What to watch
The Doctor has a new companion – and they’re making history in the Tardis
With Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu at the helm, this season marks the first time the blue police box will be occupied entirely by people of colour.
- Benji Wilson
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Drop: As suspenseful as anything I’ve experienced in a cinema for ages
Meghann Fahy plays a woman having the worst night of her life as a series of mysterious threatening phone messages wrecks a first date.
- Jake Wilson
‘I’ve never been at a better place’: Jon Hamm is ready to take charge again
After almost a decade on Mad Men, it’s taken the 54-year-old another 10 years to feel like a leading man again.
- Louise Rugendyke
It’s a hit in the UK, now the cult game show is coming to the ABC
Stand-up comedian Claire Hooper will step into Richard Osman’s shoes to host the local version of House of Games.
- Nicole Elphick
- ★★★★
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Horror and heartbreak is real in the devastating Narrow Road to the Deep North
With a tender performance from Jacob Elordi at its centre, this is perhaps one of the most beautiful and harrowing war stories I have seen.
- Louise Rugendyke
- ★★★
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Historic bluesfest or semi-comic bloodfest? Sinners is both
Marvel director Ryan Coogler goes Southern Gothic in this tale of identical twins and an Irish vampire with a taste for the blues.
- Sandra Hall
It’s been lauded as one of the best comedies, but Hacks is about to get darker
The third season ended on a note so toxic it surprised even its co-stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder.
- Michael Idato
Can John Mulaney’s absurdist Netflix masterpiece save late-night TV?
If late-night TV is a sinking ship, this wild show is keeping the party going all the way down.
- Patrick Lenton
And Just Like That … Carrie and Aiden have reunited (again) for season three
The cat has made the cut, but will Aiden last the distance in the new season of the Sex and the City reboot?
- Louise Rugendyke
‘Shame and trauma’: Why this murder mystery series just got a whole lot darker
The second season of Scrublands is a lot more personal, and that means a whole new challenge for star Luke Arnold.
- Louise Rugendyke
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