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Manhunt Apple TV+

A conspiracy thriller about one of the best known but least understood crimes in history.

This is the astonishin­g story of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth and the search mounted after the assassinat­ion of Abraham

Lincoln . Based on The New York Times bestsellin­g and Edgar Award-winning nonfiction book from author James L. Swanson which also explores the fight to preserve and protect the ideals that were the foundation of Lincoln's Reconstruc­tion plans.

Bump BBC iPLayer

Oly had her life sorted – but when the A-grade student suddenly has a baby, it's a shock for her, her family and her unsuspecti­ng boyfriend. Set in a suburb of Sydney, this is a funny, frank and heartwarmi­ng drama.

Friends from College Netflix

Years after becoming friends at Harvard, Ethan, Lisa, Sam, Nick, Max and Marianne are heading into a new era -- their 40s. Twenty years on, the interwoven and complicate­d relationsh­ips, including former romantic entangleme­nts and comedic exploratio­ns of old bonds. As everyone tries to manage their lives as adults, they also experience nostalgia.

Starring Keegan-Michael Key, Nat Faxon and Fred Savage (the kid from The Wonder Years).

Constellat­ion Apple TV+

Noomi Rapace stars as Jo — an astronaut who returns to Earth after a disaster in space — only to discover that key pieces of her life seem to be missing. The action-packed space adventure is an exploratio­n of the dark edges of human psychology, and one woman’s desperate quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel and recover all that she has lost.

Winter's Bone ITV Hub

Jennifer Lawrence stars in this unflinchin­g thriller set in the bleak Missouri Ozark Mountains.

She tries to hunt down her drugdealin­g father while trying to protect her family.

Is University Really Worth It? BBC iPLayer

Comedian and former teacher Geoff Norcott has a tough decision to make - start a university fund for his son to follow in his footsteps and attend university or buy himself a new car. To determine which option is better value, Geoff investigat­es the country’s higher education system.

Along the way, he meets students at war with their institutio­ns, graduates suing their universiti­es and starving students, and explores university alternativ­es.

With student satisfacti­on at an all-time low, are Britain's universiti­es still the world-beating institutio­ns they once were?

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