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TEHRAN
APPLE TV+ DRAMA
Tamar (Niv Sultan, above left) is an Iranianborn Mossad agent who travels undercover to Tehran on a mission to destroy the country’s nuclear programme. When things go wrong, she has to go to ground in Iran, effectively trapped in a new life. Series one picked up the Best Drama Series award at the International Emmys in 2021. The second season sees Glenn Close (above right) joining the cast and Tamar putting herself further at risk. From Friday
PARALLEL MOTHERS SKY STORE FILM
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s latest acclaimed drama features an Oscarnominated performance from his muse, Penélope Cruz (right). The story follows two women who form a close bond while preparing to give birth on a labour ward – while one is middleaged and ready for motherhood, the other is a terrified teenager. From Monday
THE PENTAVERATE NETFLIX COMEDY
The Pentaverate was first mentioned in Mike Myers’s 1993 comedy So I Married An Axe Murderer as a secret society comprising the Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds and Colonel Sanders of KFC fame. Now he has made a six-part comedy about it. This time the Pentaverate, a shadowy cabal that has been influencing world events for centuries, faces exposure. Myers (above) plays multiple roles, with Jeremy Irons and Jennifer Saunders. From Thursday
THE DRY
BRITBOX COMEDY DRAMA
Fresh from his Oscar-nominated role in Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Ciarán Hinds stars in this promising eight-part comedy drama. He plays Tom Sheridan, father of Shiv (Roisin Gallagher), who is returning home to Dublin after years of partying hard in London. She’s determined to remain sober but finds that being back with her family makes her want to drink more than ever, forcing them all to take a long, hard look at themselves. From Thursday
CALL MY AGENT! NETFLIX COMEDY
If you’re enjoying Ten Percent (Amazon), try the brilliant French original, about a fictional talent agency in Paris. French stars Monica Bellucci, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche appear as versions of themselves. Available now
DRAMA CLARK
NETFLIX DRAMA
For horror fans, Bill
Skarsgard will always be
Pennywise in the most recent, blockbusting adaptations of Stephen King’s epic novel It. But he’s on equally impressive form in this six-part drama made in his native Sweden and based on the autobiography of gangster Clark Olofsson. Skarsgard (right) plays Olofsson, who began his criminal career in the 1960s, eventually serving time for a string of offences including assault, robbery, drug trafficking and attempted murder. However, he’s most famous for originating the phrase ‘Stockholm syndrome’ following his involvement with a bank robbery hostage situation in 1973, an event that is depicted in great detail here. From Thursday
SIGNORA VOLPE ACORN TV DRAMA
Emilia Fox (below, with Mehdi Meskar) plays Sylvia Fox, an MI6 desk chief fed up with her job because a Foreign Office deal with a nasty regime is making life difficult. A spell in rural Italy for her niece’s wedding should help take her mind off things – but then the groom does a runner, the bodies start piling up and the trip is suddenly less a relaxing break than a test of her investigative abilities. Tara Fitzgerald plays Sylvia’s sister Isabel. From Monday
BOSCH: LEGACY
AMAZON FREEVEE DRAMA
If you thought you’d seen the last of Titus Welliver’s crimecracking alter ego, you were wrong. He’s back in this freeto-air spin-off, which sees Bosch working on private cases for his former arch enemy Honey (Mimi Rogers), having left the LAPD. Madison Lintz also reprises her role as his daughter Maddie. From Friday
SOHO THEATRE LIVE AMAZON STAND-UP
Cameras set up shop at the London venue for a third run of stand-up performances. This time around, Alfie Brown, Felicity Ward, Luisa Omielan, Mark Watson, Natalie Palamides, Olga Koch, Spencer Jones and Suzi Ruffell take centre stage. From Friday
OUTLANDER
STARZPLAY PERIOD DRAMA
Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan, above with Balfe) have been having a torrid time up on Fraser’s Ridge. Not only is there division within the local community, culminating in a murder, but revolution is brewing. This eight-episode run has been an unusually short season but the show’s fanatical followers – still fuming over Balfe missing out on an Oscar nomination for Belfast – can take comfort in the fact that there is at least one more series planned. From Sunday
THE WILDS AMAZON DRAMA
A group of troubled teenage girls is sent to a female-focused retreat, but there’s a Loststyle incident on the flight there and the youngsters end up on a mysterious island in a life-or-death survival situation. Needless to say, they aren’t there by accident, and at the end of the first series we found out that our gang might not be the only group of stranded teens. Stars Alex Fitzalan (left). From Friday
THE FORTUNES & MISFORTUNES OF MOLL FLANDERS
BRITBOX DRAMA
This 1996 classic is a bawdy romp in which Daniel Defoe’s 18th Century heroine, a much married, highly resourceful woman, is surviving on her wits. Sometimes Moll (Alex Kingston) has to turn to crime but, as she often says to camera, what would you do? Daniel Craig, Diana Rigg and Nicola Walker also star. From Thursday