96 titles, 96 offers on services and 136 release events (including 40 removals) this week. Here, by rule: releases ahead (officially announced, then expected), then recent arrivals. Every title is in the full list below and in the table.
Recent films, series and seasons that reached a service in New Zealand. Unless an entry says Officially announced, its date is when availability data or our check first detected it there, which can be later than its real arrival; it is not a premiere date.
A reclusive writer who has stayed indoors for about ten years since her sister's killing recognizes a TV journalist as the culprit and designs a risky sting, putting herself forward as the lure. The six-episode German thriller follows the cat-and-mouse game that follows.
This four-part documentary series follows the life of boxer Mike Tyson, from a turbulent youth through his rise to the heavyweight title and the controversies that shaped his career.
Paranormal YouTubers Sam Golbach and Colby Brock travel to reputedly haunted locations around the globe, searching for proof of the supernatural and testing whether ghosts exist. This second season, titled Hell Week, continues that investigative format.
Hiding out and wrestling with his sense of self, the android Vision talks with AI personas buried in his programming. A bounty on his head forces him to flee with an unexplained teenager who may be his son reborn.
Tanjiro and his allies are pulled into a shifting, labyrinthine realm where they must confront the most dangerous high-ranking demons, as a climactic showdown with the demon king nears. The first chapter of a planned trilogy.
Season 2 picks up after Ray White has found his place among his classmates at Arnold Academy, where he enters the Magics War, a competition in which three-person teams from across the school face off. Meanwhile, a new danger closes in and the other powerful sorcerers begin to act.
In a near future where a global esports game has reshaped Japan's economy, a young man visits Golden Valley, a zone ruled by the sport's top player. He meets a girl on the run and is drawn into the competitive battles of the game.
In this stand-up set, comedian Sumukhi Suresh draws on her life in her thirties, joking about dating, being single, hormonal shifts, and the pressure to start a family.
A young woman's chance meeting with a stranger ignites a whirlwind romance, but when her plans are abruptly upended, she is thrown into an unfamiliar chapter that forces her to rethink her goals and how she loves.
Lee, a freelance reporter and bookshop owner in Tulsa, is drawn into a fresh mystery after a public defender asks for his help. The case reaches a killing, a prisoner who slipped away, and wrongdoing among the city's elite.
A struggling actress goes back to her former performing arts school as a substitute teacher, though she has no teaching credentials. As she works with a group of ambitious students, she finds that guiding them may reshape her own goals.
Banished by her noble kin for an apparently worthless gift, Lorna learns it actually opens a vast well of information. Hoping only to live freely, she unwittingly grows into a formidable sorceress through a run of hectic exploits.
Kate Wyler, a US ambassador in London, faces a fresh crisis as strained ties between Washington and Britain begin to fray and her marriage is pushed to its limit. The eight-episode season centers on a dangerous scheme that drags the two nations toward open conflict.
Season 11 of this Netflix reality dating experiment brings a new group of Boston-area singles into separate pods, where they connect through conversation without seeing each other. Couples who get engaged then live together and plan a wedding before deciding whether to marry.
A biographical adventure drama that retraces how Himalayan climber Tenzing Norgay sought a place on the 1953 British expedition to Everest, working alongside Edmund Hillary and facing cultural and personal tensions along the way.
At Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial, surgeons contend with a newly opened luxury VIP floor and a fresh leadership shake-up. The season opens with a flood of injured patients after a crash, forcing hard choices.
A visually upgraded remake of the Dragon Ball Super anime, picking up a few years after the Majin Buu battle. Beerus, the God of Destruction, wakes from a long slumber and turns his attention to Earth, and Goku and his allies must confront him.
Dineo and Noni, two friends who once planned to enjoy the single life together, reunite on a chaotic Cape Town bachelorette trip after Noni gets engaged, and their bond is put to the test.
A frog-like alien soldier plans to take over the planet, but after being caught he ends up sharing a home with a human family. Its new TV run premiered in fall 2026 on Crunchyroll.
In a bleak post-collapse world, a young woman keeps Halloween traditions alive by decorating her home for the holiday. Her solitary celebration is upended when armed intruders arrive, and she must defend herself until morning.
