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Jake Hackney

The new films and shows out on Now this weekend – April 7

With another weekend comes a brand-new bunch of films and TV shows dropping on streaming services. If you’re wondering what new content you can sink your teeth into this weekend, we’ve done the leg work for you.

With Now – the streaming subscription service from Sky – there is plenty of new content on offer this month. Whether you fancy an all-new comedy-drama with Lily Allen in her TV debut, or joining Channing Tatum on a road trip with a former service dog, Now has you covered.

Here is the new content available to stream on Now this weekend:

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Dreamland

Dreamland is a comedy-drama about secrets, lies, loves, and aspirations within a family of four sisters. Set in the sun-drenched British seaside town of Margate, it is a dark comedic exploration of multi-generational female relationships, and their – somewhat dysfunctional – family dynamics.

Dreamland is based on Sharon Horgan’s BAFTA-winning short film and stars Lily Allen in her first TV role.

Dreamland is streaming on Sky Atlantic with Now.

The Portable Door

In The Portable Door, two lowly, put-upon interns begin working at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co. and become steadily aware that their employers are anything but conventional. Charismatic villains Humphrey Wells (Christoph Waltz), the CEO of the company, and middle manager Dennis Tanner (Sam Neill) are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices.

The Portable Door is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from Friday, April 7.

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The Forgiven

Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy. Arriving late at the grand villa with the debauched party raging, the couple attempts to cover up the incident with the collusion of the local police.

But when the boy’s father arrives seeking justice, the stage is set for a tension-filled culture clash in which David and Jo must come to terms with their fateful act and its shattering consequences.

The Forgiven is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from Saturday, April 8.

Intelligence: A Special Agent Special

David Schwimmer and Nick Mohammed are back in a one-off special of this hit comedy series. They’ve countered the Russians, they’ve foiled a plot to disrupt the NHS and they’ve prevented a nuclear disaster, but in this one-off special, the latest threat to our gang at the Government Communications Headquarters is personal.

With the future of CySec at stake, the team have to go rogue to save their reputations and their jobs.

Intelligence: A Special Agent Special is streaming on Sky Comedy with Now from Saturday, April 8.

Dog

Dog is a buddy comedy that follows the misadventures of two former Army Rangers paired against their will on the road trip of a lifetime. Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) and Lulu (a Belgian Malinois dog) buckle into a 1984 Ford Bronco and race down the Pacific Coast in hopes of making it to a fellow soldier’s funeral on time.

Along the way, they’ll drive each other completely crazy, break a small handful of laws, narrowly evade death, and learn to let down their guards in order to have a fighting chance of finding happiness.

Dig is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from Sunday, April 9.

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