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What to watch on Stan right now: the TV shows Australians are streaming most, out of 592 we track, updated November 2026.
Most popular TV shows on Stan this week
Ranked by JustWatch popularity in Australia over the last 7 days.
1
Secluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed with questions around new information on his paternity, Edward battles to find the right time to speak to his frustratingly distant mother. But, when the moment finally presents itself, things take a deadly turn as Julie’s dangerous past catches up with her and they are forced to flee the island and go on the run together.
- Cast
- Freddie Highmore, Keeley Hawes, David Dencik, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Gerald Kyd
2
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
3
When 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police officer Tim Jamieson has come looking to start a new life, but the peace and quiet won’t last, as his story and Luke’s are destined to collide.
- Cast
- Ben Barnes, Joe Freeman, Simone Miller, Fionn Laird, Hannah Galway
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
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
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
10
The Australian version of the hit UK's reality show, Love Island. In Mallorca, Spain, 10 Aussie singles will play the ultimate game of love. After finding their match, they must stay together while surviving temptations as new singles enter the villa.
- Cast
- Sophie Monk, Eoghan McDermott, Erin Barnett, Grant Crapp
- Duration
- 50 min
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
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
13
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
14
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
15
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
16
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
17
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
18
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
19
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
20
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
21
After Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan’s personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan’s Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting the painful past she has chosen to ignore for years.
- Cast
- Scott Patterson, Chloe Lattanzi, Teryl Rothery, Alika Autran, Drew Nelson
22
A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.
- Cast
- Omari Hardwick, Lela Loren, Naturi Naughton, Joseph Sikora
- Duration
- 50 min
23
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
24
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
25
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
26
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
27
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
28
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
29
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
30
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
31
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
32
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
33
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
34
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
35
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
36
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
37
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
38
Post her divorce, Amanda has had to downsize and up sticks to South Harlesden, or as the Estate Agent calls it SoHa (definitely not the area around Wormwood Scrubs prison). With both Manus and Georgie now at secondary school, Amanda has to try and get her head around raising teenagers, dealing with modern motherhood horrors like teenage drinking, fake Instagram accounts and eco anxiety. Spin off from Motherland.
- Director
- Alyssa McClelland
- Cast
- Unknown
39
A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great and her explosive relationship with husband Peter, the emperor of Russia.
- Cast
- Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan
- Duration
- 45 min
40
In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.
- Cast
- Rachel Bilson, Abigail Breslin, Megan Boone, Keith Carradine, Malcolm-Jamal Warner
- Duration
- 42mins
41
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
42
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
43
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
44
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
45
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
46
A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.
- Cast
- Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts
- Duration
- 44 min
47
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
48
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
49
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
50
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
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