WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY| Binge now, first on Showmax Among Rotten Tomatoes’ Most Anticipated Series of 2022, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty dramatises the professional and personal lives of the players and coaches of one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties – a team that defined an American era, both on and off the basketball court. 

PEACEMAKER | Binge now, first on Showmax John Cena reprises his Critics Choice Super Award-nominated role as Peacemaker, fighting for peace at any cost – no matter how many people he has to kill to get it. The hotly anticipated first series in the DC Extended Universe, HBO Max’s Peacemaker picks up where The Suicide Squad movie left off, with Peacemaker returning home after recovering from his encounter with Bloodsport – only to discover that his freedom comes at a price. 

STATION ELEVEN | Binge now Named Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series at the 2022 Critics Choice Super Awards, Station Eleven follows the scattered survivors of a devastating global pandemic as they attempt to rebuild the world anew and hold on to the best of what’s been lost. 

WESTWORLD S4 | Weekly from 27 June, first on Showmax One of Rotten Tomatoes’ most anticipated series of 2022, Westworld is a dark odyssey about the fate of sentient life on Earth. As Rotten Tomatoes says, “We have no idea what’s in store for Westworld’s fourth season, which is exactly how the producers of the sci-fi killer-robot series like it.

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND S3: THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY | Binge from 9 June, first on Showmax The Italian drama series My Brilliant Friend returns for a third season, based on Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third book in author Elena Ferrante’s bestselling Neapolitan Novels series, which follows the coming-of-age story of two young women growing up on the outskirts of Naples during the latter half of the 20th century. 

UPRISING | Binge now From Oscar-winning filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen (Small Axe, 12 Years a Slave) and BAFTA nominee James Rogan (Putin: A Russian Spy Story, Monty Python: The Meaning of Live), Uprising recently won the 2022 BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series.   The three-part BBC miniseries tells the extraordinary story of three intertwined events from 1981: the New Cross Fire, which killed 13 young Black people; the Black People’s Day of Action; and the Brixton riots – turning points that would go on to define race relations in the UK for a generation.

MAYANS M.C. S4 | Binge from 15 June, first on Showmax A spin-off of the acclaimed biker gang drama Sons of Anarchy, Mayans M.C. S4 brings the threat of all-out war after the failed attempt to join the charters under a single king.

LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME | Binge now  Emmy nominee Christopher Meloni reprises his iconic Law & Order: Special Victims Unit role as Elliot Stabler in the hit spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime. Searching for justice as he tries to piece his life back together, Stabler joins the NYPD’s Organized Crime Task Force, led by Sergeant Ayanna Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt), to go after NYC’s most powerful crime syndicate.  

DEVILS S2 | Binge now, first on Showmax Emmy nominee Patrick Dempsey (McDreamy in Grey’s Anatomy) and Venice and Berlin winner Alessandro Borghi (Suburra) co-star in Devils, an adaptation of the bestselling book by Italian trader Guido Maria Brera – an insider’s look at the world of millionaire investment bankers. 

SHINING VALE | Binge now, first on Showmax In Shining Vale, a dysfunctional family moves to a small town, not realising their new house has a terrible history. No one seems to notice anything weird except for Pat (Emmy nominee Courteney Cox, aka Monica in Friends).

SUPERSTORE S6 | Binge now  The Cloud 9 staff find themselves fielding panic buying, personal space issues, and suddenly being considered pandemic heroes as Superstore launches into its final season and crosses the 100-episode mark in the process.  

THE BAY S2 | Binge now 
British police drama The Bay is back for a second season. Demoted to Detective Constable following her suspension, Lisa Armstrong (three-time BAFTA Scotland nominee Morven Christie from Grantchester) takes on a new investigation after a solicitor is shot on his doorstep, while her personal life becomes complicated when Andy (BAFTA nominee Joe Absolom from A Confession), her ex-husband and the father of her kids, returns to Morecambe. 

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Brought to life by Sky Italia, the 10-part finance drama, stars Grey’s Anatomy‘s Patrick Dempsey alongside Alessandro Borghi, the Italian Golden Globe winner, Venice Film Festival award winner and Berlin Film Fest Shooting Star (Suburra). Officially in his first English role, Borghi plays Massimo Ruggero, a charismatic and fearless Italian banker. The series at times reminded us of yet another favorite, Billions, and if you are equally a fan of that then Devils shouldn’t be too much of a stretch for you, in fact you will love it.

In an interview with WorldScreen, Dempsey said, “It was fun just to play a different character, and to go into the relationship, the power struggle and also the level of subtext. We’re saying one thing … but we’re meaning something else.”

Shedding some more light on the series, Borghi’s character Massimo Ruggero comes with a stellar track record on the London trading floor of investment powerhouse NYL Bank, Massimo is a shoo-in for promotion to vice-CEO. But when Massimo suddenly finds himself under suspicion for murder, it leads him to uncover a vast political game-plan orchestrated by the devils who rule the world’s financial fate. Caught in the middle of a covert, intercontinental war, Massimo must make a stark choice: join them, or bring them down.

Devils is a ruthless tale that cleverly anchors itself in real-life headline stories, from the Argentine crisis and the recessions in Ireland and Greece to the Strauss-Kahn scandal, building from drama to thriller as it paints an ominously topical picture of the power wielded by the world’s top financiers.

In addition to the two gentlemen, the series also features Black Reel nominee Malachi Kirby (Roots, Black Mirror), BAFTA nominee Laia Costa (Victoria), and International Emmy winner Lars Mikkelsen (House of Cards, The Witcher).

Devils is “a story of power, secrets and deceptions at the center of a financial thriller as taught as a violin string,” says Cinematographe. Wired (It) praised its “international feel”, “magnetic protagonist” and “star power”, saying Devils “has an extraordinary heart – a cold heart that warms up slowly, showing humanity beyond ambition: and this heart is Alessandro Borghi.”

Make time to checkout Devils, Showmax’s new stylish and sophisticated international thriller. Trust us you won’t regret it.