PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

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NEW! Workin’ Moms (Season 1)

Catherine Reitman – the daughter of Ghostbusters director Ivan – drew heavily on her own life for this frank Canadian comedy about life as a working mother, which mines such subjects as postnatal depression for dry humour. It occasionally features Dan Aykroyd as her character’s dad. From Friday.

NEW! Suburra

(Season 2) The return of a classy crime thriller set in Rome, in the space where organised crime, the Church and the state all clash. From Friday.

MOVIE Paris Is Us (2019) 15

This stylish, arresting drama unfolds in a French capital seething with tension, and focuses on twentysomething Anna – who is caught between realities after a plane crash. It was a crowd-funded project. From Friday.

MOVIE Paddleton (2019) 15

Two neighbours go on a road trip when one is diagnosed with terminal cancer in this downbeat-sounding – but strangely life-affirming and very funny – comedy. Ray Romano plays the more anxious (but non-terminal) half of that duo. From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME

Episode NEW! The 7) Grand Tour (Season 3,

The trio burn rubber on the beautiful highways of Scotland’s Highlands, but not everyone is enjoying themselves – poor Hammond is feeling the cold. A new episode arrives every Friday.

DRAMA The Missing (Season 1)

Baptiste starts tomorrow at 9pm on BBC1, and this is the top thriller it came from. James Nesbitt and Frances O’Connor play the parents looking for their missing son, and Tcheky Karyo is Julien Baptiste, the French detective who investigates.

This Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy (All eight

parts) Kal Penn (left) opens his illuminating guide to finance with an insight into money laundering. How do you go about ‘cleaning’ cash? Penn – previously in the Hugh Laurie drama House, then part of Barack Obama’s White House staff – takes a bag with a million dollars and finds out in a series that leavens its lessons with humour, like The Big Short. From Friday.

MOVIE Rumour Has It (2005) 12

In this zany (but not too romantic) romcom riff on The Graduate, Jennifer Aniston probes a family secret. From Friday.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

DRAMA Magnum P.I. (Episodes 1-5)

At times, this US reboot of the Hawaiian private eye drama feels like an American Death In Paradise. It’s pacier than that, though, and places the ‘will they, won’t they’ of

Magnum and Juliet Higgins

(Perdita Weeks, right) at its centre. A new episode arrives every Wednesday. COMEDY Corporate

(Season 1) Dark skewering of US office life, set at a corporation where posters on the wall read, ‘We encourage confrontational criticism’, and where everyone lives in fear of sword-wielding CEO Christian DeVille.

LAST CHANCE Playhouse Presents

(Season 3) If you have to pick one of Sky’s one-off plays, try Cara Delevingne and Sylvia Syms in a drama about a Second World War widow. Until today.

MOVIE Smokey And The Bandit

(1977) PG If you fancy a road race with less gore and more laughs than Sky’s new series Curfew (Friday, 9pm, Sky One), here’s the classic Burt Reynolds caper.

BEST OF THE REST

NEW! Abused By My Girlfriend (BBC3

via iPlayer) Disturbing documentary about Alex Skeel, who was said to be ‘ten days from dying’ at the end of his abusive relationship with Jordan Worth, who became the first woman in the UK to be convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour. From Monday, 10am.

NEW! Rig 45 (Starzplay via

Amazon Prime) Eerie cat-and-mouse thriller set on an oil rig isolated by weather, where an accident turns out to be murder. From Tuesday.

PAY MOVIES

First Man (2018) 12 (BT TV Store, Sky

Store, Virgin) La La Land director Damien Chazelle brings a low-key personal touch to this dramatisation of the US race to the moon. Ryan Gosling (his star in La La Land) is Neil Armstrong, grieving the loss of a daughter; Claire Foy is superb as his wife.

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) PG (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin)

Rowan Atkinson returns as the blundering spy, with Emma Thompson as his boss, and their performances are this comedy’s best assets. Both from Monday.