PICK OF THE WEEK – SKY/NOW

AVENUE 5

OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD SATIRE

Armando Iannucci gave us The Thick Of It, a comedy in which the idiots are in charge. The same is true of his HBO series Avenue 5 — albeit with a much bigger budget — in which a luxury space cruiser goes wildly off course. Hugh Laurie stars as the reassuringly British captain (above) who isn’t quite what he seems, in a show that is exactly what it seems. It’s a good-looking satire of how

people in power can’t be trusted, played by a great cast that, in this new, second series, includes Motherland’s hilariously funny Lucy Punch. Series 1 already available; series 2 from Wednesday