Everything Coming To Netflix, Stan, Foxtel And Amazon This October

Neither Stan nor the Australian Netflix library has anything near the range of US streaming services, every month we get just a little more. Read on to see all the content that will be added to their libraries in October.

Netflix

Stranger Things is back! Netflix has a pretty decent lineup for the month ahead (including new episodes of Riverdale and Designated Survivor) but let’s be honest, we’re all just holding out for Stranger Things Season 2.

Here are some of the highlights:

Stranger Things: Season 2

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
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Riverdale: Season 2

If Jason Blossom’s murder revealed the slimy underbelly beneath Riverdale’s surface, as we enter season two, the shooting of Fred Andrews threatens to plunge the entire town into utter darkness.

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Psycho

When a larcenous real estate clerk goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel.

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Designated Survivor

With the conspiracy more alarming than ever, a fiery lawyer joins President Kirkman’s staff and Agent Wells forms an alliance with a British spy.
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Here’s the full list:

Netflix Originals

• Bonus Family (Bonusfamiljen): Season 1 — 5 October
• Suburra: Season 1 — 6 October
• ID-0: Season 1 — 6 October
• MINDHUNTER: Season 1 — 13 October
• Slasher: Guilty Party — 17 October
• Haters Back Off: Season 2 — 20 October
• Stranger Things 2 — 27 October
• Riverdale: Season 2 — Weekly from 12 October
• Designated Survivor: Season 2 — Weekly from 5 October
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson — 6 October
• Kingdom of Us — 13 October
• One of Us — 20 October
• Kidnap — 6 October
• Fe de etarras — 12 October
• The Babysitter — 13 October
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — 13 October
• 1922 — 20 October
• Wheelman — 20 October
• Rodney Carrington: Here Comes the Truth — 3 October
• Christina P: Mother Inferior — 10 October
• El Especial de Alex Fernández, el Especial — 13 October
• Patton Oswalt: Annihilation — 17 October
• Judah Friedlander: America Is the Greatest Country in The United States — 30 October
• The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story — 20 October
• Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold — 27 October
• Skylanders Academy: Season 2 — 6 October
• Word Party: Season 3 — 6 October
• Super Monsters: Season 1 — 13 October
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: Season 4 — 13 October

Highlights:

• The Innocents — 1 October
• Next Friday — 1 October
• The Story of Diana: Season 1 — 5 October
• Arrow: Season 5 — 7 October
• Rick and Morty: Season 3 Finale — 7 October
• Jarhead — 13 October
• San Andreas — 13 October
• Sicario — 13 October
• The Little Rascals — 20 October
• Alfie — 20 October
• Ice Guardians — 1 October
• Tokyo Idols — 1 October
• Generation Iron 2 — 1 October
• Bottersnikes & Gumbles: Season 2 — 1 October
• You’re Next — 1 October
• Joint Security Area — 1 October
• A Guy Thing — 1 October
• Equestria Girls: Tales of Canterlot High: Season 1 — 1 October
• The Level: Season 1 — 1 October
• Tokyo Idols — 1 October
• Ghost Patrol — 1 October
• Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life — 7 October
• Body of Lies — 8 October
• Dear John — 13 October
• Grease 2 — 13 October
• The Equalizer — 13 October
• While We’re Young — 13 October
• Victoria: Season 1 — 15 October
• Power Rangers Ninja Steel: Season 1 — 15 October
• Richie Rich — 15 October
• LEGO: City: Season 1 — 15 October
• Police Academy — 15 October
• West Coast Customs: Season 6 — 15 October
• Cloverfield — 20 October
• Dawn of the Dead — 20 October
• Friday the 13th — 20 October
• Land of the Dead — 20 October
• Paranormal Activity 4 — 20 October
• Psycho — 20 October
• BASEketball — 27 October
• Stardust — 27 October
• Mako Mermaids: An H2O Adventure: Season 3 — 28 October

Zumbo’s Just Desserts: Season 1 — 31 October

Stan

Stan is continuing to air new episodes of Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams anthology this month, as well as bringing complete seasons of popular shows such as The Flash and Penny Dreadful.

Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: Season 1:

A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Phillip K. Dick.
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The Flash: Season 3:

After being struck by lightning, Barry Allen wakes up from his coma to discover he’s been given the power of super speed, becoming the Flash, fighting crime in Central City.
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Penny Dreadful: Season 3:

Explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, American gunslinger Ethan Chandler, scientist Victor Frankenstein, and medium Vanessa Ives unite to combat supernatural threats in Victorian London.
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Passengers:

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
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Here’s the full list:

TV:

• Penny Dreadful: Season 3 — October 1
• Hi-5 — October 1
• The Last Ship: Season 4 — Weekly from October 2
• Dice: Season 2, Episode 6 — October 2
• Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: Season 1 — Weekly from October 2
• Beyblade Burst: Season 1 — October 3
• The Flash: Season 3 — October 5
• Will and Grace (2017) — Weekly from October 6
• RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked: Season 3 — October 6
• Active Shooter: America Under Fire — Weekly from October 7
• Here Come The Habibs: Season 1– October 11
• RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked: Season 2 — October 13
• Good Behavior: Season 2 — Weekly episodes from October 16
• White Famous: Season 1 — Weekly episodes from October 16
• Supernatural: Seasons 1-12 — October 20
• Ben 10 (2016): Season 1, Episode 36 — October 28
• Claws: Season 1 — October 25

Movies:

• Gate Of Flesh — October 4
• Youth Of The Beast — October 4
• Branded To Kill — October 4
• Tokyo Drifter — October 4
• The Edge of Seventeen –October 5
• Three Days in September — October 7
• I Am Not Madame Bovary — October 8
• In Bed With Victoria — October 10
• Klown Forever — October 10
• Passengers (2016) — October 12
• The Founder — October 12
• Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life — October 13
• The Bodyguard — October 14
• Bridesmaids — October 15
• Again — October 17
• The Naked Screen — October 17
• Kumiko, Treasure Hunter — October 18
• Goddess of Love — October 18
• The Hollars — October 19
• The Bye Bye Man — October 19
• Breathe — October 21
• Black Souls — October 22
• Burnt — October 24
• Collateral Beauty — October 26
• Moonlight — October 26
• Girlhood — October 27
• Youth — October 28
• The Great Beauty — October 29
• Short Skin — October 30
• Here Is Harold — October 31
• Leviathan — October 31

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video is finally available in Australia, and this month we’re getting a couple of new original shows for the service — plus subscribers can live stream America’s Thursday night football every Thursday at 11:25am AEDT.

Lore:

On 13 October, Lore will be available on Prime Video. Lore, featuring Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Kristin Bauer van Straten (True Blood), Adam Goldberg (Fargo) Holland Roden (Teen Wolf), Colm Feore (House of Cards) and Campbell Scott (The Amazing Spider-Man), combines documentary footage, narration, historical mixed media and cinematic scenes to bring to life terrifying, but true stories. Celebrating the origins of the horror genre, Lore explores the real-life tales behind pop culture’s most legendary horror myths, such as vampires, changelings, werewolves, séances and possessed dolls.

The Tick (Season 1):

On 13 October, season one of Amazon Original Series, The Tick, will be available on Prime Video, now with dubbing in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The Tick centres on an underdog accountant, Arthur Everest, with zero powers who comes to realise his city is owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero…The Tick!

Red Oaks (Season 3):

On 20 October, Prime Video members will have access to the third season of Red Oaks. Starring Craig Roberts, Ennis Esmer, Oliver Cooper, Alexandra Turshen, Richard Kind and Paul Reiser, season three finds David in the Big Apple during the summer of ‘87, working at a video production company, and striking out with the ladies of New York. Luckily he’s got roommate Wheeler to help cheer him up. But Wheeler’s got his own problems, with the appearance on the scene of a handsome rival for Misty’s affections. Meanwhile Nash brings an incarcerated Getty news of a threat to the future of their beloved Red Oaks.

