Best TV shows on Apple TV
Apple TV has built a reputation for producing some of the most acclaimed series of recent years, with many featuring star-studded casts. Find your next binge-watch with our selection of the best shows available on the service, guaranteed to keep you hooked episode after episode.
Popular spy thriller Slow Horses has just returned for a sixth season, but if you've yet to discover it, now's the perfect excuse to start from the beginning. Starring Gary Oldman as the gloriously dishevelled spy chief Jackson Lamb, the drama follows a team of MI5 outcasts whose misadventures routinely turn into high-stakes espionage.
We also suggest you tune in to very funny comedy horror Widow's Bay, in which an Emmy-winning Matthew Rhys has a rare chance to show off his comic chops. He’s the mayor of an island that wants to attract more tourists – but is it beholden to an ancient curse?
Adapted from Bonnie Garmus’s bestselling novel, Lessons in Chemistry features Brie Larson as a scientist in 1950s America whose career takes an unexpected turn when she becomes the host of a TV cooking show. The hit drama mixes humour, romance and social commentary in a compelling story about challenging expectations.
A recent addition to the service is crime thriller Lucky, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a former con artist forced back into a dangerous underworld when a heist goes wrong. Also featuring Annette Bening and Timothy Olyphant, it blends fast-paced action with a character-driven story of survival and reckoning.
Meanwhile, Javier Bardem is terrific in the role of Cape Fear's vengeful Max Cady, who starts to dismantle the home life of lawyers Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson after being released from prison in this tense TV reworking of one of cinema’s most terrifying thrillers.
The streamer has produced smash hits like Pluribus, Severance, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Trying, the latter of which recently returned for a fifth season.
There's also a long list of hidden gems that have flown under the radar, including a less widely publicised (but well worth your time) original like Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne's Platonic, or Jason Momoa's Chief of War.
Of course, that isn't to say that every show on the platform is a winner, which is why the team here at Radio Times has sifted through the selection and picked these standouts that merit a place on your watchlist.
Have a browse of the best series on Apple TV below, and then get watching! Or, if you fancy, we've created a list of the best films on Apple TV, too.
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British intelligence agents atone for career-ending mistakes by serving out the rest of their days in a special department of MI5 led by Gary Oldman's misanthrope.
Mayor Tom Loftis attempts to revive his struggling island community, located 40 miles off the coast of New England, but dark secrets lurk beneath the surface
An unconventional 1950s scientist plots to change the world as the host of the long-running cookery show. Empowering drama starring Brie Larson.
The world’s best chefs compete for the ultimate culinary accolade: a Michelin Star.
Luciana 'Lucky' Armstrong must return to the life of crime she thought she had left behind and embrace her dark side to escape the past for good
A newly divorced mom falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer
Comedy series set at a luxury Acapulco resort, following ambitious Máximo’s rise from pool boy to success, starring Eugenio Derbez.
The quickest way to a woman's heart is through her stomach in a lavish French period drama headlining Benjamin Voisin as the attention-grabbing chef, who became a cause celebre in Napoleon's Europe. Based on a real-life gastronomic master, who cast a spell over early 19th-century Paris, this eight-part series stirs up intrigue and passion for Antonin Careme as his talents in the kitchen propel him to the dizzy height of culinary stardom. Women adore him, men envy him and powerful politicians exploit Careme's desire for fame and wealth to engage him as a spy for France. Espionage comes at a high price - his morality and soul - and eventually Careme must decide if he is willing to serve his paymasters their just desserts.
Jake Gyllenhaal headlines an eight-part adaptation of Scott Turow's best-selling novel, which was previously immortalised on screen as a 1990 film directed by Alan J Pakula starring Harrison Ford. Chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Gyllenhaal) is one of the leading lights of Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's office led by district attorney Raymond Horgan (Bill Camp), who is about to stand for reelection. Rusty's colleague Carolyn Polhemus (Renate Reinsve) is found raped and murdered in her apartment and he is arrested on suspicion of the crime by detective Tommy Molto (Peter Sarsgaard), who is supporting the campaign of Horgan's rival Nico Della Guardia (O-T Fagbenle). Faced with accusations about his relationship with Carolyn, Rusty leverages what remains of his professional reputation to seek justice and repair his fractured marriage to wife Barbara (Ruth Negga)
Bill Lawrence, one of the award-winning creatives responsible for Ted Lasso, masterminds this comedy based on Carl Hiaasen's best-selling novel. Andrew Yancy (Vince Vaughn) is a former Miami Police Department detective, on suspension for being reckless in the line of duty. He yearns to return to his old job but the closest he can come now to doling out justice is by enforcing excellent hygiene standards as a health inspector in the Florida Keys. When tourists fish a human arm out of the water, Andrew scents an opportunity to regain his badge if he can prove the appendage belongs to a murder victim. With renewed vigour, Andrew seeks answers from a menagerie of Floridian oddballs and, as the title suggests, one mischievous simian
Tiffany Haddish stars in a comedic murder mystery which follows Detective Danner as she investigates the untimely death of one of the guests at a high school reunion.
