The Borneo Post (Sabah)

Five television movies not to miss in May

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'Catch-22', co-directed by George Clooney, and the return of 'Fleabag' with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, to the 'Chernobyl' dramatizat­ion and the smallscree­n adaptation of Neil Gaiman's book 'Good Omens', here are five TV series not to miss in May. Chernobyl In April 1986, Europe faced a terrible nuclear disaster when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in the USSR. This five-part series dramatizes the event -- one of the worst manmade catastroph­es in history - and tells the story of the brave men and women who made sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginab­le disaster. • Starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson Premieres May 6 on HBO Watch the trailer: Youtu.be/ s9APLXM9Ei­8 Fleabag (season 2) Fleabag is still troubled by her best friend's suicide and has also got on the wrong side of her sister. Totally lost and increasing­ly selfdestru­ctive, she crosses paths with a priest who becomes a friend and who shows her another side of life. Could this be the road to redemption? • Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman Premieres May 17 on Amazon Prime Video Watch the trailer: Youtu.be/ aX2ViKQFL_k Catch-22 On a US military base on an Italian island during the Second World War, Colonel Cathcart is so obsessed with being promoted that he piles the pressure on his men and ramps up their missions. Amid the horrors of war, a soldier by the name of Yossarian tries to save his skin by pretending to be insane, but he finds himself faced with a catch -- the famous Catch 22 -“Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.”

• Starring Christophe­r Abbott, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, Hugh Laurie Premieres May 17 on Hulu Watch the trailer: Youtu.be/ pFwvSj8cdS­8 When They See Us Ava DuVernay returns with a show about the breakdown of the US criminal justice system during the “Central Park Five” case, which saw five young people falsely accused of committing a sexual assault on a female jogger in New York in the 1980s.

• Starring Vera Farmiga, Michael Kenneth Williams, Felicity Huffman

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Michael Sheen and David Tennant star in the small-screen adaptation of ‘Good Omens', which premieres on Amazon Prime Video in May.
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'When They See Us' tells the story of the Central Park Five, who were just teenagers in 1989 when they were wrongly convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park, and will follow them from their arrest until 2014 when their conviction­s were overturned.

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