Television

Musician, comedian, author and rescuer of wild animals Bill Bailey is always adding new strings to his bow.

Acting is an almost spiritual process of revealing what’s hidden in a character’s psyche for Brian Cox. So what secrets lie in the soul of Logan Roy, the ruthless patriarch he portrays?

Nathan Fielder’s unsettling show The Rehearsal is like a three-dimensional representation of autistic thinking.

A masterful comedy series takes the American dream and reveals its human cost in consistently surprising ways.

Olivier Assayas’s series Irma Vep – a remake of a movie about a remake – is a deliciously witty take on contemporary screen culture.

David Simon’s new series on real-life police corruption, We Own This City, functions as a grim sequel to The Wire.

Season four of Stranger Things bumps up the gore as it considers the anguish of growing up.

The genre-busting pirate romance Our Flag Means Death is straight up hilarious – and artistically and emotionally gorgeous.

Few television series have captured the uncanny as elegantly as Dan Erikson’s beautifully realised Severance.

A gripping docuseries about the gruelling sport of cheerleading reveals its subjects’ lives with finely drawn seriousness.