Your guide to the week’s best on Sky and free-to-air TV

North Shore (9.30pm, Sundays from May 5, TVNZ 1)

Joanne Froggatt, John Bradley and Kirsty Sturgess team up for this six-part, 2023 crime-thriller that revolves around the death of the 19-year-old daughter of a UK politician. When her body is found in Sydney Harbour, British and Australian investigators are forced to work together to investigate what appears to be a murder. As they conduct their inquiries, they uncover a potential international conspiracy. Directed by Gregor Jordan (Two Hands, Ned Kelly), North Shore was created by Cold Feet’s Mike Bullen.

Inside High Noon Revisited

(7pm, Thursday, May 2, Sky Arts)

A 2022 documentary that delves into the making of the iconic 1952 movie starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. It explores the challenges faced during production, including rejections from studios and actors, while also shedding light on the film’s controversial reception, when it was seen by some as a critique of the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee. Narrated by The Americans and Perry Mason actor Matthew Rhys.

Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis

(8.30pm, Thursday, May 2, Rialto)

Dutch director Anton Corbijn (Control, The American) helms this 2022 chronicle of the rise and fall of the UK design studio, whose commissions included album covers for Pink Floyd, 10cc, Paul McCartney and Wings, Peter Gabriel and Led Zeppelin. Featuring a trove of archival footage and modern-day interviews, you’ll learn the sometimes jaw-dropping and wild stories behind the iconic imagery used on records like Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals, Wings’ Band on the Run, 10cc’s Look Hear and Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy and Presence.

Daffodils (8.40pm, Sunday, May 5, Whakaata Māori)

At its heart, this 2019 Kiwi musical is the bittersweet love story of Rose (Rose McIver) and Eric (George Mason). Loosely based on her own parents’ tale, writer Rochelle Bright weaves an intimate epic of memorable first meetings, parental disapproval, disastrous dates, difficult decision-making and family secrets that threaten to tear it all apart. Be prepared to have your heartstrings pulled and songs to get stuck in your head. This is a love letter to the Kiwi experience, our own equivalent of Once or Sunshine on Leith and finally a crowd-pleasing indigenous musical to sit alongside Don’t Let it Get to You and Footrot Flats: A Dog’s Tale.

Belgravia (11.30pm, Sundays from May 5, Sky Open)

For those desperately awaiting next month’s new series of Bridgerton, the free-to-air debut of this six-part, 2020 series might just fill the gap. Based on Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age creator Julian Fellowes’ own 2016 novel, it revolves around the secrets that emerge when an emerging nouveau riche family begin to rub shoulders with London’s established upper classes in the early 1840s. The impressive ensemble assembled includes Philip Glenister, Tamsin Greig, Alice Eve, Tom Wilkinson and Tara Fitzgerald.

The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps (8.30pm, Monday, May 6, Whakaata Māori)

Julia Parnell and Rob Curry’s 2019 documentary is not only the story of the Kiwi musician described by many as a “lyrical genius”, but it’s also a cautionary tale, a triumph over tragedy and a statement about the meaning of music in our lives. “Phillipps’ long journey to physical and spiritual health and the promise of his newfound future makes for an engrossing and watchable film,” wrote Stuff To Watch’s Graeme Tuckett.

O.G.

(8.30pm, Monday, May 6, Sky Open)

One of this year’s Academy Award nominees for best actor, Jeffrey Wright, headlines this 2018 American drama about a man in the final weeks of his 24-year prison sentence who befriends a new arrival preparing to face a similar stretch – for murder. “The storyline is powerful and intense, but it’s the way the real world seeps through the script and into the plot that makes this such an incredible film,” wrote Stuff To Watch’s James Belfield.