Colin from Accounts series two A surprise hit last year , this second series of the sweet yet sharp Aussie romcom picks up with Ash and Gordon (real-life couple and writers Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall) having decided to give their romance and proper go and moved in together. But there’s one thing missing – Colin, the disabled dog that facilitated their meet-cute in the first place. They hatch a plan to get him back from his new owners, but soon realise that co-owning a dog isn’t enough to help them overcome the obstacles that crop up in new relationships.
As with all good romcoms, the joy is in watching them do it anyway. Slow Horses series four If this thriller about a group of MI5 rejects were on primetime BBC, it would be one of the biggest TV programmes in the country. But squirreled away on Apple TV+, it’s taken four series for it to build up the audience it deserves.
Based on Mick Herron’s Slough House novel series, this new instalment takes inspiration from 2017’s Spook Street and begins with a bomb explosion that threatens not only the safety of the public, but the foundations of the Slow Horses team of spies itself. Gary Oldman returns as the curmudgeonly lead, Jackson Lamb, but it’s Jack Lowden who takes centre stage as upstart River Cartwright, whose tense relationship with his ex-spy grandfather is about to get a whole lot more complicated. The Perfect Couple Nicole Kidman is one of the hardest-working women in Hollywood.
Having already appeared in Expats and A Family Affair this year, here she is in Netflix’s new glossy relationship thriller, adapted from Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel. She plays the poshly named Greer Garrison Winbury, an upper-class author and member of one of Nantucket’s most revered – and wealthiest – families. So, when a body washes up on the beach during her son’s wedding, Greer isn’t just embarrassed, she’s a suspect.
Eve Hewson , Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning , and Meghann Fahy make up the rest of the cast in this soapy, slick murder mystery. Funny Woman series two Last year’s first series of Funny Woman wasn’t as funny as the title might suggest – instead it was a bold, feisty takedown of sexism in the 60s comedy world. Gemma Arterton is the main attraction as beauty queen turned sitcom star Barbara Parker (or Sophie Straw, as she’s better known to her adoring fans).
As we reunite with her for six more episodes, Barbara is feeling limited by her status as a TV star in the male-dominated world of comedy and wants to branch out into more serious, more respectable movies. Turns out the film industry is just as bigoted as the small screen, so Barbara decides there’s only one thing for it – make her own TV show exposing the ugly side of showbusiness. Selling Sunset season eight The vapid, loud luxury nonsense of Selling Sunset should have worn off by now.
Yet here we are eight series in, and I’m still glued to the mansions and Manolo heels. This year, Chrishell, Mary, Amanza, Chelsea and co are feeling the effects of a dip in the luxury property market, meaning the competition to get a hilltop glass-panelled identikit palace flogged to someone with more money than sense is more intense than ever. Add in various romantic problems and new ingenue colleagues (including Alanna Gold) and the potential for disaster increases tenfold.
The perfect storm for reality TV. The Grand Tour: One for the Road Bad news for some, good news for most – this is the last ever episode of The Grand Tour (which has, since its inception in 2016, become somewhat of a Top Gear 2.0).
Jeremy Clarkson , James May and Richard Hammond are in Zimbabwe for their last jaunt, against the advice of their long-suffering producer Andy Wilman. Taking the opportunity to drive cars they’ve always wanted to own – a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag – the trio swap their usual banter for what we’re told will be an “emotional ending”. In Vogue: The 90s Oasis is reuniting , everyone’s wearing baggy jeans and there’s a Baywatch reboot on the way; the Nineties are back, baby! This new docuseries will recount the highs and lows of the decade’s fashion business from the birth of the supermodel to the slinky sexiness of Tom Ford’s Gucci, to the explosion of avant-garde designs from the likes of Alexander McQueen.
Each episode will take on its own theme: “Hollywood”, “The Met Gala”, “Grunge”, “Hip-Hop”, and the snappily titled “The globalisation of American fashion”. Kim Kardashian , Naomi Campbell , Victoria Beckham , Anna Wintour , Claudia Schiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sarah Jessica Parker are just a handful of the style icons who will share their memories of the debauched decade. Agatha All Along There’s only been one truly good Marvel TV series – WandaVision , a high-concept, experimental series that took on the style of sitcoms through the ages as its domesticated superheroes Wanda and Vision reckoned with their lives post-Blip (when supervillain Thanos clicked half the world’s population – including Vision – into non-existence).
