A plot twist for the ages in wild new Colin Farrell series

A plot twist for the ages in wild new Colin Farrell series

You’ll need a spoonful of medicine to help Apple TV’s ludicrous Sugar go down.

  • byRobert Moran

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Faking Hitler is a giddy ride through journalism’s most bonkers gotcha

Faking Hitler is a giddy ride through journalism’s most bonkers gotcha

There’s a lightness of touch in this dramatisation of how a German magazine was duped into buying diaries that were supposedly written by Adolf Hitler.

  • byBen Pobjie
Steve Coogan goes where few actors would dare as sex predator Jimmy Savile
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Steve Coogan goes where few actors would dare as sex predator Jimmy Savile

It takes a very brave actor to play a man as irredeemable as the late Jimmy Savile,but Steve Coogan is up to the task.

  • byKarl Quinn
In its final season,Happy Valley reaches a pinnacle few dramas manage

In its final season,Happy Valley reaches a pinnacle few dramas manage

Sarah Lancashire’s Sergeant Catherine Cawood is looking forward to a quiet life,but then human remains are discovered in a reservoir.

  • byBen Pobjie
Annette Bening is terrific in this tale of domestic suspense

Annette Bening is terrific in this tale of domestic suspense

Annette Bening and Sam Neill star in the latest adaptation of one of Liane Moriarty’s best-selling novel,Apples Never Fall.

  • byKylie Northover
Allen Leech delves into a dark Irish chapter in serial-killer thriller

Allen Leech delves into a dark Irish chapter in serial-killer thriller

Best known as Tom Branson in Downton Abbey,Leech plays a detective on the trail of a suspected murderer in The Vanishing Triangle.

  • byBen Pobjie
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Netflix doco reveals the truth of cult-like disciplinary schools

Netflix doco reveals the truth of cult-like disciplinary schools

Once a student at one of America’s disciplinary schools,filmmaker Katherine Kubler set out to investigate how such institutions get away with physical and mental abuse of minors.

  • byKylie Northover
The best new shows to stream in March

The best new shows to stream in March

Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air this month.

  • byCraig Mathieson
Capes,cravats,magic mittens:this is the role Noel Fielding was born to play

Capes,cravats,magic mittens:this is the role Noel Fielding was born to play

It’s not The Mighty Boosh,but you’ll be pleasantly surprised by this new Apple TV series.

  • byRobert Moran
Life After Life is an exquisite ‘what if’ mystery
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Life After Life is an exquisite ‘what if’ mystery

Based on Kate Atkinson’s acclaimed novel,this four-part drama asks questions about life,death,chance and how our existence is shaped.

  • byBen Pobjie
I couldn’t get a handle on this odd hip hop comedy,but I’m hooked
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I couldn’t get a handle on this odd hip hop comedy,but I’m hooked

This five-part series from Vince Staples has an air of the surreal about much of what happens,even as it rubs up against a sense of veracity.

  • byKarl Quinn