This week’s TV picks

SKY BOX SETS Former Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole stars as Sean Wallace, whose father (Colm Meaney) is the head of a vast criminal organisation. When his dad is murdered, Sean has to take over leadership of the London gang and find those responsible for his father’s death. Michelle Fairley plays Sean’s fearsome mother…

BBC IPLAYER/AMAZON PRIME VIDEO This eight-parter follows the search for a missing five-year-old boy, Oliver, and stars Frances O’connor and James Nesbitt as his parents. A second series followed, starring Keeley Hawes and David Morrissey, featuring an abducted child who returns after 11 years.

In this eight-part political thriller, Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Anglo-jewish businesswoman Nessa Stein who has inherited her father’s company, which once sold arms to the Israelis to use against the Palestinians. Having witnessed her father’s brutal murder when she was younger, Nessa is trying to use the company for good and foster peace, but finds herself navigating a life of politics, power and constant danger.

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO This adaptation of John le Carré’s novel follows Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), a former British soldier-turned-night manager in a luxury Cairo hotel. Recruited by MI6’S Angela Burr (Olivia Colman) to infiltrate the inner circle of an arms trader named Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), the series’ Mediterranean setting proved as drool-worthy as its leading man to many viewers.