New launches Four to watch this week...
The Flight Attendant – Season 2 (8 episodes, streaming from May 26 exclusively on Now)
Award-winning Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco soared to new heights in the first series of the dark comedy based on Chris Bohjalian’s best-selling 2018 novel.
She deservedly earnt Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her stellar work as a harddrinking flight attendant, who is implicated in a murder and slowly pieces together the fragments of her memory to unravel the truth about the victim’s demise.
There is dramatic turbulence when The Flight Attendant takes off again on Sky Max and streams exclusively on Now.
In the second series, Cassie Bowden (Cuoco) has been sober for almost a year and is thriving with her new partner Marco (Santiago Cabrera).
A sideline as a covert CIA asset leads to a hunt for a woman who has been imitating Cassie.
Mysterious new flight attendant Grace (Mae Martin) is a likely suspect and Cassie enlists the help of Annie (Zosia Mamet) and Max (Deniz Akdeniz) to unmask the culprit.
Law & Order: Organized Crime – Season 2 (22 episodes, streaming from May 24 exclusively on Now)
Dick Wolf ’s long-running legal drama Law & Order returned for its 21st series this year, second only in terms of episode counts to its Emmy Awardwinning sister show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which celebrated its milestone 500th instalment during the recent 23rd series.
Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) was a popular crusader for justice in 12 of those seasons and the psychologically complex character returns in this spinoff on Sky Witness.
The second series launches with Stabler going undercover to infiltrate a crime clan intent on seizing control of the Big Apple’s cocaine trade.
Meanwhile, Stabler’s partner Sergeant Bell (Danielle Mone Truitt) makes her displeasure known about the prospect of working with a rival in the interim.
Look out for a cameo from Vinnie Jones.
Ricky Gervais: SuperNature (Cert 15, 64 mins, streaming from May 24 exclusively on Netflix)
Reading-born comedian, director, writer and actor Ricky Gervais is a permanent fixture on Netflix with three series of the comedy After Life and his 2018 stand-up special Humanity alongside all nine series of the American remake of the mockumentary The Office, for which he was an executive producer.
This week, he returns to the stage with a second special SuperNature, which he playfully describes as “basically a bloke talking” for an hour about the unspoken rules of comedy and how he spoils his beloved cat.
Gervais also vows to debunk supernatural hocus pocus because, in his mind, nature is already super without us tainting it with hoary mysticism.
Somebody Feed Phil – Season 5 (5 episodes, streaming from May 25 exclusively on Netflix)
Phil Rosenthal, the New Yorkborn creator of hit comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, serves up another helping of mouth-watering cuisine and culture when he returns with his Netflix travel show.
In the fourth series, he remained predominantly close to home with expeditions to Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Singapore, The Mississippi Delta and Hawaii.
These latest five courses savour the gastronomic delicacies of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, Maine, Helsinki, Portland and Madrid.