THE TEN HOTTEST SHOWS TO WATCH RIGHT NOW

THIS WEEK ON ACORN TV

1 FINGERSMITH

Sally Hawkins and Elaine Cassidy star in a deliciously dark Victorian thriller, based on Sarah Waters’s novel and involving an ambitious con, a den of thieves and a lunatic asylum.

2 LINE OF DUTY

It’s now so popular that tonight’s series finale will make the national news tomorrow. Here’s a chance to catch the first four series of the UK’s favourite corrupt-cops show.

3 APPLE TREE YARD

Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin (below) star in this steamy four-parter in which a doctor begins a dangerous affair with a man she hardly knows.

4 THE MINIATURIST

It’s 17th Century Amsterdam and a newly married young woman (The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy) is drawn into a mystery with a strange doll’s house at the heart of it.

5 THE HOUR

Compelling saga about a 1950s current affairs TV show with an astonishing cast including Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, Dominic West, Peter Capaldi and Juliet Stevenson. Available from Monday

6 FOYLE’S WAR

All eight series of this hugely successful show are available to stream as we follow DCS Foyle (Michael Kitchen) and his driver Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks) catching crooks on the South Coast during the war.

7 ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

Charming 2020 adaptation of the beloved James Herriot books about three vets living in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s.

8 THE SLAP

When an exasperated adult slaps a misbehaving child at a party, the kid’s parents press charges, and the consequences are far-reaching.

9 MAPP & LUCIA

Prunella Scales and Geraldine McEwan are the eponymous pair, battling it out for social supremacy in the seaside town of Tilling (based on Rye) in this delightful satire.

10 GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART

First two series of the cult favourite in which Gary Sparrow (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is a TV repairman in 1990s Britain but a secret agent songwriter in the Second World War era, to which he travels through a time portal.