PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV
HUNTERS, PRIME VIDEO
AFTER three long years, the Nazi hunters are back, torturing and killing white supremacists in theatrical fashion. Hunters, the 2020 revenge fantasy starring Al Pacino in his first television role, returns to Amazon Prime Video for its second and final season. And this time, the ultimate scalp is in their sights — the Fuhrer himself. Udo Kier joins the show as Adolf Hitler, whom the hunters discover did not perish in his Berlin bunker in 1945, but is living in South America and trying to set up the Fourth Reich in the USA. The drama, set in New York in 1977,
FAMILY FILM Dog Gone, Netflix
MISSING pets? Paternal bonding? Beautiful scenery? Dog Gone ticks all these boxes and more as it spins its based-on-a-true-story of a father and son hunting for their beloved pooch along America’s 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. Rob Lowe plays the distant dad who learns to connect with his son as they try to find missing Gonker in the wilderness. It’s a story of overcoming the odds — with some help from the cheery oddballs they meet along the way — with just the right amount of pathos. follows a fictional band of Nazi hunters led by the mysterious philanthropist Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino), who was involved in an explosive plot twist in the season one finale. Pacino is back for series two, as is Logan Lerman as Jonah Heidelbaum, an innocent who’s been drawn into the hunters’ violent,
FALSE PRETENCES The Traitors U.S., BBC iPlayer
THE reality game that combines teamwork and deception was a huge hit for the BBC in December, and fans can now enjoy the American version, which arrives as a box set on iPlayer ahead of its broadcast on BBC1 and BBC3 later this month. The Scottish actor Alan Cumming (pictured) is our host this time and, in a twist on the UK show, half the contestants are (Stateside, at least) extra-judicial methods of dispensing justice. A new face is Single White Female star Jennifer Jason Leigh (pictured above right with Josh Radnor, Jerrika Hinton, Lerman, Kate Mulvany and Tiffany Boone) as fearsome Nazi hunter Chava Apfelbaum, who has been hot on Hitler’s trail for some time.
famous faces — including The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Brandi Glanville and Survivor’s Cirie Fields.
LIFE ON THE TOUR Break Point, Netflix
THE Drive To Survive series gave viewers a look behind the roaring engines of F1 to find the human dramas that truly power the sport — now they’ve done the same for the globe-trotting circus of professional tennis. Cameras follow rising male and female stars of the sport across the 2022 season, such as Matteo Berrettini and Ajla Tomljanovic, catching off-court tensions and surprising moments of weakness.