THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS

SINISTER SCI-FI THRILLER

Sky’s seven-part update of John

Wyndham’s creepy classic is one of their most successful dramas. Keeley Hawes (left) plays a child psychologist caught in the middle when the women of Midwich all become pregnant with unsettling offspring (above).

What follows is, at times, a domestic drama, at others it’s a conspiracy thriller, but the real driving force here is a very real human fear: that our children will one day turn against us. Until 13 August