Jon Hamm headlines and executive produces a teasing nine-part drama created by Jonathan Tropper, which has already been commissioned for a second season. Hedge fund manager Andrew Cooper (Jon Hamm) has worked hard - by his standards - to provide for his ex-wife Mel (Amanda Peet) and two children Tori (Isabel Gravitt) and Hunter (Donovan Colan) in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village. He loses his job in disgrace and a quick check of his finances reveals he has just six months to keep up big-spending pretences before his unemployment will be revealed to wealthy friends and neighbours. Andrew chooses a radical course of action: steal from the homes of his local community and fence the overpriced belongings. As he breaks into neighbouring properties and helps himself to jewellery, handbags and other lucrative merchandise, he unearths hidden affairs and shocking secrets behind polite, well-mannered facades
Jason Sudeikis plays an American college football coach, who heads to London to manage a struggling English Premier League football team and tastes surprising success.
Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell stars in and executive produces an eight-part detective story directed by Fernando Meirelles. Private investigator John Sugar (Farrell) is tasked with solving the disappearance of Olivia Siegel (Sydney Chandler). She is the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel (James Cromwell), who will pay handsomely for her safe return. As John follows the haphazard trail of evidence, he unearths the Siegel family's darkest secrets and many compelling motives for wanting to abduct Olivia
From executive producers Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. When convicted murderer Max Cady is released from prison, he begins infiltrating the family of the married attorneys who helped put him behind bars.
Men and women live in a giant silo underground with several regulations which they believe are in place to protect them from the toxic and ruined world on the surface.
Alternate-history space drama and For All Mankind prequel that explores Soviet cosmonauts, engineers and spies during a tense reimagined race to the moon. Anna Maxwell Martin and Rhys Ifans star.
Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline star in a glossy seven-part psychological thriller adapted for the screen by writer-director Alfonso Cuaron from Renee Knight's best-selling novel. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) has built an enviable reputation on truth and morality by exposing the transgressions of others, especially people in power. Her privileged word with husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee) comes crashing down when an anonymous author sends her a book in the post. The manuscript turns out to be a forensic dissection of her own misdeeds and darkest secrets, which will destroy her family if it is ever published. Catherine races to uncover the sender's identity before everything she has built is decimated
A college dropout looks for inventive ways to keep a roof over the head of her baby in a heartwarming comedy drama starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer and Nick Offerman. Based on Rufi Thorpe's best-selling novel, Margo's Got Money Troubles centres on the eponymous new mother and aspiring writer (Fanning), who can't afford to live in her dreams with a tiny mouth to feed. She can't rely on help from her mother Shayanne (Michelle Pfeiffer), a former Hooters waitress, and father Jinx (Nick Offerman), who made his name as a professional wrestler. Margo will need to be creative to pay the bills and embrace motherhood with both hands.
The newly appointed head of Continental Studios juggles overinflated egos as he attempts to make great films and turn a profit. Comedy series, starring Seth Rogen
Former best friends Sylvia (Rose Byrne) and Will (Seth Rogen) enthusiastically reconnect and reignite a platonic bond that becomes all-consuming.
Thirtysomething couple Jason and Nikki learn they will not be able to conceive a child together and pursue adoption in a comedy drama starring Rafe Spall and Esther Smith.
Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and co-creator of Better Call Saul, unveils a provocative genre-bending drama in which the most miserable person on Earth is charged with saving the world from happiness. A virulent contagion sweeps across the globe and transforms every man, woman and child into blissfully content and optimist citizens. The only person who appears to be immune to the pandemic is historical romance author Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn). Operating from her base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which she shares with her manager and romantic partner Helen (Miriam Shor), Carol staunchly resists the tidal wave of optimism that has washed over her friends and neighbours. She is humanity's last hope in the battle against endless joy and satisfaction
Following an explosion, Sarah Tucker (Ruth Wilson) hires private investigator Zoe Boehm (Emma Thompson) to help her track down a missing girl and in the process, the two women stumble upon a deadly conspiracy in an eight-part thriller adapted from the novel by Mick Herron
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