“Bolton, baby ...
I’m back!” Sophie Willan’s fantastically funny creation returns for a second series, which will have you cackling and crying. Alma has finished her tour with the local theatre troupe and is ready to find an agent and become a big star. As before, there is a lot for her to deal with at home, but at least she is reunited with a dynamite female cast: Lorraine Ashbourne is a treat as her topless, Spam-loving gran; is having a ball as her entrepreneurial best mate, Leanne; and superbly treads the fine line between hilarious and heartbreaking as her drug-addicted mum, Lin.
What fabulous company to be in again. Prof Brian Cox takes the helm for another lavish space odyssey, this time revealing surprising discoveries about our nearest galactic neighbours. It begins with a look at the inner life of volcanic planets and their moons, from hotspots such as Mars and Jupiter’s satellite Io to some very cool cryovolcanoes further afield.
An unrecognisable Colin Farrell is rightly for embodying the ambitious gangster Oz Cobb, but this Batman prequel is only as strong as Farrell’s antagonist – and Cristin Milioti is up to the task as the fire-eyed Sofia Falcone. Knives are drawn and bullets sprayed this week as the stakes ratchet up. A thrilling two-parter (with the episodes shown consecutively) in which the explorer Lucy Shepherd and her Indigenous team embark on a 50-day trek through untouched but threatened Amazon rainforest, battling giant wasps, venomous s.