Sunderland Echo

Three to watch this week

- WITH STUART CHANDLER

Daisy Jones & The Six (10 episodes, starts streaming from March 3 exclusivel­y on Prime Video)

An iconic band implodes at the height of its powers in a 10-part musical drama based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which boasts Reese Witherspoo­n as an executive producer. A staggered release of multiple episodes over four successive Fridays introduces the titular 1970s group fronted by duelling lead singers Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin).

The complicate­d and volatile relationsh­ip between the duo is the source of band’s celebrity.

Keyboard player Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse) and drummer Warren Rhodes (Sebastian Chacon) are caught in the middle of this artistic rivalry as fame looks kindly on the chosen few.

Decades after a sold-out show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, which turned out to be the band’s final live performanc­e, members finally confront the sobering truth about their downfall.

The cast have recorded 24 original songs written exclusivel­y for the first series.

Finding Michael (Cert 12, 100 mins, streaming from March 3 exclusivel­y on Disney+)

In 1999, 22-year-old derivative­s trader Michael Matthews became the youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

He died on the descent but his body was never found.

Michael’s brother, television personalit­y and entreprene­ur Spencer Matthews, was 10 when his sibling went missing on the highest peak in the Himalayas.

In this feature-length documentar­y directed by Tom Beard and executive produced by Bear Grylls, Spencer travels to Everest with Nepal-born mountainee­r Nirmal Purja MBE to find Michael’s body and return it to the UK.

More than 20 years after his brother battled the same ferocious elements, Spencer seeks answers to painful questions which have haunted his family for decades.

Grey’s Anatomy – Season 19 Part Two (Seven episodes, starts streaming from March 8 exclusivel­y on Disney+)

The hit medical drama created by Shonda Rhimes prescribes tears when it returns with the landmark episode I’ll Follow The Sun, which marks Ellen Pompeo’s farewell to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital as Meredith Grey after more than 400 episodes.

Streaming in the UK shortly after the show airs in America, the series follows Meredith as she decides to leave Seattle for Boston, bidding farewell to colleagues Dr Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) and Dr Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman).

In an affectiona­te nod to the show’s early years, new residents Lucas Adams (Niko Terho), Mika Yasuda (Midori Francis) and Simone Griffith (Alexis Floyd) could have an opportunit­y to move in together.

Meanwhile, the role of chief of surgery will be vacant with Meredith’s departure and a search begins in earnest for her replacemen­t.

Love At First Kiss (Cert 12, 95 mins, streaming from March 3 exclusivel­y on Netflix)

Romance is predestine­d for one gifted teenager in a fantastica­l drama written by Cristobal Garrido and Adolfo Valor and directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azua.

At the age of 16 when he first kissed a girl, Javier (Alvaro Cervantes) discovered he possesses the power of clairvoyan­ce.

By locking lips with a partner, he can glimpse the future of a relationsh­ip in its entirety before it has even begun.

Consequent­ly, Javier has remained steadfastl­y single, unable to enter into a coupling if it is doomed to failure.

One night, he kisses Lucía (Silvia Alonso) and is stunned to foresee a happy marriage with children.

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