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1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (Apple TV+, from Friday)

Many of us probably think that when it comes to revolutionary music and groundbreaking popular culture, the 1960s stand head and shoulders above every other decade. Some would argue that 1967, with its summer of love and the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album, provides its pivotal moments. However, the makers of this new documentary series believe that 1971 was the key year, and they’re determined to prove it. Asia Kapadia and James Gay-Rees’ previous projects include the acclaimed Amy and Senna, and now they’re turning their attention to how iconic artists such as The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, The Who, Joni Mitchell and others used the events going on around them to create influential music that still resonates.

Run the World (StarzPlay, from Sunday)

Before fans of 1980s pop music get excited, this new series is nothing to do with Tears for Fears’ re-recorded, charity fundraising version of their 1985 hit Everybody Wants to Rule the World. In fact, it couldn’t be further from that if it tried. Set in Harlem, the drama follows a group of smart, funny and vibrant thirty-something women who are best friends. In each episode we’ll see them navigating career highs and lows, relationship problems and the rest of life’s big issues. Amber Stevens West stars as a perfectionist who tries to play by the rules, while Andrea Bordeaux is the romantic Ella, Bresha Webb breathes life into vivacious, newly divorced diva Renee, and Corbin Reid portrays Sondi, who begins to re-evaluate her personal and career priorities.

Trying (Apple TV+, from Friday)

Rafe Spall and Esther Smith return as Jason and Nikki for the second series of the hit sitcom; the great news is a third has already been commissioned. The opening run saw the couple struggle to conceive, prompting them to turn to adoption as their best hope of starting a family. Nikki and Jason have now been approved by the adoption panel, but finding the perfect match is proving difficult – it begins to feel as if all the children they have a connection to are being snapped up by other couples. However, Nikki meets a little girl called Princess and falls instantly in love. Unfortunately, persuading others she should become their daughter proves difficult. Ophelia Lovibond, Oliver Chris and Darren Boyd co-star alongside Imelda Staunton.

Solos (Amazon Prime, from Friday)

Even if the premise doesn’t immediately grab you, the cast of this new anthology series should make you want to watch – Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren, Anthony Mackie and Dan Stevens are amongst its biggest names, while such acclaimed directors as Zach Braff and Sam Taylor-Johnson take charge of the some of its seven episodes. It’s a sci-fi series described as a dramatic and thoughtprovoking show exploring the deeper meaning of human connection via individual stories. “I am beyond thrilled to be bringing Solos to life,” says showrunner David Weil. “I created this piece with a desire to capture stories about connection, hope and the search for that common hum of humanity.”

Mick Jagger