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A FRESH NEW TAKE ON DICKENS

You know the festive season is approaching when the first new version of A Christmas Carol arrives on our screens. This is the most adapted of all of Charles Dickens’s works — way ahead of Great Expectations or David Copperfield — and, in this funny, musical reimagining, Clint

Briggs (Deadpool’s Ryan Reynolds) is Scrooge, selected to be saved by the spirits, and Will Ferrell plays the wise-cracking Ghost of Christmas Present. The twist is that Clint turns the tables and it ends up being the ghost who finds himself reflecting on his own past, present and future. From Friday, Apple TV+

TELL ME LIES

DARK AND RACY

Mysterious and steamy, this tenpart drama focuses on the lives and relationships of a group of students at a US college. When Lucy (Grace Van Patten, below left) and Stephen meet at a party there’s an instant attraction — but this is far from a happilyever-after tale. Love triangles, secrets and even a death create ripples that swamp everyone around them and, as the show unpicks the web of lies that surround the pair, you begin to wonder less about whether the relationship will survive and more about whether they will survive the relationship. From Wednesday, Disney+

DISENCHANTED MAGICAL MOVIE SEQUEL

Few things are as likely to put a smile on your face and a song in your heart as this long-awaited sequel to 2007’s hit Enchanted (also on Disney+). Amy

Adams, Patrick Dempsey and James Marsden return as we pick up the story of displaced fairytale heroine Giselle

(Adams, left) as she continues to adapt to life in the real world. It’s not as easy as she’d like, what with a move out of New York to a rundown house in the country and a very grumpy now-teenage stepdaughter to deal with. Can a magic spell fix things? Or is Giselle suddenly going to find herself as the evil stepmother? Sweet, funny and perfectly played, this is a spellbinding sequel to a magical original. Some of the movie was filmed in Ireland. From Friday, Disney+

LIMITLESS WITH CHRIS HEMSWORTH SUPERHERO SEEKS SUPERHUMAN HEALTH

Is it possible to combat or even reverse the effects of ageing? That’s the question that Marvel star Chris Hemsworth (above) is trying to answer in this new series, which takes him from the Australian outback to the Arctic Circle as he learns to make stress work for him and employ the full potential of his mind. From Wednesday, Disney+