The streaming service Stan unveiled a slate of 25 new and returning originals at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday, including 17 scripted shows, seven documentaries and one entertainment series.

There were five new scripted series among the shows announced by Stan, which like this masthead is owned by Nine, including one starring Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester: the comedic procedural Good Cop/Bad Cop.

The Stan Original Series follows Lou (Meester) and Henry (Luke Cook), a sister and brother detective team in a small Pacific Northwest police force. The series will begin production soon in Queensland.

The other four series include psychological crime series Critical Incident, dramedy Sunny Nights, thriller series Watching You, and Nugget, the latest entry in the streamer’s growing catalogue of Christmas movies. Nugget is written by the comedy writing duo of Vic Zerbst and Jenna Owen.

There are second seasons for crime dramas Black Snow and Scrublands and for the BBC-backed, Australian-set Ten Pound Poms, and a fifth season for family dramedy Bump.

Natasha Lyonne will return in a second season of the mystery series Poker Face (though set and made in the US, Stan counts it as an original because it was an early-stage investor).

There’s also a fourth season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race Down Under - only this time without Ru Paul. Series regular Michelle Visage – who has been a key part of the franchise since 2011 – will host the new season, with Rhys Nicholson as a regular judge.

The WA-shot psychological thriller movie The Surfer, starring Nicolas Cage and Julian McMahon, and the outback road comedy series Thou Shalt Not Steal, starring Noah Taylor and Miranda Otto, are among the previously announced highlights.