PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX

NEW! SELLING SUNSET (Season 4) ★★★★ The much-anticipated return of this addictive reality series about estate agents in Los Angeles. From Wednesday.

ROBIN ROBIN

NEW! ★★★★ Charming festive animation from Aardman about a bird raised by mice, in which Gillian Anderson voices a cat who sounds an awful lot like her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. From Wednesday.

MOVIE BRUISED (2021) 15 ◆ ★★★ Halle Berry stars in her tough directorial debut, about a mixed martial arts fighter looking for a comeback. From Wednesday.

MOVIE A CASTLE FOR

CHRISTMAS (2021) 15 ◆

★★★ Festive romcom, with Brooke Shields as the novelist who buys a castle, not realising that a caustic Scottish Duke

(Cary Elwes, right, with

Shields) comes with it.

They don’t get on – at first… From Friday.

NEW! TRUE STORY (All seven episodes) ★★★ In a gritty drama from Narcos writer Eric Newman, Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes star as brothers caught up in a bad situation after a night out. From Wednesday.

AMAZON PRIME

NEW! HANNA (Season 3) ★★★ The deadly teen assassin (Esme Creed-miles) fights to take down the sinister Utrax in the final, six-part season of Amazon’s drama, which arrives in one go. From Wednesday.

NEW! THE WHEEL OF TIME

(Episodes 1-4) ★★★ There’s no doubting the scale of Amazon’s fantasy drama, in which the sorceress Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) roams the land, looking for the saviour – or destroyer – of the world. There’s a lot of intriguing lore to get to grips with, too. Weekly, on Fridays.

MOVIE

STEVE JOBS (2015) 15

◆ ★★★★ Danny Boyle’s biopic of the man behind Apple computers charts the tech company’s highs and lows. Michael Fassbender is on strong form as the singularly driven soul. From tomorrow.

THE GOOD LIAR (2019) 15 ◆ ★★★ Thriller about a con artist and later-life dating, with Helen Mirren and Ian Mckellen having a good time in the leads. From Friday.

MOVIE

QUEENPINS (2021) 15 ◆ ★★★ Kristen Bell (The Good Place) stars in a knockabout, based-on-truth comedy tale of a supermarket coupon scam. From Friday.

MOVIE DISNEY+ NEW! THE BEATLES: GET BACK

(Parts 1-3) ★★★★★ Peter Jackson has wrestled 60 hours of unseen video and 150 hours of audio into this documentary, which captures The Beatles as they record their 1970 album Let

It Be. Daily, from Thursday.

NEW! HAWKEYE (Episodes 1&2) ★★★★ Festive Marvel series that should be a lot of fun, with Jeremy Renner as the Avenger of the title and Florence Pugh reprising her role from Black Widow. Weekly, from Wednesday.

SKY / NOW DRAMA

SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (All five parts) ★★★★★ The chemistry and acting in HBO’S drama are next level, but be warned, it’s a sad, sad show. Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, who went to acting school together, star as a couple – with a young daughter – on the verge of trouble.

BAND OF BROTHERS (All ten parts) ★★★★★ It first aired 20 years ago, but this Second World War miniseries about US parachute regiment Easy Company is as great as ever. Look out for Damian Lewis and Michael Fassbender in part one.

DRAMA BEST OF THE REST NEW! THE BABY KILLER CONSPIRACY

(discovery+) ★★★ Haunting documentary about women jailed for killing their babies, based on a later discredited statistic about the unlikelihood of multiple children dying of sudden infant death syndrome. From today.

CHASING GHISLAINE

NEW!

(discovery+) ★★★ Journalist Vicky Ward digs into the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell (left) for a documentary that tries to explain why she was drawn to him. From Monday.

PAY MOVIES THE BOSS BABY 2: FAMILY BUSINESS

(2021) PG ● (BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★ Grown-ups become babies in this fun sequel to an animation that’s sharper and funnier than you may expect. It’s also a better follow-up than Addams Family 2, which arrives for rental on the same day.

PEOPLE JUST DO NOTHING: BIG IN JAPAN (2021) 15 ◆ (BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★★ Even if you saw it in the cinema, you’re guaranteed to spot more jokes in a second watch of this excellent BBC3 comedy spin-off. Both from Monday.