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THE LUMINARIES
HHHH Eleanor Catton has adapted her own Booker Prize-winning novel for this six-part drama that mixes magic, mystery and romance in the 1860s New Zealand gold rush. Eva Green co-stars as a fortune-teller.
ALAN BENNETT’S TALKING HEADS
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Sarah Lancashire, Lesley Manville and Martin Freeman are some of the stars re-creating ten monologues and recording two new ones in this TV treat. All 12 are available.
COMEDY
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Judi Dench scolds Michael Sheen and David Tennant in the finale of this strong lockdown comedy. It was shown after midnight, so it’s lucky that the whole box set is on iplayer.
STAGED
SOAP REPLACEMENTS
EASTENDERS: SECRETS FROM THE SQUARE
HHHH Eastenders may have gone from the schedules, but this interview series is here as compensation, along with some classic episodes. Over on ITV Hub, you can find vintage episodes of Corrie and Emmerdale.
NETFLIX NEW! DARK
(Season 3)
If you’ve never watched this artful German thriller before, don’t try jumping straight into this new and final season – it’s just too complicated. The show’s basic plot involves the disappearance of two children from a small town, and goes on to reveal a bewildering time travel conspiracy. From today.
NEW! THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB
(Season 1) HHH Alicia Silverstone plays one of the mums in Netflix’s lively take on Ann M. Martin’s series of more than 200 books, following the lives of an enterprising group of Connecticut girls. From Friday.
NEW! UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
HHH Netflix resurrects this spooky real-life re-enactment series with six new cases involving death, disappearance and UFOS. From Wednesday.
MOVIE DESPERADOS
(Season 1)
(2020) 15 HHH
A drunk woman sends an abusive email to a man she thinks is ignoring her, then must travel to Mexico to find his phone before he reads it. This romcom has a very silly plot, but there’s a charm to star Nasim Pedrad. From Friday.
uDOCUMENTARY
THE CHOIR: SINGING FOR BRITAIN
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Anyone who has tried to sing happy birthday over Zoom will be aware of the challenges of singing over video conferencing software. Gareth Malone has never been easily daunted, though, and tries to bring the nation together through music from his home studio in this uplifting series.
NEW!
This new run of the action drama takes last season’s story and makes it bigger and slightly sillier – this time, there’s a whole school full of Cia-trained girls – but it’s all played in such a down-to-earth way that it seems strangely plausible. At its centre is still young assassin Hanna, who is on the run from the authorities, while CIA agent Marissa Wiegler (a wonderfully glacial Mireille Enos) is back at work, and looking unusually maternal towards her fleeing former quarry. From Friday.
MOVIE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
(1991) 15 HHHH Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins both picked up Oscars for this deeply sinister film. Best watched with a glass of nice Chianti. From Tuesday.
uMOVIE HANNA MOVIE THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER
(2015) U HHH
In this chaotic mix of live action and animation, Bob (left) and his pals must travel to the surface. From Tuesday.
THE TRUMAN SHOW
(1998) PG ● HHHH Jim Carrey stars as a man who doesn’t realise his entire life is a reality TV show in Peter Weir’s classic. It’s one of Carrey’s finest roles. From Tuesday.
CBBC’S splendid adaptation of Malory Towers ends this Monday – see all 13 episodes on iplayer
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NEW! WILL & GRACE
The sitcom about the close friendship of a gay man and his ditzy lady friend and their pals – loopy
Karen and theatrical Jack, who were a great source of laughs.
Watch out for Will’s absurdly big 1990s hair in the pilot, which didn’t survive into episode two. The Office US arrives on Sky and Now on the same day. From Wednesday.
DRAMA
(Seasons 1-3) HHH This week, the Gothic drama returns with US spin-off City Of Angels (Wednesday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic), which adapts the folklore of the Americas in a similar way that this original series used the characters of Victorian horror.
DRAMA
(Season 1) HHH Inspired by Six Days Of The Condor, this often electrifying US drama stars Max Irons as an analyst pulled into events way beyond his skill set. Leem Lubany is unsettling as Joubert, the assassin who stalks him.
MOVIE
(2000) 12 HHHH Undercover beauty pageant comedy, with Sandra Bullock on top form.
uPICK OF THE WEEK PENNY DREADFUL CONDOR MISS CONGENIALITY
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ITV HUB
A reboot of the soapy teen drama Roswell, based on the Roswell High books about aliens living in secret in the UFO hot spot town.
LAST CHANCE
LONG LOST FAMILY: BORN WITHOUT TRACE
ITV HUB HHHHH
Don’t miss this incredible story of two babies that were abandoned on either side of the Irish border. Until Wednesday.