PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX NEW! Star Trek: Discovery (Season 2,

Episode 1) As the witty Star Trek show makes a full-throttle return, Anson Mount (Hell On Wheels) joins the cast as Captain Pike, here to investigate strange lights in the galaxy. Pike is a character from the original Star Trek series, and he’s not the only familiar name – Spock is back, too. A new episode arrives every Friday.

MOVIE Swimming With Men (2018)

Nicely played British comedy about a man whose spiralling midlife is saved from crisis by synchronised swimming. Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves and Jim Carter lead a film that does a good job of lifting the spirits.

NEW! Grace And Frankie (Season 5)

Jane Fonda (right) and Lily Tomlin are great fun as the rebellious characters in Netflix’s mature returning comedy.

Here, Grace and Frankie scheme to take back their independence from their meddling kids.

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MOVIE (2019) 18

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s Noomi Rapace leads this thriller about a bodyguard thrown together with an heiress. From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME Glee COMEDY (Seasons 1-5)

The Greatest Dancer’s Matthew Morrison first came to our attention in this US highschool musical, as the sensitive Mr Schue – whose quest to fund his singing club was permanently resisted by quip-happy cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester.

DRAMA The Mentalist (All seven

Dramas about brilliant but flawed men are almost a genre of their own, and Australian Simon Baker leads this US example with style. Baker is Patrick Jane, an ex-‘psychic’ (actually a con artist) who uses his supreme observational skills to ‘read’ minds in the service of investigators.

NEW! The Grand Tour (Season 3, Episode 1)

Clarkson, Hammond and May begin a new series of blockbuster shenanigans in Detroit, where they lament the decline of the once all-powerful ‘Motor City’, despair at its modern hipster population, and stage a drag race on deserted streets. A new episode arrives every Friday.

MOVIE Watership Down (1978) U

Compare the Christmas BBC adaptation to this dark-tinged animated classic, which counts Richard Briers and John Hurt among its voice cast.

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV LAST CHANCE The Deuce (Season 1)

There’s a real richness to David Simon’s 1970s-set NYC drama – you feel like the characters go on living when you turn off the TV. Maggie Gyllenhaal (right) takes the acting plaudits as Candy, a prostitute who finds her way off the streets across this first season. Until Monday.

NEW! The Heist (All six

episodes) In Sky’s ambitious twist on Hunted, ten people steal £250,000 and then hide out in their home town, using their local knowledge to evade a team of pursuers. From Monday.

COMEDY We Have Been Watching

(Episodes 1-5) Comedy actors watch TV and recall old times for a fun, Goggleboxstyle series that stays just on the right side of luvvie-ness. Participants include Boycie and Marlene from Only Fools, and familiar faces from Red Dwarf and The Job Lot.

MOVIE The Greatest Showman

(2017) PG The blockbuster musical starring Hugh Jackman, a singalong version of which is also available.

BEST OF THE REST NEW! Is This Sexual Harassment?

(BBC3 via iPlayer) Thorny look at the line between workplace banter and sexual harassment, in which panels of men and women react to a drama illustrating an escalating situation. A barrister delivers an instructive legal verdict at the end. From tomorrow, 10am.

NEW! Almost Never (All 13

episodes) The full run of CBBC’s chirpy new drama about a boy band trying to make it on their own. From Tuesday, 10am.

PAY MOVIES The Little Stranger (2018) 12

(Sky Store, Virgin) Reminiscent of The Others, this eerie version of Sarah Waters’s novel unfolds in 1948, at an old house with a secret. Ruth Wilson, Domhnall Gleeson and Charlotte Rampling play some of its spooked occupants.

American Animals (2018) 15 (BT TV

Store, Sky Store, Virgin) In 2004, students plotted to steal rare books from a university library in Kentucky. They had no idea what they were doing, and this film dramatises the unsettling real-life events that followed. Both from Monday.