PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX NEW! TOO HOT TO HANDLE

(Season 1) HHH After Love Is Blind, in which couples were not allowed to see each other, the twist in Netflix’s latest dating show is that its ‘serial singleton’ contenders are not allowed to touch each other – and must forge emotional connections instead. And, for every infraction of the rules observed in their tropical paradise playground, the $100,000 prize pot dwindles. From Friday.

NEW! THE INNOCENCE FILES

(Season 1) HHHH The personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction are explored in this powerful nine-part documentary series from the US. From Wednesday.

NEW! FAUDA

(Season 3) HHH As this thriller about an undercover unit in the Israeli Defence Force returns for a bracing new series, the team are in a tough spot – Gaza. From Thursday.

MOVIE RISING HIGH

(2020) 18 s HHH Stylish con artist thriller from Germany about the rise and fall of two property fraudsters. It’s available with subtitles or dubbing, but the subtitles make it much more convincing as a drama. From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME NEW! BOSCH

(Season 6) HHHH Slick, steely and with a hefty dose of noir, this LA drama about a good but perpetually embattled cop scratches a very particular itch. It’s based on the novels by Michael Connelly – season six draws on The Overlook and Dark Sacred Night – and opens with Bosch probing a murder that reveals an La-wide threat. From Friday.

DRAMA MONK

(All eight seasons) HHH Tony Shalhoub plays the obsessivecompulsive investigator at the centre of this engaging San Francisco mystery.

NEW! ALICE FRASER’S SAVAGE

HHHH The Australian comic Alice Fraser (left) thinks comedy is for talking about the things that people don’t talk about, and her very human stand-up set deals with a lot, from her mother’s illness to her running three marathons because of a crush. It’s a vulnerable and funny piece of work. From Friday.

MOVIE MARGIN CALL

(2011) 15 u HHHH Oddly exhilarating account of the financial collapse, told from inside a bank as the depth of the crisis becomes clear. Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons and Zachary Quinto are among a strong cast.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

DRAMA DAS BOOT (Season 1) HHHH

This poignant sequel to Wolfgang Petersen’s original 1981 submarine thriller unfolds in

1942 as the tide of war starts to turn against the U-boats. Series two is on the way.

COMEDY THE OFFICE

(All

14 episodes) HHHHH

Ricky Gervais and Stephen

Merchant’s comedy is as funny now as it was 19 years ago. The show was a launch pad not only for them, but also for Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook and Ralph Ineson (Finchy), who has had a low-key but wide-ranging career since.

DRAMA THE LOUDEST VOICE

(All seven parts) HHHHH Sterling biopic from the US in which Russell Crowe dominates the screen as Roger Ailes, the man behind the controversial Fox News network.

MOVIE BUMBLEBEE

(2018) PG ● HHH A Transformers movie for people who don’t like Transformers movies, this origin story of a robot who becomes a VW Beetle has action, comedy and heart. It’s directed by Travis Knight (Kubo And The Two Strings).

BEST OF THE REST

NEW! KILLING EVE

(BBC iplayer) HHHH The all-conquering thriller is back for a weekly run, with each episode landing just a day after it’s shown in the US. In the strong first part, Villanelle (Jodie Comer, far left, with Sandra Oh) seems to have moved on, but that doesn’t last for long. From Monday, 6am.

NEW! SCHOOL OF HARD TRICKS

(BBC3 via iplayer) HHH Professional magicians try to teach disenfranchised young people tricks in an ‘urban Hogwarts’. From Tuesday, 6am.

PAY MOVIES JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL

(2019) 12 u (BT TV Store, Sky Store) HHHH Danny Glover and Danny Devito join the cast for a sequel that’s very nearly as much fun as 2017’s Welcome To The Jungle. The sight of ‘The Rock’ playing a grandma is particularly good fun. Comes to Virgin next Monday.

MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN

(2019) 15 u

(BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) HHH Goodlooking and starry noir about a private eye with Tourette’s (Edward Norton, also the writer-director), who tries to solve a murder in 1950s New York. Both from Monday.