It is dark by half four now, the clocks having gone back on the 25th without consulting anyone, and the sofa has become the only room in the house. This is what is new to streaming in the UK in November 2026, led by Black Doves on Netflix, with the service and the date for each. All six are still ahead of us, which makes a change from October.
Black Doves returns on Thursday 5 November, which is Bonfire Night. So the choice that evening is a damp field and a sparkler, or a London spy thriller with the curtains drawn. Some of you will manage both. Most will say they meant to.
The rest of the month is spread out properly for once: a heist on Friday the 13th, two sisters and a small-town crime the night before, and a lot of expensive fantasy the night before that.
Six new to streaming in November, sorted
Same bar as ever: the things people will bring up at work whether you have seen them or not. Four dramas, one fantasy epic and an honourable mention, with no more than two from any one service. Dates are the UK arrivals as the services have published them, and services do move them, so check the night before. Netflix has the Black Doves series two details on Tudum.
Black Doves
Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw are back in London for a second series of spies, secrets and paid killers, with Ambika Mod and Neve Campbell joining. All six episodes land on Netflix on Thursday 5 November, Bonfire Night. The obvious choice for anyone who has given up on fireworks, or never started.
The Gilded Age
Julian Fellowes's New York money drama returns for series four, with Carrie Coon and Christine Baranski still sharpening their elbows. It starts on Sky Atlantic and NOW on Monday 2 November at 9pm, within a day of the US, then runs weekly across eight episodes. Downton, but with bigger hats.
The Good Daughter
Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play sisters who stopped speaking years ago, until a new attack on their small town drags up the night that split them. Karin Slaughter adapts her own novel, and Brendan Gleeson plays their father. Six episodes, on Sky and NOW from Thursday 12 November. Not one for a light evening.
12 12 12
Anthony Mackie as a disgraced FBI agent and Jamie Dornan as a career criminal, chasing each other across Europe around a heist. It opens on Apple TV with a double bill on Friday 13 November, then goes weekly until Christmas Day. Launched on Friday the 13th, which is either bold or careless.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Season three of Amazon's Tolkien prequel jumps forward several years into the war between the Elves and Sauron. Episodes one to four land on Prime Video on Wednesday 11 November, and pairs follow on the 18th and 25th. Filmed in the UK this time, if that makes the weather feel more meaningful.
The Altruists
Honourable mention
Graham Moore's eight-part drama on the rise and collapse of FTX, with Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison and Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried. All eight arrive on Netflix on Thursday 19 November. An honourable mention: watch it over two nights, then go and look at your own bank balance.
The six, in depth
Black Doves on Netflix
Joe Barton created it, and SISTER produces. This time Helen keeps slipping state secrets to the Black Doves as her husband prepares to become prime minister, which is the kind of household arrangement that tends to come out at the worst possible moment. Knightley, Whishaw, Sarah Lancashire and Andrew Buchan are all back, and Neve Campbell, Ambika Mod, Babou Ceesay and Sam Riley join them. Netflix confirmed the 5 November date on Tudum in September. It is the best thing on this list.
If you missed series one, it is six episodes on Netflix and goes down in two evenings, which leaves you this week to do it. Worth doing, because the new series carries straight on with Helen's double life rather than starting over. All six arrive together on Thursday 5 November, so the plan is simple: a takeaway, the curtains shut against the fireworks, and two or three episodes before anyone mentions bed. Essential for a two-person night, provided nobody watches ahead on the bus.
The Gilded Age on NOW
Julian Fellowes created it, and it remains what happens when the man behind Downton Abbey is handed an American budget. Series four finally pushes Bertha and George Russell's marriage to breaking point. Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector play the Russells, Christine Baranski and Louisa Jacobson are back, and the money is still either old or new, never neither. Sky's own page confirms it goes out on Sky Atlantic at 9pm on Monday 2 November, with each episode on NOW the same night.
There is homework: three earlier series, which is a lot of hats. Sky's page lists the show on NOW, so the back catalogue sits next to the new one. Starting cold is survivable, since the costumes do a good deal of the explaining. The new series is weekly, eight Monday nights, which takes it towards Christmas. That suits it. A drama about people with nothing to do but wait for invitations ought to be rationed. Optional for a couple, unless one of you watched Downton twice.
The Good Daughter on NOW
Karin Slaughter wrote every episode from her own novel, and Steph Green directs all six. Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy are Samantha and Charlotte Quinn, sisters who survived a violent night twenty years ago and have barely spoken since. A fresh attack in the same town puts Charlotte, now a lawyer like her father, first on the scene. Brendan Gleeson plays the father, Olivia Williams is in it too, and Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories produces. Sky fixed the date when it put the trailer out in October.
