PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX

NEW! BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (Season 7) HHH A fresh batch of episodes of this snappy NYPD comedy arrive on Netflix. The series is full of great double acts, including the strait-laced Captain Holt and the Die Hard-loving detective Jake Peralta, who only wants to please Holt. From Friday.

NEW! NAILED IT! (Season 5) HHH

A new, team-based series for the US baking contest that revels in failure. Among the challenges for the competing duos are one inspired by Greek mythology. From Friday.

NEW! THE IRREGULARS (Season 1) HHH Sherlock Holmes’s band of waifs and strays are given their own series in Netflix’s dark, bloody and increasingly supernatural adventure set on the streets of

Victorian London. Watson and Holmes are shadowy, peripheral figures at the start of their fight against strange forces. From Friday.

MOVIE A WEEK AWAY (2021) PG ● HHH Heart-warming US musical in which a troubled boy is disgusted to learn that he’s being sent to a Christian summer camp. However, it turns out to be a life-changing experience. From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME

NEW! INVINCIBLE (Episodes 1-3) HHHH Amazon’s superhero animation starts out looking light and silly – like the 1990s cartoons it styles itself after – but there’s a meaty story at its heart. That’s the relationship between Mark, a young superhero just growing into his powers, and his all-powerful father, Omni-man. See page 59 for more details. From Friday, with a new episode following every week.

MOVIE HOW TO BE SINGLE (2016) 15 u HHH Force-of-nature Rebel Wilson and sweet Dakota Johnson play two of the single women having a lot of fun in this raucous New York comedy. From Tuesday.

MOVIE MADE IN ITALY (2020) 15 u HHH There are some nice comic touches to this father-son tale starring Liam Neeson (left) and Micheal Richardson. The estranged pair head to Italy to renovate an old family home, and slowly heal emotional wounds in the process. From Friday.

MOVIE THE NOTEBOOK (2004) 15 u HHH It left iplayer last week and now, this romance, based on Nicholas Sparks’s novel, comes to Amazon. The story follows two lovers (Rachel Mcadams and Ryan Gosling) in the 1940s. From Wednesday.

SKY/NOWTV

MOVIE ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE

(2021) 12 u HHH Much discussed in superhero fan circles, this new version of the DC adventure for

Superman, Wonder Woman et al comes in at a whopping four hours. It’s the version original director Zack Snyder intended, before he had to leave the film after the death of his daughter.

COMEDY MRS FLETCHER

(All seven episodes) HHHH Wandavision’s Kathryn Hahn stars as the empty-nester on the verge of a sexual revolution in this wry US comedy.

DISNEY+

NEW! THE MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS (Episode 1) HHH Emilio Estevez reprises his role as ice hockey coach Gordon Bombay for this feel-good series in which Bombay now hates the sport. Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) co-stars as a mum who wants him to coach her son’s outsider team. A new episode arrives every Friday.

NEW! THE RESIDENT (Seasons 1-3) HHH Soapily enjoyable US medical drama, with Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife) as a ferocious doctor who doesn’t give a damn about the rules. From Friday.

BEST OF THE REST

NEW! DEMI LOVATO: DANCING WITH THE DEVIL (Youtube) HHH ‘Demi’s good at making you believe she’s okay.’ In 2018, the singer Demi Lovato (left) suffered a near-fatal overdose; for this new, fourpart series, she digs deep into her painful past. It’s raw, high-profile stuff, with Elton John among the reflective contributors. From Tuesday.

NEW! REUNIONS (Acorn TV) HHH Lively French family drama in which a couple take over a hotel on sunny Reunion island in the Indian Ocean. From Monday.

PAY MOVIES

WONDER WOMAN 1984

(2020) 12 u

(BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) HHH The frothy superhero sequel arrives on the more affordable tier of home rental, with Gal Gadot as the Amazonian. From Monday.

AMMONITE (2020) 15 u (BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) HHHH Saoirse

Ronan and Kate Winslet star in this subtle romance between two women in 1840s England, now available on premium home rental. It’s based on the life of fossil expert Mary Anning, and there’s a lovely, unforced poetry to the way it plays. From Friday.

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