Aussie Streaming Guide: The Best TV & Movies for January 2026

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The year’s hardly retired of the wrapping and the streaming gods are already flexing, hurling an avalanche of shiny caller shows and movies consecutive astatine our eyeballs. Apple TV+ is keeping things comparatively chill, but everyone other has intelligibly chosen chaos, flooding the apps with much contented than immoderate sane quality could ever anticipation to finish. If your spare clip is constricted (or your tolerance for doom-scrolling thumbnails is already hanging by a thread), you’ll privation to caput consecutive for our cautiously curated hits.

So let’s get you sorted. We’ve rounded up the must-watch films, binge-worthy series, and unexpectedly superb originals crossed Australia’s biggest platforms. Just prime your service, zero successful connected the gems, drawback a snack, and settee successful for prime surface time.

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Stan

TV litter pick: RUN – 1 Jan : A six-part transgression play that dramatizes the existent communicative of Brenden Abbott, an infamous Australian slope robber known arsenic the "Postcard Bandit".

Movie litter pick: Freaky Tales – 4 Jan : A vibrant, genre-blending anthology movie featuring 4 interconnected stories acceptable successful 1987 Oakland, California.

What notable movies are coming to Binge?

Freaky Tales – 4 Jan
The Postcard Bandit – 7 Jan
The Strangers: Chapter 2 – 23 Jan
Mr Burton – 31 Jan

What notable bid are coming to Binge?

RUN – 1 Jan
Ponies Season 1 – 16 Jan
Animal Control Season 4 – 16 Jan
Scared of the Dark Season 1 – 16 Jan
Bake Off: The Professionals Season 10 – 19 Jan
The Great American Bake Off Season 8 – 27 Jan

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TV litter pick: Stranger Things 5: The Finale – 1 Jan : Virtually thing I accidental astir this volition beryllium taken arsenic a spoiler. Not going to hazard it. So possibly conscionable ticker it.

Movie litter pick: The Rip – 16 Jan : A high-stakes transgression thriller that follows a squad of Miami cops whose spot successful 1 different unravels aft they observe millions successful currency wrong an abandoned stash house.

What notable movies are coming to Netflix?

People We Meet connected Vacation – 9 Jan
How to Train Your Dragon – 9 Jan
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – 9 Jan
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – 9 Jan
The Rip – 16 Jan
Lost successful Translation – 29 Jan

What notable bid are coming to Netflix?

Stranger Things 5: The Finale – 1 Jan
Run Away – 1 Jan
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment Season 2 – 7 Jan
His & Hers – 8 Jan
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials – 15 Jan
Love Through a Prism – 15 Jan
WWE: Unreal Season 2 – 20 Jan
Bridgerton Season 4, Part 1 – 29 Jan

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TV litter pick: Marvel’s Wonder Man – 28 Jan : A satirical, self-aware "love missive to Hollywood" that follows an aspiring histrion who unexpectedly gains superpowers.

Movie litter pick: Hoops, Hopes & Dreams – 19 Jan : This doco tells the untold communicative of however Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an all-star squad of civilian rights activists utilized hoops to link with young voters and physique community.

What notable movies are coming to Disney+?

Hoops, Hopes & Dreams – 19 Jan
The Bourne Identity – 1 Jan
The Bourne Supremacy – 1 Jan
The Bourne Ultimatum – 1 Jan
The Bourne Legacy – 1 Jan
Jason Bourne – 1 Jan

What notable bid are coming to Disney+?

Chicago Fire Seasons 1–11 – 7 Jan
A Thousand Blows Season 2 – 9 Jan
Tell Me Lies Season 3 – 13 Jan
Pole to Pole with Will Smith – 14 Jan
Hey A.J.! – 14 Jan
FX’s The Beauty – 22 Jan
Tracker Season 3 – 28 Jan

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TV litter pick: Shrinking Season 3 – 28 Jan : S3 introduces caller faces, including Michael J. Fox and Cobie Smulders arsenic Jimmy's emotion interest, alongside returning formed members arsenic they effort to clasp alteration and caller beginnings.

What notable bid are coming to Apple TV+?

Drops of God Season 2 – 21 Jan
Shrinking Season 3 – 28 Jan
Yo Gabba Gabbaland Season 2 – 30 Jan

TV litter pick: The Night Manager Season 2 – 11 Jan : Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) embarks connected a caller ngo successful Colombia involving a unsafe arms dealer, Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva) and his seductive subordinate Roxana Bolanos (Camila Morrone).

Movie litter pick: Caught Stealing – 26 Jan : a acheronian transgression thriller astir a burned-out erstwhile shot prodigy named Hank Thompson who inadvertently gets caught successful a convulsive conflict betwixt rival New York City gangsters.

What notable movies are coming to Prime Video?

Steal – 21 Jan
Caught Stealing – 26 Jan
The Wrecking Crew – 28 Jan

What notable bid are coming to Prime Video?

Spring Fever – 6 Jan
Beast Games Season 2 – 7 Jan
The Night Manager Season 2 – 11 Jan
Molly Mae: Behind It All Season 2 Part 2 – 16 Jan

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TV litter pick: Dear Life – 1 Jan : Lillian (Brooke Satchwell) grieves the tragic decease of her fiancé, Ash, an organ donor, by secretly seeking retired the recipients of his donated organs, starring to unexpected connections.

Movie litter pick: When A Stranger Calls – 11 Jan : Babysitter Jill Johnson receives terrifying telephone calls portion watching kids; things escalate until the constabulary observe the adjacent proximity of the caller.

What notable movies are coming to Stan?

How To Train Your Dragon – 1 Jan
How To Train Your Dragon 2 – 1 Jan
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – 1 Jan
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story – 2 Jan
Boyz N' The Hood – 5 Jan
The Witches (2020) – 6 Jan
When A Stranger Calls – 11 Jan
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie – 17 Jan
Space Jam: A New Legacy – 17 Jan
Space Jam – 17 Jan
Source Code – 19 Jan
Hairspray (2007) – 21 Jan
Nobody – 23 Jan
Sunshine – 24 Jan

What notable bid are coming to Stan?

Dear Life – 1 Jan
Red Eye: S02 – 2 Jan
Power Book IV: S03 – 2 Jan
Changing Ends Season 2 – 3 Jan
Gods of Tennis Season 1 – 10 Jan
Accused: S02 – 15 Jan
Regular Show: S01 – S08 – 21 Jan
The Walsh Sisters: S01 – 22 Jan

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Adam Mathew is our Aussie streaming savant. He besides games on YouTube.

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