New year, new shows: read on for news about Acorn TV’s latest exclusive premieres for your binge-watching pleasure. Fire up your Roku device or Roku TV and find your new favorite show!

A Place to Call Home, Season 3
The powerful, utterly addictive Australian saga hailed as a “Down Under Downton” returns with new challenges for resolute nurse Sarah Adams (Marta Dusseldorp, Jack Irish) and the aristocratic Bligh family. Torn between her traumatized husband, Rene (Benjamin Winspear, The Babadook), and dashing ex-fiancé, George Bligh (Brett Climo, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga), Sarah must make a heartrending decision. Watch it here.

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Midwinter of the Spirit
Based on the acclaimed novel by Phil Rickman, this “truly spine-tingling” (The Daily Telegraph, UK) drama stars Anna Maxwell Martin (The Bletchley Circle, Death Comes to Pemberley) as country vicar Merrily Watkins who is in training to be an exorcist, or deliverance minister, for the Church of England. When Merrily is called in to consult on a grisly murder investigation, the inexperienced exorcist finds herself battling supernatural terrors that threaten to overwhelm her. Watch it here.

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19-2, Season 1
The New York Times raves about this Canadian police drama: “the writing is sublime, turning each episode into a sort of tone poem, a slice of urban and police life carefully observed. The series is in the tradition of shows like “The Wire,” portraying law enforcement less flashily and less noisily than others, and thus more accurately.” Watch it here.

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Dominion Creek
This riveting Irish drama follows the Connolly brothers—recent immigrants from Ireland—as they pursue the American dream of striking it rich in the Wild West. When news of a fortune in the Yukon reaches them, youngest brother Seamus (Dara Devaney, Camelot) heads north to the town of Dominion, leaving Tom (Owen McDonnell, Single-Handed) and Padraig (Sean T. Meallaigh, Charlie) no choice but to follow their wayward sibling. Watch it here.

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Hooked, Season 1
This Finnish-language drama has earned international accolades, with Prose-N-Cons magazine declaring “not since Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has there been a foreign-language series as addictive as Hooked.” The series follows drug squad criminal investigator Oskari Autio, who has a past he’s kept hidden–until the mother of his child and former drug addict, Krista, shows up on his doorstep after 16 years. To avoid prison time, Krista becomes Oskari’s criminal informant to feed information about new traffickers who are importing cocaine. Watch it here.

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