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ACADEMY DREAMS: LEEDS UNITED STARS OF TOMORROW
Cameras have gone behind the scenes at Leeds United Football Club before, most notably for the award-winning documentary Take Us Home: Leeds United (also on Amazon) which followed the season they earned promotion back to the Premier League. This new six-parter, though, zooms in on a different side of the club, revealing the budding players rising through the ranks of the club’s academy and looking at alumni such as Kalvin Phillips who graduated all the way to the first team. It’s a fascinating watch that highlights the heartbreakingly tiny differences between the players who make it and the ones who stumble on their path to the top. If you’d like something similar, seek out One Shot: The Football Factory on Sky/Now. From Friday
HANNA ASSASSIN ON THE RUN
The 2011 film of Hanna was a low-key action treat, with an excellent Saoirse Ronan as the girl raised in the wild as a top assassin by her shady dad. Ronan is a tough act to follow, but Esmé CreedMiles (left), daughter of The Serpent Queen’s Samantha
Morton (see below) manages it with aplomb in this TV remake. The three series neatly expand the world of the movie, as Hanna is forced to flee the woods and confront a conspiracy.
THE SERPENT QUEEN RUTHLESS RULER
‘If you don’t teach your enemies a lesson, they’ll never learn,’ purrs Samantha Morton as Catherine de Medici (right) in this icy epic, which builds nicely in this week’s second episode as it further explores the ruthless tactics she pursues on her rise to power. The resultant brutal scheming and sharp dialogue will attract Game Of Thrones fans (Charles Dance, aka Tywin Lannister, also appears as the Pope), but it’s Morton’s gleeful turn that will keep them hanging around. You can see her daughter, Esmé Creed-Miles, in Hanna. Weekly on Sundays, via Starzplay
ALPHA HOUSE SQUABBLING SENATORS
Four very different US senators share a house in one of the most enjoyable political comedies of recent years. Watch out for guest appearances from Bill Murray and Cynthia Nixon.