Marlborough Express

TV worth staying in for next month

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Reality TV has returned to dominate the free-toair sphere, but plenty of other viewing options are coming to a screen near you next month.

Lightbox has new series of Outlander (February 17) and Better Call Saul (February 24), Sky TV’S CI will screen another Surviving R Kelly documentar­y (February 1) and Netflix has the second seasons of Narcos: Mexico (February 13) and Altered Carbon (February 27).

For romance fans looking for Valentine’s Day viewing, there’s the follow-up to the mega hit To All the Boys, PS I Love You (Netflix, February 12), while those who enjoy Riverdale should check out the latest spinoff series Katy Keene (February 7, TVNZ Ondemand).

Elsewhere, there are British crime dramas in the form of White House Farm (February 5, Soho) and A Confession (February 24, UKTV), and Sean Bean returns to action in Curfew (February 5, Sky5).

However, after searching through the forward schedules, Stuff has come up with a list of eight great-looking shows we’re excited about checking out this February.

After seven seasons of battling enemies of America, her colleagues and her own mental health, Claire Danes’ Carrie Mathison is back for a final 12-episode stint.

Recovering from months of brutal confinemen­t in a Russian gulag, she’s pressed into service by old friend Saul (Mandy Patinkin), who needs her to help him negotiate peace with the Taliban.

Al Pacino, Logan Lerman and Dylan Baker star in this 10-part, 1970s-set action-drama about a diverse band of New York-based Nazi hunters.

Having discovered that there are hundreds of high-ranking officials still at large, the group are out to put a stop to their plans to create a United Statesbase­d Fourth Reich. around three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home, only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities.

The series’ executive producers include Lost’s Carlton Cuse and It director Andy Muschietti.

Twenty years after the sitcom’s original seven-season run came to an end, Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser return as Paul and Jamie Buchman for 12 new episodes.

Here, events begin when the pair drop their daughter off for her first day of college. ‘‘Reiser and Hunt retain an amiable chemistry and Hunt, especially, makes a compelling case for her continued stardom,’’ wrote Variety’s Daniel D’addario.

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