PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

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DRAMA The New Legends Of Monkey

(Season 1) Netflix’s update of Monkey, the fondly remembered 1970s Japanese series, doesn’t make the mistake of taking itself too seriously. The new series begins with the Monkey King imprisoned; one young woman is determined to bust him out.

NEW! Riverdale/Designated Survivor

(Season 2 finales) Both these compelling US shows – a spooky smalltown mystery and a grand political conspiracy thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland, respectively – have their finales this week. From Thursday.

MOVIE Cargo (2017) 15

Imagine parenting in the zombie apocalypse. That’s the reality for Martin Freeman’s character (right) in this eerie Australian thriller, in which he plays a careful dad clutching his baby close in a wasteland. The mood swings between bleak and moving. From Friday.

NEW! 13 Reasons Why (Season 2)

A secret is revealed in the return of Netflix’s controversial drama – reminiscent of 1990s classic My So-Called Life – about the reasons behind a teen suicide. From Friday. AMAZON PRIME NEW! As Good As It Gets? Soaring documentary that tracks rugby league side Leeds Rhinos’ incredible season in 2015, when they won the treble – the Challenge Cup, League Leaders Shield and Super League title. Even if you’re not a sports fan, this a good story of human grit. From Monday.

COMEDY The Doris Day Show (All five

seasons) One of Amazon’s ever expanding library of vintage TV shows, this US sitcom changed its look considerably over the years. In season one, Doris was a widow and mother-of-two living on ranch. By season two, she’d started work at a magazine in San Francisco.

DRAMA Flashforward (All 22

episodes) Enjoyably ridiculous drama set in a world where everyone passes out at once, and has visions of themselves six months into the future. The characters (played by Joseph Fiennes and Jack Davenport, to name but two) wake up to lots of questions.

MOVIE The Sense Of An Ending (2017)

15 The difference between history and memory is probed in this adaptation of Julian Barnes’s novel. Jim Broadbent has a role of real depth as the man reassessing his life.

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DRAMA Brotherhood (All three seasons)

Neat political and gangster drama, with Britain’s Jason

Isaacs (right) and Jason Clarke

(Zero Dark Thirty) as two brothers on different sides of the law. It’s not The Sopranos, but that’s a high bar.

COMEDY Urban Myths

(13 episodes) These comic one-off tales – based on reality – are a lucky dip of unexpected delights. The first in the most recent series stars Gemma Arterton as an amusingly mercurial Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like It Hot.

LAST CHANCE Limitless (All 22 episodes)

In Limitless the film, Bradley Cooper played the underachiever discovering his potential; in Limitless the TV series, he’s the sinister puppet master who holds the fate of our hero, Brian, in his hands. Until Tuesday. MOVIE Rocky Balboa (2006) 12 Sylvester Stallone’s older boxer returns for the sixth Rocky film, the underdog magic of which is hard to deny once he steps in the ring. BEST OF THE REST DRAMA Humans (All 4) Catch up with this stylish sci-fi drama about increasingly self-aware robot Synths. The new, third series begins Thursday at 9pm on Ch4.

NEW! You’ve Been Shamed

(BBC3 via iPlayer) The public are invited to comment on a gallery filled with heavy social media users’ most unedifying posts in a new ‘tough love’ programme that’s supposed to help them to mend their ways. But is it help, or humiliation? Hmm… From Tuesday, 10am. PAY MOVIES The Greatest Showman (2017) PG (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) Hugh Jackman gives it the full razzle-dazzle as the star of this Oscar-nominated musical about the life of impresario P.T. Barnum, who founded the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Molly’s Game (2017) 15 (BT TV Store,

Sky Store, Virgin) Aaron Sorkin writes and directs the thrilling, true-life story of the starry card games hosted by Molly Bloom, with a high-class turn from Jessica Chastain in the lead. Both from Monday.