Atlanta
Donald Glover’s comedy-drama is a singular affair: politically and culturally acute yet abstracted and oddly dreamlike. Its second season begins with the usual mixture of grit and insight. An armed robbery gets things under way, but, before long, Earn’s domestic duties have given him an insight into a possible version of his future.
Sunday 17 June, 10pm, Fox
The Habitat
A fascinating new podcast exploring a remarkable experiment currently taking place in Hawaii. Six volunteers have been marooned up a mountain as part of an investigation into how life will be on Mars. But what will be learned? And what toll will this process take on the participants?
Podcast
Phantom Thread
This Paul Thomas Anderson drama was one of this year’s event movies. Not just because Anderson tends to take his time, but also because it marks the final screen role of the great Daniel Day-Lewis. A darkly immaculate journey into obsession.
Available from Monday 18 June, Sky Store
The Stranger
Following The Magnificent Ambersons and Journey Into Fear, this is Orson Welles in a more conventional guise. The war has ended and notorious Nazi Franz Kindler (Welles) is hiding out in a quiet Connecticut town, posing as a teacher and fiance of the innocent Loretta Young – but war-crimes investigator Edward G Robinson is on the trail.
Saturday 16 June, 11am, Talking Pictures TV
Conviction: Murder in Suburbia
Real-life crime stories certainly do the business for Netflix. The Beeb’s new two-parter isn’t quite on the scale of Making a Murderer but, even so, its tale of a possible miscarriage of justice being reinvestigated by a principally female, not-for-profit legal organisation has all the hallmarks of a compelling and spirited underdog story.
Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 June, 9pm, BBC Two
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
When a gent of a certain age has a heart scare, it can force a certain degree of perspective. Happily, that’s not really the case for comedy stalwarts Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse, whose respective health worries aren’t really foregrounded in these larky fishing trips. We do get to see Bob’s operation scars, though.
Wednesday 20 June, 10pm, BBC Two
Earth: One Amazing Day
Feature-length nature porn from BBC Earth Films. Whatever this documentary lacks in scientific detail, it more than makes up for in terms of sheer spectacle. Over the course of a 24-hour period on Earth, expect frolicking giraffes, travelling narwhals and, naturally, lazy pandas.
Saturday 16 June, 7.30pm, BBC Two
Queer Eye
So many unflatteringly presented straight guys, so little time. The fab five are back for their second series inside six months, bringing cleansing gusts of stylish can-do attitude into another set of stale lives. It’s formulaic, of course, but you’d have to work hard to resist their energetic charm.
Available now, Netflix
Rebel Women: The Great Art Fightback
The BBC’s enjoyable and informative season marking 100 years of women’s suffrage continues with this film about the revolutionary feminist artists of the 1960s. How did the likes of Judy Chicago, Margaret Harrison and Mary Kelly write women back into cultural history?
Monday 18 June, 10.30pm, BBC Four
Isle of Wight festival
To Seaclose Park on the Isle of Wight for this week’s musical fun. Edith Bowman and Vick Hope are your guides to a festival that might lack the vibes of Glastonbury but doesn’t stint on the big names. This year, laddish Leicester psych-stompers Kasabian, leathery sybarites Depeche Mode and Vegas showmen the Killers are among the attractions.
Friday 22 June, 7pm, Sky Arts
