Patrick Brammall Lands Two Shows in the Top Ten as Furious, Reacher, and Lanterns Round out Australian Streaming Charts for September
The most popular shows on the Australian streaming charts this month are led by Furious on Disney+, with Reacher on Prime Video second and Lanterns on HBO Max third. Those rankings are current as of September 20, per data provided by JustWatch.
The top spot is held by Furious, a thriller series created by Elizabeth Meriwether, which premiered on Hulu on July 27 and streams in Australia on Disney+. Emmy Rossum plays FBI agent Alice Black. Lola Petticrew plays the serial killer she is pursuing. The eight-episode first season has just been renewed for Season 2.
Behind it, Reacher has risen six places after its fourth Prime Video season finished on September 16, with Alan Ritchson continuing as Lee Child’s former military policeman. Lanterns, up 13 places, is part of James Gunn’s DC Universe on HBO Max. Kyle Chandler plays Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre plays John Stewart as the two Green Lanterns investigate a murder.
The rest of the top five is split between British comedy drama and American espionage. The BBC’s Ludwig, fourth on Binge and BritBox, stars David Mitchell as a crossword setter who impersonates his missing detective twin; a second series is now available. Paramount+’s Lioness, fifth, is Taylor Sheridan’s CIA thriller, with Zoe Saldaña as officer Joe McNamara and Nicole Kidman as supervisor Kaitlyn Meade. Its third-season finale was released on September 20.
Notably, three Australian series have placed in the top 10 this month, including two starring Australian actor Patrick Brammall, who has certainly been having a moment recently, after his role in The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Brammall’s comedy series Colin from Accounts placed sixth. The Binge series finished two places below its highest ranking on the chart, after its third and final season ended on September 7. Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall created, wrote and star in the Sydney rom-com, which follows a couple brought together by an injured dog. The series has won Logies and AACTAs in Australia and a Gotham Award in the United States, where it streams on Paramount+.
Brammall also stars in Last Seen, which is ninth. The six-part Apple TV thriller premiered on September 9 and has risen 140 places. Brammall plays Ian Ridley, a former detective working as an emergency dispatcher, who believes a distress call has come from his daughter, missing for 11 years. Brendan Cowell and Maxine Peake co-star.
Kris Mrksa adapted the series from Ryan David Jahn’s novel The Dispatcher. It was filmed on the Victorian coast and is the first Apple TV series made entirely in Australia. State government figures put its contribution to the Victorian economy at around $50 million.
When the final season of Colin from Accounts was announced, Dyer and Brammall said in a joint statement: “Creatively it feels like the right time to say goodbye to Colin from Accounts after three seasons.” Both of Brammall’s series remain in the top 10.
The largest mover in the top 10 is Dalliance, up 288 places to tenth. The six-part Paramount+ drama, produced by Roadshow Rough Diamond with support from Screen NSW’s Made in NSW Fund, follows a group of friends in their sixties in Sydney. The cast includes Hugo Weaving, Heather Mitchell, David Wenham and Georgie Parker. All six episodes were released on August 27.
Between those local titles, Apple TV’s Ted Lasso is seventh. Jason Sudeikis returns in a fourth season as a coach taking on a second-division women’s football team in Richmond. Netflix has eighth place with Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, whose second season arrived in full on September 3 and has risen 193 places.
The streaming data in this article is sourced from monthly charts published by JustWatch. The platform aggregates rankings according to clicks on a streaming title, titles added to a watchlist, and titles marked as seen. JustWatch says the data is drawn from more than 1.5 million users a month in Australia.
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