Shows to watch this month

WCoronation Street’s controversial leap into the future, Dancing With the Stars NZ will continue to rumba and the Football World Cup is expected to dominate the secondhalf of the month, there is still plenty of new television this month.

Queer Eye’s new Fab 5 are back for a second season on Netflix, Masterchef Australia returns to TVNZ, and there are new adaptations of Little Women and Fahrenheit 451 (both Soho), the New Zealand-debuts of British dramedy No Offence, Canada’s Frankie Drake Mysteries (both Vibe) and Parisset period drama The Collection (UKTV). Here’s five we’re most excited about: solve a series of murders related to his book. Benedict Cumberbatch is joined by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving, Celia Imrie and Blythe Danner for this five-part US drama based on the novels by Edward St Aubyn about a man who tries to overcome his addictions and demons rooted in abuse by his father and negligent mother.

‘‘Patrick’s life may be in shambles, but the series manages to assemble its disparate pieces into something deeply beautiful,’’ wrote USA Today’s Kelly Lawler. found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home.

‘‘The documentary keeps adding layers of complexity to the tale until one is entirely hooked by its ambiguities and twists and turns,’’ wrote Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan of the first two series.

Three-part, dramatised BBC version of the events surrounding last decade’s Rochdale child sex abuse ring, which describes how the authorities failed to investigate allegations of rape because the victims were perceived as unreliable witnesses. Maxine Peake (The Village), Lesley Sharp (The Full Monty) and Molly Windsor (The Unloved) star.

‘‘The strength of the drama is that it focuses on the abused rather than the abusers. ,’’ wrote The Guardian’s Sam Wollaston.