Best new movies and TV series on Neon: April 2025

Neon continues to bring in a convoy of quality shows and films. See our handpicked highlights below followed by the full release schedule.

Top picks: TV

Happy Valley: Seasons 1-3 (April 10)

There’s always been a fine line (of plastic yellow tape) between hope and horror, and this robust BBC One crime-drama has managed to draw wise, wry laughs out of horrific situations for three seasons. Sarah Lancashire stars as the most pragmatic cop on the planet, gritting her teeth as she witnesses shockingly graphic crime scenes and processes the suicide of her teen daughter.

Sounds like a wild blend, but it’s made effective through Lancashire’s saintly protagonist, and the love she has for her community. The first two seasons nabbed the BAFTA for Best Drama Series, and season three’s riveting finale even made a real community impact, with a UK Labour minister citing Lancashire’s cop hero as a genuine role model.

The Last of Us: Season 2 (April 14)

HBO’s zombie epic, based on the hugely successful video game franchise of the same name, has quite a task ahead of itself. Season one knocked everybody’s socks off, following apocalypse survivors Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey to a devastating and complex conclusion—and the second game in the series, adapted here into this latest batch of bloody episodes, was a far more controversial release. (God help poor Kaitlyn Dever, who has been cast as the character Abby, so loathed by angry gamer lads.) Can another bout of life-affirming, undead drama live up, picking up five years from where we left off?

The Rehearsal: Season 2 (April 21)

If ya fail to prepare, ya prepare to fail. That’s the simple motivation behind Nathan Fielder’s not-so-simple doco-comedy, which takes the anxieties of normal people—how to smash a trivia night, the question of whether or not to have kids—and manipulates them into elaborately organised “rehearsals”, while Fielder’s own existential questions brew furiously in the background.

Season one was a masterstroke of cringe comedy and an underlying tragic loneliness: as much as Fielder is brutally willing to make his subjects look like jerks and fools, it’s always he that ends up looking like the biggest freak. I simply cannot wait for more.

Top picks: Movies

Nashville (April 5)

Potentially the best film from 1970s auteur Robert Altman, this sprawling ensemble dramedy follows country stars, politicians and desperate hangers-on across the titular city’s music scene. The dialogue overlaps madly, the original songs each slap in their own unique way, and it’s hard to pick a favourite performer. The late and lovely Shelly Duvall gets the best costumes as an underage striver, Ronee Blakely is hilarious and heartbreaking as an unravelling country sweetheart, and Keith Carradine might steal the show with his self-penned tune “I’m Easy”, which took home an Oscar.

Terrifier 3 (April 10)

You already know by now whether the Terrifier franchise’s brand of shameless violence and gore is up your alley, or if it very much isn’t. Horror fans are divided, but acolytes of Art the Clown will be working up a major bloodlust for this Christmas-set third entry. I wasn’t into the additional lore and characterisation of the second movie, which pits the sadistic pale-faced killer against a heroic final girl: you can read my full thoughts on that right here. Still, it’s undeniably heartening that director Damian Leone has managed to build such a successful indie horror empire, on shoestring budgets and working beyond the boundaries of the studio system.

Trap (April 30)

The more I think about M Night Shyamalan’s latest movie, the more I like it. The premise was strong enough—a regular degular dad/merciless serial killer takes his daughter to a popstar’s concert, but has to escape when it turns out the whole event is a front to capture him—but then Josh Hartnett’s devilish performance took everything over the top for me. I even like the dodgy heroics of Shyamalan’s daughter Saleka, playing the helpless superstar who falls into Hartnett’s desperate web!

Luke Buckmaster was less keen on the film, calling it “a monumentally preposterous thriller”, so I guess I’m on Team Preposterous. I reckon whatever team you’re on, you’ll at least be entertained.

Everything Coming to Neon this April

April 1

Andy’s Safari Adventures: Season 1
Andy’s Wild Workouts: Season 1
Celtics City: Season 1
Dog Squad: Season 1-2
Hey Duggee: Seasons 4-5
Hey Duggee: Xmas Season 3
Hey Duggee: Songs Season 1
Uncle Grandpa: Seasons 1-2

April 2

Ranger Hamza’s Eco Quest: Season 2
Steve and Aneeshwar Go Wild: Season 1
Sting
Supertato: Seasons 1-2
Yakka Dee: Season 7

April 3

A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read: Season 1
A Mistake
My Pet & Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures: Season 3
Roots and Fruits: Seasons 1-2
Stan Can: Season 1
Summer Camp

April 5

Hollywood Demons: Season 1
Nashville

April 6

90 Day Fiance: Season 11
Transformers: One

April 7

Vida the Vet: Season 1

April 8

An American in Paris
The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 8

April 9

The Red Stag Timber Hunters Club: Season 10
Twisters

April 10

Happy Valley: Seasons 1-3
Terrifier 3