Girls’ night in... and out
1 The Affair TUESDAY, SKY ATLANTIC, 9PM
NEW SERIES Feeling like a World Cup widow this week? Then turn over and get stuck into steamy Golden Globewinning series The Affair instead! Set in The Hamptons, Long Island – the summer playground for affluent New Yorkers – series four is riveting. Four seasons is a lot to devote to one couple’s affair, but this thoughtful drama continues to find new wrinkles in the story of the infidelity that destroyed two relationships. With its starry cast – Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Joshua Jackson and Maura Tierney (pictured above) – back for more, it’s full of romance, sex, crumbling marriages and startling twists. Everyone has embarked on a new relationship, but can’t seem to stop crashing back into each other. Are they prepared to leave the past behind for good? 2 Glow Series 2 FROM FRIDAY, NETFLIX The First Ladies of wrestling are back in town. If you weren’t one of the many who bingewatched the first season of this 80s wrestling comedy, get in the ring! Bunged full of fun retro references, it’s hard not to love. This time, the girls are battling to save their wrestling show.
3 Lookalikes
WEDNESDAY, CHANNEL 4, 10.30PM NEW SERIES This hilarious fly-on-the-wall comedy follows the goings-on at Britain’s biggest lookalikes agency. Representing everyone from ‘Gordon Ramsay’ to ‘Samuel L. Jackson’ and ‘Katie Price’, founders Andy (who’s a David Beckham lookalike) and Tim (aka David Brent) must keep their rosters up-to-date and battle each other for fresh talent. 4 Inside The American Embassy MONDAY, CHANNEL 4, 10PM NEW SERIES Watch the first episode of this fascinating new series on catch-up. As the Americans move their London embassy from Grosvenor Square to Vauxhall, we go behind the scenes to see diplomacy in the age of Trump, under new ambassador Woody Johnson.
5 I, Tonya SKY STORE, NOW
If you missed Margot Robbie’s Oscar-nominated turn as controversial skating star Tonya Harding in the bleakly comic I, Tonya, catch her here. The skater went from villain to victim, blamed for the violent 1994 attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan. Allison Janney is fabulous as Tonya’s hard-as-nails mother.