We cannot tell a lie: this is a brilliant series!

If you can’t wait to see the entire series play out on Sky History next weekend, there’s a chance to stream all three feature-length episodes of the acclaimed docu-drama back to back. Narrated by Jeff Daniels, the programme takes a no-holds-barred look at George Washington, America’s first president, offering insights into his rarely explored but troubling life. Nicholas Rowe plays Washington in the dramatised segments, while Bill Clinton, Colin Powell and Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Joanne Freeman, Alan Taylor, Jon

Meacham and Annette Gordon-Reed offer their views on an increasingly controversial figure. Sky & NOW TV, from Saturday