Series to Watch: November 2025
DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this November, from Sarah Snook’s Succession successor and a Swedish dramedy set in Spain to a Kim Kardashian-led legal drama and the conclusion of Stranger Things.
Robin Hood
From: US
Original broadcaster: MGM+ (US, UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Latin America, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Producers: Lionsgate Television, Hidden Pictures
Starring: Jack Patten, Lauren McQueen, Sean Bean, Lydia Peckham, Steven Waddington and Connie Nielsen
Launch date: November 2
A modern take on the classic tale of the titular roguish outlaw hero who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, and the epic love story between him and a courageous and daring Marian. Following the Norman invasion of England, Rob (Patten), a Saxon forester’s son, and Marian (McQueen), the daughter of a Norman lord, fall in love and work together to fight for justice and freedom. As Rob rises to become the leader of a band of rebel outlaws, Marian infiltrates the power at court, with both working together to thwart royal corruption and bring peace to the land.
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All’s Fair
From: US
Original broadcasters: Hulu (US), Disney+
Producers: 20th Television, Ryan Murphy Television
Starring: Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson and Teyana Taylor
Launch date: November 4
From creator Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story, Monster) comes this legal drama following Allura Grant (Kardashian) and her fellow divorce lawyers as they leave a male dominated firm to set up their own powerhouse practice while navigating scandals, friendships and shifting allegiances along the way.
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Yakarta (Jakarta)
From: Spain
Original broadcaster: Movistar Plus+
Producers: 100 Balas and Buendia Estudios Canarias
Distributor: The Mediapro Studio Distribution
Starring: Javier Cámara, Carla Quílez, David Lorente, Pilar Gómez, Marina Guerola, Nuria Mencía and Anna Alarcón
Launch date: November 6
From the team behind Movistar Plus+ series Celeste comes this drama about a former Olympic badminton player who makes ends meet by teaching physical education at a public high school in Vallecas. Divorced and disillusioned, José Ramón Garrido believes he’s discovered a hidden gem at a school tournament — something that could turn his life around. Mar, a teenage player, could be the ticket to fulfilling his dream of competing in Jakarta, the city where former players like him are revered as stars. Together, they’ll have to learn to tolerate each other to embark on a journey fraught with run-down boarding houses, dilapidated sports centres, and gas stations, passing through Totana, Ponferrada, Torrelavega and Tardajos before finally reaching the Indonesian capital. If they arrive…
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All Her Fault
From: UK, US
Original broadcasters: Peacock (US), Sky and NOW (UK)
Producer: Carnival Films
Distributor: NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution
Starring: Sarah Snook, Jake Lacy, Dakota Fanning, Michael Peña, Sophia Lillis, Abby Elliott, Daniel Monks, Jay Ellis, Thomas Cocquerel, Duke McCloud, and Kartiah Vergara
Launch date: November 6 (US), November 7 (UK)
In this adaptation of Andrea Mara’s novel, Succession’s Snook plays Marissa Irvine, who arrives to collect her young son Milo from his first playdate, but the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She doesn’t have Milo and has never heard of him. As every parent’s worst nightmare begins to unfold, new questions lead to deep secrets, revealing cracks in the Irvines’ seemingly perfect world until everything is left shattered.
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Death by Lightning
From: US
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: Bighead Littlehead, Pioneer Stillking Films, Slater Hall Pictures
Starring: Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin, Bradley Whitford, Shea Whigham, Stephen McKinley, Paula Malcomson and Tuppence Middleton
Launch date: November 6
Produced by Game of Thrones and 3 Body Problem creators David Benioff and DB Weiss, and based on the novel Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard, Death by Lightning brings to life the epic and stranger-than-fiction true story of James Garfield, reluctant 20th president of the United States, and his greatest admirer, Charles Guiteau — the man who would come to kill him.
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Where the Sun Always Shines
From: Sweden
Original broadcasters: SkyShowtime, SVT (Sweden)
Producer: FLX
Starring: Erik ‘Jerka’ Johansson, Rakel Wärmländer, Per Lasson, Lisa Linnertorp, Claes Månsson and Suzanne Reuter
Launch date: November 10 (SkyShowtime)
Tom (Lasson) and Petra (Linnertorp), a successful Swedish couple, sell their hypermarket in Sweden for a record sum to live a life of luxury on the Spanish island of Mallorca. But during Tom’s 50th birthday party, events take an unexpected turn – pulling Tom’s brother Timmy (Johansson) and wife Maja (Wärmländer) into the mix and setting off a chain of family drama.
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The Beast in Me
From: US
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: 20th Television, Conaco and Teakwood Lane Productions
Starring: Claire Danes, Matthew Rhys, Brittany Snow and Natalie Morales
Launch date: November 13
Since the tragic death of her young son, acclaimed author Aggie Wiggs (Danes) has receded from public life, unable to write and a ghost of her former self. But she finds an unlikely subject for a new book when the house next door is bought by Nile Jarvis (Rhys), a famed and formidable real-estate mogul who was once the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance. At once horrified and fascinated by this man, Aggie finds herself compulsively hunting for the truth – chasing his demons while fleeing her own – in a game of cat and mouse that might turn deadly.
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The Seduction
From: France
Original broadcaster: HBO
Producers: NABI Productions and Felicita Films
Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei, Diane Kruger, Vincent Lacoste, Lucas Bravo, Noée Abita, Julien de Saint-Jean, Fantine Harduin, Samuel Kircher and Sandrine Blancke
Launch date: November 14
A series “freely adapted” from the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, this six-part period drama follows the Marquise de Merteuil who, betrayed by Valmont, embarks on a daring journey to become Paris’s leading courtesan.
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The Death of Bunny Munro
From: UK
Original broadcaster: Sky
Producers: Clerkenwell Films and Sky Studios
Starring: Matt Smith, Rafael Mathé, Sarah Greene, Johann Myers, Robert Glenister, Alice Feetham, David Threlfall, Lindsay Duncan and Elizabeth Berrington
Launch date: November 20
Based on Nick Cave’s novel, the series stars Smith as sex-addicted door-to-door beauty salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro who, following his wife Libby’s suicide, finds himself saddled with his young son, Bunny Junior, and only a loose concept of parenting. As the two struggle to contain their grief in wildly different ways, Bunny takes Junior on the road for an increasingly out-of-control sales tour around Brighton. But as Bunny bounces from one sales pitch to the next, trying to seduce any woman he meets, Junior kills time talking to the ghost of his mother and grappling with the dawning realisation that his dad isn’t just fallible, he’s a total mess. As Bunny starts to unravel, he realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man; to save him from becoming another Bunny Munro.
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Stranger Things S5
From: US
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: Upside Down Pictures and 21 Laps Entertainment
Starring: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty, Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, Alex Breaux and Linda Hamilton
Launch dates: Volume 1: November 27, Volume 2: December 26, The Finale: January 1, 2026 (all 1am GMT)
The end is in sight as Stranger Things’ long-awaited fifth and final season hits screens in November. It’s fall 1987, Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished – his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming, and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone standing together, one last time.
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