Master of None
Aziz Ansari’s Dev likes his food. So it’s understandable that he’s made his way to Italy. But not much else about the opening of this second season is in any way predictable. Still, the humour is familiar: poised at the exact sweet spot between gentle and barbed. Master of None avoids excess snark but remains charming and perceptive.
From 12 May, Netflix
Billions
Expect Damian Lewis to set his icy green eyes to stun as season two of this testosterone overload of a financial thriller concludes. It’s Bobby versus Chuck and the stakes couldn’t be higher in this alpha male face-off.
9 May, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
I Love Dick
More psychosexual confusion in the realm of blase, privileged America as this novel adaptation by Jill “Transparent” Soloway gets a full series. Set in Texan academia, it portrays a struggling married couple and their obsession with Kevin Bacon’s mysterious professor Dick.
From 12 May, Amazon Prime
Loaded
Comedy-dramas about socially inept tech visionaries hitting paydirt are now officially a thing. Hot on the heels of Silicon Valley and Carters Get Rich, this series follows a bunch of British app developers as they sell their hit iPhone game and drown in money.
8 May, 10pm, Channel 4
Public Enemy
Compelling Belgian drama in which a released child-killer moves into a monastery. Inevitably, the locals are unimpressed.
10 May, 10pm, Sky Atlantic
Babs
Jaime Winstone pretty much defines the word “bubbly” before our eyes in this quirky and eagerly performed dramatisation of the life of Barbara Windsor. Winstone isn’t the only one trying her hand at some karaoke Babs; Samantha Spiro takes on the middle-aged Windsor before the woman herself turns up to show them how it should be done.
7 May, 8pm, BBC1
Queer Britain: Does God Hate Queers?
Continuing BBC3’s tradition of breezy explorations of serious subjects, this new six-parter sees journalist and YouTuber Riyadh Khalaf exploring LGBT life from a variety of perspectives. He meets young people whose sexual identity has left them homeless and explores the intersection of faith and sexuality.
From 7 May, BBC3
King Charles III
The late, great Tim Pigott-Smith stars as a newly acceded Charles Windsor in this TV version of Mike Bartlett’s play. Naughty Charles has gone rogue, defying the PM, causing a constitutional crisis and raising questions about the nature of hereditary power in the process.
10 May, 9pm, BBC2
Born to Kill
This creepy drama – which concludes this week – has been a slow-burning treat. Jack Rowan has been a revelation as an oddly charming and functional teenager who has nevertheless managed incredibly convincing, werewolf-like transformations into a bloodthirsty psychopath as his poor mum (Romola Garai) looks on.
11 May, 9pm, Channel 4
Hinterland
The fabulously bleak Welsh cop drama returns. Tonight, the team head for the hills to investigate a closely knit community. Always the worst kind …
6 May, 9pm, BBC4
