PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX LAST CHANCE

THE DEFENDERS ★★★ Netflix’s Marvel shows, including Jessica Jones, Daredevil and this team superhero series, are leaving the service. Until Tuesday.

MOVIE THE WEEKEND AWAY (2022) 12 ◆ ★★★ Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester is the strong star of this American-in-trouble thriller set in Croatia. From Thursday.

AGAINST THE ICE (2022) 12 ◆ ★★★★ Game Of Thrones’ Nikolaj Costerwaldau co-wrote and stars in this true-life tale of a Danish polar expedition in 1909. It’s mostly a two-hander between his veteran explorer and an optimistic engineer (Joe Cole, right, with Costerwaldau), and will grip you all the way through.

From Wednesday.

MOVIE MOVIE NIGHTRIDE

(2022) 12 ◆ ★★★ ‘One last job’ thriller set over a single night in Belfast, and presented as one long single shot. From Friday.

PIECES OF HER (Season 1) ★★★ Tense, eight-part thriller based on Karin Slaughter’s page-turner of a novel, about a daughter’s steady unravelling of her mum’s dark past. Toni Collette stars. From Friday.

NEW! PRIME VIDEO NEW!

STAR TREK: PICARD (Season 2) ★★★★ Season one dragged Patrick Stewart’s Picard out of mothballs and back into space. Season two is an adventure in time inspired by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and adds two familiar faces – John de Lancie as the all-powerful Q, the reason for all the time-travelling, and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan, the wise bartender from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It looks like a whole lot of fun. Weekly, from Friday.

DRAMA MISFITS (All 37 episodes) ★★★ First shown on E4 in 2009, Misfits is a sweary adventure in which young offenders receive superpowers, and was recently added to Amazon. It has two charismatic, then rising stars in Robert Sheehan (The Umbrella Academy) and Joe Gilgun (Brassic).

NEW! THE BOYS PRESENTS:

DIABOLICAL (Season 1) ★★★ Animated anthology set in the world of Amazon’s hit superhero series The Boys. From Friday.

NEW! LUCY AND DESI

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The children of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz contribute to Amy Poehler’s profile of their parents. It’s packed with great footage of the I Love Lucy stars, and made with both great insight and fondness. From Friday.

DISNEY+ WEST SIDE STORY

MOVIE (2021) 12 ◆ ★★★★ Steven Spielberg’s sensitive update of the musical classic arrives, fresh from cinemas. From Wednesday.

THE DROPOUT

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(Episodes 1-3) ★★★ If you’re familiar with the Elizabeth

Holmes case, then this new drama about the blood test fraud will feel like it’s taking its time. If you’re not, strap in for a wild ride that paints her in a surprisingly sympathetic light – at first. Amanda Seyfried (right) gets under your skin as Holmes. Weekly, from Thursday.

SKY / NOW DOCUMENTARY

THE INVENTOR ★★★★ The incredible true story of Elizabeth Holmes and her fraudulent blood test firm Theranos. The dramatisation The Dropout starts on Disney+ on Thursday (see above).

NEW! JOE VS CAROLE (All eight episodes) ★★★ Lively dramatisation of the war between Tiger King’s Joe Exotic and

Carole Baskin, the latter of which is played with comic flair by Saturday

Night Live’s Kate Mckinnon. It draws on season two of the true-crime subscription podcast Over My Dead Body. From Friday.

BEST OF THE REST NEW! MURDER IN PROVENCE

(Britbox) ★★★ Endeavour’s Roger Allam swaps Oxford for Aix-en-provence in this sunny mystery about a sleuthing judge, based on the books by M.L. Longworth. From Tuesday.

MILLION DOLLAR WHEELS

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(discovery+) ★★★ ‘I’m not a car dealer, I’m an experience.’ R.D. Whittington provides cars to the stars, and this new series takes us inside his whirlwind world in Los Angeles. Jamie Foxx and Tom Holland pop up in part one. Weekly, from Monday.

PAY MOVIES

KING RICHARD (2021) 12 ◆ (BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★★ Will Smith is Oscar-nominated for his performance as the demanding dad of Venus and Serena Williams in this true-life drama. It’s an authorised but not uncritical look at a tough character whom Smith makes likeable.

THE HUMANS (2021) 15 ◆ (BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★★ A steady sense of dread runs through this Thanksgiving family drama, which is adapted from a play – as its main setting, a decayed Manhattan apartment, suggests. Both from Monday.