THE HOT LIST
THE BEST OF TV AND STREAMING THIS WEEK
FRIENDS AT ODDS THE PURSUIT OF LOVE BBC One, Sunday, May 9, 9pm
■ LINE Of Duty’s prime-time Sunday night slot goes to a very different new series and needless to say it has big boots to fill. It’s a complete gear change for this three-part adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel about two well-to-do cousins in the shires in the 1920s. Linda is after wild adventures while Fanny craves stability, but the friends find themselves at odds when they encounter a charming stranger at a ball. A lavish production with top acting talent, including Lily James, Emily Beecham, Dominic West, Freddie Fox and Andrew Scott, which was written and directed by Emily Mortimer.
HERO WORSHIP
JUPITER’S LEGACY Netflix, from Friday, May 7 ■ A SUPERHERO series with a twist as Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s comic books come to life in colourful, Spandex-clad form. The show explores two timelines, the first looking back at the world’s first superheroe team, The Union, which formed in the 1930s, while the second brings us to the present day as the children of the orginal heroes reluctantly don the costumes and capes. An epic drama spanning decades that looks at family, power and loyalty... in other words, there’s more to it than action and garish outfits.
COLD CASE BLINDED: THOSE THAT KILL Saturday, May 8, BBC Four, 9.30pm
■ BASED on Elsebeth Egholm’s bestselling novel, this eight-part series is a sequel to 2019’s Darkness: Those Who Kill and is another dark, Danish thriller. Natalie Madueno plays criminal profiler Louise Bergstein who is prompted to re-open a cold case after a phone call from a dying family friend. A new murder suggests a serial killer is on the loose in this opening double bill.
And if you can’t get enough Nordic Noir, the brilliant original series of The Killing is now on BBC iPlayer.
MOB WARFARE FARGO, CHANNEL 4 Sunday, May 9, 10pm
■ VERY loosely inspired by the Coen brothers’ 1996 film, Fargo returns for a fourth series and this time showrunner Noah Hawley takes us back to the 1950s. Chris Rock plays Loy Cannon, head of an AfricanAmerican crime syndicate who decide to take on the Mafia in Kansas City, Missouri, but an uneasy truce between the two sides is put under strain by an untimely death. Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Jason Schwartzman and Jack Huston also star in this 11-part series that, as ever, mixes crime with plenty of black humour.
HEIST SOCIETY INSIDE NUMBER 9 BBC Two, Monday, May 10, 9.30pm
■ STEVE Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s weird and wonderful anthology series returns with Wuthering Heist, the first episode of six. With the heist of the century being planned and £12 million in diamonds at stake, what could possibly go wrong when your crew consists of misfits who are as likely to double-cross each as make sure the job goes smoothly? Kevin Bishop, Gemma Whelan and Paterson Joseph join Pemberton and Shearsmith for this dark, strange take on the heist genre. Darryl Webber