What to watch on TV this week

Our pick of the best television shows

Giri/Haji, BBC2 — masterful cross-continent thriller

A Tokyo detective is dispatched to London to investigate a suspicious murder in a winning series directed by Julian Farino

Modern Love, Amazon Prime — stars Tina Fey and Dev Patel

Writers — including Sharon Horgan — pen a portmanteau series that maps marriage, romance and heartbreak

Mark Ronson opens up, just a crack, about not being able to open up

There is not much more to add from watching Carl Hindmarch’s documentary, in terms of personal revelations

The Name of the Rose, BBC2 — starring Rupert Everett and John Turturro

A new eight-parter based on Umberto Eco’s novel is set in a remote abbey in northern Italy where deaths start to pile up

Ian Hislop’s Fake News: A True Story, BBC4 — a long history of deceit

The Private Eye editor traces fake news back to the end of the 19th century

I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter, Sky Crime

A documentary on Sky’s newly launched crime channel follows the trial over the suicide of the 18-year-old Conray Roy III

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Netflix’s The Politician — a complex, cynical and stylish portrait of ambition

Ben Platt stars as a wealthy high-school Machiavel alongside manoeuvring mom Gwyneth Paltrow

Imagine: EastSide Story — London youth feel the transformative power of theatre

How a musical written and performed by teens in Waltham Forest helped them confront difficult experiences

Catherine the Great — Helen Mirren stars in a glittering but grubby production

Fabulous sets and costumery pale next to courtly intrigue and bedroom antics

Quadrophenia: Our Generation — Phil Daniels and Sting reflect

In Sky Arts’ 40-year anniversary programme, the cast of Quadrophenia look back on its punk status

Defending the Guilty is a sharp comedy starring Katherine Parkinson

The BBC2 series takes up the themes of identity and integrity in this week’s episode

David Tennant stars in claustrophobic drama ‘Criminal’ on Netflix

The Scottish actor is excellent as creepy stepdad in new police drama but Lee Ingleby takes the acting crown

The endlessly jolly Sue Perkins tours Japan on BBC1

From robot dogs to gruelling exercises on the slopes of Mount Fuji, the comedian explores Tokyo

The Loudest Voice, Sky Atlantic

‘How do they sleep at night?’ is a question that resonates throughout this pummelling drama series about the launch of Fox News

Unbelievable, Netflix is a new drama based on a shocking rape case

The poignant series features a heartbreaking performance from Kaitlyn Dever as a woman dismissed by police

Adventures in Futureland, Channel 4

As consumers crave for a more personal and interactive porn, ‘camming’ is on the rise

The Capture, BBC1 — surveillance goes under the spotlight

Digital jiggery-pokery and layers of subterfuge pep up this crime thriller

Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein, BBC2

Alleged sexual misconduct victims describe the brutal power of the movie mogul in this film

‘Succession’ returns with a savagely brilliant second season

The drama starring Brian Cox is back with raging sibling spats and coarse put-downs

American Factory, Netflix — can shared humanity overrule difference?

Two different cultures combine when a glass factory opens in Ohio and rumbling dissent ensues

Euphoria, HBO/Sky Atlantic — revenge porn and Xanax on the school bus

Generation Z drama depicting a near-apocalyptic teenage wasteland has fans including Leonardo DiCaprio

Glow: Season 3, Netflix — spandex amid slot machines as women wrestlers hit Vegas

Geena Davis adds star power as a casino manager in the ever-likeable comedy

This Way Up, C4 — Sharon Horgan and Aisling Bea in a droll, nervy comedy

A funny woman on the brink of disaster is at the centre of this new series resembling a London-Irish Broad City

Orange is the New Black grips so hard despite the contrivances

Havoc persists inside the prison, whilst the newly released Piper becomes a waitress

I Am Nicola is as messy and ill-structured as real life

The first of a new three-part drama quietly dramatises the narrative of coercive control

Undercover: Inside the Chinese Digital Gulag, ITV — chilling insight

A film-maker travels to so-called ‘re-education centres’ where reports of torture abound

Stranger Things 3, Netflix — a plague of rodents, hormones and ’80s pop hits Hawkins

Jobs and kissing replace bikes and board games as the goofy young kids turn teenagers

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files

In a new BBC documentary, historian David Olusoga reveals the history of racial prejudice in the UK

George Clooney’s Catch-22 recaptures the humour and horror of the novel

Glossy, visceral and with an exceptional cast, the satirical mini-series conjures a paradox-laden second world war

The Handmaid’s Tale is back, praise be! — season 3 reviewed

Elisabeth Moss’s Offred is all eerie composure as Gilead’s foundations begin to totter

Killing Eve season 2 — cat-and-mouse thriller returns

The second instalment of the hit series provides all the anticipated flamboyance and high-octane action

War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita — 22 households, 4 months, 0 plastic

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Anita Rani explore hard-hitting realities about single-use plastic

Big Little Lies and the death of the happy TV mum

How the screen housewife has evolved in line with prevailing attitudes

Black Mirror Season 5 — Andrew Scott as a creepy cabbie, Miley Cyrus as a doll in captivating new episodes

Netflix’s tech anthology series continues with three cunningly plotted stories

Tales of the City — Laura Linney stars in this Netflix revival

Has Armistead Maupin’s classic series about a queer community in San Francisco dated badly?

Gentleman Jack, BBC and HBO — a sparkling delight

Was Anne Lister a lesbian superhero — or an unashamed forerunner of class-privileged white feminism?

63 Up, ITV — is this the last of the Seven Up saga?

The cast of Michael Apted’s 1963 TV social experiment reunite for a ninth time

The Planets — Brian Cox returns with the story of the solar system

In this new five-part BBC series, the professor charts the improbable histories of Earth and its neighbours

Good Omens, Amazon/BBC2 — a romp through history and myth

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 novel is adapted for screen with Michael Sheen and David Tennant leading an all-star cast

Years and Years, BBC1 — a sharp, nightmarish vision of the future

Russell T Davies’ drama presents an all-too-identifiable 21st century through the lens of one Mancunian family

Chernobyl, Sky Atlantic — shrouded in mystery and smoke

This series starring Emily Watson and Jared Harris dramatises the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear accident to gripping effect

The final series of Game of Thrones is more of the same — but just as addictive

The last six episodes of the fantasy epic are set to be an enjoyable panoply of improbable sets, outlandish names and ‘sexposition’

Climate Change: The Facts — David Attenborough shows that the truth hurts

The BBC documentary is a sobering, uncompromising portrait of the effects of global warming on our world

The Trial of Ratko Mladic, BBC Four

A documentary follows the prosecution and defence cases for one of the darkest episodes in European history

The Yorkshire Ripper Files — poignant new interviews and a wealth of archive footage

Liza Williams’ BBC Four documentary highlights how preconceptions about the victims influenced the investigation

Fleabag returns, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s creation remains irresistible

After the success of Killing Eve, the writer-director is back with a second — and starrier — season of her brilliantly offhand comedy-drama

Leaving Neverland — Michael Jackson protégés turn accusers in harrowing documentary

Uncomfortable and graphic testimonies from two men, one of whom defended star during 2005 trial

30 years on, the BBC revisits the controversial legacy of The Satanic Verses

Mobeen Azhar speaks to the inhabitants of Bradford, the birthplace of worldwide demonstrations against Salman Rushdie’s novel