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Pachinko

(Apple TV, from Fri)

The Far East has been rich pickings for entertainment in recent years, following Oscar-winning South

Korean satire Parasite and the dark Netflix smash-hit Squid Game, both coming off the back of a global interest in K-pop music and a long-standing Japanese pop-culture undercurrent. Pachinko is a KoreanJapanese-American production, based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name by Min Jin Lee, and following four generations of a Korean family who emigrate to Japan (Pachinko is a popular gambling game in the latter country). It’s written and exec-produced by Soo Hugh (The Terror, The Killing) and stars the Academy Award-winning star of Minari, Youn Yuhjung, alongside Lee Min-ho (Boys over Flowers).

Sanditon

(BritBox, from Mon)

Back for a welcome second series – which will air on ITV at some point – the lavish period drama based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel finds Tom Parker (Kris Marshall) striving to rebuild Sanditon. However, he faces all manner of unforeseen issues, as the place looks quite different from when we last saw it, the army having made the seaside town their base. The lay of the land has changed for the dysfunctional Denham family, too, with their various secrets and lies coming once more to the fore. At least Charlotte will have some company, as her younger sister Alison

(played by Rosie Graham) arrives in town looking for a romantic adventure of her own. Will she have more luck than her big sis?

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Disney, from Wed)

Jessica Chastain has received rave reviews for her potrayal of Tammy Faye in this biopic, even being tipped for an Oscar in some quarters. Faye was a Christian broadcasting legend in the US, along with

her televangelist husband, Jim Bakker. The pair were brought low by scandal, when Bakker was unveiled as a fraudster, and Faye surprised many – and achieved redemption in the eyes of many more – by becoming an outspoken LGBT ally and supporting people with Aids during the 1980s. This film is a dramatisation of a 2000 documentary of the same name, narrated by RuPaul, and Chastain is indeed superb – and at times hilarious - in the lead. Andrew Garfield also impresses as the slippery Bakker.

Arsene Wenger: Invincible (Amazon, from Fri)

Many millennials came of age in an era when English football was dominated by two men: Manchester

United manager Alex Ferguson and his Arsenal counterpart, Arsene

Wenger. Other teams had managers who would come and go, seemingly swapped around on a whim whereas Ferguson and Wenger appeared to both have a job for life. The former has been the subject of countless documentary films – Man U being a more global brand, perhaps – but this in-depth profile of Wenger’s glory years at the top of the English top flight contains all manner of new and fascinating insights into the man (and yes, the myth and the legend too). Wenger himself contributes extensively, as do some of the biggest names in the sport from the years he managed.

Apple’s highly anticipated drama Pachinko