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What to watch on Stan right now: the TV shows Australians are streaming most, out of 590 we track, updated October 2026.
Most popular TV shows on Stan this week
Ranked by JustWatch popularity in Australia over the last 7 days.
1
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
- Cast
- Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer
- Duration
- 60 min
2
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
- Cast
- Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Betsy Brandt
- Duration
- 49 min
3
Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head to head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah. Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck, uncovers two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client's son.
- Cast
- Milo Callaghan, John Slattery, Madison Iseman, Lana Parrilla, P.J. Byrne
4
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
- Cast
- Allison Janney, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen
- Duration
- 44 min
5
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
- Cast
- Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, Jeremy Sisto, Ebonee Noel
- Duration
- 60 min
6
From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, unfolding in surprising and unforeseen ways in this romantic saga that unfolds across time.
- Cast
- Harriet Slater, Jamie Roy, Hermione Corfield, Jeremy Irvine, Tony Curran
7
Michael has been involved in organized crime all of his adult life, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie. When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose - Diana.
- Cast
- James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Onslow, Julie Graham, Mike Noble, Laura Aikman
8
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
- Cast
- Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Duncan Lacroix, Sophie Skelton
- Duration
- 64 min
9
A reality show contest where sixteen or more castaways split between two or more “Tribes” are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for roughly 39 days. Frequent physical challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for “Immunity”, forcing the other tribe to attend “Tribal Council”, where they must vote off one of their players.
- Cast
- Jeff Probst
- Duration
- 60 min
10
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
- Cast
- Tina Fey, Lily Tomlin, Maya Rudolph, Rita Moreno, Kerry Washington
11
The residents of a small town struggle to find a way out when mysterious unknown forces keep them from leaving.
- Cast
- Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, Ricky He, Hannah Cheramy
12
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other’s lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.
- Cast
- Daisy Edgar-Jones, Paul Mescal, Desmond Eastwood, Aislín McGuckin
- Duration
- 339 min
13
After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Inspired by the classic television series of the same name.
- Cast
- Kathy Bates, Skye P. Marshall, Jason Ritter, David Del Rio, Leah Lewis
14
A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.
- Cast
- Lolly Adefope, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas
- Duration
- 30 min
15
Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.
- Cast
- Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley
- Duration
- 60 min
16
Sophie trades city life for East Texas and falls into a wealthy socialite's magnetic orbit - where a clique of housewives hide deadly secrets.
- Cast
- Brittany Snow, Malin Åkerman, Jaime Ray Newman, Katie Lowes, Chrissy Metz
17
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
- Cast
- Allison Tolman, Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman
- Duration
- 53 min
18
Hilarious ensemble comedy that follows Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, and her tireless efforts to make her quintessentially American town just a little bit more fun.
- Cast
- Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt
- Duration
- 22 min
19
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
- Cast
- Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Lewis Reeves, Jordan Long
- Duration
- 45 min
20
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
- Cast
- Vanessa Redgrave, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Judy Parfitt
- Duration
- 60 min
21
Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.
- Cast
- Anna Maxwell Martin, Lucy Punch, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready
- Duration
- 30 min
22
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
- Cast
- Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins
- Duration
- 44 min
23
The six-part thriller follows a Bomb Disposal Squad called Expo, which sees officers in contemporary London risking their lives in the face of danger.
- Cast
- Vicky McClure, Mark Stanley, Manjinder Virk
24
Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.
- Cast
- Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha
- Duration
- 327 min
25
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Avenue of the Americas. According to the show's pilot, the phrase "mad men" was a slang term coined in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves. The focal point of the series is Don Draper, creative director at Sterling Cooper and a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and the people in his life, both in and out of the office. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the personal lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States in the 1960s.
- Cast
- Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
- Duration
- 47 min
26
A post apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines telling the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
- Cast
- Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, Matilda Lawler
27
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
- Cast
- Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner
- Duration
- 22 min
28
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.
- Cast
- David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Matt King, Olivia Colman
- Duration
- 25 min
29
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
- Cast
- Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian
- Duration
- 46 min
30
Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.
- Cast
- Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Carl Clemons-Hopkins
31
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
- Cast
- Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Ann Dowd
- Duration
- 60 min
32
Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.
- Cast
- Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit
- Duration
- 22 min
33
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.
- Cast
- Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon
- Duration
- 30 min
34
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
- Cast
- Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Duration
- 22 min
35
Tales of science fiction, fantasy and the occult, exploring humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways. Next stop ahead The Twilight Zone.
- Cast
- Jordan Peele
36
A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.
- Cast
- Jared Harris, Derek Mio, Tobias Menzies, Kiki Sukezane
- Duration
- 60 min
37
The lives of the elite Navy Seals as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask.
- Cast
- David Boreanaz, Max Thieriot, Neil Brown Jr., A.J. Buckley
- Duration
- 43 min
38
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
- Cast
- Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry, Christine Baranski, Archie Panjabi
- Duration
- 43 min
39
In 1995, seventeen-year-old Isabel Baker was murdered. The crime shocked the small town of Ashford and devastated Isabel's Australian South Sea Islander community. The case was never solved, the killer never found. In 2020, the opening of a time capsule unearths a secret that puts cold-case detective James Cormack (Fimmel) on the trail of the killer.
- Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix, John David Washington, Anna Kendrick, Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Blake Nelson
40
Adventure Time (2010-2018)
Fantasy • Sci-Fi • Comedy • Animation • Adventure • Family • Action • Short
Fionna and Cake - with the help of the former Ice King, Simon Petrikov - embark on a multiverse-hopping adventure and journey of self-discovery. All the while a powerful new antagonist determined to track them down and erase them from existence, lurks in the shadows.
- Cast
- John DiMaggio, Jeremy Shada, Tom Kenny, Hynden Walch
- Duration
- 11 min
41
PAW Patrol is a CG action-adventure for old children and preschool series starring a pack of six heroic puppies led by a tech-savvy 10-year-old boy named Ryder.
- Cast
- Ron Pardo, Kallan Holley, Devan Cohen
- Duration
- 23 min
42
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
- Cast
- Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Craig Parkinson
- Duration
- 60 min
43
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
- Cast
- Sarah Lancashire, Siobhan Finneran, Shane Zaza, Charlie Murphy
- Duration
- 58 min
44
Villanelle is a talented assassin, and Eve is the woman in charge of bringing her down. The two equally matched foes are obsessed with each other, entering into an intricate game of cat-and-mouse.
- Cast
- Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia
- Duration
- 42 min
45
A woman suspects her husband of having an affair. After following several lines of enquiries far more unravels including a streak of violence below the surface.
- Cast
- Suranne Jones, Bertie Carvel, Tom Taylor
- Duration
- 60 min
46
Hardcore survivalists are put by themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness, without camera crews, teams, or producers - on a single mission to stay alive for as long as possible.
- Cast
- Nicole Apelian, Dan, David, Desmond
- Duration
- 44 min
47
November 26th 1983, six armed men steal £26m worth of gold from the Brink’s-Mat security depot and set about trying to dispose of the bullion.
- Cast
- Jenna Coleman, Charlie Cox, Alfred Enoch, Daniel Mays, David Hayman
48
Welcome to a world of futile crushes, sibling brawls, getting drunk too quickly and casting constant aspersions about your friends' sexuality.
- Cast
- Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas
- Duration
- 25 min
49
Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary.
- Cast
- Miranda Hart, Patricia Hodge, Tom Ellis, Sarah Hadland
- Duration
- 30 min
50
The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.
- Cast
- Jack Reynor, Myha'la Herrold, James Franco, Dennis Quaid, Zoe Kravitz
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