AMERICA’S FINEST
DON’T MISS
Game Of Thrones NOWTV/SKY
This bloody fantasy epic, set in a world of dragons and sorceresses, gained a fanatical global following. Eight series
Twin Peaks NOWTV/SKY
Kyle MacLachlan plays FBI Agent Dale Cooper, sent to a backwoods town to discover who killed prom queen Laura Palmer. But there’s a supernatural strangeness about the place. Two series
House Of Cards NETFLIX
Ian Richardson starred as political fixer Francis Urquhart in the 1990s, with Kevin Spacey adapting the character to Washington DC as Francis Underwood for the U.S. remake. Nine series
Boys From The Blackstuff AMAZON PRIME
Five overlapping stories in Alan Bleasdale’s cry of rage against rising unemployment in the industrial heartlands of 1980s Britain. One series
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy AMAZON PRIME
Alec Guinness is genial George Smiley, a retired intelligence officer charged with finding the Russian mole in MI6. One series
Cilla AMAZON PRIME
This biopic of Liverpool typist Priscilla White, who became the 1960s’ biggest female star Cilla Black, showcases Sheridan Smith at her best. One series
Doctor Who NETFLIX
With more than 550 episodes on BritBox, more on iPlayer and even more on Netflix, fans can enjoy hours of adventures. Forty series
US IMPORTS
Succession AMAZON PRIME
A psychotic soap opera about super-rich media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and the venal children — hero-worshipping coke addict Kendall, hyperactive sex pest Roman, ferally ambitious Shiv and quietly insane Connor — vying for his fortune. Two series
The Man In The High Castle AMAZON PRIME
Rufus Sewell is superb as highranking New York Nazi John Smith in an early 1960s America after the Axis powers won the war. On the other side of the country in California, Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) is dragged into the Resistance fight against the Japanese. Four series
Preacher AMAZON PRIME
This gleefully blasphemous show imagines a world where God has gone into hiding and the forces of hell have come to claim the world. Standing against them is superhero Preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), his pal Cassidy the vampire (Joseph Gilgun) and ex-girlfriend Tulip O’Hare (Ruth Negga). Four series
Westworld NOWTV/SKY
Michael Crichton’s novel about a theme park town where tourists can watch robot gunfighters battle it out in the street at high noon was made into a film with Yul Brynner. In this brilliant TV remake, at least one of the robots has escaped into the outside world, intent on havoc. Three series
The Wire NOWTV/SKY
Sprawling and cynical, this portrait of an American city in the grip of a drugs epidemic is a vision of 21st-century hell. Most of the cops are racist and corrupt, and the politicians are even more venal. But there are glimmers of hope in this human cesspit in two maverick detectives (Dominic West and Clarke Peters). Five series
True Detective NOWTV/SKY
Gothic and spine-chilling murder investigations set in the Deep South, with the weirdness heightened by timeshifts. In series one Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey are retired detectives being quizzed by federal agents about rumours surrounding the hunt for a serial killer 20 years earlier. Vince Vaughn stars in series two, with Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff appearing in series three. Three series
Big Little Lies NOWTV/SKY
Based on Liane Moriarty’s novel, this is the story of wealthy Californian schoolmoms whose life of snide gossip and air-kissing is shattered by a sudden, bloody death. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern star, with Meryl Streep joining for the second series. Two series, second available from Mar 27
Breaking Bad/ Better Call Saul NETFLIX
Breaking Bad is the story of underachieving chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston), who sets up an illicit drugs lab with former pupil Jesse (Aaron Paul) after he discovers he has terminal cancer. Better Call Saul is a prequel tracing the backstories of three supporting characters. Ten series
Narcos NETFLIX
The first two series dramatise the life of Colombia’s cocaine king Pablo Escobar — a man so wealthy he had a private safari park in his garden. The story continues with Narcos Mexico and the history of how Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman united the cartels. Five series
Orange Is The New Black NETFLIX
This drama set in a U.S. women’s prison stars Taylor Schilling as a middle-class girl horrified to be jailed after she’s caught smuggling a suitcase of drugs money. She has never met women like her jailmates, but she proves resilient. The show won 12 Emmy nominations in its first year. Seven series