All the Way (2016)

SKY ATLANTIC, 9PM ★★★

This dutiful biopic dramatises the stormy passage of the unprecendeted Civil Rights Act under the “accidental President” Lyndon B Johnson, after the assassination of JFK. Bryan Cranston is a growling Johnson, while Anthony Mackie makes a heavyweight Martin Luther King. Still, there’s no getting around the fact we’re in the territory of grey-haired men grandstanding in smoke-filled room.