Your Week on Screen: Crypto and Country

This is a week of endings and comebacks, and a true story about billions gone missing. Netflix opens The Altruists, its limited series about the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX, on Thursday. A day later Paramount+ starts the final season of Yellowjackets, and Prime Video drops two more episodes of The Rings of Power in midweek. Stan, meanwhile, has country music and drag queens. Here is the week of 16 to 22 November across Australia and New Zealand, day by day, with dates as each platform publishes them. For the month in full, see everything new on streaming in Australia this November, or the full November list for Aotearoa.

The lead: The Altruists

The Altruists (2026) is an eight-episode limited series from Graham Moore, who created it and serves as co-showrunner with Jacqueline Hoyt. Julia Garner plays Caroline Ellison and Anthony Boyle plays Sam Bankman-Fried, the couple at the centre of FTX, the global cryptocurrency exchange. Netflix’s outline follows the pair from their plan to remake the financial system to the moment they stand accused of stealing billions. Netflix pitches it as a Gen Z spin on the crime-romance, which puts the relationship between the two, not the balance sheet, at the heart of the story. All eight episodes arrive on Netflix on Thursday 19 November in both Australia and New Zealand.

Tuesday 17 November

• The State of Man (ABC TV, 8pm, and ABC iview). Marc Fennell’s documentary series continues in its Tuesday slot, with every episode already on ABC iview for anyone who wants to catch up first.

Wednesday 18 November

• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season three (Prime Video). Episodes five and six land a week after the four-episode premiere, with the final two to follow on 25 November. Prime Video releases the season in more than 240 countries and territories. If you missed the season three trailer, it is a quick refresher before the back half; the original films, of course, were filmed across Aotearoa.
• Madden (2026, Prime Video). David O. Russell writes and directs a film about John Madden, with Nicolas Cage as the coach and broadcaster and Christian Bale as Raiders owner Al Davis. John Mulaney plays EA Sports founder Trip Hawkins, and Kathryn Hahn and Sienna Miller play the wives. Amazon says it streams globally.
• Gentle Monster (2026, Netflix). Marie Kreutzer directs Léa Seydoux as a concert pianist whose life comes apart after a police visit raises fears about what her husband may have done. Catherine Deneuve co-stars.
• Guarding Stars (2026, Netflix). A holiday romance in which a bodyguard, assigned to an action star over the holidays, finds the job getting complicated. Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki lead, with Andie MacDowell.

Thursday 19 November

• The Altruists (Netflix). See above.
• The 60th Annual CMA Awards (Stan). Stan carries the awards live and on demand in Australia. Lainey Wilson hosts for a third straight year, and Stan notes Taylor Swift’s first appearance at the ceremony in a decade.

Friday 20 November

• Yellowjackets, final season (Paramount+). The fourth and last season of the survival drama arrives exclusively on Paramount+ in Australia, with every earlier season already on the service. Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress and Hilary Swank lead the adult cast, and Paramount lists June Squibb, Elijah Wood, Molly Ringwald and Dulé Hill among the guest stars. Paramount has not published a New Zealand date, so Kiwi viewers should check local listings. Our catch-up on the final season of Yellowjackets has the background.
• Canada’s Drag Race, new season (Stan). The Canadian franchise returns with new episodes every Friday, as Stan puts it, in the hunt for “Canada’s Next Drag Superstar.”
• Steps (2026, Netflix). An animated retelling of Cinderella from the other side of the family: stepsister Lilith hijacks the royal ball, then teams up with Cinderella to save the kingdom. Ali Wong and Amanda Seyfried lead a voice cast that includes Daniel Radcliffe, Peter Dinklage and Bette Midler.
• Primetime Preacher$ (2026, Netflix). Joe Berlinger’s documentary on three televangelists who helped turn evangelical Christianity into a political force, until scandal set off a public feud.
• 12 12 12 (Apple TV). Episode three of the heist drama with Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, which runs weekly to 25 December.

Sunday 22 November

• Dustfall (ABC TV, 8.20pm, and ABC iview). Anna Torv’s Gold Coast crime drama keeps its Sunday slot, after Recipe of the Year at 7.30pm.

All week

• The Chosen, season six (Prime Video). After a three-episode launch on 15 November, Amazon releases one episode a week through 6 December, with Australia and New Zealand among the launch markets.

Where to watch

• The Altruists: Netflix · AU NZ · 19 November, all episodes
• Yellowjackets final season: Paramount+ · AU · 20 November; NZ, check local listings
• The Rings of Power season three, episodes five and six: Prime Video · AU NZ · 18 November
• Madden: Prime Video · AU NZ · 18 November
• Gentle Monster: Netflix · AU NZ · 18 November
• Guarding Stars: Netflix · AU NZ · 18 November
• The 60th Annual CMA Awards: Stan · AU · 19 November
• Canada’s Drag Race: Stan · AU · from 20 November, Fridays
• Steps: Netflix · AU NZ · 20 November
• Primetime Preacher$: Netflix · AU NZ · 20 November
• 12 12 12: Apple TV · AU NZ · weekly to 25 December
• The Chosen season six: Prime Video · AU NZ · weekly to 6 December
• The State of Man and Dustfall: ABC TV and ABC iview · AU

Sources

• Netflix Tudum: The Altruists trailer, 8 Oct 2026
• Netflix Tudum: Every Movie Coming to Netflix in Fall 2026
• Paramount ANZ: Yellowjackets final season teaser, Oct 2026
• Stan: November highlights, 26 Oct 2026
• About Amazon: The Rings of Power Season 3
• About Amazon: Madden
• Amazon MGM Studios: The Chosen Season Six, 3 Apr 2026
• Apple TV Press: 12 12 12 trailer, 13 Oct 2026
• ABC: Latest program announcements