May '25: Australian airdates for new streaming TV shows

The Walking Dead: Dead City S2 starts this month on Stan

HERE'S a list of when and where Australians can watch notable new TV shows, docos and movies in May 2025 and later. Updated as new dates come to hand.

😍 - Recommended or notable

May '25

Sun 4

• The Piano S1 – ABC iview
  Hosted by Amanda Keller, the heartwarming six-part arts series explores how the piano has the power to transform the lives of everyday Australians.

Mon 5

• 😍 The Walking Dead: Dead City S2 – Stan
  Follows the popular Maggie and Negan characters travelling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland.

Tue 6

• Jay & Pamela S1 –TLC (Binge, Foxtel, Fetch)
  Jay and Pamela are a once in a lifetime love story. Despite facing an extremely rare condition and living thousands of miles away, they found each other and now look to begin their lives together.

Wed 7

• 90 Day: The Last Resort (S2) – TLC (Binge, Foxtel, Fetch)
  Six veteran 90-Day couples reach their breaking point, from communication breakdowns, meddling families, long distance love, and the highs and lows of the 90 Day visa process.

Thu 8

• 😍 Poker Face S2 – Stan
  Poker Face follows Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.

Tue 13

• Lost Monster Files S1 – Discovery (Binge, Foxtel, Fetch)
  In the mid-20th century Ivan Sanderson built the most extensive archive of unexplained creature evidence on Earth. Following his death, the archive mysteriously disappeared... Until now.

• Street Outlaws: Locals Only (S2) – Discovery Turbo (Binge, Foxtel, Fetch)
  Farmtruck and AZN find local racers to compete for $5000 and the chance to go head-to-head with a Street Outlaw.

Thu 15

• Outback Opal Hunters (S13) – Discovery (Binge, Foxtel, Fetch)
  The world's toughest treasure hunters push their bodies to the limit on a quest to strike it rich, hunting opals in the harsh Australian Outback.

• The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives S2 – Disney+
  Reality show about swingers who happen to be Mormon wives.

Fri 16

• Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic S1 – Discovery Turbo (Binge, Foxtel, Fetch)
  Turning an old barn into his workshop, Ant will need all his skills to bring vehicles including a Lotus Elan, Land Rover Series 3 and VW Campervan back to life.

• 😍 Duster S1 – Max
  New JJ Abrams crime series set in the 1970s. Follows a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate turned upside down when a tenacious young agent comes into town hellbent on taking the crime family down.

• 😍 Murderbot S1 — Apple TV+
  Based on Martha Wells' best-selling The Murderbot Diaries books. Sci-fi thriller/comedy about a self-hacking security construct who is horrified by human emotion, yet drawn to its vulnerable clients.

Sat 17

• Death By Fame (S3) – ID (Binge, Foxtel, Fetch)
  Investigators reveal the shocking true stories behind the rise, fall, and murder of some of Hollywood's most promising stars.

Fri 30

• Bono: Stories of Surrender (doco) – Apple TV+
  A vivid reimagining of Bono’s critically-acclaimed one-man stage show, "Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief”

June '25

Wed 4

• Stick S1 – Apple TV+
  Owen Wilson. An over-the-hill ex-golfer, fired from his job, sees hope in coaching a troubled teen prodigy after his wife leaves him, staking his future on the youth's success.

Fri 6

• Black Mafia Family S4 – Stan
  Continues the journey inspired by real-life street legends and brothers, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, who created one of the most influential crime families in the US.

Sun 15

• 😍 The Surfer (movie) – Stan
  Shot in Western Australia, The Surfer made waves at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival with a six-minute standing ovation and was described as a ‘cult movie in the making ’ and one of ‘Nicolas Cage’s best performances’.

Wed 18

• The Buccaneers S2 – Apple TV+
  Drama inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel of the same name. The fun-loving young American girls are back with even more romance, drama, intrigue and adventure.

July ‘25

Fri 25

• Happy Gilmore 2 (movie) — Netflix
  Happy Gilmore returns with Adam Sandler.

Aug ‘25

• Chief of War S1 — Apple TV+
  Jason Momoa. Nine-episode series based on true events, follows warrior Ka’iana, portrayed by Momoa, as he tries to unify the Hawai’ian islands before Western colonisation in the late 18th century.