PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

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NEW! Designated Survivor (Episode 5) When the US government is wiped out, a lowly Housing Secretary becomes the President. Thankfully, he’s played by Kiefer Sutherland, so has a fair shot of doing it right in this hugely enjoyable new series from the US. A new episode arrives every Thursday. NEW! Scream (Season 2, Episode 13) This two-hour Halloween special deals with some of the questions raised by the season two finale of the TV spin-off. From Tuesday. NEW! Black Mirror (Season 3) The Netflix-produced third season of Charlie Brooker’s dark, modern Twilight Zone provides disturbing stories about the horrifying impact technology can have on us as a society, if we let it. Bryce Dallas Howard (right) and Jerome Flynn are among the stars across six clever episodes. From Friday. MOVIE The Grand Budapest Hotel

(2014) 15 Wes Anderson spins a good yarn with this slick story within a story. Ralph Fiennes is the concierge trying to clear his name of murder when his elderly lover dies.

AMAZON PRIME

DRAMA Klondike (All six parts) This big prospecting drama is a based-ontruth tale of two friends staking their claim in the 19th-century Yukon. The show’s most intriguing character is timber queen Belinda (Abbie Cornish), and there’s a chance to find out what happened to her real-life equivalent – and everyone else – after the final scene. ACTION Into The Badlands (Season 1)

Stylish martial arts drama set in a future feudal society. Season one began last week on Sky and BT channel AMC, and there will be a season two. DRAMA Animal Kingdom

(Season 1) After his mum dies, a teen moves in with his estranged grandmother (a fearsome Ellen Barkin), who’s also the head of a criminal family. This strong, authentic US TV version of the Australian film (also available on Amazon) plays like Sons Of Anarchy crossed with The OC. MOVIE A Bigger Splash (2015) 15

Enigmatic singer Tilda Swinton’s sun-drenched Sicilian getaway (with new lover in tow) is rudely interrupted by old flame Ralph Fiennes – an arrival that will send tensions sky-high. From Thursday.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

NEW! Criminal Minds (Seasons 1-11)

Seasons one and two of this grisly crime drama, with Homeland’s

Mandy Patinkin (right), are worth revisiting. From Wednesday. NEW! Quantico (Season 1)

There’s a traitor in the FBI, and this US thriller – which makes an exciting start – flashes back and forth between the training for a class of new recruits, and the aftermath of a disaster that one of them may have caused. From today. LAST CHANCE The Night Of (All eight

episodes) This HBO drama about a presumably innocent man’s journey through the justice system is a thoughtprovoking piece. Its star, though, rather than the accused (Riz Ahmed), is John Turturro as his eczema-plagued lawyer. Until Thursday. MOVIE In The Heart Of The Sea

(2015) 12 Ron Howard directs this true-ish historical tale, with an eye for the epic and the all the gloss he is best-known for. Chris Hemsworth tops the starry cast.

BEST OF THE REST

NEW! Hypernormalisation

(BBC iPlayer) Adam Curtis’s mindboggling new documentary explores why we live in such a time of apparent chaos – bomb attacks, Donald Trump, the migrant crisis – and why those seemingly in power have no control. From Sunday, 9pm. NEW! American High School (BBC3 via iPlayer)

Raw, six-part account of a year at a mostly AfricanAmerican high school in South Carolina. From Tuesday, 10am. PAY MOVIES The Conjuring 2 (2016) 15 (BT TV Store,

Sky Store, Virgin) The action is moved to London in this sequel to the 2013 horror success, also starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson. The famous ‘Enfield Poltergeist’ provides the inspiration here. The Angry Birds Movie (2016) U (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) The popular smartphone game inexplicably gets a big-screen transfer, boasting the obligatory starry cast, but not much of a plot to write home about. Both from Monday.