The 20 best shows to watch On Demand this weekend -... trends now
A giant of fashion, tiny tigers and some hard truths in Ibiza... there's so much to sink your teeth into On Demand right now.
We've selected the 20 best offerings - sifting through thousands of options so you don't have to.
Looking for a new series or film to stream On Demand?
Read on to find out the shows worth investing your precious time in...
The Jinx: Part TwoThe six-part sequel series follow the investigation into Robert Durst
Year: 2024
Certificate: 15
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When HBO's great true-crime documentary The Jinx ended in 2015, it signed off in a way that none of its kind has equalled since - with Robert Durst's apparent confession: 'What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.'
The evidence uncovered in the series led to the LAPD renewing their investigation into the murder in 2000 of Bob's friend, Susan Berman, and he was arrested the night before the final episode aired. Justice was not swift, though - Durst was only convicted of her murder in 2021 and died the year after, aged 78.
That span of time is where this sequel series fits in, following the investigation that led to that conviction. 'There's a certain image, even as a seasoned prosecutor, that you have of a killer. You can't help yourself. And it's not Bob,' says LA Deputy District Attorney John Lewin, who is one of the guiding voices in this steadily gripping series.
As soon as you start watching, you realise how much space there is to fill in, and with how much fascinating detail, like this from when he was found by the FBI: 'When they end up going into the room they find drugs, a bunch of money, a loaded firearm and a map of Cuba. There was also a very expensive latex mask.' (Six episodes)
Red EyeFasten your seatbelts for this highoctane thriller, set on a flight from London to Beijing
Year: 2024
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Buckle up for this nerve-jangling six-parter in which Richard Armitage (Fool Me Once) plays Dr Matthew Nolan, a British surgeon who becomes entangled in an international conspiracy. The series begins with Dr Nolan barely surviving a car crash in Beijing while at a medical conference - but far worse is to come. When he arrives back in the UK, he's arrested over the death of a Chinese woman - Matt insists he's innocent, but he's extradited to face charges.
It's on the red-eye flight back to China that this thriller really ramps up. London detective Hana Li (Crazy Rich Asians' Jing Lusi) has been assigned to escort Nolan on the overnight flight, but when passengers start dying on board, she realises Nolan's life is in danger. Who wants him dead and why? Lesley Sharp also stars as an MI5 boss investigating events on flight 357.
This series won't win any prizes for realism, but writer Peter A Dowling, who created the successful 2005 movie Flightplan starring Jodie Foster, about a girl who goes missing on a transatlantic flight, sure knows how to keep us watching. (Six episodes)
High & Low: John GallianoDocumentary examining the career of the controversial British fashion designer
Year: 2023
Certificate: 15
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A giant of the fashion industry in the 1990s, British designer John Galliano relished life at the top of one of the most flamboyant businesses in the world. This celebrity-packed film includes everything from reflections from Vogue boss Anna Wintour on his lavish shows to supermodel Kate Moss remembering Galliano teaching her how to walk down a catwalk (it's harder than you'd think...).
It also includes a detailed account of his spectacular fall from grace in the wake of a drunken antisemitic incident in Paris in 2010 that saw him fired by the fashion house Dior. New interviews with Galliano himself fill out the detail in a fascinating account of his rise and fall and eventual rise again. (116 minutes)
The Red KingSpooky island police mystery from Being Human creator Toby Whithouse
Year: 2024
Certificate: 15
Toby Whithouse is best known for creating the vampire-werewolf flatshare show Being Human, so you expect a certain level of the natural hitting the supernatural from him. You definitely get that from the opening scenes of The Red King, a series that, were it to be pitched a little differently, could easily have more of a Death In Paradise feel.
At its centre is Sergeant Grace Narayan (The Lazarus Project's Anjli Mohindra), a police officer relocated from the mainland to the island of St Jory, a strange place that plays by its own rules, and feels a lot like The Wicker Man. Grace soon latches onto the local mystery of a missing boy, and it's one that some clearly don't want her to pursue, especially her predecessor (a brilliantly sinister Mark Lewis Jones). But why? What happened to him? And what do all the strange items in her rented room above the pub mean, items that the landlady seems so slow to remove?
