Series to Watch: November 2024
DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this November, including two TV spin-offs from blockbuster movies, a fast-paced Brazilian biopic, a US crime drama and a new take on The Day of the Jackal.
Paris Has Fallen
From: France, UK
Original broadcasters: Canal+ (France), Prime Video (UK & Ireland)
Producers: StudioCanal, Urban Myth Films, Millenium and G-Base
Distributor: StudioCanal
Starring: Tewfik Jallab, Rita Arya, Sean Harris, Ana Ularu, Camille Rutherford, Jérémie Covillault, Emmanuelle Bercot and Karl Collins
Launch date: November 1
This eight-part series follows the big-screen action movies Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen and Angel Has Fallen. After a terrorist group led by the villainous Jacob Pearce (Harris) attacks a high-profile event, with the French minister of defence as their target, protection officer Vincent Taleb (Jallab) partners with street-smart MI6 operative Zara Taylor (Arya) to save the day. But when events take a dark turn, Vincent and Zara soon realise that the plan extends beyond just one politician, and the pair must rely on each other to stop Paris falling to a man hell-bent on vengeance.
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Como Agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate)
From: Mexico
Original broadcaster: HBO
Producers: Ventanarosa Productions, Endemol Shine North America and Endemol Shine Boomdog
Starring: Irene Azuela, Azul Guaita, Ana Valeria Becerril, Andrea Chaparro, Andrés Baida, Ángeles Cruz, Mauricio García Lozano, Ari Brickman and Louis David Horné
Launch date: November 3
With Salma Hayek Pinault among the executive producers, this eagerly anticipated series is based on the novel of the same name by Laura Esquivel. The story explores the idea that sometimes traditions can become a prison – and an obstacle to love – as it focuses on Tita de la Garza and Pedro Múzquiz, two souls deeply in love yet unable to be together due to entrenched family customs. The protagonists navigate a world of magical realism as Tita struggles between the destiny imposed on her by her family and her fight for love. But her magical connection to cooking becomes an active resistance against oppression, allowing her to channel her deepest desires and passions into her recipes, transforming those who taste them.
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The Day of the Jackal
From: UK
Original broadcasters: Sky (UK), Peacock (US)
Producer: Carnival Films
Distributor: NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Nick Blood, Sule Rimi and Florisa Kamara
Launch date: November 7 (UK), November 14 (US)
Based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth, this series stars Redmayne as the unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin known as the Jackal, who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lynch) who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
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Citadel: Honey Bunny
From: India
Original broadcaster: Prime Video
Producers: D2R Films, Amazon MGM Studios, AGBO and Midnight Radio
Starring: Varun Dhawan, Samantha, Kay Kay Menon, Simran, Saqib Saleem, Sikandar Kher, Soham Majumdar, Shivankit Parihar and Kashvi Majmundar
Launch date: November 7
The Indian entry into Prime Video’s Citadel spy thriller franchise, this story is set against the backdrop of the 1990s. When stuntman Bunny (Dhawan) recruits struggling actress Honey (Samantha) for a side gig, they are hurled into a high-stakes world of action, espionage and betrayal. Years later, as their dangerous past catches up with them, the estranged Honey and Bunny must reunite and fight to protect their young daughter Nadia.
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The Pirate Bay
From: Sweden
Original broadcaster: SVT
Producer: B-Reel Films
Distributor: Dynamic Television
Starring: Helena Bergström, Robin Stegmar, Arwid Swedrup, Wiljam Lempling and Simon Gregor Carlsson
Launch date: November 8 (SVT Play), November 11 (SVT)
Dramatising the story of the world’s largest file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay tells the story of how three young guys, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, united in the fight for a free internet. Their idea of free access to information, music, books and movies would change the internet, influence politics across Europe and the world, and shake up one of the world’s most powerful industries – Hollywood.
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Celeste
From: Spain
Original broadcaster: Movistar+
Producer: 100 Balas
Distributor: The Mediapro Studio Distribution
Starring: Carmen Machi, Manolo Solo, Andrea Bayardo, Antonio Durán Morris, Aixa Villagrán, Clara Sans, Jesús Noguero and Marc Soler
Launch date: November 14
Celeste (Bayardo) is the star of Latin music. Her songs are a worldwide phenomenon. Her concerts fill stadiums. But the real star of the series is Sara Santano (Machi), a tax inspector who is about to take early retirement – or so she thought. On her last day at work, she receives the most important assignment of her career: to prove that Celeste lives in Spain and has to pay her taxes there. To do so, Sara will have to put her life on hold to follow Celeste and prove she spent 184 days in the country – half a year plus one day.
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Dune: Prophecy
From: US
Original broadcaster: HBO
Producer: HBO, Legendary Television
Starring: Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Jodhi May, Mark Strong, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Josh Heuston, Chloe Lea, Jade Anouka, Faoileann Cunningham, Edward Davis, Aoife Hinds, Chris Mason, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Camilla Beeput, Jihae, Tabu, Charithra Chandran, Jessica Barden, Emma Canning and Yerin Ha
Launch date: November 17
Set in the expansive universe of Dune, created by author Frank Herbert, this prequel series unfolds 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, explored in the two recent blockbuster movies from Denis Villeneuve. It follows two Harkonnen sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect that will become known as the Bene Gesserit. The six-part series is inspired by the novel Sisterhood of Dune, written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson.
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Interior Chinatown
From: US
Original broadcasters: Hulu (US), Disney+
Producer: 20th Television
Starring: Jimmy O Yang, Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, Lisa Gilroy, Sullivan Jones, Archie Kao and Diana Lin
Launch date: November 19
Based on the book by Charles Yu, who is also the series creator and showrunner, this show follows the story of Willis Wu, a character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White. Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.
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Get Millie Black
From: UK
Original broadcasters: HBO (US), Channel 4 (UK)
Producer: Motive Pictures
Starring: Tamara Lawrance, Joe Dempsie, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr and Chyna McQueen
Launch date: Nov 26 (US), 2025 (UK)
Described as a vivid, unflinching, and gripping five-part crime noir, Get Millie Black stars Lawrance as ex-Scotland Yard detective Millie-Jean Black, who returns to Kingston to work a missing persons cases that threatens to expose more than she may be willing to confront.
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Senna
From: Brazil
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: Gullane, Senna Brands
Starring: Gabriel Leone, Alice Wegmann, Arnaud Viard, Camila Márdila, Gabriel Louchard, Hugo Bonemer, Johannes Heinrichs, Julia Foti, Kaya Scodelario, Marco Ricca, Matt Mella, Pâmela Tomé, Patrick Kennedy, Steven Mackintosh, Susana Ribeiro, João Maestri and Lucca Messer
Launch date: November 29
Over six episodes, Senna will depict the journey of overcoming obstacles, ups and downs, joys and sorrows of legendary racing driver Ayrton Senna, exploring his personality and personal relationships. The starting point will be the beginning of the three-time Formula 1 champion’s racing career, when the Brazilian moved to England to compete in Formula Ford, all the way to his tragic death in Imola, Italy, following a crash during the San Marino Grand Prix.
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