Foxtel

Foxtel’s October schedule includes a handful of new seasons of your favourite shows, from Mr Robot to The Walking Dead, streamed as episodes air weekly.

A Place To Call Home: Season 5

A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia.

Mr Robot: Season 3

Follows Elliot, a young programmer working as a cyber-security engineer by day, and a vigilante hacker by night.

Supergirl: Season 3

The adventures of Superman’s cousin in her own superhero career.

The Walking Dead: Season 8

Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma, to learn the world is in ruins, and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.

TV Shows:

• Love it Or List It Australia — Released weekly from September 27
• Gogglebox S6 — Released weekly from October 4
• Aussie Dreamlivers — Released weekly from October 5
• Studio Max — Released weekly from Oct 5, available until Dec 31
• A Place To Call Home S5 — Released weekly from October 8
• Donna Hay: Basics To Brilliance Kids — Released weekly from October 19
• Kings of Baxter — Released October 19
• Lawless: The Real Bushrangers — Released weekly from October 24
• Turn Washington’s Spies S4 — Released weekly from September 6
• The Mindy Project S6 — Released weekly from September 14
• Leah Remini: Scientology & The Aftermath S2 — Released weekly from September 27
• Curb Your Enthusiasm S9 — Released weekly from October 2
• Jamie’s Superfood Classics — Released weekly from October 2
• Grand Designs UK S15 — Released weekly from October 5
• Scandal S7 — Released weekly from October 7
• Supergirl S3 — Released weekly from October 10
• DC Legends of Tomorrow — Released weekly from October 12
• Mr Robot S3 — Released weekly from October 12
• The Walking Dead S8A — Released weekly from October 24

Movies:

• Addams Family Reunion
• Lego Scooby: Haunted Hollywood
• Aeon Flux
• Lemonade Mouth
• Allied
• Lesbian Vampire Killers
• Alpha And Omega
• Life Of Crime
• American Beauty
• The Light Between Oceans
• Assassin’s Creed
• Mahana
• Barbershop
• Max Steel
• Barbershop 2: Back In Business
• Middle School: The Worst Years Of My Life
• A Beautiful Mind
• Monster Trucks
• Beauty Shop
• Morning Glory
• Before Sunrise
• Nancy Drew
• Before Sunset
• Ninja Assassin
• Bernie
• No Strings Attached
• Boys Don’t Cry
• Not Suitable For Children
• The Bye Bye Man
• Old School
• Child 44
• Passengers
• Cold Zone
• The Phantom Of The Opera
• Collateral Beauty
• Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie
• The Counselor
• Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
• Cowboys & Aliens
• Premonition
• Dark Paradise
• Prom Night
• The Darkness
• Quills
• Doubt Race
• The Edge Of Seventeen
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
• Elvis & Nixon
• The Ring 2
• Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
• The Ring
• Fast Food Nation
• The Road
• Fences
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Flight Of The Phoenix
• Running Scared
• The Founder
• Scooby-Doo & Wwe: Curse Of The Speed Demon
• Four Brothers
• Scooby-Doo! Shaggy’s Showdown
• Freaky Friday
• Scream
• Frozen River
• Scream 2
• Funny Games
• Scream 3
• G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
• The Skeleton Key
• The Haunted Mansion
• Stardust
• The Heartbreak Kid
• Starship Troopers
• Hocus Pocus
• The Stepford Wives
• Hollars, The
• A Street Cat Named Bob
• Hotel Rwanda
• The Sum Of All Fears
• The Hunt For Red October
• Super Troopers
• I Love You, Man
• Terminal, The
• Imagine That
• Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Intolerable Cruelty
• Tomorrow, When The War Began
• Jasper Jones
• Tower Of Terror
• Just Like Heaven
• A Walk On The Moon
• Kenny
• Walking Tall
• Killer App
• War On Everyone
• Kingdom Of Heaven
• Why Him?
• Last Chance Harvey
• Without A Paddle
• Last Holiday
• xXx
• Last House On The Left
• xXx: Return Of Xander Cage
• The Last Kiss
• Zombieland
• Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’hoole

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