Take a look at the buzziest films and TV shows coming to the Australian streamer with Stephen A Russell.
If you’re still sweating your catch-up list from last year and figuring out what you want to stream next is giving you hives, panic not. We’ve done a deep dive into all the glorious new shows and feature films landing on Stan in 2025, so you can be ready for the best.
The Surfer
!!!SOUND THE UNCAGED NIC CAGE KLAXON!!! The Australian/Irish co-pro has been a long time coming, after debuting at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But locals frothing with anticipation can finally quench their thirst for Stan Original Film, The Surfer. Fronted by Nicolas Cage, the Oscar-winning dynamo behind such delirious delights as Longlegs, Mandy, Face/Off and Dream Scenario, he plays a Yank who has come home to reclaim his heritage, only to be mercilessly mocked by local surfie bros in front of his teenage son.
No prizes for guessing how that goes in this sunstroke-stoked thriller from Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan that also features Miranda Tapsell (The Dry), Rahel Romahn (Furiosa), Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck) and Nic Cassim (Mr Inbetween).
Invisible Boys
Born and raised in the remote West Australian port city of Geraldton, some 420km north of Perth, it wasn’t easy for teenage Holden Sheppard to embrace his emerging sexuality. That’s why he wrote award-winning, small town-set YA book Invisible Boys, so that the next generation would have a more open, honest and sexy introduction to complicated feelings.
Consider us thrilled it’s been adapted into a ten-episode show by Boys in the Trees creator Nicholas Verso. Starring Joseph Zada (Total Control), Aydan Calafiore (The Voice), Zach Blampied (New Gold Mountain) and Joe Klocek (The Dry) alongside Pia Miranda (Windcatcher), this is the LGBTQIA+ Australian content we need in 2025. “We’ve had an absolute blast filming in Geraldton, the literal hottest place in the world,” Verso says. “Thank you to the Yamaji people for inviting us into their country, the incredible, tireless crew and the wonderfully talented cast for bringing this story to life so beautifully.”
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Ten Pound Poms: Season 1
Following the remarkable success of The Tourist, the creative powerhouse at Stan once again joined forces with the BBC to examine a tumultuous time in Australia’s history. With many young men lost to the cataclysmic ravages of WWII, the government was looking to rapidly repopulate Australia, promising paradise to Brits shellshocked by the Blitz. But this being the 40s, the colour of your skin determined who got let in, and not every promise published in British papers was delivered on arrival.
After the dramatic events of the first season, we can’t wait to see what comes next from BAFTA award-winning creator Danny Brocklehurst, with directors including Head On’s Ana Kokkinos wrangling an impressive cast including Michelle Keegan (Brassic), Faye Marsay (Andor), Warren Brown (Luther), Rob Collins (Mystery Road), Stephen Curry (The Castle) and Clare Hughes (Ladies in Black).
Good Cop/Bad Cop
Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester’s queen bee Blair Waldorf was a bit of a bee-atch at times, and Aussie actor Luke Cook was literally Lucifer in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. So which way will they fall when the Queensland-shot, Pacific Northwest-set show Good Cop/Bad Cop lands in February? They play sibling law-keepers who have a seriously ‘it’s complicated’ relationship, one heightened by the fact their boss, police chief Big Hank (the prolific Clancy Brown), is also their dad.
Throw in oddball vibes of small-town North America—think Twin Peaks meets Northern Exposure—and the scene is set for a bizarre beat in this brand new eight-part series created by Will & Grace scribe John Quaintance and helmed by local directors including Corrie Chen (Bad Behaviour), Trent O’Donnell (Population 11) and Gracie Otto (Bump).
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Billy the Kid: Season 2
Buckle up, because while the dust has officially settled on the Lincoln County War, there are bitter old scores yet to be settled in the third and final season of Michael Hirst’s blazing saddles of a Wild West drama, Billy the Kid. English actor Tom Blyth, who depicted the young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, depicts American outlaw William ‘Billy’ H Bonney. On the run after a double-crossing, he’s hunted down by Sheriff Pat Garrett (Alex Roe), who wants him brought to justice, dead or alive. Meanwhile, fellow gunslinger and frenemy Jesse Evans, played by Aussie actor and C*A*U*G*H*T star Daniel Webber, is also on the loose and looking to keep it that way.
Who’s going down in a blaze of glory? “Billy was famous for many things, not least his ability to escape from seemingly impossible situations. But now, as the Most Wanted Man in America, the odds are truly stacked against him,” Hirst says.
Love Triangle season 3
Jumping from historical fiction to the heightened world of ‘reality’ TV, this burning hot year on Stan also sees the return of streaming hit Love Triangle, bringing home the romantic drama in its first-ever reunion season. Now hosted by Emmy-nominated Days of Our Lives star Chrishell Stause—who made waves in her own reality TV stint on Selling Sunset, popped up in Christmas saucy movie Hot Frosty and appears in volume two of hastily rebooted Aussie soap Neighbours—it’s sure to be a wild thrill ride.
The first two seasons sold all over the globe, sparking an international franchise, so there’s plenty of hunger to see what happens when former contestants return to see if the spark of love can be ignited. “There is so much that happens behind the scenes that audiences don’t get to witness so I’m here to draw out those stories and encourage the cast to speak their truth,” Stause says. “I’m also not afraid to hold people accountable to their actions.”
