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The storylines time will never forget

NETFLIX

NEW! THE ONE (Season 1) ★★★

The world has been changed by a dating app that finds your perfect match in this eight-part British drama from Howard Overman (Misfits, Atlantis). The app has made some people very happy and others very sad, but its founder, Rebecca (Hannah Ware), could be hiding something. The lure of that, and the impact of the app, keep you hooked in a multistranded show with echoes of Unforgotten. From Friday.

YES DAY

MOVIE (2021) PG ● ★★★ Boisterous comedy with a premise that’s the dream of children the world over: a day during which parents can only say ‘yes’. Jennifer Garner (right) and

Edgar Ramirez play the

‘fun-killer’ parents bound for 24 hours of exhilarating mayhem. From Friday.

NEW! MARRIAGE OR

MORTGAGE (Season 1)

★★★ Couples choose between their dream home or a fairytale wedding in this upbeat new US reality series. From Wednesday.

NEW! LAST CHANCE U: BASKETBALL (Season 1) ★★★★ The sharp-edged documentary series follows the East LA college basketball team. From Wednesday.

AMAZON PRIME

DRAMA CODE BLACK (All three seasons) ★★★ Tense LA medical drama with echoes of ER and, from season two, Rob Lowe as an almost comically heroic Army doctor. The way he enters the series is quite something. Code Black was inspired by Ryan Mcgarry’s tough documentary of the same name, which is also on Amazon.

MOVIE MAGIC MIKE XXL (2020) 12 u ★★★ Channing Tatum’s ‘Magic’ Mike answers a plea for help in this so-so sequel to the deceptively introspective 2012 hit about male strippers baring their souls – among other things… From Monday.

MOVIE EDGE OF TOMORROW

(2014) 12 u ★★★★ Tom Cruise stars in a gripping, Groundhog Day-style action film with a British twang. He plays a soldier living the same battle over and over; Emily Blunt is the even more capable warrior with whom he forges an alliance. A sequel is in the works. From Wednesday.

MOVIE LIFE IN A YEAR (2020) 12 u ★★ A strait-laced boy (Jaden Smith) learns about living from an ill girl with colourful hair (Cara Delevingne) in a basic addition to the melancholy young romance genre, produced by Jaden’s parents. From Friday.

SKY / NOW TV

DRAMA BABYLON BERLIN (Seasons 1-3) ★★★★ One of the most expensive TV series ever made in Germany, this sleek drama follows a troubled police inspector into the dark side of 1920s Berlin. You can see that £33 million budget on the screen – it looks fantastic.

COMEDY THE REBEL (All nine episodes) ★★★ Simon Callow plays a 70-year-old widower in a show that delights in him raging against political correctness and fancy coffee. Bill Paterson, Doon Mackichan and Anita Dobson also star.

DISNEY+

NEW! NEXT (Episode 1) ★★★ The perils of artificial intelligence are explored in this ten-episode thriller, with Mad Men’s John Slattery as a straight-talking ex-tech CEO. A new episode arrives every Friday.

NEW! QUANTICO (All three seasons) ★★★ There’s a traitor in the FBI in this twist-filled and action-packed series, which flashes back and forth between a class of good-looking new recruits and the aftermath of a disaster one of them may have caused. Priyanka Chopra plays one of those recruits. From Friday.

BEST OF THE REST

MOVIE CHERRY (Apple TV+) (2021) 15 u ★★★ Artful portrait of lost youth, starring Tom Holland as the introspective outcast (left) who winds up robbing banks. Why? Stylish flashbacks explain, and Holland’s performance – veering from sensitive to aggressive – keeps us interested. The Army section is brutal. From Friday.

NEW! AUTO BIOGRAPHY: RACING LEGENDS

(discovery+) ★★★ The real-life outlaw race that inspired the Cannonball Run films is explored by this series. From Tuesday.

PAY MOVIES

THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY (2019)

15 u (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★ Truth is a slippery thing in a good-looking thriller with a memorable cast. Mick Jagger simmers as a scheming art dealer, while Claes Bang (Dracula) charms as a slick critic charged with procuring a painting from a reclusive artist (Donald Sutherland).

WANDER DARKLY (2020) 12 u (BT TV Store, Virgin) ★★★ Poignant relationship drama that journeys into the afterlife, with Sienna Miller as one half of a seemingly unhappy couple. Both from Monday.

10 YEARS AGO – EASTENDERS

Phil Mitchell asked Shirley Carter to marry him, having just cheated on her. Shirley (Linda Henry) said yes, then backed out at the last minute, but stayed with Phil (Steve Mcfadden, above with Linda) on the understanding he wouldn’t be unfaithful again.

15 YEARS AGO – EMMERDALE

Tom King did not approve of his son Carl dating Chas Dingle but had to put up with it when the pair (pictured) got engaged. At the joint family celebration, Chas wasn’t happy when Tom said he’d be expecting a grandchild in nine months.

20 YEARS AGO – CORRIE

Linda Baldwin got a job at the factory for brother Ryan Sykes, who was still reeling after sibling Dean had been shot dead by police officer Emma Watts while robbing the supermarket. Realising Emma (pictured) lived on the street, Ryan plotted revenge.