TV: Psychobitches
It doesn’t start on Sky Arts until next week but from Wednesday there’ll be a preview of this high-concept comedy’s second series available on Sky on demand. In the therapy room of Rebecca Front’s psychiatrist – where some of history’s most iconic and eccentric women go to get their psyches soothed – will be the likes of Michelle Gomez, Kathy Burke and Samantha Spiro (back as a maddeningly annoying Audrey Hepburn; pictured, right); while new patients include Morgana Robinson playing Anna Nicole Smith, Meera Syal as the goddess Hera and Alexa Chung as The Girl With A Pearl Earring.
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TV: Exposed: Magicians, Psychics And Frauds – Storyville
There’s still time to catch this admirable Storyville portrait of “liar, cheat and charlatan” James Randi. A confirmed sceptic, he’s spent a lifetime using his skills as a magician to help expose faith healers, psychics and spoon-benders as the con artists they are. But can you kid a kidder? In a captivating twist, it turns out that Randi himself might have fallen victim to a massive deception.
Audio: Radio 1 On iPlayer
Recognising Radio 1’s massive success on YouTube (1.65 million subscribers, the most of any radio station on the planet), the Beeb has decided to hand the network its own iPlayer channel. As well as boasting programming from the station proper, it will host original content such as ICYMI, a digest of what’s been going on at Radio 1 that week hosted by Chris Stark, and curated lists from its hosts of what to catch on iPlayer.
Video: High Maintenance
The sprawling pot comedy returns with a new cycle of episodes, though this time around you’ll have to pay for them. That said, $1.99 a pop seems a reasonable price for what is surely the best webseries around, packed full of pathos, beautifully observed characters and mordant humour. This time around, Ben Sinclair’s nameless dealer shares his stash with a couple preparing for the Apocalypse, an asexual magician and, in the most touching of the trio of eps available, two middle-aged singletons embarking on the first tentative steps of a relationship.
Video: Art Of Conflict
In the dusty corners of Netflix’s Documentaries section, an item that sounds like an Alan Partridge pitch: Sectarian Murals With Vince Vaughn. Vaughn narrates what is actually an eye-opening examination of how these Belfast street artworks appear, what they depict, and how they’re being neutralised, with artists from both sides of the divide brought together to talk and paint.
