PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX

Unbelievable

NEW! (Season 1)

A troubled young woman reports a rape to seemingly unfeeling police and hospital staff – and then, holes steadily start to appear in her story. Is it her or the system that’s at fault? Netflix’s cool-headed new US drama treads this particularly difficult ground with skill, and stars Toni Collette and Merritt Wever as the detectives on the case. From Friday.

The I-Land

NEW! (Season 1)

Ten people wake up with no memories of who they are, on an island packed with danger, in Neil LaBute’s pacey and good-looking thriller. From Thursday.

NEW! Top Boy (Season 3)

Writer Ronan Bennett and star Ashley Walters return for a new, Netflix-produced run of this gritty drama. At the start, Dushane (Walters, right) returns to London to reclaim his spot at the top of the drug tree. From Friday.

Spotlight

MOVIE (2015) 15

The 2016 Best Picture Oscar-winner tells the true story of a newspaper’s exposé of child abuse in the Church. Michael Keaton heads up the Boston Globe team.

AMAZON PRIME

NEW! Undone

(Season 1) Bored, funny 28-year-old Alma is carving a losing path through life, then discovers she can time-travel, in this new US series from the creator of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman. It’s animated in an eerie way and casts a unique spell from the opening frame. Alma finds fresh reason to live once she learns there’s more to her dead father than she thought in a very human show that deserves to do well. From Friday.

NEW! El Corazon De Sergio Ramos (All six parts) Glossy profile of Real Madrid’s controversial and colourful captain, both at work and at home.

‘El corazon’ means ‘the heart’ in Spanish. From Friday.

COMEDY Modern Family

(Seasons 1-6) The early episodes of this American mockumentary-style comedy are very funny. The moment when couple Cameron and Mitchell reveal their new adopted baby in the pilot is hysterical.

Mamma Mia!

MOVIE (2008) PG

Meryl Streep and Julie Walters star in this sensational Abba musical, which is all about joy. Were it not, Pierce Brosnan’s ‘singing’ might not have made the cut.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

DRAMA Chernobyl

(All five parts) Before Sky’s series came out, it was hard to imagine why anyone would want to watch a drama about the power plant disaster. The result is brilliant, though, a compelling, slow-motion horror movie that provides great insight into both human nature and the

USSR. Emily Watson (right) and Jared Harris are its stars.

DRAMA Living The Dream (Seasons 1-2) A Yorkshire family up sticks to run a caravan park in sunny Florida in Sky’s cheery drama, which benefits from casting the earthy Philip Glenister and Lesley Sharp as the parents.

LAST CHANCE Divorce

(Seasons 2-3)

Catch the finale to this bittersweet HBO drama, created by Sharon Horgan and starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Until Tuesday.

MOVIE Shadowlands

(1993) U

A lavish romance designed to make you weep, charting the story of C.S. Lewis and poet Joy Gresham. Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger are the lovers.

BEST OF THE REST

COMEDY State Of The Union (BBC iPlayer) Nick Hornby’s comedy drama (see feature, page 18) will be showing in double bills every Sunday night; the full ten-part series will also be available on BBC iPlayer straight after the first two episodes on BBC2. From Sunday.

THRILLER No Second Chance

(Walter Presents via

All 4) In this taut French thriller, a doctor’s life is turned upside down when she’s attacked and her infant daughter is kidnapped. Available now.

PAY MOVIES

Long Shot

(2019) 15 (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) Sharp romcom that pairs Charlize Theron’s driven Presidential candidate with Seth Rogen’s shabby speechwriter. If you’ve never seen Theron playing comedy, she’s very good at it.

A Dog’s Journey

(2019) PG (BT TV Store, Sky Store: buy & keep only, Virgin) This sequel to A Dog’s Purpose carries on the tale of a reincarnated dog who comments on the strange human world around him. There are tear-jerking moments aplenty. Both from Monday.