Netflix sets November 24 release for Rob Lowe documentary The Outsider

Netflix has set November 24, 2026, as the global streaming date for Rob Lowe: The Outsider, a documentary about the actor’s Hollywood career. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported the date on October 20. The film is directed by Chris Smith and will include new interviews with Lowe and people close to him.

What Rob Lowe: The Outsider will cover

The documentary traces Lowe’s career from his breakout roles in The Outsiders and St. Elmo’s Fire through his Emmy-nominated performance on The West Wing, according to Variety. The Hollywood Reporter said the film takes its title in part from The Outsiders, the 1983 film in which Lowe played Sodapop Curtis.

Smith’s previous directing credits include Tiger King. Smith, Sydney Schwartz and Stacy Smith are credited as producers of Rob Lowe: The Outsider, while Marc Gurvitz, Jon Liebman and Zoe Rogovin are executive producers, according to both reports. The November date is the announced streaming date; neither report gives a time of day for its release.

Lowe’s other Netflix releases in December

The documentary is the first of three Lowe projects that Netflix has scheduled across late November and early December. The Hollywood Reporter said the holiday comedy In a Holidaze, starring Lowe, is due to stream globally on December 2, followed on December 3 by video episodes of his podcast, Literally! With Rob Lowe.

The new podcast videos are part of an arrangement involving Lowe, Netflix and SiriusXM, The Hollywood Reporter said. New episodes are scheduled to arrive on Netflix each Thursday, along with more than 30 earlier episodes. The audio edition will continue through the SiriusXM Podcast Network, giving existing listeners a separate way to follow the show.

Variety reported that In a Holidaze is based on a novel by Christina Lauren and stars Maddie Ziegler as a woman caught in a Christmas time loop. Tiffany Paulsen wrote and directed the film. Those December releases place the documentary at the start of a short run of Lowe projects on Netflix, rather than marking a release of the documentary itself.