September will feature a solid line-up of world-class riches new to Acorn TV, the premium streamer specialising in British and international television. Search no further for bingeable, acclaimed English, international and foreign language dramas, offbeat comedies and documentaries.
HIGHLIGHTS
My Life is Murder
Series 2
6th September
Episode 3, with a new episode every Monday through October 25
Acorn TV Original | Australian Premiere
“Clever… a show that’s fun and light entertainment, enhanced by well-written mysteries and performances that don’t take themselves seriously”
– Decider
Building on the warmth, intrigue and humor of its acclaimed Australian series, My Life Is Murder moves to Auckland, New Zealand for its new 10-episode season.
Alexa (Lucy Lawless, Xena: Warrior Princess, Top of the Lake) finds herself back in her home country for the first time in years and can’t help herself when she is asked to look into a bizarre unsolved murder. Joined again by her partner-in-crime-solving, Madison Feliciano (Ebony Vagulans, The Furies, Doctor Doctor), as well as series newcomers, the charismatic detective Harry (Rawiri Jobe, The Brokenwood Mysteries, Shortland Street) and café owner Reuben (Joe Naufahu, Game of Thrones), she quickly finds herself investigating other murder mysteries in surprising, glamorous worlds filled with intriguing characters who are hiding dangerous and deadly secrets.
Season 2 reunites star Lucy Lawless with several former castmates from her most iconic series, including Renee O’Connor (Xena: Warrior Princess), Anna Hutchison (Spartacus), Graham Vincent (Spartacus), Jay Ryan (Beauty and the Beast, It Chapter Two, Mary Kills People) and Bruce Hopkins (Lord of the Rings, Xena: Warrior Princess). They will be joined by an array of acclaimed actors in guest star roles including screen legend William Shatner (Star Trek, Haven), Martin Henderson (Grey’s Anatomy, The Gloaming), Bill Bailey (Black Books, Spaced), Michelle Ang (Fear The Walking Dead, Triple 9), Sara Wiseman (A Place to Call Home, Rake), Matt Whelan (Narcos: Mexico, The Sounds) and popular drag performers Kita Mean and Amanduh La Hor.
Series 1 of My Life Is Murder is available to binge now on Acorn TV.
Lost Letter Mysteries
Series 2
6 September
New to Streaming | Exclusive
From the creative force behind Touched by an Angel comes a wonderful combination of romance, comedy and drama that follows the lives of four postal workers who transform themselves into a team of detectives to track down the intended recipients of undeliverable mail. Their missions take them out of the office and into an unpredictable world where redirected letters and packages can save lives, solve crimes, reunite old loves and change futures by arriving late but somehow always on time.
The team includes charming Oliver O’Toole (Eric Mabius, Scandal, Ugly Betty), a genius postal detective and the group’s leader; new team member Shane McInerney (Kristin Booth, The Kennedys), a technophile who brings 21st century sensibility to the group; free-spirited “girl next door” Rita Haywith (Crystal Lowe, Smallville) who has a photographic memory; and lovable Norman Dorman (Geoff Gustafson, Primeval: New World), a master in conventional research methods.
Series 2 of Lost Letter Mysteries features the following movies:
Lost Letter Mysteries: For Christmas
Lost Letter Mysteries: From Paris with Love
Lost Letter Mysteries: Truth Be Told
Lost Letter Mysteries: The Impossible Dream
Lost Letter Mysteries: From the Heart
Lost Letter Mysteries: One in a Million
Monday Monday
27 September
Streaming Exclusive
Written by BAFTA winner Harry Wootliff, Monday Monday follows a group of head office workers who are forced to relocate from London to Leeds after Butterworths, the struggling supermarket chain they work for, falls on hard times and must downsize.
Starring Morven Christie (The Bay, The Replacement, Ordeal by Innocence), Holly Aird (The Flame Trees of Thika, Kavanagh QC), Miranda Hart (Call the Midwife, Miranda), Tom Ellis (Lucifer, Rush), Fay Ripley (Cold Feet, Suspects), Jenny Agutter (Call the Midwife, The Railway Children) and Neil Stuke (Game On, Silk), the series is a heartwarming, funny comedy-drama about a very dysfunctional workplace.
The Helen West Casebook
27 September
Streaming Exclusive
As a crown prosecutor, Helen West (Amanda Burton, Silent Witness, The Commander) deals with domestic abuse, sex crimes and murder. Driven by a strong sense of justice, she pursues cases even when her boss insists she drop them. Although she’s determined to right the wrongs in others’ lives, her personal life could use some work, particularly her relationship with handsome policeman Geoffrey Bailey (Conor Mullen,Reckless, Rough Diamond).
Based on the acclaimed suspense novels by Frances Fyfield, the series also stars Nicholas Woodeson (Danish Girl, Death of Stalin, Race, Mr. Turner) and Martin Freeman (Hobbit, Sherlock, Black Panther, The Office) alongside Burton and Mullen in three sophisticated, psychologically-gripping feature-length episodes.
FULL TITLES
6 September
My Life is Murder – Series 2, Episode 3
Lost Letter Mysteries – Series 2
Republic of Doyle – Series 2
13 September
My Life Is Murder – Series 2, Episode 4
Exile
Fanny Hill
20 September
My Life is Murder – Series 2, Episode 5
Republic of Doyle – Series 3
27 September
My Life Is Murder – Series 2, Episode 6
Monday Monday
The Helen West Casebook
Murder Investigation Team – Series 1