PICKOFPAYTV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX

NEW! (UN)WELL (All six parts) ★★★

Do apitherapy, essential oils and extreme fasting have measurable health benefits? Netflix’s series probes all sides of the various fads thrown at us from the health industry in an effort to sift what hurts from what works. From Wednesday.

SELLING SUNSET

REALITY (Season 3) ★★★ Like Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, but with slightly more focus on the estate agents than the incredible properties they sell, this glitzy US reality show recently returned for a third season. NEW! TEENAGE BOUNTY HUNTERS (Season 1) ★★★ In a left-of-centre new US comedy produced by Jenji Kohan (Orange Is The New Black), two girls juggle teenage life with tracking bail-skipping bad guys. From Friday.

MOVIE PROJECT POWER

(2020) 15 ★★★ Netflix delivers another slick slice of offbeat superhero action with this pacey new film. Project Power stars Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordonlevitt, and deals with pills that grant super-powers – but only for five minutes. Who is making them and why? From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME

NEW! WORLD’S TOUGHEST RACE: ECOCHALLENGE FIJI

(All ten parts) ★★★★ Teamwork is the essence of this new race around the islands of Fiji. Bear Grylls hosts as 66 teams from around the world set out on an 11-day, round-the-clock challenge, covering 417 miles of land and sea under their own power. From Friday.

SURVIVE THIS

REALITY (Both seasons) ★★★ Outdoor adventure contest in the wilds of Canada for teenagers, hosted by softly spoken survival expert Les Stroud.

HOW TO BUILD A GIRL

MOVIE (2019) 15 ★★★★ Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein gamely adopts a Wolverhampton accent for this thoroughly enjoyable adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel, which is packed with familiar faces. Johanna (Feldstein, near left) is growing up in the Midlands in the 1990s, and desperately wants to be a writer.

OFFICIAL SECRETS

MOVIE (2019) 15

★★★ It’s hard to make journalism riveting on screen, but this true-life drama, about a whistle-blower who called out dirty tricks in the run-up to the Iraq War, does a fair job. Keira Knightley is on subtle form as memoleaking GCHQ employee Katharine Gun.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

DRAMA EUPHORIA (Season 1) ★★★★

Spider-man’s Zendaya picked up an Emmy nomination for her role as drug addict Rue (right), one of a cast of characters tackling sex, school and social media in HBO’S stylish teen drama. As a whole, this racy show occasionally hits the heights of the likes of Skins and My So-called Life. COMEDY INTELLIGENCE (Season 1) ★★★ Friends star David Schwimmer plays an arrogant US spy who ‘had a hunch’ about 9/11, but, like all great geniuses, has sadly been ignored in his time. For this very funny comedy, he’s been posted to Britain’s GCHQ as a liaison.

THE ROOKIE

DRAMA (Seasons 1 & 2) ★★★ Castle’s Nathan Fillion is the likeable star of this US drama about the oldest rookie in the LAPD – 45-yearold divorced dad-of-one John Nolan.

MOVIE

GONE WITH THE WIND

(1939) PG ● ★★★★★ The blockbuster Hollywood romance set across a bygone age stars Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable and Olivia de Havilland, who died last month.

BEST OF THE REST

DOCUMENTARY HOWARD (Disney+) ★★★★ Howard Ashman created the Little Shop Of Horrors musical, and was the lyricist behind many a Disney hit. He died aged 40, and this instantly bewitching profile tells his story.

TED LASSO

NEW! (Apple TV+) ★★★★ Jason Sudeikis is the charming star of this new comedy about a US coach of an English football side. Lasso (Sudeikis) knows nothing about the game, but he sure is excited to learn. For more details, see page 69. Parts 1-3 from Friday, then weekly.

PAY MOVIES

RIDE LIKE A GIRL

(2019) PG ● (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★ The pleasing, funny and inspirational real-life story of the Australian jockey Michelle Payne, directed by Rachel Griffiths and starring Teresa Palmer as Payne. Sam Neill twinkles encouragingly as Payne’s father.

BAD EDUCATION

(2019) 15 u (Virgin) ★★★★ Another true-life tale, but of a darker and more cynical kind, this drama about a New York school embezzlement scandal has top-tier stars in Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney. Both from Monday.