Each month, new films and TV shows are added to BINGE’s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.
Top Picks: TV
The Great British Bake-Off: Season 15 (December 3)
Oh geez, look at this thumbnail for the latest season of GBBO: there’s a gasp-inducingly attractive, well-dressed man pouring lemon juice (??) into a sifted flour mix, and host Noel Fielding is wearing a jumper which I literally own. There is no alternate universe out there in which I’m not tuning in, let’s face it. Something strange and dystopian about this much-loved cooking competition is that the prim narration informs us, like clockwork every year, that the bakers are experiencing “the hottest summer on record”, which is very dark in terms of cheerily foreshadowing a coming climate apocalypse. Every single other detail about the show is pure delight, however, and it should upgrade your holiday cooking, too.
Creature Commandos: Season 1 (December 5)
This motley crew of animated anti-heroes are, as the show’s promo material informs us, “your last, worst option” when it comes to saving the world. You’ve got Frankenstein’s monster (David Harbour) and his Bride (Indira Vharma), Sean Gunn’s Weasel, Frank Grillo as Rick Flagg Sr., and Alan Tudyk as three separate and equally bizarre characters, all wrangled by Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller ever since mushy organic humans caused so much trouble in her various Suicide Squad experiments. One of the opening entries in James Gunn’s new command of the DC Universe, this resolutely quirky and morbid show reminds us of another DC hero’s credo: they’re the heroes we deserve, but not the ones we need right now.
Laid: Season 1 Premiere (December 19)
In this high-concept new rom-com series, Stephanie Hsu faces every single gal’s nightmare: she’s gotta reconnect with all her exes and warn them about a unique STD she may have inflicted upon them…namely, that everyone she’s ever had sex with seems to be dying in unorthodox and awkward ways. I’m talking crashed chandeliers, claustrophobic sauna slayings, the works. The show is a US remake of a really quite underrated and nutty Aussie comedy, and its quirky plot is well-deserving of a second shot. Hsu, too, has entirely earned her lead role as a stressed-out desperado, and her bestie is played by Zosia Mamet: two talents who have mostly been relegated to wacky sidekick parts, and will now get a chance to shine in the most hilariously uncomfortable of situations.
Top Picks: Movies
How To Make Gravy (December 1)
There’s certainly no Australian Christmas Carol more beloved than Paul Kelly’s ‘How To Make Gravy’, a redemptive singalong about an incarcerated bloke writing home for the holidays. How has it taken this long for the lyrics to be adapted into a heartfelt, rugged look at Christmas Down Under? BINGE takes up the task this holiday season, casting national treasures Daniel Henshall, Hugo Weaving, Damon Herriman and Kate Mulvany as the song’s characters Dan, Joe, Stella, Angus and the rest. Don’t forget a dollop of tomato sauce, for sweetness and that extra tang.
Dune: Part Two (December 12)
We are tragically facing a summer without a new Denis Villeneuve Dune movie in cinemas—but this excellent, superior sequel can still storm your home screens, in the same month that expansive prequel series Dune: Prophecy reaches its season one finale (on December 23, FYI). It’s the stuff blockbuster dreams are made of, shedding the exposition and establishing moments of the first film and going for broke in its psychedelic action sequences and dramatic character turns.
If you thought Timmy Chalamet was just a pretty face, you either haven’t seen how his Paul Atreides spends the third act of this barnstorming sci-fi flick, or you’re blind m8. Austin Butler is a tremendous addition to the Harkonnen clan, bringing a little Elvis swagger to his villainous role. Zendaya’s Chani also gets more of a chance to shine here, emerging as the moral centre of the adaptation: are we driven by destiny and prophecy, or by our own nature, which can be hopelessly warped by power and revenge?
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (December 26)
I was pretty harsh on this MonsterVerse sequel when it arrived in cinemas, comparing it negatively to the majesty and might of Toho’s Godzilla Minus One in my snarky review: “The New Empire proves that Hollywood is still cowering well below the skyscraper-sized intensity of these big characters, unable to harness their titanic power for good.” Might my Grinchy heart grow three sizes this Christmas, when I rewatch the monkey vs. lizard mayhem in a more breezy, holiday-viewing context? All signs point to why not. It also cannot be denied that the scenes of Kong using his annoying, wee-sized monkey companion as a living weapon, flailing the kiddo’s body around as a club, are absolutely hilarious. And I’ll always enjoy Dan Stevens in along-for-the-ride, Hawaiian-shirt-wearing character actor mode, here playing some kind of dentist for mega-cryptids.