So, I have high hopes for this spin-off, which picks up with WandaVision ’s villain, the witch Agatha Harkness (played by the hilarious Kathryn Hahn ), who has been stuck in Westview without her powers ever since. To regain her magic, she’ll have to pass the legendary Witches’ Road trials, so Agatha recruits a gang of goth teens (including Heartstopper ’ s Joe Locke) to create a new coven and help her get back to her usual wicked ways. A Very Royal Scandal Yes, another dramatisation of Prince Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview .
But before you roll your eyes, this one has a bit more oomph behind it than Netflix’s disappointing Scoop – Emily Maitlis herself is an executive producer. She’s played here by Ruth Wilson opposite the chameleonic Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew, and the three episodes recount the days leading up to and the inevitable fallout from the disastrous interview. Even though we’ve seen it countless times, watching Andrew dig himself further and further into a hole still makes for transfixing television.
Playing Nice James Norton ( Happy Valley ) and Niamh Algar ( The Virtues ) play a couple whose worst nightmare comes true when they discover their toddler isn’t theirs; he was switched for another baby at birth in a devastating hospital mistake. When they track down the parents of their biological child, all four adults must make a life-changing decision: should they keep the son they’ve loved and raised for the past two years? Or swap him for the baby that is rightly theirs? A twisty psychological thriller that throws the nature vs nature debate up in the air, Playing Nice promises to be one of the most gripping series of the month. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story The first instalment of Ryan Murphy’s true crime strand, Monsters, controversially told the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer .
While it attracted a huge audience and won a Bafta, the families of Dahmer’s victims said the series “retraumatised” them and questioned its version of events. Nevertheless, a new series focusing on new “monsters” arrives on Netflix this month, focusing on the infamous Menéndez brothers , who shot their parents dead at their Beverly Hills home in 1989. Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny play the victims, José and Kitty, while Cooper Koch and Nicholas Chavez take on the roles of Erik and Lyle Menéndez.
Frasier season 13 Hopes were high but expectations were low when Frasier returned for a new series last year. Luckily, Kelsey Grammer’s Seattle radio psychiatrist was just as we remembered, and the reboot was a hit with audiences and critics alike. For season 13 (or season two of the reboot), Frasier returns to his radio roots and steps back behind the mic at KACL in Seattle – though only for one episode.
After that, it’s back to his original home of Boston, where he’s still learning to live alongside his previously estranged son, Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott). The Penguin It seems it’s impossible to have a hit film – especially one about a superhero – without TV execs jumping on the bandwagon with a spin-off. The Penguin is an offshoot of 2022’s The Batman , and sees Colin Farrell reprise his role as the eponymous villain.
The eight episodes are set just a week after the events of the movie (in which the entire city of Gotham was flooded) and follows seedy nightclub owner The Penguin – real name Oswald “Oz” Cobb – as he rises through Gotham’s underworld to become a criminal kingpin. No news on whether the caped crusader himself will make a cameo yet. Joan In her 2004 memoir, Joan Hannington styled herself as “Britain’s most notorious jewel thief”, but her story starts much less boldly.
Played in this drama by Sophie Turner ( Game of Thrones ), we meet her as an everyday eighties housewife, but, bored with her daily chores, she soon starts committing petty crimes to pass the time and inject some excitement into her life. Before long, she’s planning high-profile heists – and, crucially, getting away with it. The real Hannington was so good at thieving that she earned herself the nickname “the Godmother”.
Nightsleeper Joe Cole ( Peaky Blinders, Gangs of London ) isn’t one to shy away from an action-packed role and pacy thriller Nightsleeper looks no different. He plays Joe Roag, an off-duty policeman who happens to be on a sleeper train from London to Glasgow that is under threat from a terror attack. Working with cyber security expert Abby Aysgarth ( Alexandra Roach , No Offence ) over the phone, it’s up to Joe to identify the source of the threat and put a halt to the plan – before he and the rest of the passengers meet their maker.
This one has “hit series” written all over it..
