February brings the premieres of five new series and the new season of a returning show from Down Under to the US.
For updates about shows from Australia and New Zealand added to US linear TV and streaming channels throughout the month, see the Down Under TV Viewing Guide.
(For details about the premieres of shows from the UK, Canada, Ireland, and countries in Europe and elsewhere, visit The British TV Place, The Euro TV Place, and The Global TV Place.)
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NATIONAL PREMIERES
Apple Cider Vinegar (AU)
Set during the early days of Instagram, this true-crime drama follows two young women who set out to cure their life-threatening illnesses through health and wellness, influencing their global online communities along the way. One is Australian influencer Belle Gibson (Kaitlyn Dever, Dopesick, Unbelievable), who builds an empire based on the lie that she’s cured her terminal brain cancer through health and wellness. The other is Milla Blake (Alycia Debnam-Carey, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Fear the Walking Dead), a young woman who builds a platform promoting the power of food to fight cancer.
All of what they do would be incredibly inspiring if it were all true — because theirs is a true-ish story based on a lie. It’s about the rise and fall of a wellness empire, the culture that built it up, and the people who tore it down.
Costars in the series include Aisha Dee (The Bold Type, Safe Home), who plays Milla’s close friend, Chanelle, who meets Belle at an event and begins working with her on her growing business; Tilda Cobham-Hervey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, I Am Woman) as Lucy, a woman struggling with cancer, who is drawn in by both Milla and Belle’s online pull; and Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road: Origin, Halifax: Retribution) as Lucy’s husband, who fears and disapproves of Belle and Milla’s influence on his wife’s life and health.
The cast also includes Ashley Zukerman (Succession, Designated Survivor), Susie Porter (Irreverent, Wentworth), Matt Nable (Transfusion, Last King of the Cross), Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent, Clickbait), Chai Hansen (Night Sky, The New Legends of Monkey), Rick Davies (Offspring, Tidelands), Kieran Darcy-Smith (Mr Inbetween, Home and Away), Catherine McClements (Total Control, Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries), and Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, The Babadook).
Inspired by the nonfiction book The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, Apple Cider Vinegar, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Thursday, February 6, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
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The Woman Who Fooled The World by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano
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NCIS: Sydney: Season 2 (AU)
This police procedural follows a brilliant and eclectic team of US NCIS agents and Australian Federal Police (AFP), who have been grafted into a multi-national task force to keep naval crimes in check in the Indo-Pacific, the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.
In the second season opener, “Heart Starter,” the team will do whatever it takes to crack the case of a rogue assassin on the run during NCIS Special Agent DeShawn Jackson’s (Sean Sagar, (The Covenant, Mea Culpa) chaotic first day as boss.
The series also stars Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The River Wild) as NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey, Todd Lasance (Without Remorse, Spartacus: War of the Damned) as AFP Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey, Tuuli Narkle (Mystery Road: Origin, Bad Behaviour) as AFP liaison officer Constable Evie Cooper, Mavournee Hazel (Shantaram, Halifax: Retribution) as AFP forensic scientist Bluebird “Blue” Gleeson, and William McInnes (The Newsreader, Total Control) as AFP forensic pathologist Dr Roy Penrose.
NCIS: Sydney: Season 2 premieres in the US on Friday, February 7, at 8pm ET/PT, on CBS, with live and on-demand streaming available for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. For Paramount+ Essential subscribers, streaming begins February 8. (Rescheduled from January 2025)
The Way We Wore (AU)
Actress Celeste Barber (Wellmania, The Letdown) hosts this docuseries, which explores the Australian fashion industry. Over the course of three episodes, it uncovers the cultural and historical significance of fashion in Australia, and reveals how the clothes Aussies wear provide intimate and surprising insights into the evolution of their country. Featuring archival material and interviews with some of Australia’s fashion greats, the program lays bare why fashion matters and what it can tell us, Australians and everyone else, really, about who we are and where we are going.
The Way We Wore premieres in the US on Saturday, February 8, on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
A Remarkable Place to Die (NZ)
This four-episode mystery-crime drama series follows Anaís Mallory (Chelsie Preston Crawford, Underbelly, The Code), a smart and determined homicide detective, as she returns to her hometown of Queenstown, New Zealand, to both assume the role of lead detective and unravel the truth behind the deaths of her father and sister.
Mallory has a stellar policing career under way after a secondment to Sydney, but she is forced to confront her strained relationship with her mother, Veronica (Rebecca Gibney, Under the Vines), and the ghosts of her past, including her ex-fiancé, Luke (Charles Jazz Terrier, Wentworth), who is now married to her ex-best friend, Maja (Indiana Evans, Home and Away). Plagued by the suspicion that Luke might somehow be involved in her father’s and sister’s deaths, Mallory also realizes that her mother may know more than she is willing to reveal.
Costarring Matt Wheelan (The Sounds, Under the Vines, The Gone), A Remarkable Place To Die, an Acorn TV Original, premieres in the US and Canada on Monday, February 17, exclusively on Acorn TV and its digital channels, including Acorn TV on Prime Channels. New episodes will drop weekly through March 10.
Good Cop/Bad Cop (AU-US)
This new one-hour police procedural dramedy series follows Lou (Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl, Single Parents) and Henry (Luke Cook, Katy Keene, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), an odd sister-and-brother detective team on a small Pacific Northwest police force, who must contend with colorful residents, a serious lack of resources, and their very complicated dynamics with each other and with their police chief, Big Hank (Clancy Brown, Dexter: New Blood, Billions) — who happens to be their father.
The cast of the eight-episode first season includes Devon Terrell (Totally Completely Fine), Scott Lee (Home and Away), William McKenna (Nowhere Boys), Shamita Siva (Single, Out), Blazey Best (Janet King), and Grace Chow (Mystery Road: Origin), amongst others.
Good Cop/Bad Cop has its US broadcast premiere on Wednesday, February 19, at 9pm ET/PT, on The CW.
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NON-PREMIERE PROGRAMS BEING ADDED TO STREAMING SERVICES
Alone Australia: Season 1 (AU)
In the Australian version of the “Alone” survival reality competition franchise, ten brave Aussie men and women are dropped off, alone, into separate parts of the Tasmanian wilderness, where they’ll have to rely on their survival skills to deal with challenges brought on by the merciless forces of nature, hunger, and perhaps the toughest challenge of all: loneliness.
Their goal is to survive alone in the wilderness for as long as possible, with a limited amount of survival equipment, no connection to the outside world, and no knowledge of how the other survivalists are faring. Self-documenting their experiences throughout, the person who lasts the longest wins $250,000.
Alone Australia: Season 1 begins streaming in the US on Wednesday, February 5, on Netflix.
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