All titles arriving on BINGE in December
December 1
The IT Crowd: Season 4
How to Make Gravy (BINGE Original)
Dinosaur Train: Adventure Island
WBBL FINAL
December 2
TikTok Awards 2024
Belly Of The Beast: Bigger And Bloodier
Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History
Libertad: Season 1
Ben: Season 1
Blue Bloods: Season 13
Outnumbered: Seasons 1-5
Bad Education: Season 1-5
Bookworm
December 3
The Great British Bake Off: Season 15 Premiere
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice: Season 15 Premiere
Alison & Larry: Billericay To Barry: Season 1 Premiere
Tom And Jerry: Snowman’s Land
Sharktopia
In The Shadow Of The Moon
Shark Week: Off The Hook
Serial Killer: Red Sea Attack
Florida Shark: Blood In The Water
The Great White Serial Killer Sea Of Blood
Malcolm Naden: Australia’s Most Hunted
Escape Room
Georgia Rule
Punisher: War Zone
Something New
Here And Now
December 4
Gavin & Stacey: Seasons 1-3
Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special 2008
Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special 2019
The Great British Bake Off: Festive Specials: Season 14 Premiere
Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas
Tropic Jaws
6000-Lb Shark
Monster Hammerheads
Expert Witness: Season 2
December 5
Creature Commandos: Season 1 Premiere
90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days: Season 7 Premiere
Outlawed: The Real Ned Kelly
Jaws In The Shallow
Shark Attack Island
The Real Sharknado
Rock The Block
Monsters Of The Bermuda Triangle
IZombie: Seasons 1-5
December 6
Southern Charm: Season 10 Premiere
Caught! When Sharks Attack
Great White Danger Zone
Air Jaws: Final Frontier
Deadly Sharks Of Paradise
Great White Fight Club
Monster Mako: Fresh Blood
Super Surgeons: Season 2
December 7
Batwheels: The Wizard of Bats
Raiders Of The Lost Shark
Shark Week Best In Show
December 10
The Chocolate Queen Christmas Special
Celebrity Sewing Bee Festive Special
Loading Docs: Seasons 1-9
Don’t Hate Your House With The Property Brothers: Season 1
December 11
Call Me Ted: Season 1 Premiere
December 12
I Kissed A Girl: Season 1 Premiere
Trauma Room One: Season 1
Dune: Part Two
Passengers (2016)
December 13
Bookie: Season 2 Premiere
Peter O’Toole: Along The Sky Road To Aqaba
Nazca Desert Mystery
Jamie: Together At Christmas: Season 1
Wings Of The Great War: Season 1
Prue Leith: My Cotswold Kitchen: Season 1
December 14
Batwheels: The Great Christmas Caper
December 15
The Summit
Ezra
BBL PERTH SCORCHERS v MELBOURNE STARS
December 16
Motorway Patrol: Season 18
BBL SYDNEY SIXERS v MELBOURNE RENEGADES
December 17
Celebrity Pottery Throw Down Festive Special
U.S. And The Holocaust: Season 1
Bloodline Detectives: Season 3
Motorway Patrol: Season 19
BBL SYDNEY THUNDER x ADELAIDE STRIKERS
December 18
Tom Kerridge’s Veggie Christmas
BBL MELBOURNE STARS v BRISBANE HEAT
December 19
Laid: Season 1 Premiere
Rose Matafeo Comedy Special
BBL MELBOURNE RENEGADES v HOBART HURRICANES
December 20
Mary Berry’s Christmas Treats
Jamie’s Christmas Shortcuts: Season 1
Sweet Dreams
December 22
BBL BRISBANE HEAT v ADELAIDE STRIKERS
December 23
Masterchef UK Christmas Celebrity Special 2024
BBL MELBOURNE RENEGADES v PERTH SCORCHERS
December 26
Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
BBL SYDNEY SIXERS v MELBOURNE STARS
BBL PERTH SCORCHERS v BRISBANE HEAT
December 27
Sister Wives: Season 12
Reunion
BBL ADELAIDE STRIKERS v HOBART HURRICANES
December 28
The Garfield Movie
December 29
Food Unwrapped Specials: Season 11 Premiere
BBL BRISBANE HEAT v SYDNEY SIXERS
December 30
The Last Year of Television 2024
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way: Season 6 Premiere
BBL SYDNEY THUNDER v MELBOURNE RENEGADES
December 31
Rocketman
A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Bad News Bears
She’s Having A Baby
BBL ADELAIDE STRIKERS v PERTH SCORCHERS
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