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STRIKE: LETHAL WHITE
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A four-part Cormoran Strike drama based on the 2018 book by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling), which reteams Robin (Holliday Grainger) with private eye
Strike (Tom Burke) after her wedding.
BLACK WORK
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The better of the two Sheridan Smith dramas repeated on ITV to coincide with Sheridan Smith: Becoming Mum, Black Work casts her as a police officer on a dangerous path. The other, Cleaning Up, finds her as a cleaner who turns to insider trading.
COMEDY
HARRY HILL’S WORLD OF TV
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So far this series, Harry has turned his eye to the glories of soap operas and medical dramas – the comic has a particular insight into the latter, having trained as a doctor.
THE KEMPS: ALL TRUE
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Rhys Thomas talks to Gary and Martin Kemp in this spoof documentary – brilliant except for the last ten minutes – about their lives.
NETFLIX NEW! THE DUCHESS
Katherine Ryan’s new parenting comedy has shades of Motherland, although it feels more like a walking stand-up routine than a sitcom. ‘The Duchess’ is her character’s perceptive daughter in a show that softens as it goes on, and co-stars Aussie comic Steen Raskopoulos as the sensitive boyfriend. From Friday.
NEW! JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS
(Season 1) HHH There’s a decent premise at the centre of Netflix’s Disney sitcom-style show in which a grieving girl strikes up a friendship with the spirits of a dead 1990s band. From Thursday.
NEW! THE SOCIAL DILEMMA
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This profoundly alarming documentary hears from the people who created social media about the worrying scale of its human impact. From Wednesday.
MOVIE THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT
(2019) 15 HHHH Homeland’s Gideon Raff writes and directs this drama based on the amazing true story of a holiday resort used to smuggle refugees into Israel. Chris Evans and Ben Kingsley star in a story that grips from the very start.
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PLANET EARTH: A CELEBRATION
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David Attenborough narrates this one-off special, which was created by fusing footage from Planet Earth II with Blue Planet II, and setting it all to a new soundtrack presided over by Hollywood movie maestro Hans Zimmer. Dancing flamingos and surfing dolphins are two of many highlights.
PICK OF THE WEEK
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The actress opens up about her struggles with mental health, and her worries that postnatal depression will derail her progress.
LAST CHANCE
THE BFG
(2016) PG ● BBC IPLAYER HHH Mark Rylance twinkles as the snozzcumberloving Big Friendly Giant in this charming Roald Dahl adaptation. Until tomorrow.
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MOSCOW NOIR
Young Wallander’s Adam Palsson is the best reason to watch this Swedish drama abo uta n investment banker (Palsson) who falls from high to low society in Moscow, and battles oligarchs and politicians along the way. From Friday.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
(BBC iplayer) HHHH The cult sci-fi revival begins a repeat run on BBC2 on Saturday at 9.45pm, but all four seasons – plus the miniseries pilot – are also now on iplayer. From Saturday.
PAY MOVIES LOVE SARAH
(2020) 12 (Sky Store [buy & keep only], Virgin) HHH Big-hearted hotchpotch of drama and romance set in a bakery in London’s Notting Hill, with a very watchable cast that includes Celia Imrie, Rupert Penry-jones and Shelley Conn. It’s the debut feature by Eliza Schroeder.
uGUNFIGHT AT EMINENCE HILL
(2019) 15 (Virgin) HH Grisly western with some familiar faces – Lance Henriksen, Dominique Swain – that charts one man’s revenge on the 12 jurors who condemned his brother to die. Both from Monday.
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