As the eight top streaming services in Australia continue to battle it out for audience share amid ongoing monthly price hikes, there’s an interesting fight emerging between Prime Video and Disney+.

According to the Justwatch Australia streaming guide (online and app version), which curates all movies and TV shows across all platforms,
the SVOD (subscription video on demand) market shares in Q3 show a narrow three per cent difference between the two.

Meanwhile, Netflix reigns supreme with a six per cent advantage over Prime Video.

Stan – whose parent company is the Nine Network and is tasked to produce original Australian drama series exclusive to the service – is catching up with a one per cent gain while Binge and Paramount+ continue to develop new content for Aussie audiences.

Justwatch have done the hardwork and compiled a pie-chart on the popularity of our top eight streamers.

This month Netflix subscribers will be treated to a Squid Game reality TV spin-off thanks to the enormous success of the first series of the South Korean dystopian series, where a group of desperate and poor people play a deadly game on an island in a do-or-die bid to win $US35m.

The shock of seeing people shot and killed at point-blank range for not getting through a chosen game – think the giant creepy doll Young-hee, who killed anyone who moved with gunshots from her eyes – grabbed the imagination of viewers around the world.

All nine episodes, released in September, 2021, became a worldwide hit.

Fast-forward to 2023, and while we’re still waiting for the second Korean series which was confirmed by Netflix in June last year, Squid Game: The Challenge will see 456 real players enter the game in pursuit of $US4.56m and it will hit the streamer on November 22 in Australia.

Inspired by the original, there will be some surprising new additions as their strategies, allegiances and skillsets will be put to the test while competitors are eliminated around them.

Rest assured, there will be no actual killing in the 10-episode English-speaking reality series, but contestants – selected from a casting call across the US, UK and globally – will be pushed to their limits.

Robbie Williams: Netflix, November 8

Let him entertain you!

The first time you see Robbie Williams in the teaser for his upcoming four-part documentary series, he’s backstage, presumably where he’s spent countless hours of his career.

“Are you ready?” someone asks off-screen. “Nah,” Williams replies. “I really wish I did something else for a living.”

Of course, the artist has spent over two decades years with just one job — and that job has led to him being the most successful UK recording artist of all time.

Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his solo career, Netflix says Robbie Williams “is the definitive story of his rise to fame and stardom” and being the “centre of the pop culture world”.

The series features hundreds of hours of intimate, never-before-seen personal archival footage and intimate access to Williams himself.

The_Crown S6 Part 1 deals with Princess Diana’s final years before her death in 1997. Photo: Netflix

The Crown, season six (Part 1): Netflix, November 16

To recap, season five ends with Princess Diana, played by Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, packing her bags for St Tropez after being invited by wealthy UK businessman Mohammed Al Fayed to spend time on his yacht with her sons, William and Harry.

History tells us a relationship blossoms between Diana and Dodi Fayed before tragedy strikes and the pair were killed in a car accident in Paris in August, 1997.

The first part of the series will detail these last years of Diana’s life, and there’s much speculation as to how the producers will treat her last hours and her death.

In the second part of the series (to be aired in December), the storyline will look at how Prince William tries to integrate back into life at Eton in the wake of his mother’s death .

The monarchy rides the wave of public opinion as the Queen and Prince Philip reluctantly visit a floral memorial outside Buckingham Palace.

As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, the Queen reflects on the future of the monarchy with the marriage of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of a new Royal fairy tale in William and Kate.

Assassins Club: Paramount+, November 3

Assassins Club is a high-stakes action thriller feature with a big star cast.

Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians, Snake Eyes), Noomi Rapace
(Prometheus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Daniela Melchior (Fast X, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and Sam Neill (Jurassic World: Dominion, The Twelve).

The storyline is based around an elite assassin who is given his final contract and must kill seven people around the world, only to discover
the targets are equally skilled assassins hired to kill him.

Lawman: Bass Reeves: Paramount+, November 5

The exclusive all-new anthology series is the untold story of the most legendary lawman in the Old West, Bass Reeves, and tracks his rise from enslavement to law enforcement as the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi.

Despite arresting over 3000 outlaws during the course of his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family.

