Get your new year off to a flying start

101 must-sees for the months ahead – from Apple Tree Yard to The Lost City of Z, Laura Marling to Michelangelo

Television Taboo

Co-created by Tom Hardy, his dad Chips and regular collaborator Steven Knight, this “anti- Poldark” epic will attempt to reclaim Saturday nights for lavish drama. Hardy plays an adventurer building a trading empire to rival the (according to this version) nefarious East India Company. BBC One

Television Bowie: the Last Five Years

This documentary focuses on the final years of David Bowie’s life and considers both his valedictory album and his less well-received stage musical Lazarus. BBC Two

Classical Cello Unwrapped

There are many sides to the cello – most human and soulful of instruments – as this year-long festival will prove. It begins with two concerts from top German cellist Alban Gerhardt and the Aurora Orchestra. Kings Place, London N1 (020 7520 1490)

Television The Voice UK

Tom Jones rejoins will.i.am and new judges Jennifer Hudson and Gavin Rossdale for the first series of The Voice UK since its move to ITV. The BBC have filled the Saturday evening hole with Let It Shine, a talent show in which Gary Barlow, Martin Kemp and Danni Minogue look for cast members to join the forthcoming Take That jukebox musical. ITV

La La Land

Damien Chazelle’s honeysucklescented love-letter to the screen musical is on course for Oscars glory. Featuring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as gorgeous young loves duetting and pirouetting through a Jacques Demy-tinged Los Angeles, I defy you to find anything not to like about it.

Pop The xx – I See You

The introverted London trio return after five years with their third album, I See You. Sensuously edgy night owl grooves set the tone for the sound of the decade. Their British tour begins in March and includes seven nights at London’s O2 Brixton Academy. Young Turk/ XL; thexx.info/tour

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