TELEVISION & FILM
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DOCUMENTARY Clarkson’s Farm
Series 3episodes 1—4 available from Friday The reality-TV ups and downs of Diddly Squat, the Oxfordshire farm owned by The Grand Tour and former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson, have always showcased the presenter and columnist’s softer side. Bucolic mishaps, impulsive business decisions and a general air of mild chaos against beautiful English countryside backdrops were very much the order of the day in the first two series, but the third arrives promising controversy and strife. With the first half arriving this week and the second on 10 May, will Clarkson and his right-hand man Kaleb finally fall out for good? Can the farm shop survive the attentions of the local council (boo!)? And will Clarkson ever learn to operate a tractor properly? As usual, he has a wacky new plan, which this year involves hedgerows and pigs. JACK SEALE See feature: page 18
HORROR
Ep 1 available 25 April; ep 2 from Thursday on Amazon Prime Video The decade-hopping anthology returns, moving from the 1950s setting of Them: Covenant to 1991, while retaining Deborah Ayorinde as its lead performer. Now she’s LAPD detective Dawn Reeve, whose new murder case involves a body so badly damaged, there is speculation that the killer cannot possibly be human. As the killings continue without any clues emerging, the gaudiness of the period stylings adds an extra layer of discomfort to a crime thriller with a hint of True Detective, but with an overt horror-movie aesthetic.
COMEDY DRAMA
111 h Available now on Amazon Prime Video
A strong female ensemble leads this comedy drama set in 1960s Ireland. Devout Catholics Eileen (Kathy Bates), Lily (Maggie Smith) and Dolly (Agnes O’Casey) plan to visit Lourdes, but are unsettled when Chrissie (Laura Linney), the daughter of their late friend, tags along. Director Thaddeus O’Sullivan makes the most of his esteemed cast.
Apple TV+
Acapulco Series 3episodes 1 and 2available Wednesday The split-timeline comedy breezes merrily into season three, once more following the youthful adventures of Maximo (Enrique Arrizon), an employee at a top Acapulco resort in the hopeful, colourful 1980s. It’s now 1985, and our young hero is in the throes of a romance that is soon to become public knowledge. That typically harmless, heart-warming tale is, as ever, related in the present day by the elder Maximo (Eugenio Derbez, above), now a somewhat rakish Florida entrepreneur.
COMEDY DRAMA
Episode 9 available from Wednesday
Ten episodes feels a tad too long for this story of 1960s Florida socialites jostling for position while all hiding secrets, but at least we are getting somewhere now. The Beach
