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What to watch on Sky and NOW in October 2024 from Sweetpea to The Radleys

Keep up to date with the best new TV and movies on Sky and NOW this month.

Sweetpea, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and The Radley's are all new on Sky in October. (Sky/AMC)
Sweetpea, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and The Radley's are all new on Sky in October. (Sky/AMC)

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Sky and NOW users have some exciting new releases to look forward to this month with brand new series, returning big-name entertainment and original movies on the schedules.

October's offering includes some Halloween-worthy watches with gory serial killer series Sweetpea making its debut alongside a movie adaptation of Matt Haig's vampire tale The Radleys. Zombies are also covered at Sky with The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol, while the new Ghostbusters movie promises ghouls and ghosts of all shapes and sizes.

Meanwhile, there's less intense viewing with the return of light entertainment and comedy in A League of Their Own: The Rally and Never Mind the Buzzcocks season four.

Here's everything new coming to Sky and NOW in October.

Ella Purnell stars as Rhiannon in Sweetpea. (Sky)
Ella Purnell stars as Rhiannon in Sweetpea. (Sky)

Described as a coming-of-rage story, Sweetpea features Ella Purnell as Rhiannon Lewis, who is easy to ignore until one day, she is pushed over the edge and loses control.

Her whole life is turned upside down and she finds she is suddenly capable of anything - but will she be able to keep her killer secret?

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The gory thriller looks set to be one of Sky's biggest releases of the month as Rhiannon sets out on a murderous spree of everyone who has ever overlooked her.

A League Of Their Own: Jill Scott, Romesh Ranganathan, Micah Richards, Mo Gilligan and Jamie Redknapp. (Sky)
A League Of Their Own: Jill Scott, Romesh Ranganathan, Micah Richards, Mo Gilligan and Jamie Redknapp. (Sky)

Jill Scott, Maisie Adam, Micah Richards, Tom David and Jamie Redknapp take their show on the road as they split into two teams for an epic journey across Europe.

Expect them to deploy trains, planes and automobiles in their quest to win the race, taking on a series of hilarious and daunting challenges as they head for Turin and the home of The Italian Job.

Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. (Emmanuel Guimier/AMC)
Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. (Emmanuel Guimier/AMC)

Marching on much like the zombies pursuing its heroes is The Walking Dead franchise, which this month heads into the second season of its third spin-off.

Fan favourites Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) are both battling old demons in the source of the zombie apocalypse, France. Carol is trying to find her friend, while Daryl is struggling with his decision not to return to America.

Their problems don't end there, as Genet's movement is gaining momentum which has set paramilitary group Pouvoir des Vivants on a violent collision course with Union de L'Espoir. Expect further gore and thrills as the story continues.

Sky's Halloween movie offering is an adaptation of Matt Haig's vampire novel, The Radleys, starring Damian Lewis and Kelly MacDonald.

The Radleys couldn't look more ordinary from the outside, but parents Peter and Helen (Lewis and Macdonald) are hiding a dark secret from their teenage kids - they are abstaining vampires growing more bloodthirsty by the day.

When daughter Clara is attacked by a boy in her class, her natural instincts kick in and her parents are forced to reveal the truth, as Peter's proud vampire twin (also played by Lewis) arrives to complicate things further.

Janine (Annie Potts), Peter (Bill Murray), Ray (Dan Aykroyd) and Winston (Ernie Hudson) in Columbia Pictures’ GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE.
Janine (Annie Potts), Peter (Bill Murray), Ray (Dan Aykroyd) and Winston (Ernie Hudson) in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. (Sony Pictures)

Sky is calling up Ghostbusters old and new to scare up some thrills this October, as 2024's Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire finally arrives on streaming after grossing over $200m at the box office earlier this year. Picking up the story after the events of 2021's Afterlife, the series returns to New York with the original Ghostbusters coming out of retirement to help the new generation save the city from a new supernatural threat.

Every film and TV show coming to Sky and NOW in October:

6 October

Chimp Crazy

10 October

Sweetpea

16 October

Never Mind the Buzzcocks season 4

18 October

The Radleys

October release TBC

A League of Their Own: The Rally

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol

Portrait Artist of the Year

The Frost Tapes

SEAL Team season 7

Moominvalley season 4

Bob Marley: One Love

The Color Purple

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Lisa Frankenstein

Drive-away Dolls

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