Waco: The Aftermath: Paramount+, November 9

Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the tragic events at Mount
Carmel, which began on February 28, 1993, WACO: The Aftermath
focuses on the fallout of the Waco disaster over a five-episode limited series.

The trials of the surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect and the rise of homegrown terrorist Timothy McVeigh provides a broader context for the escalation of the American militia movement, which
foreshadows the infamous truck-bomb attack in the Oklahoma City bombing and the storming of the US Capitol on January 6.

Sydney Harbour, the Bridge and Opera House, will be showcased in new spin-off NCIS series. Photo: Paramount+

NCIS: Sydney: Paramount+, November 10

This series, set against the breathtaking backdrop of Sydney Harbour, follows a dynamic team of US NCIS Agents and Australian Federal Police as they navigate rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific while dealing with naval crimes in one of the world’s most disputed ocean regions.

ARIA awards: Stan, November 15

For the first time ever, Stan brings the ARIA Awards live to Australian audiences.

The 37th annual ARIA Awards returns this year to be held at The Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. Since 1924, the iconic live music venue has hosted many of the world’s leading acts including Amy Shark, The Kid LAROI, Arctic Monkeys, AC/DC, Billie Eilish, Coldplay, Bob Marley and David Bowie.

The awards will also be on Nine at 7.30pm.

Scrublands: Stan, November 16

Starring Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote with Jay Ryan, this four-part series is set in Riversend, an isolated and struggling country town in rural Victoria where charismatic and dedicated young priest Byron Swift (Jay Ryan) calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners.

One year later investigative journalist Martin Scarsden (Luke Arnold) arrives in Riversend to write what should be a simple feature story on the anniversary of the tragedy.

But he finds a town deeply scarred and hostile to journalists – local bookstore owner Mandy Bond (Bella Heathcote), Constable Robbie Haus-Jones (Adam Zwar) and widow of one of the massacre victims, Fran Landers (Victoria Thaine) give him short shrift.

Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves: Paramount+, November 17

An exclusive, adventurous escapade with a thief and a motley crew of unlikely adventurers starring Chris Pine (Don’t Worry Darling) in an exhilarating quest to recover a long-lost relic.

It’s described as a “rollicking adventure where wit, charm, and charisma collide with perilous encounters in an epic pursuit of the past.”

A decent support cast includes Michelle Rodriguez (Fast X, Widows),
Regé-Jean Page (Bridgerton) and Justice Smith (Jurassic World:
Dominion, Pokemon: Detective Pikachu).

Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas: Apple TV+, November 22

This is a musical event starring Emmy-winning Hannah Waddingham (aka Rebecca Welton in Ted Lasso), to “ring in” the holidays as she welcomes special guests for a musical extravaganza at the London Coliseum.

The special was recorded live in front of an audience, and audiences around the world will be able to join Waddingham in celebrating her favourite time of year.

Jones Family Christmas: Stan, November 23

Exclusive original feature film and warm-hearted multi-generational comedy told through the lens of an Australian family whose Christmas is impacted by bushfires.

Based on Tegan Higginbotham’s audio play, the film follows eccentric grandmother who has finally managed to get her family under one roof for Christmas. And then the bushfires hit.

Doctor Who: Disney+, November 26

The Doctor Who 60th anniversary special stars David Tennant and Catherine Tate and is the first of three specials with a new season to premiere next year.

The three specials, titled The Star Beast (Nov. 26), Wild Blue Yonder (December 3) and The Giggle (December 10) will reunite the 14th Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Temple-Noble (Catherine Tate) as they come face-to-face with their most terrifying villain yet: the Toymaker (played by Neil Patrick Harris in his Doctor Who debut).

Doctor Who is the longest running action-adventure television series in the world, spanning 60 years and winning over 100 awards.

This quintessentially British show has a huge global following, with 9.6 million fans across social platforms and channels, with 100 million video views on YouTube in the last year alone.

A new season of Doctor Who featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th doctor will stream globally in 2024 on Disney+ and on the BBC in the UK and Ireland.

Slow Horses season three: Apple TV+,  November 29

This darkly funny espionage drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. Led by their brilliant but irascible leader, the notorious Jackson Lamb, they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.