ON DEMAND HIGHLIGHTS

PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIES

1917 (2019) 15 u (Sky Store) ★★★★★ Sam Mendes’s astonishing piece of cinema plays as if it were a single continuous shot, and follows two soldiers across a shattered wartime landscape as they try to deliver a message.

From Monday. SKY ON DEMAND

NEW! The Sopranos (All six seasons) ★★★★★ This HBO drama about a man caught between two very different families returns to on demand. It’s one of many top US dramas to return on the same day – also back are Big Little Lies, Billions, Boardwalk Empire, The Affair and The Wire. From Monday.

COMEDY Bored To Death (All three seasons) ★★★ Stylish and utterly unusual private eye comedy that features a scene-stealing turn from Ted Danson as the drug-addled friend of a recently dumped novelist turned investigator.

MOVIE Yesterday (2019) 12 u ★★★★ Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis’s warm fantasy romcom has a great premise: What if only one person remembered the music of The Beatles, and then set about building a career out of their music?

NETFLIX

NEW! History 101 (All ten parts)

★★★ If you want to learn a lot about a subject in a short time, Netflix’s new series is good for that. Episodes blend statistics with archive footage to deliver succinct guides to space, plastic, feminism and more. From Friday.

COMEDY Modern Family/New Girl (Seasons 1-7) ★★★ Both these popular US comedies are recent additions to Netflix.

NEW! The Big Flower Fight (Season 1) ★★★★ ‘Prepare for some serious avant- gardening,’ booms Vic Reeves at the start of this joyful new contest in which duos are challenged to create enormous living sculptures out of flowers – first up, they must fashion a flower model of a giant insect. Reeves co-hosts with Natasia Demetriou (top) in a series that could well fill a TV need you didn’t know you had. A lot of it is filmed outside, too, in the most beautiful, spirit-lifting light.

From Monday.