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ON DEMAND CHOICE: Ratched

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Netflix’s new drama from Ryan Murphy is a prequel to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, focused on the character of the younger Nurse Ratched. Here’s our guide to what it’s about… What’s it about? The drama opens It’s worth watching… If you like stunninglo­oking in 1947, in the wake of a string of drama, because the detail and style bloody murders, as the enigmatic of Ratched’s costumes and sets would and impeccably attired Mildred give Mad Men a run for its money. It’s Ratched (The People vs OJ Simpson’s peppered with eye-catching actors, too Sarah Paulson, right) arrives at a – Sharon Stone, Sophie Okonedo, Rosanna psychiatri­c institutio­n noted for Arquette, Vincent D’onofrio, Cynthia Nixon its experiment­al treatments. – and has a bubbling undertone of Steadily, Mildred worms her way horror that’s strongly reminiscen­t of inside, manipulati­ng everyone films like Psycho and The Shining. she meets to climb the ladder, If you like this, try… Bates Motel and the mystery of what (Amazon), Dracula (iplayer), Fosse/ motivates her is revealed along Verdon (iplayer), Hannibal (Netflix), the way. Ken Kesey’s original Mad Men (Amazon), One Flew novel is set in the 1960s, and Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (buy on Milos Forman’s five-oscarwinni­ng Amazon, Sky), Psycho (Sky/now film followed in 1975. TV), The Shining (Amazon).

Action from the 20th and penultimat­e stage. 8.00 World Series of Darts Finals Coverage of day two of the tournament, staged at the Salzburgar­ena in Austria.

6.50pm FILM Home Alone Family comedy, starring Macaulay Culkin.

FILM Now You See Me Crime thriller, starring Jesse Eisenberg.

11.15 Gogglebox Opinions on Strictly Come

Dancing, The Lie Detective and Victoria. 9.00

A 53-year-old man is rushed in following a seizure.

11.05 Father Ted Dermot Morgan stars.

6.50pm Goodbye Christophe­r Robin Biopic

of AA Milne, starring Domhnall Gleeson. 9.00 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Fantasy adventure, starring Eva Green and Asa Butterfiel­d.

11.30 Stonehears­t Asylum Gothic horror,

with Kate Beckinsale and Jim Sturgess.

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