PICKOFPAYTV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX NEW!

RAISING DION (Season 2) ★★★ A new season for the endearing US drama about a mum who struggles to raise a boy with superpowers. From Tuesday.

NEW! THE TINDER SWINDLER

★★★★ This mesmerising documentary should be a hit for Netflix. It’s the story of a con man who posed as a diamond billionaire and swindled the women he wooed. The women tell the story, and the warm way they talk about the romance phase – even now – makes you see why it all happened. From Wednesday.

MURDERVILLE (Season 1) ★★★★ Sharon Stone is one of the stars investigating a murder in this zany US comedy take on BBC3’S

Murder In Successville, which is now on Britbox.

Each celebrity is paired with Will Arnett’s tough detective, Terry Seattle

(right, with Stone), and subjected to the whims of improvising comedians who play the suspects, and are all determined to make trouble for the star. From Thursday.

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NEW! SWEET MAGNOLIAS (Season 2) ★★★ Return of this small-town US drama about lifelong female friends. From Friday.

PRIME VIDEO THE WATERBOY

MOVIE (1998) 12 ◆ ★★★ Silly comedy with Adam Sandler as a simple soul who hands out water to his college football team, then becomes a sporting star. From today.

MOVIE SEVEN POUNDS (2008) 12 ◆ ★★★ Tear-jerking drama starring Will Smith as guilt-ridden man who devises an unusual way to atone for a devastating fatal car crash he caused. From Tuesday.

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS

MOVIE

(2001) 12 ◆ ★★★★ The original street racing thriller comes to Prime, as do the following five movies in what is now a huge franchise – this is up to and including Fast & Furious 6, which is the one that added Jason Statham to the mix. From Tuesday.

NEW! REACHER (Season 1) ★★★★ Jack Reacher is the strong, silent type and, in this new series based on Lee Child’s first novel, Killing Floor, he’s capable of both Sherlock-level deductions and fighting six men at once. He also doesn’t speak for the first six minutes – because he’s the strong, silent type – and is a lot of fun to watch in this show, which has moments of extreme violence and begins in a small town with rotten apples. From Friday.

DISNEY+

NEW! PAM & TOMMY

★★★★ This drama about the fiery marriage of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee features a flamboyant performance from Marvel’s Sebastian Stan as the rocker, while Downton’s Lily James is eerie as Anderson (right).

You only really see the couple through other people’s eyes in part one – that changes in part two. Weekly, from Wednesday.

NEW! TORN (Parts 1-3)

★★★★ Poignant documentary about the death of top US mountaineer Alex Lowe. From Friday.

SKY / NOW DRAMA

THE LEFTOVERS (All three seasons) ★★★★★ Like Station Eleven (see Best Of The Rest), this HBO drama is set in a world where much of the population has gone. It’s a more artful – but for a good while, much more depressing – treatment of the subject. Christopher Eccleston stars.

COMEDY SEX AND THE CITY

(All six seasons) ★★★★ In the week the sequel series And Just Like That… ends (Thursday, 9pm, Sky Comedy), rewind to the 1990s and see how it all began for Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and… Samantha.

BEST OF THE REST NEW!

STATION ELEVEN (Starzplay via Prime Video) ★★★★ Most of the world is wiped out by a deadly flu in a new US drama that may be too close to the bone, but is executed with scale, compassion and some humour. Weekly, from tomorrow.

SUSPICION (Apple TV+) ★★★ Uma Thurman and Georgina Campbell star in a smart, stylish global thriller that spends a lot of time in London, and hinges on the motivation behind a kidnapping. It’s an adaptation of the Israeli thriller False Flag. Weekly, from Friday.

NEW! PAY MOVIES

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE (2021) 12 ◆ (BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★ Serious fans of Ghostbusters should add an extra star to this next generation tale, which liberally sprinkles callbacks to the original film throughout its strong central story of

a single-parent family switching towns.

DUNE (2021) 12 ◆ (BT Film Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★★ Dial up the volume for Denis Villeneuve’s epic translation of the first half of Frank Herbert’s sandy sci-fi war, which is now available on the cheaper tier of home rental. Both from Monday.