Jessica Jones
The misanthropic booze-hound PI with the disturbing backstory returns. Having dispatched David Tennant’s Kilgrave at the end of season one, can Jessica (Krysten Ritter) leave her traumatic past behind and use her special powers for good? As an illustration of the effects of abuse, JJ takes some beating.
Available from Thursday 8 March, Netflix
The 90th Academy Awards
The 2018 Oscars feel unusually highly charged, with issues of race and gender to the fore. Pity the host Jimmy Kimmel, then, who is charged with keeping things lively while staying on the right side of various uncrossable lines.
Sunday 4 March, 1.30am, Sky Cinema Oscars
Collateral
The end is nigh for David Hare’s weighty, if rather ponderous drama; hopefully it can cast off its shackles and manage a pulse-racing climax. John Simm’s David Mars is facing a political and personal reckoning, while DI Glaspie (Carey Mulligan) puts her reputation on the line.
Monday 5 March, 9pm, BBC Two
Still Game
The enduring Scottish sitcom – landing somewhere between Last of the Summer Wine and Mrs Brown’s Boys – returns for an eighth series and finds the grouchy seniors as recalcitrant as ever. As we return, Winston has been forced out of his flat by an asbestos problem. But persuading his friends to help him proves more difficult than he imagines.
Thursday 8 March, 9.30pm, BBC One
This Country
The second season of this consistently funny, frequently ridiculous and occasionally poignant mockumentary continues to capture the longueurs of modern rural life brilliantly. Will Kurtan ever escape the long shadow of his cousin Kerry and reach the promised land of a GVNQ at Swindon College? Not while there are dumps to roam and ceiling tiles to smash …
Available now, BBC Three
Call Me By Your Name
One of this year’s more worthy Oscars dark horses, this spellbinding coming-of-age drama stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer and tracks the summer romance between a precocious teenager and an older graduate student in 80s Italy.
Available from Monday 5 March, Sky Store
Gilda
This disturbing, noirish tale of sexual obsession stars Rita Hayworth as sultry nightclub singer Gilda, famously peeling off long slinky gloves to the tune of Put the Blame on Mame. She’s married to dangerous casino owner George Macready in hot and violent Buenos Aires – and then her old flame, gambler Glenn Ford, rolls up. Of all the gin joints …
Thursday 8 March, 11am, Film4
Nashville
It’s been bump-started back to life by a new channel after facing the axe. It’s suffered the slings and arrows of critical judgment. Nashville’s trajectory is beginning to feel as storied as one of the country songs it celebrates. But it’s facing the final curtain at last – this last season is sure to be full of weepy melodrama.
Friday 9 March, 10pm, Sky Living
Love
The final season of Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, and Paul Rust’s millennial romcom. Over the course of two seasons, Mickey and Gus’s will-they, won’t-they relationship has waxed and waned, jeopardised by her occasional penchant for self-destruction and his general goofiness. But will the couple get the ending they deserve?
Available from Friday 9 March, Netflix
Homo Sapiens
Another season of Will Young and Chris Sweeney’s cheerful podcast and they’ve landed a big fish for the opening episode. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has taken a break from pondering the customs union to join Will and Chris to discuss jam-making, gay rights and, probably at some point, his rather torturous manoeuvres around Brexit.
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