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ALL 4 HHH
Both the teenage vampire-hunting drama and its noirish spin-off are available.
HARPER’S ISLAND
HHH American horror series about good-looking guys and gals at a wedding on an island with a bloody history. You can find an entire Halloween collection on iplayer, at bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p06ppsc2.
THE SAME SKY
HHHH The Bridge’s Sofia Helin stars in this Cold War Berlin drama, which should appeal to fans of Deutschland 83.
COMEDY
STILL GAME
BBC IPLAYER HHHHH All nine series of this Scottish retirement comedy, created by its stars, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, and set in Glasgow.
TASKMASTER
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The jump from Dave to Ch4 hasn’t harmed Alex Horne’s amusingly absurd comedy challenge show; the new series has picked up good ratings there. So, if you can’t get enough of it, there’s good news – the previous nine series are all available on All 4.
NETFLIX PICK OF THE WEEK THE SISTER
HHHH Neil Cross’s creepy drama stars Russell Tovey (right, with Amrita Acharia) as a man haunted by his involvement in the vanishing of a woman a decade ago. Why did he then start to date her sister?
DOCUMENTARY
PIERS MORGAN’S LIFE STORIES
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Cliff Richard joins Piers Morgan in the studio to mark the pop singer’s 80th birthday, and to look back on his life and extraordinary six-decade career. Along with the happy times, the interview also promises to deal with some of the more recent hardships the 250 million-selling star has had to face.
DRAMA LORE
Classily produced mix of documentary and drama, based on the podcast of the same name, that digs into the inspirations for creepy folklore. A cast that includes Robert Patrick and Colm Feore brings the tales behind vampirism and the horrors of mental asylums to sinister life.
NEW! THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND
(Episodes 1-6) HHH More from this spin-off focused on teens in the zombie world. A new episode arrives every Friday.
MOVIE
(2018) PG ● HHH James Corden, Zendaya, Channing
Tatum and Danny Devito are among the starry cast for this musical animation, which follows the adventures of lovable yetis who find that humans do exist.
FOR THE PEOPLE
(Both seasons) HHH In this ‘Grey’s Anatomy for lawyers’, the young legal eagles are thrown in at the deep end from the start, and the show has a flair for twisty courtroom action.
MOVIE SMALLFOOT DRAMA MR BEAN’S HOLIDAY
(2007) PG ● HHH Rowan Atkinson’s Mr Bean bumbles through France in this chaotic sequel, which recently arrived on Amazon.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
BBC IPLAYER HHHH
Ruth Jones makes for the most delightful subject yet in this new run of the celebrity genealogy show. The co-creator of Gavin & Stacey ponders what her character, Nessa, would have made of her ancestors, including a great-great-great-grandfather who rose up the coastal shipping trade to become a master mariner, and owned his own ship.
Sweeping European saga about vampire clans, with some impressive special effects.
LAST CHANCE
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
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Catch up with Ch5’s delightful new version of the veterinary drama, with Samuel West as grumpy Siegfried Farnon. Until Thursday.
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