PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NEW! SECRETS OF THE SAQQARA TOMB

HHHH This awe-inspiring documentary ventures inside the Egyptian tomb of a priest that has been sealed for more than 4,000 years. From Wednesday.

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(Season 1) HHH Like a dark Ulysses 31, this epic animated series chronicles a battle between demons and the son of Zeus. From Tuesday.

MOVIE BLOOD OF ZEUS HIS HOUSE

(2020) 15 HHH Matt Smith co-stars in a creepy horror that follows a Sudanese refugee couple dogged by sinister forces in England. From Friday.

MOVIE THE BOURNE IDENTITY

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HHHH The first and grittiest of the Matt Damon series that gave Bond a run for its money. It’s recently arrived on Netflix, along with the sequels

Supremacy, Ultimatum and The Bourne Legacy, starring Jeremy Renner instead of Damon.

MOVIE HOLIDATE

(2020) 15 HHH Emma Roberts (niece of Julia) is the charming star of Netflix’s bubbly romcom about a woman in need of a ‘holidate’ for Christmas and the like. From Wednesday.

uAMAZON PRIME NEW! TRUTH SEEKERS

(All eight episodes) HHHH Amiable supernatural comedy from Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, with Frost as a lonely broadband engineer whose sideline in spooky investigations becomes much more important after he takes on a new partner. A good cast, plus the duo’s very particularly British charm, make this the kind of show best enjoyed with a cup of tea and a biscuit. From Friday.

MOVIE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE

(2019) 15 HHH One of the better adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s brand of cosmic horror, this creepy feature about a reality-warping meteor benefits from the casting of a wildeyed Nicolas Cage as a family man in peril. From Wednesday.

uTHE WINE SHOW

(Season 3) HHH Oh, for the life of an actor. Dominic West joins James Purefoy (far left, with West), Matthew Rhys and Matthew Goode for the sevenpart return of this glossy winequaffing odyssey, which opens its new run in Portugal’s Douro Valley. From Thursday.

NEW! NEW! THIS IS US

(Season 5, Episodes 1&2) HHH The generation-hopping US family drama returns for a new season. A new episode arrives every Wednesday.

SKY / NOW TV DRAMA THE ENFIELD HAUNTING

(All three parts) HHHH Sky’s gripping drama, based on the case of the Enfield Poltergeist, stars Timothy Spall and Matthew Macfadyen as very different paranormal investigators, and builds to a deeply unsettling climax.

COMEDY GUESSABLE

(Episodes 1-3) HHH Out Of

Her Mind’s Sara Pascoe hosts a fun game show based on the art of guessing, with Alan Davies as one of the captains and John Kearns as its Susie Dent. A new episode arrives every Monday.

DISNEY + NEW! THE MANDALORIAN

(Season 2, Episode 1) HHHH Get ready for a treat as this western-style Star Wars drama returns, opening with an episode written and directed by Jon Favreau – not only the series creator, but also the director of Iron Man, the film that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The bounty hunter’s job this time is to deliver Baby Yoda to the Jedi, with plenty of new cast members along the way to spice things up, such as Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Michael Biehn (Aliens) and Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica). A new episode arrives every Friday.

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(Acorn TV)