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- EMILY HOURICAN

Doctor Foster RTE Player, until February 6; Season 2, episodes 1 & 2 The excellent 2017 BBC2 series Doctor Foster is back for Season 2.

This is set two years after Gemma Foster coolly and dramatical­ly exposed her husband Simon’s betrayals and forced him to leave town. She and son Tom have been living quietly since, although Tom is increasing­ly withdrawn and moody.

Then Simon returns to Parminster, with Kate, and their baby daughter, and the tortured power-play between the pair picks up again. Simon tries to turn Tom against his mother — succeeding to the point where Tom asks to live with his father — while Gemma does her best to poison Simon’s relationsh­ip with Kate. This is a compelling exploratio­n of the lengths two smart, unscrupulo­us people will go to destroy one another, with everyone else in their lives seemingly either expendable, or collateral damage.

Suranne Jones (left) is impeccable as Gemma, a portrait of a woman who is both admirable and appalling, with Bertie Carvel as Simon and Jodie Comer, now better known as Villanelle in Killing Eve, as Kate. Catastroph­e Channel4 Player, series 4, episode 1 Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastroph­e, one of the funniest things on TV, is back, for a fourth — and apparently final — series. At the end of series three, an apparently teetotal Rob had collected a slightly-pissed Sharon from the pub by car, then crashed while she was in the take-away buying a spice bag. The last episode ended with him confessing that he wouldn’t pass a breathalys­er as he had been secretly drinking for months.

Series four begins with Rob in court, pleading his case: “I was in a very difficult place emotionall­y, your honour, as it had not been long since I found out that my wife had masturbate­d a young student.”

He gets a year of weekend community service, which leaves Sharon wandering around London on her own with two kids, and a brand new shopliftin­g habit.

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