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AMAZON PRIME

DRAMA Hunters (Season 1) ★★★

Al Pacino makes his longest foray into TV yet for Amazon’s thriller. It’s a stylish, violent and heartfelt blend of fantasy and reality about a diverse group of Nazihunter­s in 1970s America, of which Meyer Offerman (Pacino) is the charismati­c leader. There will be a second season.

COMEDY Ladies Of Letters (All 20 episodes) ★★★ Originally made for ITV3, this is a comic and occasional­ly poignant exchange of letters between two ladies (Anne Reid and Maureen Lipman).

MOVIE Coming 2 America (2021) 12 u ★★★ Thirty-three years after the original film, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and James Earl Jones all return for another instalment of Africa-to-America culture-clash comedy. Wesley Snipes, who auditioned for the first film back in the 1980s, joins the cast as tough guy General Izzi as Akeem. The soon-to-be King of Zamunda (Murphy, above), heads across the Atlantic after learning he has a son. From Friday.

MOVIE The Pursuit Of Happyness (2006) 12 u ★★★ Will Smith is the single dad struggling to provide for his son in this sweetly sentimenta­l movle. From today.

NETFLIX

DRAMA Behind Her Eyes (All six parts) ★★★★ Tense British love triangle thriller that steadily reveals its full hand. Simona Brown is very likeable as Louise, who has an affair with her psychiatri­st boss (an occasional­ly charming Tom Bateman), while Eve Hewson is mesmerisin­g as his heavily medicated and doll-like wife, whom Louise accidental­ly befriends.

NEW! Pacific Rim: The Black (Season 1) ★★★ Grandly animated spin-off series from the Hollywood blockbuste­rs about duelling monsters and giant robots. The plot of the show follows two siblings in search of their parents across a war-ravaged Australia. From Thursday.

NEW! Murder Among The Mormons (All three parts) ★★★

This BBC-produced series explores a trio of bombings in Salt Lake City in 1985. From Wednesday.

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