Austin: Full TV Schedule and Live Stream

It’ll take more than a son’s DNA to save his cancelled father. When Julian’s career is on the brink, can embracing a newly extended family help? With Ben Miller and Sally Phillips.

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Series 1 8. Austin, We Have a Problem

8. Austin, We Have a Problem

Julian is concerned when Austin turns his phone off and leaves the house to have some time on his own. In a boutique gallery in outer London, Ingrid prepares for an exhibition of her artwork.
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 4 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 30 Sep 2027)
Series 1 7. A Rough Cut

7. A Rough Cut

Ingrid discovers a former passion, while Austin and Julian prepare for the first screening of a documentary they hope will rebrand Julian to the world.
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 4 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 30 Sep 2027)
Series 1 6. Pulped Fiction

6. Pulped Fiction

When Julian gets fired from his publisher and told his remaining books are to be pulped, Austin leads the charge to break into the warehouse to rescue whatever's left.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 4 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 30 Sep 2027)
Series 1 5. Looking for Billie

5. Looking for Billie

Austin organises a bespoke celebrity bus tour, while Julian contemplates hiring someone to 'scrub' his image.
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 4 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 30 Sep 2027)
Series 1 4. Get It All on Camera

4. Get It All on Camera

Julian’s documentary, capturing his growing relationship with Austin, is now out in the open, and Julian engages an award-winning film-maker to finish the job.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 4 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 30 Sep 2027)
Series 1 3. The Bonding Process

3. The Bonding Process

On a bonding tour with Austin, Julian covertly starts making a documentary film about 'father and neurodivergent son quality time' in order to spring-clean his image.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 4 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 30 Sep 2027)
Series 1 2. My Luncheon with Austin

2. My Luncheon with Austin

Austin invites Julian and Ingrid home to have lunch with his 'embarrassing' family, while Ingrid contemplates some extramarital 'wham-wham'.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 4 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 30 Sep 2027)
Series 1 1. I Think I'm Your Son

1. I Think I'm Your Son

Within hours of best-selling children’s author Julian Hartswood being cancelled for reposting a white supremacist, he discovers he has a neurodivergent son called Austin.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 9:30pm 4 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 30 Sep 2027)

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