Stan enters hospital arena with bingeable series The F Ward

The fact that Grey's Anatomy is still going is the biggest evidence of that, but also the critical and popular success of The Pitt and the 15 seasons of ER in the 1990s and 2000s.

Australia's done medical shows before, with All Saints and Doctor Doctor both proving hits with viewers. But now we've got a new one to sink our teeth into.

The F Ward, a six-episode dramedy from the creators of fellow Stan original series Bump, follows several medical interns who are getting a second chance to complete their internships at The Pines hospital in Sydney's Northern Beaches.

Each of the young doctors failed out of their previous internships for varying reasons - one vomited into a patient, one stepped away for family reasons, one broke the rules, another accidentally killed a patient - and are getting a second and final chance under trauma surgeon Dr Gloria Wall (British actress Anna Friel, Marcella).

Leading the crew of misfits is Jimmy Seufale, played by Bump alum Ioane Sa'ula, recently seen as Noah in the third and final season of Netflix hit Heartbreak High. Confident and likeable, Jimmy is a capable doctor who doesn't love the limitations following all the rules places on his ability to treat patients.

The next most impressive intern doc is Ellie O'Neill (Lola Bond, Last Days of the Space Age), who, like Jimmy, wants to be a surgeon and is willing to go above and beyond to prove her worth.

While Dr Wall is in charge of the intern crew, it's another doc that looks after them from a more personal angle: Dr Curtis Parker (Dan Wyllie, Love My Way). If The F Ward was ER, Wall would be Weaver and Parker would be Greene. Or, to use The Pitt as a template, Ward is Garcia and Parker is Dr Robby.

At just six episodes, The F Ward doesn't have as much room to breathe as you'd like, and as such some of the characters are a little underdeveloped. It would have really benefited from perhaps two more episodes to properly service the characters and their storylines.

Aside from that, The F Ward is an enjoyable and highly bingeable series, with interesting cases in each episode and a great leading turn from Sa'ula.

If there's any justice in TV land this series will get a second season with more episodes.

The series also stars Susie Porter, Jeremy Sims, Jessica Tovey, Alex Dimitriades and other faces familiar to viewers of Aussie TV.

If you've seen any action comedy series from Prime Video or Netflix, you've pretty much seen Ride or Die.

While the new eight-episode series is made competently enough and features a likeable cast, the action itself and European locales could be swapped out for any other similar series (like The Recruit, Citadel, etc) without skipping a beat.

Ride or Die's point of difference is its leads, Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) as assassin Whiptail/Judith, and Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) as her bestie Debbie. Judith is a highly accomplished killer, but lately she's been cutting corners and breaking rules that have her at odds with her employers, including The Director (Bill Nighy, underused).

When it happens that Judith needs to take out a target at the same swanky event Debbie is attending with her politician husband, everything falls apart. The careful facade that Judith has built to maintain her life in London and friendship with Debbie drops when it becomes clear that nearly nothing she's ever shared about her life is true.

With their friendship in tatters, Judith and Debbie find themselves forced to work together to evade an Albanian mob looking for money Debbie's husband stole from them, not to mention the various forces who want to take out Judith.

Waddingham has all the glamour and presence of an international spy type, while Spencer is strong as the clever but undervalued wife of an MP who has been the brains of his career and their family for years.

For some relatively mindless background viewing, Ride or Die will hit the spot. If you're after something that has a bit more identity in its action, comedy or storytelling, this is probably not going to meet the mark.

The series also stars Calam Lynch (Sweetpea), Ed Skrein (Deadpool), Sylvia Hoeks (See), Savannah Steyn (House of the Dragon), Kathryn Drysdale (Bridgerton) and Jacky Ido (Inglourious Basterds).

Speaking of relatively generic action fare, Apple TV's new series Lucky is in much the same boat.

Produced by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine company and based off a book by Marissa Stapley, Lucky stars Anya Taylor-Joy (Furiosa) as the titular criminal type who must evade capture after her boyfriend absconds with the suitcase of cash the pair had just stolen.

Hot on her heels is FBI agent Billie Rand (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, King Richard), as well as mob leader Priscilla (Annette Bening, Dutton Ranch) and her enforcer Dutch (Clifton Collins Jr, Capote).

Stranded in their Las Vegas casino room after being left by the dastardly boyfriend - who also happens to be Priscilla's son - Lucky must use all her wiles and charm to escape Sin City and figure out where the missing money has been moved to, with only her incarcerated father (played by Timothy Olyphant, Justified) as an ally.

There's some style about Lucky, and the Vegas escape is a particularly enjoyable sequence, but there's not too much in the first two episodes to drop to indicate where the story is going to go.

If the whole series is just Lucky escaping the clutches of various baddies episode after episode then it will get old fast.

Will Ferrell creates and stars in new golf comedy The Hawk on Netflix. The 10-episode series sees Ferrell play a washed-up former pro golfer looking to get back in the game. It also stars Molly Shannon, Jimmy Tatro Fortune Feimster, Chris Parnell and more. Also on Netflix you'll find Heartstopper Forever, the final feature-length instalment of the popular queer romance series starring Joe Locke and Kit Connor. And the streamer also has the second season of drama Ransom Canyon, starring Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly. Meanwhile on BritBox is new crime drama Mint, starring Emma Laird (28 Years Later: Bone Temple) and Sam Riley (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). The series has eight episodes. BritBox also has the fifth season of Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators now streaming.