PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX NEW! ANELKA: MISUNDERSTOOD

HHH ‘I’m a footballer. I wasn’t there to have fun.’ Former Arsenal striker Nicolas Anelka tells his own story in this one-off profile about the enigmatic ‘bad boy’ of the French game. From Wednesday.

NEW!

(Season 3) HHHH The return of this tense Danish series set in a Scandinavia where most of the population has been annihilated by a rain-borne virus. The tension doesn’t slacken in the new, six-part final season, which starts with a bang. From Thursday.

MOVIE

(2020)

12 HHH Alicia Keys produced this slick, fun and credible-looking movie about an underdog dance team.

Sabrina Carpenter plays

Quinn (right, centre), whose admission to college hinges – for some reason – on her forging a dance team from scratch and winning a competition. The biggest problem? Quinn can’t dance. From Friday.

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(Season 1) HHHH This delightful wildlife series follows small animals as they embark on epic journeys across the US. From Friday.

AMAZON PRIME COMEDY

HHH (All nine seasons)

SKY ON DEMAND/ NOW TV DRAMA

(Season 1) HHH Jordan Peele’s take on the classic series opens with Nightmare

At 30,000 Feet, a solid twist on the tense 1963 episode from the original show. Big

Little Lies’ Adam Scott (right) stars as a troubled reporter who becomes convinced that his flight is doomed.

COMEDY

(All 12 episodes) HHH

Broad, fun BBC comedy that

David Walliams co-wrote and stars in, as a socially inept chemistry teacher.

DRAMA

HHHH Al Pacino is on fine form at the centre of HBO’S tense one-off drama about the 2011 sex abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University. Pacino plays Joe Paterno, the ‘winningest coach in the history of collegiate football’, whose handling of accusations against a colleague led to his swift downfall.

MOVIE THE TWILIGHT ZONE BIG SCHOOL PATERNO INTERSTELLAR

(2014) 12 u HHHH While we await the arrival of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet in cinemas, why not revisit his stunning sci-fi adventure about the search for a new world.

BEST OF THE REST NEW! RAMY

(Starzplay via Amazon & Virgin) HHHH If you like naturally played comedy, Ramy Youssef’s show about a shy, first-generation American Muslim is one of the best of its kind. Season two arrives this week, and Green Book’s Mahershala Ali joins the cast as the intense Sheikh

Ali Malik. From Thursday.

PAY MOVIES A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK

(2019) 12 u (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) This much-delayed romcom from Woody Allen – dropped by Amazon – is only for completist fans of the director. He still attracts a good cast, though: Timothee Chalamet, Jude Law and Elle Fanning are among his actors here.

BULL NEW! YUNG FILLY’S CELEB LOCK-IN

(BBC3 via iplayer) HHH Eastender Maisie Smith is one of the star guests in a riotous new game show with pranks and dancing. From tomorrow, 6am.

(2019) 15 (BT TV Store, Virgin) HHH A damaged, worn-out bull rider forms a bond with a beaten-down teenager in an authentic, well-acted drama that takes issues such as racism, poverty and drug use in its stride. Both from Monday.

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