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PICK OF THE WEEK A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW
Paramount+
In an intricate and very watchable eight-part adaptation of Amor Towles’s novel, Ewan McGregor (right, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Alexa Goodall) twinkles as a Russian noble striving to keep his dignity while imprisoned – for decades – in a swanky hotel. It’s one of those dramas that keeps an expert balance of the happy and the sad, and was produced with an admirable sense of scale. The hotel set was so big that the cast would hang out there in between filming. From Friday
RENEGADE NELL Disney+
Happy Valley’s Sally Wainwright has made a good old-fashioned family adventure with a British show originally entitled The Ballad Of Renegade Nell. Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland is the 18th-century highwaywoman with exciting special powers, on the run from men who mean her harm. Disney’s backing has given Wainwright the budget to write some great action sequences, and they’re a particular highlight. From Friday
STEVE! (MARTIN) A DOCUMENTARY IN 2 PIECES Apple TV+
Steve Martin is a funny man, but it’s easy to forget just how funny. Apple TV’s hilarious and poignant profile is split into films entitled ‘Then’ and ‘Now’, and views his career from two points in time. From Friday
BAD MOTHERS Acorn TV
Acorn TV’s soapily addictive Aussie tale of suburban scandal stars Melissa George as the scarlet woman we’re all supposed to hate. Should we? From Monday
GREY’S ANATOMY Disney+
Series 20 of Shonda Rhimes’s medical supersoap begins a weekly airing. The firefighterfocused spin-off, Station 19, returns for a final seventh series on the same day. From Thursday
FRAGGLE ROCK: BACK TO THE ROCK Apple TV+
Jim Henson’s colourful creatures, right, return for series two of Apple’s slick revival of the 1980s teatime favourite. From Friday
IS IT CAKE? Netflix
Making shows all the family can watch is tough, but Netflix scored a hit with its ‘fake bake’ contest, back for a new series. From Friday
THE SETTLERS MUBI
A British lieutenant, an American mercenary and a local sniper embark on an expedition across Chile in a brutal western set in 1901. Seek it out if you’re after something fresh and tough. From Friday
MARE OF EASTTOWN Sky/NOW
Kate Winslet is superb at the centre of HBO’s small-town American mystery. Watching it all is a good warm-up for her knock-’em-dead performance in the satirical The Regime on April 8.
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Netflix
If you’ve never heard of the Homeless World Cup, Netflix’s British underdog football film should be an educational as well as a charming experience.
Bill Nighy plays the coach. See Matthew Bond’s review, p5. From Friday