Nothing to catch up on: it is a six-part limited series. It arrives on Sky and NOW on Thursday 12 November, the same day Peacock has it in the US, so for once nobody across the Atlantic gets a head start. Sky has not said whether NOW gets all six on the night or one a week, so check before you clear the weekend for it. Essential for a couple who like a slow-burn crime drama, and a hard sell for anyone who wanted something cheerful after work.
12 12 12 on Apple TV
It comes from Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble, and Kari Skogland directs the first episode. Mackie is the disgraced FBI agent, Dornan is the career criminal, and they spend eight episodes playing cat and mouse across Europe with a heist in the middle of it all. That is about as much as anyone needs from a heist series. Apple is launching it everywhere on the same day, so nobody abroad gets to spoil it for you. Promising, mostly on the strength of the two leads.
Nothing to watch first. Two episodes go up on Apple TV on Friday 13 November, then it is weekly until the finale on Christmas Day, which is an odd place to finish a heist, but there we are. That is seven Fridays in a row. Good for a couple who like something to look forward to at the end of the week, less good for anyone who hates waiting. If the waiting annoys you, leave it until mid-December and do most of it in a fortnight.
The Rings of Power on Prime Video
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay are still running it. Season three skips several years ahead to the Elves' war with Sauron, and Charlie Vickers, Morfydd Clark and Robert Aramayo keep the main roles. Jamie Campbell Bower joins, with Simon Pegg voicing the Balrog, which is not a sentence anyone expected to read. This season was shot in the UK. Amazon puts the reach at more than 240 countries and territories, so the whole planet gets the same four episodes on the same Wednesday.
The catch-up is the hard part. Two earlier seasons, both on Prime Video, both long, and the time jump helps less than you would hope. If one of you watched and the other did not, the one who watched gets to explain, at length, for most of the evening. Four episodes arrive on Wednesday 11 November, two more on the 18th, and the last two on the 25th. Optional for most couples, and essential for exactly one person in every house that has it.
The Altruists on Netflix
Graham Moore created it. Julia Garner is Caroline Ellison, Anthony Boyle is Sam Bankman-Fried, and Alex Lawther turns up as well. It is the rise and fall of FTX, told as drama, which is either a warning about crypto or a very expensive argument for keeping your savings in a building society. Netflix set the date back in August. It is an honourable mention because it lands late in the month, not because it looks any weaker.
Nothing to catch up on, unless you count the headlines, which most of us followed at the time with a mixture of confusion and relief. All eight episodes arrive on Netflix on Thursday 19 November, a fortnight after Black Doves. That is the month's second Netflix pick, so if you only keep Netflix for the odd month, November is a fair one to choose. Two or three evenings, ideally ones where nobody has to explain blockchain to anyone the following morning.
The rest of the month, briefly
Honey, Emma Moran's darkly comic Cold War thriller with Ann Skelly as a young MI6 agent in East Berlin and Rory Kinnear alongside, starts on BBC One and iPlayer on Saturday 14 November, six parts and already paid for through the licence fee. The Assassin, with Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore, returns to Prime Video on Friday 6 November, and David O. Russell's Madden, starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale, follows there on the 18th.
Yellowjackets starts its fourth and final season on Paramount+ on Friday 20 November. I'm a Celebrity is due back on ITV and ITVX in the middle of the month, so the jungle will be on in somebody's front room whether you choose it or not.
What is weekly and what lands in one go
Two of the six arrive in full: Black Doves on the 5th and The Altruists on the 19th, both on Netflix, and both worth saving for a proper night in. The Gilded Age and 12 12 12 are weekly, so they look after themselves, Mondays for one and Fridays for the other, both running towards Christmas. The Rings of Power splits the difference, four at once and then two a week. The Good Daughter is six parts, and Sky has not said whether NOW gets them all on the 12th or one a week.
So watch the weeklies on the night and keep the box sets for weekends. The evenings are long, dark and going nowhere until March. There is time for all six. There is rarely time to agree on them.
None of which solves the actual problem, which is the quarter of an hour between turning the telly on and agreeing on anything. Swipe what is on your services with whoever shares the sofa, and put on the first thing you both fancied. For something tonight, the what to watch this week page is refreshed through the month, and the getting started guide covers setting your services. That is everything new to streaming in the UK in November worth clearing an evening for. Available in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the United States.