Large update: 57 titles were first detected on Disney+ on Friday 16 October. An update like this can be a real batch of arrivals or a refresh of the availability data, and it can include titles that were already on the service, so their dates are when they were detected. They are listed together, folded, after the other entries.
41 more recent titles from the large Disney+ update of Friday 16 October
Years after a spell makes the world forget him, Peter Parker lives alone and works as a full-time hero in New York. As his responsibilities grow, his body begins to change just as a new wave of crime brings a dangerous foe.
In a dystopian world where a wealthy elite lives on a floating structure above impoverished outcasts, a young man wrongly convicted of murder is cast down into a trash-filled abyss and sets out to get revenge.
A shy girl who was bullied through middle school starts over at a new high school, where a classmate with lemon-colored hair helps her grow in confidence. This 2025 anime adapts Mayu Murata's shōjo romance manga.
Elves Lanny and Wayne, the holiday-prep team from the Prep & Landing franchise, return in this festive animated outing, where a botched assignment leaves Wayne fearing Santa's wrath and dredges up earlier blunders.
A 2025 anime adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo's manga follows a trio of sisters who operate a coffee shop by day and secretly steal artworks by night as Cat's Eye. A determined detective chases the thieves without realizing one of them is his girlfriend.
Perry the Platypus returns as secret agent P for a run of short undercover missions against animal operatives of the rival group A.N.A.T.H.E.M.A., in this Phineas and Ferb spin-off.
Hosted by Kevin Costner, this documentary-style Christmas special mixes on-camera commentary with dramatized scenes to retell the story of Mary and Joseph before the birth of Jesus.
Spider-Man and Iron Man call in the wider Avengers to foil Ultron and the Green Goblin, who are scheming to seize control of a city's machines in this animated Marvel special.
Twelve heroes, each linked to one of the zodiac's animal signs, take on evil spirits that threaten the Korean Peninsula. The series follows their efforts to protect the region and humanity from that darkness.
A 2025 Swedish period crime drama set in an 1850s village in northern Sweden, where a mysterious death leads locals to blame a bear, and a preacher and a young companion look for the truth behind the story.
Spanish holidaymakers on an organised trip to Lisbon face a whodunit when one of them turns up dead the morning after arrival. Four amateur sleuths in the group, fans of detective fiction, probe whether the killer is among their own companions.
A poorly suited Buenos Aires police official is handed the killing of a Russian envoy. When US intelligence moves in, he and his loyal but clumsy squad bend the rules to crack the case before them.
A documentary series revisiting the 69-day effort to reach 33 men trapped underground in a northern Chilean mine. It mixes archive material with interviews from survivors and rescuers.
A documentary series that follows the Beatles' career from their early years in Liverpool to the band's breakup, mixing archive footage and studio recordings with the members' own recollections.
Set in Perpignan in southern France between 1995 and 2001, this true-crime drama follows a missing teenager and a string of killings near the city's train station. A rookie investigator joins a veteran team in a search that stretches across two decades.
A dating reality competition set aboard a luxury superyacht, where a group of singles learns that enjoying the vessel's best perks must be earned through challenges and a divide between upper and lower decks.
A short-form series based on the animated Phineas and Ferb, set around school lockers, where the stepbrothers and their friends get into new schoolday mischief and inventions.
When a hot-air balloonist comes down hard onto a rural farm, the routine of a single mother who keeps ornamental hens is thrown into disarray. The accident stirs up long-buried family friction and pushes her to reckon with her own history.
A documentary tracing the six-member girl group from its formation on a reality competition to its rise up the charts, blending unseen footage, fan-submitted clips, and member interviews.
This anthology comedy offers minute-long animated shorts that reimagine characters from assorted Disney Channel series and films in a small, cartoonish style. Each short is a brief, mostly wordless outing that mixes original stories with retellings of the source shows.
This 2025 documentary revisits the 2005 theft of Judy Garland's ruby slippers from a Minnesota museum. It traces the long hunt by local detectives and federal agents, who worked from a lone sequin.
This three-part documentary series traces the Boston Red Sox's long championship drought, from decades of near-misses through the 2004 season, and the faith that kept the city's fans hopeful.
This three-part reality series follows a couple known from TV as they try for a baby, expect their first child, and adjust to parenthood while balancing careers and family life.
