Here are some shows that began last week or premiered this past week!
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band premiered at TIFF last month and offers the most in-depth look at the creation of their legendary live performances. Fans are taken on a behind-the-scenes look at footage from the 2023-2024 tour and see the band’s preparation and song selection process. The documentary begins streaming on Disney+ in Canada on Friday, Oct. 25.
The Graham Norton Show
Bruce Springsteen will be among the guests on this week’s episode of The Graham Norton Show, airing this Saturday, Oct. 26, on BBC First in Canada. “You’ve never seen a hearse with luggage on top, so that will be it for me. I am going to keep going until it’s over,” says the 75-year-old Springsteen as he spoke about his recent birthday.
While speaking about his new documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (now streaming on Disney+), the legend spoke about if he still gets nervous performing: “I get anticipatory anxiety. It’s not quite the same thing as nervousness. It’s a natural feeling to have before you go out and challenge yourself. If it wasn’t there, I think there would be something wrong with you and you couldn’t do the job.”
Other guests this week include Amy Adams, Vanessa Williams, Bill Bailey, and St. Vincent.
Rivals
If you missed this last week, it’s the perfect weekend binge. Based on Dame Jilly Cooper’s novel, Rivals is set against the backdrop of drama, excess, and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England as the longstanding rivalry of Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and Tony Baddingham’s (David Tennant) feud comes to a head within the ruthless world of independent television.
The impressive cast also includes Aidan Turner, Nafessa Williams, Katherine Parkinson, Danny Dyer, Oliver Chris, Victoria Smurfit, and Bella Maclean. All eight episodes of Rivals are now streaming on Disney+ in Canada.
What We Do in the Shadows
The first three episodes of the sixth and final season of the Toronto-shot What We Do in the Shadows are now streaming on Disney+ in Canada. New episodes will continue to premiere on Mondays at 10 p.m. on FX and stream on Disney+ each Tuesday.
This season’s first three episodes will see the return of the vampires’ long-lost fifth roommate, Guillermo getting a new job and a dispute over who gets to use the newly available empty room under the stairs. The final season of What We Do in the Shadows will consist of 11 episodes.
Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare
Another leftover from last week is Netflix’s doc Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare where a woman’s online courtship takes an unsettling turn when her romantic interest harbours a dark secret and sinister motives, leading to a harrowing ordeal.
Shrinking
Shrinking returned for its second season last week on Apple TV+ with Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein appearing as the drunk driver who caused Jimmy’s (Jason Segel) wife’s accident. New episodes continue to stream each Wednesday.
The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh
Naveen Andrews (Lost) stars in Prime Video’s The Pradeep’s of Pittsburgh – about an Indian family and the tumultuous yet humorous events of the two years since they arrived in Pittsburgh. All eight episodes are now streaming.
The Office (Australia)
The Australian version of The Office is now streaming on Prime Video in Canada. Felicity Ward stars as Hannah Howard, who is the managing director of Flinley Craddick and gets word that her brand will be shut down to work remotely and goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her “work family” together. All eight episodes are now streaming.
Star Trek: Lower Decks
The first two episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks are now streaming on Paramount+ in Canada. In the fifth and final season, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing “space potholes” – subspace rifts that are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant.
Star Trek: Lower Decks will continue to stream on Paramount+ each Thursday and also air at 10 p.m. on Thursdays on CTV Sci-Fi.
Before
Billy Crystal stars in the new Apple TV+ series Before – a psychological thriller about a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, encounters a troubled young boy who has a haunting connection to his past. The first two episodes of Before are now streaming with new episodes dropping each Friday.
D.I. Ray
In the second season of D.I. Ray, Parminder Nagra’s D.I. Ray returns to homicide to investigate the brutal shooting of a young nurse and the head of a notorious crime syndicate outside a Birmingham hospital. Now streaming on CBC Gem.
