PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX DRAMA Altered Carbon (Season 1)

If you’ve ever wanted to watch a Blade Runner TV series, Netflix’s stylish show comes close. It’s set in 2384, when bodies are interchangeable ‘sleeves’, and when a rich man (James Purefoy) puts a long-sleeping criminal into a new body to solve a murder. What follows is a violent and stylish detective noir in which technology has changed the rules of humanity. MOVIE The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) 18 Martin Scorsese’s fast, factbased black comedy, with Leonardo DiCaprio (right) as crooked stockbroker Jordan Belfort. From Tuesday. DRAMA Prime Suspect (All seven seasons)

Helen Mirren is superb throughout this tough police drama about a woman’s rise through the force. MOVIE How It Ends (2018) 15 In Netflix’s solid thriller, a man races to find his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event cripples the US. Impressive visuals pepper a race against time that stars Theo James and Forest Whitaker. From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME DRAMA The Following (All three seasons)

Kevin Bacon brings some movie star glamour to this thriller, in which his ex-FBI man takes on a charismatic serial killer

(James Purefoy) with a network of followers. Season one is the best – it gets sillier later on. FAMILY Sesame Street (Seasons 44-45)

The classic children’s show, which features Big Bird, Elmo and a steady stream of visiting famous faces, has notched up nearly 4,500 episodes since it began in 1969. DRAMA The Night Manager

(All six parts) The acting honours in this John le Carre adaptation about a hotel manager turned gang infiltrator go to Hugh Laurie and Tom Hollander, as the baddie and his creepy lieutenant. The hero role is filled by Tom Hiddleston, a part Laurie wanted to play when he first read the book in the 1990s. MOVIE Paddington 2 (2017) PG

The bear goes to prison, where he continues to see the best in everyone, in this delightful and very British sequel. What’s less obvious about it is the technical brilliance – you barely notice that Paddington is computer-animated. From Thursday.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

NEW! Patrick Melrose (All five parts)

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Sky’s quietly brilliant take on

Edward St Aubyn’s challenging books on class, addiction and passing mistakes between the generations. Cumberbatch

(right) nails the demanding lead role of the deeply wounded

Patrick. From Wednesday. MOVIE Doctor Strange

(2016) 12 See the

Hollywood side of Benedict

Cumberbatch in this eye-catching Marvel tale, in which he plays a surgeon turned wizard. NEW! Carnage (Season 1) Imagine Robot Wars played with armoured cars driven by real people, on Mad Max-style courses, and you’ve got the size of Sky’s exciting and slightly insane contest. From Tuesday. LAST CHANCE Return To Turin: Italia ’90 Players including Gary Lineker remember Bobby Robson fondly in this reflection on the 1990 World Cup. It has the kind of colourful tales that usually emerge well after the event. Until Monday. BEST OF THE REST DRAMA Vida (Starzplay) Perceptive and unusually unhurried US drama about two sisters brought back together by the death of their mother. It’s available through a free trial on the Amazon channel Starzplay. COMEDY The Michael J. Fox Show (UKTV Play) Joyful and subtly subversive sitcom starring Michael J. Fox as a news anchor with Parkinson’s. It only ran for 22 episodes in the US, and was never picked up by a main channel in the UK. PAY MOVIES Red Sparrow (2018) 15 (BT TV Store,

Sky Store, Virgin) Vicious spy thriller that feels like a stand-in for a Marvel Black Widow movie. Jennifer Lawrence plays the brutalised Russian operative in a film that is nastier than many Lawrence fans may expect. Lean On Pete (2017) 15 (Sky Store)

Uplifting, well-balanced and unsentimental drama about a teenage boy (Charlie Plummer) from a broken family, who goes on an American odyssey with an ageing horse. Both from Monday.