ON DEMAND CHOICE: The Queen’s Gambit

Netflix’s stylish US drama about a troubled chess prodigy is set in mid-20th-century

America, and has been creating quite a stir. Here’s our guide to this seven-parter… What’s it about? Based It’s worth watching… on the novel by Walter If you want to be surprised. Tevis, it’s the story of an This isn’t just the standard orphan who learns she is a drama about the price of chess prodigy, and whose genius; it is that story, but life doesn’t make it easy also so much more, and for that talent to flourish. Anya Taylor-joy gives a Beth develops a fondness mesmerisingly measured for tranquillisers at her performance as Beth orphanage, where they (centre). There’s glamour dole them out like vitamins, and picks up more here, too, in all her 1960s globetrotting, and the bad habits as she goes on – including booze, games are authentic and genuinely exciting. from her adoptive mother – which worsen as If you like this, try… Bobby Fischer Against her tournament career escalates. She likes The World (rent on Amazon), Damages the chess board because she can control it (All 4), Innocent Moves (Amazon), Mad Men (‘an entire world of just 64 squares’), so what (Amazon), Magnus (Amazon), Pawn Sacrifice happens if she meets someone she can’t beat? (rent on Amazon), Queen Of Katwe (Disney+). 11.00

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7.25pm Four in a Bed

8.00 Father Ted

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11.10 Father Ted The annual football match

leads to trouble. Dermot Morgan stars.

6.55pm Keeping Up with the Joneses

Action comedy, starring Zach Galifianakis.

9.00 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Fantasy adventure, starring

Eva Green and Asa Butterfield.

11.30 Riddick Sci-fi thriller sequel, starring

Vin Diesel and Katee Sackhoff.