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DOCUMENTARY Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened

In April 2017, the Fyre Festival – trumpeted as a celebrity-packed party on a private island – collapsed in spectacular fashion as hundreds of guests arrived to find none of the luxury they had been promised. This documentary tells the jaw-dropping inside story of a steadily snowballing disaster that triggered numerous lawsuits, and left its co-founder in prison for fraud.

MOVIE Das Boot (1981) 15

Before the sequel TV series arrives on Wednesday at 9pm on Sky Atlantic, revisit Wolfgang Petersen’s original masterpiece about U-boat combat. NEW! Ray Romano: Right Here, Around The Corner The Everybody Loves

Raymond star performs his first stand-up special in 23 years, at New York’s Comedy Cellar – one of his early, pre-fame venues. From Tuesday.

MOVIE High Flying Bird (2019) 15

Steven Soderbergh’s snappy basketball drama tells the story of a charismatic sports agent with a big idea, and was filmed on an iPhone. From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME NEW! The Grand Tour (Season 3,

Episode 5) While Clarkson and May test an SUV in Sweden and a French sports car at the Eboladrome, Hammond takes a moment to profile Jim Clark, that modest great of British racing, who died at the age of just 32. A new episode arrives every Friday. NEW! The Expanse (Seasons 1-3)

This grand US space thriller is set in a colonised solar system on the verge of war, and guest stars Jared Harris. Season four will follow later this year. From Friday. NEW! New Amsterdam (Season 1,

Episodes 1-14) This US medical drama isn’t as fun as Grey’s Anatomy, because the doctors spend so much time arguing about ethics. There is strength in the cast, though, including Doctor Who’s Freema Agyeman (left) as a media-savvy medic, and

The Blacklist’s Ryan Eggold as a self-righteous new medical director. From Friday, with new episodes arriving weekly from next Wednesday. MOVIE The Flying Deuces (1939) U

The classic and mildly macabre Laurel and Hardy comedy in which the pair join the French Foreign Legion. It’s available in both black-and-white and colour.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

DRAMA 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 nails the demanding lead role of the deeply wounded Patrick. NEW! The Tale In a one-off drama from HBO,

Laura Dern plays a woman looking into the memory of a childhood relationship that turns out to have been much darker than she thought. Ellen Burstyn co-stars in a harrowing but well-acted story of memory, identity and child abuse. From Tuesday. LAST CHANCE The Sopranos (Season 1)

If you’re rewatching this classic US gangster drama, the first season is dropping off this week. Season two leaves at the end of March. Until Friday.

MOVIE The Family Stone (2005) PG

Sarah Jessica Parker meets the family of boyfriend Dermot Mulroney for the holidays in this solid ensemble comedy.

BEST OF THE REST

NEW! Man Like Mobeen (BBC3 via iPlayer) The return of this sitcom about hapless Birmingham Muslim Mobeen. It mostly trades in everyday idiocy, but has the odd sliver of seriousness. From Thursday, 10am. NEW! The Simple Life

(hayu) One of the early gems of US reality TV, this 2003 life-swap series had socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie (left) slumming it around the US. It seems fairly innocent by recent standards. From Monday. PAY MOVIES Venom (2018) 15 (BT TV Store, Sky

Store, Virgin) In this dark, Marvellinked superhero story, a reporter becomes one with an inky black parasite that has an appetite for heads. Tom Hardy gives the result some heft in the lead – when you can see his face, at least – but this movie’s strongest suit is its sheer daftness. Disobedience (2017) 15 (BT TV Store,

Virgin) Rachels Weisz and McAdams star in a passionate, subtly acted tale of forbidden love, set in north London’s orthodox Jewish community and based on Naomi Alderman’s novel. Both from Monday.