THE PICK OF DAD TV SHOWS

YELLOWSTONE

My5

Kevin Costner-led Montana family saga that has made log cabin mansions as sought after as penthouse suites.

REACHER

Amazon Prime Video “He’s cool, he’s calm, he’ll break your f****** arm.” But Amazon’s adaptation of Lee Child’s novels is clever as well as violent, and Alan Ritchson is Jack Reacher.

BANSHEE

Sky Go/NOW Smalltown (Dads like small towns) US action drama from 2013 with a cult (ie Dad) following. Sex, violence and nasty locals, but witty too.

LEGION

Amazon Prime Video Off-the-charts bizarre superhero drama starring Dan ‘Downton’ Stevens as a schizophrenic with ‘mutant’ powers.

HATFIELDS AND MCCOYS Apple TV+

America’s most notorious family feud brought to life with Kevin Costner (again) and Bill Paxton in a historical drama set just after the Civil War. Dads like Stetsons, OK?

RESIDENT ALIEN Sky Go/NOW

Quirky sci-fi comedy about a crash-landing alien (Alan Tudyk) sent to destroy humanity who takes on the identity of a small-town doctor.

SEE Apple TV+

Apple TV+ launched with this post-apocalyptic drama from Steven “Peaky Blinders” Knight about a dystopia in which humans have all lost the power of sight.

And three in the pipeline...

MASTERS OF THE AIR

Apple TV+

Epic HBO Second World War drama from the makers of Band of Brothers documenting America’s air war against Nazi Germany.

SAS: ROGUE HEROES

BBC One

Steven Knight (again) tells the story of the creation of the SAS – Jack O’Connell and Connor Swindells star.

HALO Paramount+

The X-Box franchise many a dad grew up playing becomes a TV show. Pablo Schreiber plays a geneticallyengineered super soldier.