
5 new international series coming to Showmax in 2025
No matter how 2025 goes, one thing is certain: you’ll be able to escape into some amazing shows.
Here are five international series that Showmax is particularly looking forward to:
The White Lotus S3 | Express from the US from 17 February

Winner of 15 Emmys, The White Lotus returns for a third instalment following a new group of guests at another White Lotus hotel, this time in Thailand.
Once again written and directed by Mike White, this season’s star-studded cast includes Emmy nominees Carrie Coon, Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, and Walton Goggins, Teen Choice nominees Leslie Bibb and Patrick Schwarzenegger, Critics Choice nominee Michelle Monaghan, and BAFTA winner Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education), one of IMDb’s Top Stars To Watch in 2025. Natasha Rothwell also returns to her Emmy-nominated Season 1 role as Belinda.
As TimeOut says, “Much as we’ll all miss Jennifer Coolidge – RIP Tanya – the third run of White Lotus should be February’s most talked-about telly.”
The White Lotus S3 will be coming to both M-Net and Showmax from 17 February, express from the US. While you wait, binge the first two seasons on Showmax now.
Watch the The White Lotus S3 trailer
Yellowjackets S3 | First on Showmax | February
The third season of the Emmy-nominated series continues to explore the harrowing survival story of the high school women's soccer team who crashed in the wilderness in 1996.
Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) and Critics Choice nominee Joel McHale (Community) join this season’s cast, which also sees Melanie Lynskey and Christina Ricci return to their Emmy-nominated roles.
Yellowjackets S1 was the second-most streamed series in Showtime’s history.
While you wait, binge the first two seasons on Showmax now.
Suits: LA | Express from the US from 24 February
NBC’s Suits was the most streamed series in the world in 2023, so it’s no surprise we’re now getting a spinoff from the original series creator, Aaron Korsh, or that it’s in the top 10 on IMDb’s Most Anticipated New TV list for 2025.
Teen Choice winner Stephen Amell (Arrow) stars in Suits: LA as Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career.
Gabriel Macht returns to the franchise to guest star as Harvey Specter, while new cast include
Josh McDermitt (Eugene in The Walking Dead).
Suits: LA will be coming to both M-Net and Showmax from 24 February, express from the US. There’s no trailer yet. While you wait, binge all nine seasons of the original Suits on Showmax now.
The Last of Us S2 | Express from the US from April

Last year, The Last of Us won seven Critics Choice Super Awards, including Best Horror and Best Superhero, as well as Best Actor (Pedro Pascal), Actress (Bella Ramsey) and Villain (Melanie Lynskey), not to mention eight Emmys, including Guest Actor and Actress prizes for Murray Bartlett and Storm Reid.
Five years after the events of the first season, Joel and Ellie are drawn into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.
New cast include Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction), Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek), Emmy nominees Kaitlyn Dever (Unbelievable) and Young Mazino (Beef), and Ariela Barer, Danny Ramirez, Isabela Merced and Tati Gabrielle, four of IMDb’s Top Stars To Watch in 2025.
While you wait, binge the first season on Showmax now.
Watch The Last Of Us S2 trailer
Gangs of London S3 | First on Showmax | TBC 2025
The Emmy- and BAFTA-nominated series Gangs of London returns for its third season as chaos erupts in London after a spiked shipment of cocaine kills hundreds. In the ruthless fight for control of London’s criminal underworld, no one is safe. This was no accident — it was a calculated attack. But who’s pulling the strings?
Returning cast include Critics Choice Super nominee Sopẹ́ Dìrísù, BAFTA nominees Joe Cole and Lucian Msamati, and Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark in Game of Thrones).
Irish Film and Television Award winner Richard Dormer (Blue Lights, Game of Thrones) and Critics Choice Super nominees Andrew Koji (Warrior) and T’Nia Miller (Fall of the House of Usher) join the cast this season.
Gangs of London holds an 86% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8/10 score on IMDb, with NME calling the show, “Game of Thrones but without the dragons.”
While you wait, binge the first two seasons on Showmax now.
Other series expected to come to Showmax this year include new seasons of 2024 Best Comedy Emmy winner Hacks, Peacemaker, Poker Face, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, The Cleaning Lady, and The Righteous Gemstones, as well as IT prequel Welcome to Derry.
Check out everything coming to Showmax in January here, including 2025 Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominee The Day of the Jackal (from 13 January), the biggest Sky Original ever; Yellowstone S5 Part B, Power Book II: Ghost S4, and Laid (all from 17 January); Sex Lives of College Girls S3 (from 27 January); and the critically acclaimed Get Millie Black (from 18 January), a Jamaica-set HBO detective series from Booker Prize winner Marlon James.
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