The mystery of The Red King is a solidly exciting one but it's the way the show both creates a spooky atmosphere and plays with your expectations that makes it so fun to watch. Grace is great at calling out everyone's weird behaviour, which leads to a good amount of humour to leaven the tension, and the cast, which includes Jill Halfpenny as the series unfolds, work together very nicely to help this show hit exactly the right kind of unsettling notes it requires. (Six episodes)
The Big Door PrizeChris O'Dowd stars in a comedy about a machine that turns a town upside down
Year: 2023
Certificate: 12
One day, a mysterious machine shows up in a small town that tells people what their true potential is. No one seems to know where it came from or who made it, they're all too busy dealing with what the machine tells them. Should they change their lives entirely to follow what the machine says, even when it's open to interpretation?
It's a cracking concept for a TV show, because the most interesting stories are about people at a time of change, and this show is that from top to bottom. Chris O'Dowd, who has come a long way since The IT Crowd, plays the everyman teacher at the centre of a gentle US comedy that feels like The Twilight Zone but without the underlying moral current of impending darkness.
That doesn't mean there won't ultimately be a sting in the tale but, if it does come, it feels like it won't be a mean one. (Two series)
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Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi StoryDocumentary series looking at the history of the US rock band
Year: 2024
Certificate: 15
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One of the biggest music acts of the 1980s and 1990s, big-haired rockers Bon Jovi filled stadiums around the world and sold albums like Slippery When Wet by the literal truck load.
This four-part documentary series charts all of that and more, as it stitches together concert footage, newspaper reports, comments by fellow rock greats such as Bruce Springsteen, and extensive interviews with the band members themselves.
The music snippets are predictably entertaining, but it's the chats with Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and the rest of the band that make this fly - their accounts of the lives of rock star excess that they lived in their heyday are truly jaw-dropping. (Four episodes)
Dead Boy DetectivesA ghost duo crack cases in London in a quippy mystery set in the same universe as The Sandman
Year: 2024
Certificate: 15
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In 2022, Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman graphic novels became a series on Netflix. It was a hit and Dead Boy Detectives, also a Gaiman comic creation, hails from the same universe. You don't need to know anything about Sandman to watch it, though - this is a supernatural detective comedy that stands on its own two feet from the start, with Jayden Revri and George Rexstrew as Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, the Dead Boy Detectives of the title; ghosts with unfinished business who have chosen to stay on Earth and solve mysteries.
'He's the brains, I'm the brawn,' says Charles, who isn't exactly brawny, even for a ghost. It's a mark of the casual wit of the show, which is set in London but roams between the land of the living and the dead to intriguing and refreshing effect - there's a ghost postman who shows up with cases, for instance.
In the first episode Charles and Edwin come into contact with a living psychic who brings a new angle to their cases, and the series that follows is reminiscent of the sadly ill-fated Lockwood & Co. Hopefully this will find a bigger audience. If you did watch The Sandman, keep an eye out for Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death. (Eight episodes)
Rebel Moon Part Two: The ScargiverThe second instalment of Zack Snyder's epic space opera
Year: 2024
Certificate: 12
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Playing like a grittier, bloodier version of Star Wars, 300 director Zack Snyder's first Rebel Moon movie sketched out a sci-fi universe where plucky outnumbered rebels refused to submit to the overwhelming forces of the evil Imperium. That story continues here as the resistance led by Kora (Sofia Boutella) and Titus (Djimon Hounsou) prepares to defend a peaceful village against the murderous attentions of Admiral Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein) and his fleet.
It's tough and frequently brutal but sci-fi fans will find moments to relish here in a story crammed with explosions, battles and sprawling scraps between laser-sword-wielding warriors. Watch out too for Jimmy the philosophical robot, voiced with aplomb by a certain Anthony Hopkins. (122 minutes)
DinosaurQuirky new show about autistic thirtysomething Nina and her best friend and sister
Year: 2024
Certificate: 12
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Cute, funny and refreshingly honest, this new Scottish show is a breath of fresh air. Thirtysomething palaeontologist Nina (Ashley Storrie) is in for a big shock when her sister and best friend Evie (Kat
