May is shaping up to be a big month of content with a handful of page-to-screen adaptations, box office hits and more than one fictional doctor making their return.
Check out some of the most exciting TV and film releases coming to the silver screen this May.
The Good Doctor — final season premiere (7Plus)
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Returning for its seventh and final season, The Good Doctor delves into the lives of the San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital staff one last time.
Parenthood takes centre stage as Dr Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) and his wife, Lea Dillalo-Murphy (Paige Spara), strive to balance their professional duties with raising baby Steven, while Dr Park (Will Yun Lee) and Dr Reznick (Fiona Gubelmann) navigate the complexities of fostering baby Eden.
Amid the familiar faces, this season introduces third-year medical student Charlie (Kayla Cromer), who, like Shaun, is autistic and has admired him ever since the video of him saving a boy’s life at the airport went viral.
Barbie — movie premiere (Binge)
The highest-grossing film of last year is finally coming to small screens this month. Follow Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they journey from the safety and comfort of Barbie Land into the fraught real world.
This movie has a whole lot of heart and humour the entire family will enjoy.
Doctor Who — series 14 premiere (Disney Plus)
Join Ncuti Gatwa’s fourteenth Doctor and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) as they go rollicking through time and space in the bigger-on-the-inside TARDIS. This fourteenth series of “new Who” is simultaneously billed as Season One, with Russell T. Davies returning as head writer and executive producer.
Watch Doctor Who on Disney Plus
After The Flood — (Britbox)
This murder mystery will have you on the edge of your seat. Beat officer PC Joanna Marshall (Sophie Rundle) is determined to uncover the real story after a man is found dead in a carpark after a devastating natural disaster.
The official conclusion is that he drowned but Joanna turns detective to solve the crime on her own.
Watch After The Flood on Britbox
The Idea Of You— new film premiere (Prime Video)
This adaptation of Robinne Lee’s debut novel of the same name follows Solène (Anne Hathaway) as a 40-year-old single mum who stumbles into a whirlwind romance with 24-year-old Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of the world’s biggest boy band, August Moon.
Set against the backdrop of privacy vs celebrity will their love have a happy ending?
Watch The Idea Of You on Prime Video
Dark Matter — series premiere (Apple TV Plus)
This New York Times bestseller by author Blake Crouch is a dark take on alternate realities. Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) is a physics professor who finds himself kidnapped and taken into an alternate version of his life. What starts as a wondrous experience quickly turns sour as he tries to make his way back through a network of realities to his true family. It’s a race against time to rescue them from a nightmare foe, himself.
Watch Dark Matter on Apple TV Plus
Bridgerton — season 3 premiere (Netflix)
The well-to-do Bridgerton family and their allies return this year, with the first part of the season dropping this month.
This time we’ll follow Lady Whistledown herself, Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan). Pen has given up on pining for Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) after overhearing his negative comments at the end of last season. While deciding to put herself forward for marriage proposals, Penelope and Colin are thrust back together as he offers to help her find a husband.
When Colin’s lessons work a little too well he realises (too late?) that his feelings may be more than friendly.
Dylan Crismale is digital content editor at Reviews.org/au, the home of tech reviews, by experts – for everyone.