PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

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NEW! CHEER (Season 1) HHH

The series Last Chance U documented the struggles of college-level American football players with great skill – this new series comes from the same team, but the focus is on cheerleaders. From Wednesday.

NEW! TITANS (Season 2) HHH

The return of this decent DC drama about a superhero team built by Dick Grayson, who is trying to forget his time as Batman’s Robin. In part one, Bruce Wayne (Iain Glen) complicates that by returning. From Friday.

THE GOOD PLACE

NEW! (Season 4, Episode 10) HHHH The final season of this US afterlife comedy has been a sharp return to form. As the last batch of episodes begins, the

‘answer’ – if, indeed, there is one – seems to lie in the relationship between

Eleanor (Kristen Bell, right) and Chidi rather than in some clever scheme to hoodwink the universe. A new episode arrives every Friday.

LAST CHANCE GRIMM (All six seasons) HHH What if fairytales were really criminal profiles designed to help hunters of supernatural evildoers? That’s the premise of this pacey fantasy drama. Until Monday.

AMAZON PRIME

NEW! TREADSTONE (Season 1)

HHHH Great fight scenes and a steadily twisting plot mark out this globetrotting new US action drama from Heroes’ Tim Kring, which tracks the brainwashing CIA programme that created Jason Bourne. In the first episode, Treadstone agents are springing into action all over the world, but who is waking them up – and why? A rogue nuclear weapon comes into the mix in a tough, pacey show that grabs you round the neck in a way that Amazon’s grander Jack Ryan series simply doesn’t. From Friday.

ALLY MCBEAL

DRAMA (All five seasons) HHH David E. Kelley’s often surreal legal drama made a star of Calista Flockhart as Ally, a relatively sane lawyer at a firm packed with eccentric characters. DRAMA BAYWATCH (All nine seasons) HHH

Catch up with every episode of the hit 1990s TV show featuring a bunch of scantily clad California lifeguards led by David Hasselhoff.

MOLLY’S GAME

MOVIE (2017) 15 u HHHH Aaron Sorkin directs the thrilling, true-life story of the celebrity card games hosted by ex-competitive skier Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain).

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV

DRAMA MILDRED PIERCE (All five parts)

HHHHH Beautifully played adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel, with Kate Winslet as mother-of-two Mildred, who must find her way in 1930s

California after her husband leaves. Westworld’s Evan

Rachel Wood plays her grown-up daughter (right).

COMEDY DAD’S ARMY: THE LOST EPISODES

(All three episodes) HHHHH

This re-creation was a roaring success, with Kevin Mcnally and Robert Bathurst’s Mainwaring and Wilson at the core of a well-cast, carefully made and – most importantly – very funny production.

CURFEW

DRAMA (All eight parts) HHH Sky’s entertainingly bonkers car race through an apocalyptic UK, with Sean Bean and an outlandish Billy Zane.

DOCUMENTARY THE INVENTOR HHHH Fascinating profile of Elizabeth Holmes, who dropped out of university to found a multibillion-pound US company that promised to revolutionise medicine.

She has since been charged with fraud.

BEST OF THE REST

NEW! EATING WITH MY EX

(BBC3 via iplayer) HHH Exes sit, eat and discuss their relationships in this returning series, which opens with stars of The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island talking about the pressures of love in the spotlight. From tomorrow, 10am.

NEW! PAKT (All 4) HHHH This twisting Polish drama about a journalist’s pursuit of financial fraud is produced by HBO, and screams quality from the opening scenes. The first two series are going up on All 4 at the same time. From Friday.

PAY MOVIES

THE MUSTANG

(2019) 15 u (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) HHHH A violent prisoner finds salvation through training wild horses in this moving, based-on-truth drama co-produced by Robert Redford. A simple story well-told, The Mustang becomes all the more powerful as it goes on.

ANIMALS

(2019) 15 u (BT TV Store,

Sky Store, Virgin) HHH Alia Shawkat and The Capture’s Holliday Grainger star in this witty surprise of a drama about the changing friendship of two women entering their 30s in Dublin. Both from Monday.