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COLIN IN BLACK & WHITE (All six episodes) HHH The EX-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was the first to take the knee during the US national anthem in 2016, inspiring a wave of protests. He narrates this punchy new drama that dramatises his teenage years as the adopted biracial child of white parents. From Friday.

NEW! THE TIME IT TAKES (Season 1) HHH Passionately told and nicely filmed Spanish romantic drama, which follows the aftermath of a break-up. From Friday.

HYPNOTIC (2021) 15

MOVIE u HHH A woman seeks self-improvement through hypnosis, but finds something quite different in Netflix’s middle-ground horror thriller starring Jason

O’mara (Terra Nova).

From Wednesday.

MOVIE ARMY OF THIEVES

(2021) 15 u

HHH There’s wit and swagger to this prequel to

Army Of The Dead, which isn’t a zombie movie at all – it’s a heist thriller that happens to take place in a world where zombies are taking over the US. It’s directed by Matthias Schweighofer, who also plays safecracker Ludwig. From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME TOM CLANCY’S JACK RYAN

DRAMA

(Seasons 1-2) HHH John Krasinski is the easy-going star of Amazon’s spy thriller about the early years of Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst, which follows him from desk to field. The scale of the show is impressive, the action scenes exciting, and the pace of the plot is generally quite leisurely – apart from at the start and end of each season.

DRAMA CHILDREN OF DUNE (All three parts) HHH Susan Sarandon and James Mcavoy star in this complex sci-fi drama based on Frank Herbert’s books – a much grander visualisation of the first of the novels is currently in cinemas.

MARADONA: BLESSED DREAM HHH ‘They tell me in a few years, you’ll be better than Pele.’ This ten-part drama covers the life of the Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona (Juan Palomino, left), and explores the many highs and the low across its extensive run time. From Friday.

NEW! NEW! FAIRFAX (Season 1)

HHH Four Los Angeles school friends look for fame in this distinctly adult animated comedy, which features the voices of Pamela Adlon (Better Things) and Rob Delaney (Catastrophe). From Friday.

DISNEY+ ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING

NEW!

(All ten episodes) HHHH The finale of this easy-to-watch New York mystery, starring Steve Martin

(right), Martin Short and

Selena Gomez as a true-crime podcasting trio. From Tuesday.

NEW! TYRANT (All three seasons) HHH This drama from Homeland creator Gideon

Raff, about how a US doctor becomes sucked into the politics of his Middle East homeland, feels like it draws heavily on the life of Syrian President Bashar al-assad. From Wednesday.

SKY / NOW

DRAMA DEXTER (All seven seasons) HHH Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), the grisly vigilante serial killer, worked as a police blood-spatter analyst in Miami – although the series itself was filmed nearly 3,000 miles away in California. Catch up now as a sequel series, set ten years later, is coming to Sky Atlantic on November 8.

COMEDY MARLEY’S GHOSTS (All nine episodes) HHH Sarah Alexander plays a woman trapped with the ghosts of her husband (John Hannah) and lover (Nicholas Burns) in a comedy with a poignant streak.

BEST OF THE REST NEW! JANET KING (Acorn TV) HHH

This serious-minded Aussie drama returns for a new, third season, as prosecutor Janet (Marta Dusseldorp) moves to the National Crime Commission. Dusseldorp is a strong star, and elevates the show above the ordinary. From Monday.

NEW! ONE NIGHT (Britbox) HHHH There’s charm and truth to this new, ten-part romance, which tracks a blind date in real time from 8pm to 1am, between a waitress (Myanna Buring) and a carpenter

(Gisli Orn Gardarsson). From Thursday.

PAY MOVIES

OLD (2021) 15 u (BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) HHH Holiday-makers are trapped on a beach where they begin to age rapidly in this unsettling thriller from master of the twist M. Night Shyamalan. A middletier entry in the catalogue of the director who brought us The Sixth Sense.

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK (2021) 15 u (BT Film Store, Virgin) HHH James Gandolfini’s son, Michael, stars in a nicely cast prequel to The Sopranos, which tracks a formative time for Tony and will work best for fans of the show. Both from Monday.

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