THE HOT LIST
THE BEST OF TV AND STREAMING THIS WEEK
WAY OUT WEST NEWS OF THE WORLD Netflix
■ AFTER working together on Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks is reunited with Jason Bourne director Paul Greengrass for this Western set five years after the American Civil War. Hanks is Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a veteran soldier who travels from town to town telling non-fiction stories about presidents, monarchs and great events from around the world. In Texas he meets Johanna (Helena Zengel), a 10-year-old girl who was taken by the Kiowa people six years earlier and is now being returned to her aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to take Johanna to her family but they face huge challenges along the way.
APOCALYPSE NOW GREENLAND Amazon Prime
■ GERALD Butler stars as John Garrity in this disaster movie which has shades of Armageddon and Deep Impact about it. With a comet on a collision course with Earth, Garrity, his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and their young son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd) go on a dangerous journey to try to find somewhere safe. As they hear accounts of fragments of the comet destroying cities, their best hope seems to lie in a desperate flight to avoid the apocalypse. Smart and involving.
DRUGS DRAMA ZEROZEROZERO Sky Atlantic and Now TV, Thursdays, 9pm
■ IF you’re a fan of Narcos, Sicario and Traffic, this gripping eight-part drama about the international drug trade will be up your street. Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, the series follows a cocaine shipment ordered by an Italian crime syndicate on its journey from Mexico to Europe exposing the tensions, mistrust and duplicity that lie at the heart of drug trafficking. Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan, Giuseppe De Domenico and Harold
Torres star. Episode one is available on catch up now and the box set is on NowTV.
ANCIENT SECRETS STONEHENGE: THE LOST CIRCLE REVEALED
BBC Two, Friday, February 12, 9pm
■ WITH The Dig on Netflix igniting interest in archaeology and history, Professor Alice Roberts leads this fascinating quest to answer the big questions about our most famous ancient landmark. What’s surprising is that so much about Stonehenge remains mysterious, so this documentary follows the experts as they uncover secrets and tackle big questions about the origins and use of the iconic standing stones.
THE STATE WE’RE IN CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD BBC iPlayer from Thursday, February 11
■ DOCUMENTARY film-maker Adam Curtis’s new six-part series tries to unravel how the world has arrived at where it is now and what forces have shaped it in recent years. The series takes in the growing popularity of conspiracy theories, the history of China, the rise of the individual, and the history of artificial intelligence as Curtis grapples with Trump, Brexit and populist nationalism. Using a blend of archive footage and music in his distinctive collage-style, this should be as mesmerising as it is illuminating.