The amateur

Sky’s new thriller sees Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar tearing through Italy’s most glamorous locations on a quest to crack a code – and save the world

OUR TOP FIVE PICKS OF THE WEEK

Adam LeBor on TV

Film Club creators Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis and their co-star Nabhaan Rizwan reveal their favourite flicks

Created by Neil Cross, The Iris Affair is a high-stakes eight-part thriller series starring Niamh Algar as Iris Nixon, a codebreaker with a bounty on her head. Hired by entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Tom

NIAMH ALGAR on being embroiled in a dangerous cat-and-mouse chase