Orange Is the New Black
After a divisive fifth season set during a prison riot, Netflix’s comedy-drama looks to shake things up again by sending some of its major players to an intimidating max-security institution. So expect a host of new characters and even heavier storylines but also, thankfully, the cheeky humour that made OITNB such a bingeable show in the first place.
Available from Friday 27 July, Netflix
You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth’s pod about the dark underbelly of the movie industry returns. This time around the focus is on what might be the most notorious book ever written about Tinseltown, Kenneth Anger’s rumour-filled – and borderline libellous – Hollywood Babylon.
Podcast
Imagine...
A new series of the Beeb’s long-running arts strand begins with Alan Yentob visiting the home of Rose Wylie, the outsider artist who became an unlikely industry sensation in her 70s. As Yentob finds out, Wylie is an unpretentious and agreeably mischievous figure.
Sunday 22 July, 10.30pm, BBC1
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
One of the more unusual telly spin-offs in recent memory, this ITV series sees two of the code-crackers of its original period drama decamp to 50s California to hunt down a Zodiac-style serial killer. Inevitably there are some cliched period details – cable cars, jazz bars – but as with its predecessor, the zippy performances make it worth watching.
Wednesday 25 July, 9pm, ITV
My Golden Days
There’s a Truffaut-like charm to this Gallic romance from Arnaud Desplechin. Mathieu Almaric is the mature Paul Dedalus who, after a passport mix-up at an airport, is vividly reminded of his 80s activism, and an affair with the lovely Esther. Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet, as the young lovers, are enchanting.
Sunday 22 July, 2.05am, Channel 4
Sick Note
In an eye-catching bit of stunt-casting, Mean Girls star and controversy magnet Lindsay Lohan joins the second series of Sky1’s black comedy. Will she be the one to finally rumble Rupert Grint’s cancer-faking chancer? Nick Frost completes a surprisingly stellar lineup.
Thursday 26 July, 10pm, Sky1
