7 DAYS OF TV

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Hannah Gadsby: Douglas The searingly honest Australian comedian embodies a sombre, tough new orator who knows how to punch with words. She is the opposite of the affable Saturday night stand-up and more powerful for it. Her second standalone special stings hard, touching sadness every time its lips curl up.

Netflix, now

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My Brilliant Friend

The televisualisation of Elena Ferrante’s tour de force novels on lifelong female companionship may not have had quite the same transitional success, book to screen, as Normal People. But ignore them at your peril. They are every frame as human and intuitive, if not nearly as sexy.

Begins Friday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic

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Insecure

Issa Rae’s relationship woes comedy-drama should be the biggest thing on TV right now, a composite of the African American Girls and girls’ Atlanta. It’s a fabulous trawl through the dating habits of an ingeniously likeable lead. Make it so!

Begins 23 June, 10pm, Sky Atlantic