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Here are three small screen arrivals that are worth checking out
HANNA – SEASON 2 (Amazon Prime Video)
LAST year, screenwriter David Farr successfully rebooted the 2011 action-thriller Hanna as a series about a 15-year-old girl who is trained by her father in Poland to evade a ruthless CIA agent on their trail.
In these eight instalments, Hanna (Esme Creed-Miles) and new friend Clara (Yasmin Monet Prince) go on the run from assassin programme director John Carmichael (Dermot Mulroney) and his second-incommand, Leo Garner (Anthony Welsh).
As Hanna learns about other young woman with the same skills, she must trust in her CIA nemesis to be free from the agency that created her.
■ Available from July 3.
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB (Netflix)
YOUNG girls from different backgrounds forge enduring friendships at secondary school in this life-affirming drama comedy.
Five teenagers, Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada), Stacey McGill (Shay Rudolph), Dawn Schafer (Xochitl Gomez), Mary-Anne Spier (Malia Baker) and Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace), set up a baby-sitting business in their Connecticut hometown. It helps the girls to appreciate each other’s personalities and opinions, strengthening bonds of sisterhood as they contend with growing pains and insecurities.
Kirsty’s single mother Elizabeth (Alicia Silverstone) hopes to guide her daughter over some of these pitfalls but she faces challenges of her own including a burgeoning romance.
■ Available from July 3.
STATELESS (Netflix)
THE turbulent lives of four strangers intersect at an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert in this six-part drama, created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredle.
Airline stewardess Sophie Werner (Yvonne Strahovski) stumbles into the clutches of a cult run by Pat (Blanchett). She escapes, but finds herself under unimaginable scrutiny from her own government.
Meanwhile, Afghan refugee Ameer (Fayssal Bazzi) suffers grievously at the hands of people smugglers.
At the detention centre, general manager Clare Kowitz (Asher Keddie) faces a trial by media over the treatment of detainees and new guard Cam Sandford (Jai Courtney) struggles to process the shocking things he witnesses on the inside.
■ Available from July 8.