This starry-voiced adult cartoon by Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon quietly dropped on iPlayer last month. Set in ancient Greece, it follows benevolent Tyrannis (Richard Ayoade) – the mortal son of vain goddess Deliria (Hannah Waddingham) and husband Shlub (Matt Berry) – who uses modern ideas as he rules Krapopolis. Served up in fun 20-minute bites, this six-episode bill will race by.
Hollie Richardson Chris and Amy were the first couple to cha cha their way from the dancefloor (in their Baywatch gear, no less), which means 14 pairs are left in week three of the competition. Lacey and Vito confirmed one dance at the end of last week’s show: they’ll be getting lively with a samba to Bamboléo by the Gipsy Kings. Perhaps the record-breaking heat boiled record buyers’ brains.
How else to explain the UK’s best-selling single and Eurovision winner, Save Your Kisses for Me? Or the Wurzels ploughing Combine Harvester to No 1? Thankfully, punk was also battering down the door – along with Abba and Dolly.
Ali Catterall A classy cast and the lure of gossip among pampered literati are keeping Anthony Horowitz’s convoluted mystery drama going. Book editor Susan (Lesley Manville), working on a roman à clef set in Crete in 1955, now meets the family of the author, who alleges one of them murdered his grandmother. Everyone is wonderfully barbed.
Jack Seale Oh, this is going to be a good one: while his daughter hotfoots it on Strictly, actor/geezer/emerging national treasure Danny Dyer is the host of this edition of the show, which is back after a week off. Music comes from south London singer-songwriter Sasha Keable. HR If 1.30am is a little late, this candid drama based on Lisa Taddeo’s nonfiction hit about sex and desire is also streamable.
In an episode that’s all the more resonant given grim events at Cornell, Lina (Betty Gilpin) tells Gia (Shailene Woodley) about a disturbing event from her student past. Hannah J Davies In the wake of the pink powerhouse that was Barbie, toy giant Mattel is going all-in on adaptations. Before we get the pleasure of Polly Pocket on screen, the line of tiny toy vehicles is given some dramatic spit and polish in Sam Hargrave’s breezy caper.
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