A one-hour tribute special that looks back at the life and career of country music icon Dolly Parton, combining earlier interviews with reflections from people who knew her and worked with her.
A reality series in which four sisters from rural Louisiana move to New York City, where the eldest, a model, helps anchor their pursuit of careers while they navigate their close bond far from home.
A nature documentary set in the Azores, where large numbers of migrating sea predators converge during feeding season. Capturing a dramatic hunt on film proves hard amid unpredictable weather and wide, open waters.
A 2026 ESPN documentary that looks back at Diego Maradona's 2000 visit to Mexico City's Azteca stadium, years after his 1986 World Cup triumph there. Previously unseen footage follows his bond with the iconic ground.
Footage from the 40th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction night at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. The show mixes tributes to the year's newly enshrined artists with live performances and speeches.
This six-episode docuseries follows genetic investigators who work with police to attach names to decades-old unidentified remains, using DNA matches and old records to track down relatives.
This documentary follows archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, who has spent two decades hunting for Cleopatra's burial place, as her search turns toward a submerged site in the sea off Egypt.
Two childhood friends trained in capoeira in 1970s Rio are torn apart after a police raid turns deadly. Years later, one is drawn into illegal fight circuits while the other returns with a mission to prevent a new tragedy.
This documentary tracks American hoopers who, after falling short of the NBA, take their careers abroad and adjust to unfamiliar countries, cultures and leagues.
This National Geographic documentary tracks an international push to rescue the northern white rhinoceros from dying out. With only two females of the subspecies still alive, researchers work toward a first-of-its-kind surrogate pregnancy.
Two members of the Japanese pop group King & Prince explore Los Angeles in this nine-episode unscripted travel show. Separated for much of the time, they tackle meet-up missions that put their bond to the test.
Pulled between a household that relies on her and her own dream of singing, a teenager who interprets for her deaf parents and brother must weigh loyalty against her ambitions.
This 2025 documentary observes children who cannot speak aloud as they spend time at a summer camp in the Michigan woods, where they communicate through speech-generating devices.
This short documentary traces how Martin Luther King Jr. and fellow civil rights organizers used neighborhood basketball courts to reach young voters, and how that same playbook later showed up in Barack Obama's presidential run. Animation and archival footage help tell the story.
Stitch and Angel set out to turn a seaside outing into an ideal day, but Stitch's unruly energy keeps throwing their plans off course. This short animated film is a few minutes long and was released in 2026.
Two 13-year-old friends head out on a night intended as their first romantic experience, but tensions soon surface in their bond. A short coming-of-age drama.
JJ and his pals from the CoComelon world meet Sanrio favorites like Hello Kitty for sing-alongs and imaginative get-togethers inside JJ's make-believe world. Each short episode centers on a playful activity built around a familiar nursery rhyme.
A documentary series that takes viewers behind the scenes at Walt Disney Imagineering, following how new rides, lands and live shows are conceived, designed and built, with the creators walking through their process.
Catalogue additions
Older films and series new to a service this week. The date is when availability data first detected them there, not when the title was first released.
Listed as removed by the availability data, or missing from two complete checks of the service's catalogue in a row. The best-known titles only; a title can come back.
The Lorax (2012): no longer on Disney+ (subscription), by our checks of Friday 16 October
The Croods: A New Age (2020): no longer on Disney+ (subscription), by our checks of Friday 16 October
Shrek (2001): no longer on Disney+ (subscription), by our checks of Friday 16 October
The Truman Show (1998): no longer on Netflix (subscription), by our checks of Wednesday 14 October
Little Women (2019): no longer on Netflix (subscription), by our checks of Thursday 15 October
Django Unchained (2012): no longer on Prime Video (subscription), by our checks of Wednesday 14 October
Kung Fu Panda (2008): no longer on Disney+ (subscription), by our checks of Friday 16 October
The Accountant (2016): no longer on Prime Video (subscription), by our checks of Thursday 15 October
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019): no longer on Netflix (subscription), by our checks of Tuesday 13 October
22 Jump Street (2014): no longer on Netflix (subscription), by our checks of Saturday 17 October
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21 Jump Street (2012): no longer on Netflix (subscription), by our checks of Saturday 17 October
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