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PARAMOUNT, APPLE, DISNEY & NETFLIX MY KIND OF COUNTRY APPLE TV+ MUSIC SHOW

Competition series aiming to find country music’s next big star. If you’ve seen The X Factor you know what to expect. The show wants to broaden the diversity of what has traditionally been a very narrow genre, so artists from India, South Africa and Mexico are among US acts such as The Betsies (above) competing at Nashville in front of country stars Orville Peck, Jimmie Allen and Mickey Guyton. The show has been produced by singer Kacey Musgraves and Reese Witherspoon.

From Friday

UP HERE DISNEY+ ROMCOM

Idealistic writer Lindsay (Mae Whitman) decides that she needs to be living in New York if she wants to be successful. There, she meets charming, wealthy Miguel (Carlos Valdes). They should be together but the voices in their heads keep trying to sow doubts. Eight-episode musical romcom Up Here has some serious musical heavyweights on board – it’s helmed by Hamilton director Thomas Kail and has songs by Frozen Oscar-winning duo

Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. From Friday

POUND LAND: THE BATTLE FOR STAMFORD BRIDGE BT SPORT DOCUMENTARY

A documentary looking back on Chelsea FC in the 1980s, when Ken Bates, who famously bought Chelsea for £1, and Matthew Harding joined forces to save the club from extinction and laid the foundations for its future success. Available now

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT DISNEY+ COMEDY

The first three series of the cult Emmy Award-winning comedy are being made available. It tells the story of the formerly wealthy Bluth family who have lost everything, and the one son, Michael (Jason Bateman), who is attempting to keep them all together. Also stars Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett and Jeffrey Tambor (above). From Friday

COUNT ARTHUR STRONG BRITBOX COMEDY

Steve Delaney plays Arthur, the pompous, spoonerism-spouting former music-hall star from Doncaster, with Rory Kinnear as Michael, the writer using Arthur’s anecdotes to help write his father’s biography. From Thursday

DRAMA YELLOWJACKETS PARAMOUNT+ DRAMA

One of the best shows of 2021 is back, and it is still unmissable, appointment TV. In 1996, a girls’ football team stranded in a northern wilderness continues its descent into feral savagery. Meanwhile, in the present day we follow some of the survivors as they struggle to deal with the ramifications of their ordeal. Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) is covering her tracks after ‘accidentally’ killing her lover.

Taissa’s (Tawny Cypress) ex is threatening to expose her over the horrific thing she’s been keeping in the basement. Misty (Christina Ricci, left) is trying to find out what’s happened to Natalie (Juliette Lewis), who was kidnapped at the end of series one. It’s funny and shocking, and some scenes will make you gasp. Also stars Elijah Wood (right). From Friday

VILLENEUVE PIRONI: RACING’S UNTOLD TRAGEDY SKY/NOW DOCUMENTARY

Forty years on from the infamous 1982 F1 season, the families of Canadian driver Gilles Villeneuve and Frenchman Didier Pironi (below left) unite to tell how the duo’s relationship spiralled into a vengeful rivalry. From Sunday

DJANGO SKY/NOW DRAMA

Violent ten-part drama loosely based on the 1960s spaghetti western of the same name. Django (Matthias Schoenaerts, right), a dangerous man, has been searching for his longlost daughter, Sarah (Lisa Vicari), and finds her in New Babylon, a shanty town for outcasts. Sarah’s about to marry and isn’t necessarily thrilled to see her old dad. However, he might be a useful man to have around as the town is attacked by ‘The Lady’ (Noomi Rapace), a ruthless baddie who insists she’s doing the Lord’s work. Available now

MILEY CYRUS: ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION DISNEY+ MUSIC SPECIAL

Miley Cyrus (above) returns to Disney and takes to the stage for a debut rendering of her eighth album, Endless Summer Vacation. Her cinematic, one-of-a-kind performances are threaded together with interviews in the Los Angeles house where Frank Sinatra once lived. Available now

SHADOW & BONE NETFLIX FANTASY

Netflix’s ambitious fantasy show, based on the novels by Leigh Bardugo and with sets and costumes loosely inspired by Imperial Russia. It revolves around Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), an army map-maker who turns out to be a prophesied saviour who might be able to banish the supernatural force that has ravaged her land. She joins an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. In this, the second season, Alina faces new monsters and has to seek new allies. Available now

WACO: AMERICAN APOCALYPSE NETFLIX DOCUSERIES

Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the siege, a three-part documentary purports to offer the definitive account of what happened in Waco, Texas, in 1993. Then, messianic cult leader and alleged paedophile David Koresh and his followers faced off against the US government in a 51-day siege that resulted in the deaths of dozens of people. From Wednesday

BABYLON SKY STORE/ AMAZON FILM

Few recent films have divided the critics as starkly as Babylon, a threehour epic about the early days of Hollywood. For some it was a wildly over-the-top, self-indulgent mess, for others it was a multi-faceted masterpiece. Margot Robbie stars as a wannabe silent movie actor and Brad Pitt is a fading star. From Tuesday