 knows erstwhile oregon wherefore the silo was built and immoderate who effort to find retired look fatal consequences.

Rebecca Ferguson stars arsenic Juliette, an technologist who seeks answers astir a loved one’s execution and tumbles onto a enigma that goes acold deeper than she could person ever imagined, starring her to observe that if the lies don’t termination you, the information will.

Silo play 2 premieres November 15 connected Apple TV+, try it escaped here.

Dune: Prophecy

This caller six-part bid serves arsenic a prequel to Dune, acceptable 10,000 years earlier the ascension of Paul Atreides. Inspired by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson’s caller Sisterhood of Dune, Dune: Prophecy follows 2 Harkonnen sisters arsenic they combat forces that endanger the aboriginal of humankind, and found the fabled sect that volition go known arsenic the Bene Gesserit.

Dune: Prophecy premieres November 18 connected Sky Atlantic, get it here.

Cruel Intentions

This caller adaptation of the deed 90s movie follows the elite students of Manchester College, wherever estimation means everything, fraternities and sororities are the golden modular and 2 ruthless step-siblings – Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lucien Belmont (Zac Burgess) – volition bash thing to enactment connected apical of the cutthroat societal hierarchy. After a brutal hazing incidental threatens the full Greek Life system, they’ll bash immoderate is indispensable to sphere their powerfulness and estimation – adjacent if that means seducing Annie Grover (Savannah Lee Smith), the girl of the Vice President of the US.

Cruel Intentions premieres November 21 connected Prime Video, try it escaped here.

The Piano Lesson

In this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a conflict is brewing successful the Charles household. At the centre stands a prized heirloom soft tearing 2 siblings apart.

On 1 side, a member (John David Washington) plans to physique the household luck by selling it. On the other, a sister (Danielle Deadwyler) volition spell to immoderate lengths to clasp onto the sole vestige of the family’s heritage.

Their uncle (Samuel L. Jackson) tries to mediate, but adjacent helium can’t clasp backmost the ghosts of the past.

The Piano Lesson premieres November 22 connected Netflix, get it with Sky here.

Beatles ‘64

From shaper Martin Scorsese, this caller documentary charts The Beatles’ archetypal sojourn to the US with never-before-seen footage alongside caller interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. On February 7, 1964, The Fab Four arrived successful New York City to unprecedented excitement and hysteria.

From the instant they landed astatine Kennedy Airport, met by thousands of fans, Beatlemania swept New York and the full country. Their thrilling debut show connected The Ed Sullivan Show captivated much than 73 cardinal viewers – the astir watched tv lawsuit of its time.

Beatles ‘64 presents the spectacle, but besides reflects a much intimate down the scenes story, capturing the camaraderie of John, Paul, George, and Ringo arsenic they experienced unimaginable fame.”

Beatles ‘64 premieres November 29 connected Disney+, get it here.