PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX

NEW! The Haunting Of Hill House

(Season 1) Netflix’s new modern horror story is one to save for Halloween.

It’s the confident, well-acted and seriously creepy tale of the hold a haunted house exerts on a family (headed by a tortured dad played by Timothy Hutton) long, long after they’ve left. That creepiness is enhanced by a deft use of sound, especially the many long and uncomfortable silences. From Friday. NEW! Curious Creations Of Christine McConnell (Season 1) The American baker shows off her peculiarly creepy creations in this new

Netflix series. From Friday.

MOVIE Get Shorty (1995)

15 Zippy movie of Elmore Leonard’s novel about crooks hustling in Tinseltown, the TV series version of which returns on Thursday at 10pm on Sky Atlantic. MOVIE 22 July (2018) 18 Paul Greengrass has a flair for dramatising real-life tragedies (United 93, The Murder Of Stephen Lawrence), and here the director brings his expert eye to the 2011 attacks in Norway that left 77 dead. From Wednesday.

AMAZON PRIME

MOVIE Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

With the drama Feud: Bette And Joan being repeated on BBC4 (Sundays, 10pm) and on iPlayer, here’s a chance to see the disturbing thriller that traded on the real-life rivalry between stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. From Friday. COMEDY Dr Ken (Both seasons) Ken Jeong (Community) plays a KoreanAmerican doctor who rails at his idiotic patients, and the foibles of his family don’t live up to his expectations. What gives this sitcom an edge is that Jeong was actually

a doctor before he went into comedy.

NEW! The Romanoffs (Parts 1 & 2)

Quirky, globe-trotting new eight-part drama about people who believe themselves descendants of Russian royalty. It comes from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and features different characters each week, some played by familiar faces from that show. This double bill stars Aaron Eckhart (left) and Noah Wyle. A new episode arrives every Friday.

MOVIE The Hurt Locker (2008) 15

Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winner is set amid the tension of a bomb disposal squad in Iraq, and stars Jeremy Renner. From Monday.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

COMEDY Urban Myths: Backstage At Live Aid

Deft comic portrait of what might have happened backstage at Live Aid in 1985.

Bob Geldof (Jonas Armstrong, far right) is running about, trying to make it all happen, as Elton

John rages about Noel Edmonds landing a helicopter in his back yard (‘You should see the state of my begonias, Bob’). DOCUMENTARY The Dead Mothers Club Jane Fonda is among the famous faces reflecting on growing up without a mother in this high-end US documentary – but plenty of non-famous women’s stories feature, too.

LAST CHANCE The Librarians (All four

seasons) ER’s Noah Wyle is the occasional star of this fun, B-movie-style US adventure about a group of magical, world-saving librarians. Until Wednesday. MOVIE Inside Man (2006) 15 Classy and offbeat crime thriller from Spike Lee, with Denzel Washington as a hostage negotiator and Clive Owen as a bank robber.

BEST OF THE REST

DRAMA Sorry For Your Loss (Facebook

Watch) In the first interesting series to premiere on Facebook, Elizabeth Olsen stars as a widow struggling to keep afloat. The script has a light touch for such a difficult subject, and there’s depth and humour in the very human performances. NEW! This Country (BBC3 via iPlayer) One-off episode of this rural mockumentary that picks up events in the wake of Kerry’s arrest. From Wednesday, 10am.

PAY MOVIES

Book Club (2018) 12 (BT TV Store, Sky

Store, Virgin) Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda play two of the four women who re-discover romance – after reading Fifty Shades Of Grey – in a frothy romcom packed to the rafters with veteran talent.

Bad Samaritan (2018) 15 (Sky Store)

This so-so thriller has two charismatic stars in David Tennant and Robert Sheehan, but keeps them apart too long. Sheehan (Misfits) plays a valet who uncovers Tennant’s very sinister secret. Both from Monday.