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BLACK MONDAY NEW SERIES Bank on dark laughs in a Wall Street period piece

Don Cheadle (right) has never been better than as veteran stockbroker Maurice Monroe in this acclaimed comedy drama. The first series was set in 1987, when the worst stock-market crash in Wall Street history – the Black Monday of the title – took place. The second run is being made available to stream and follows the further adventures of Monroe and his mismatched staff members as they try to make a fast buck while keeping their secrets from each other. A third season has already been commissioned.

Sky/NOW TV, from Tuesday

JOE MADISON’S WAR Meet the Dad’s Army of the North East

Kevin Whateley takes the lead role in acclaimed screenwriter Alan Plater’s gripping feature-length drama, a sort of North East-based version of Dad’s Army but without the laughs. It’s 1939 and Maddison is a shipyard worker and First World War veteran who’s feeling past his prime when news of another conflict is announced. Too old to re-enlist, he volunteers for the Home Guard. But as Joe deals with wartime problems in Newcastle, he grows increasingly concerned about family members fighting overseas. Robson Green and Derek Jacobi (below left with Whateley) are among the supporting cast. BritBox, from Thursday

FIRST TUESDAY

NEW SHOW

Revisit ITV’s great documentaries

For ten years, ITV’s monthly series brought viewers topical reports involving social issues and current affairs stories from across the globe. Now there’s a chance to revisit some of its finest moments, including Afghantsi, which covered the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan; Windscale: The Nuclear Laundry (right), about the possible health effects of a fire at the nuclear site in 1957; and Four Hours In My Lai, an investigation into the massacre in a small Vietnamese village.

BritBox, from Thursday

THE CRY Hidden abuse fuels a gripping drama

Not to be mistaken for the Australian-based mystery starring Jenna Coleman that aired a couple of years ago, this drama from 2002 features one of Sarah Lancashire’s trademark gutsy performances. She plays child protection officer Meg Bartlet, who begins to suspect Christine, the young mother she’s befriended, is abusing her young daughter. As Meg investigates Christine’s past, she uncovers a disturbing pattern of behaviour, prompting her to take the law into her own hands. Emma Cunniffe (left, with Lancashire), Joe Duttine and Anthony Calf co-star. Acorn TV, from Monday

HONOUR Keeley Hawes stars in a powerful true-crime tale

Two-part drama starring Keeley Hawes as the real-life Metropolitan Police detective DCI Caroline Goode, who investigated the 2006 murder of 20-year-old Muslim woman Banaz Mahmod. Banaz was murdered – a so-called ‘honour killing’ – on the orders of her own family after she left her abusive arranged marriage. She contacted the police five times seeking help, but to no avail. BritBox, available now

HOWARDS END

Love and class clash in this great adaptation n

Most famously filmed for the silver screen in 1992 with Anthony Hopkins Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson (Best Actress Bafta and Oscar) in the cast, E.M. Forster’s well-loved novel deals with the way in which the class system affects relations between three different families in Edwardian England. In this four-part dramatisation, Hayley Atwell is Margaret Schlegel, intellectual, feminist and slightly bohemian. She is trying to help the working-class clerk Leonard Bast (Joseph Quinn) and becomes involved with Henry Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen) of the wealthy Wilcox family, who own Howards End. Tracey Ullman is great as Aunt Juley, as is Julia Ormond as Ruth Wilcox. The terrific performances are the standout in this classy costume drama. BritBox, available now