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This week’s best home entertainment: from 6 Underground to Elizabeth Is Missing

6 Underground

Boasting one of the largest budgets in Netflix history – $150m – this action-packed feature enlists chief Transformer Michael Bay to direct a cast including Ryan Reynolds and Dave Franco as operatives who have faked their deaths to take down a brutal dictator. Explosions and European scenery abound, as well as a hint of Reynolds’s Deadpool humour.
From Friday 13 December, Netflix

Elizabeth Is Missing

Glenda Jackson reprises her place on the small screen, 27 years since her last TV role. Here she plays Maud, who has dementia and is determined to uncover her friend Elizabeth’s disappearance before her forgetfulness gets in the way of the truth.
Sunday 8 December, 9pm, BBC One

The Expanse

Intergalactic drama The Expanse returns with the crew of the spaceship Rocinante now tasked to explore new planets beyond Earth’s ring. Of course, they soon stumble upon an ancient alien civilisation wreaking havoc seemingly from beyond the grave on the planet Ilus. A sumptuous, special effects-filled cautionary tale on colonisation and the plundering of natural resources.
From Friday 13 December, Amazon Prime Video

Catch and Kill

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ronan Farrow goes through the painstaking details of his investigation into the horrifying crimes and cover-ups of Hollywood abusers in this new podcast based on his book of the same name. It is a difficult listen; one compounded by the extent of the deceptions.
Podcast

The Grand Tour

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May reprise their car show for a fourth series, only in this first episode they’re travelling on boats across the Mekong Delta. It’s a dads’ day out at full throttle, featuring the usual near-disasters and disregard for the environment (although Clarkson has at least done a 180 on the climate crisis).
From Friday 13 December, Amazon Prime Video

Adam Hills: Take His Legs

The Last Leg host Adam Hills isn’t just a comedy fan but also a rugby league fanatic, and in this uplifting doc he puts together the UK’s first physical disability team in Warrington, leading them on to face the South Sydney Rabbitohs in Australia.
Friday 13 December, 11.30pm, Channel 4

Angels of the North

Forget haircuts, hair colouring or even blowdrying: it is all about the pre-party extensions for Tyneside salon Longlox and its mother-daughter team Sammyjo and Bev. This glorious series follows the fortunes of the Longlox girls as they compete for the town’s Instagram supremacy.
From Sunday 8 December, BBC Three

C4 Alternative Election Night

If the thought of another general election is too much to bear, let Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Rylan Clark-Neal, Katherine Ryan and (for some reason) Judge Rinder guide you through a night of ballot results, inexplicable graphics and those all-important vox-pops from Britain’s regions.
Thursday 12 December, 9.55pm, Channel 4

Of Horses and Men

A curious, captivating film about the connections between horses and people from Icelandic actor-turned-director Benedikt Erlingsson. The lives (and deaths) of various members of a horsebreeding community are examined, in particular the tightly wound Kolbeinn, who rides to visit his love, the widow Solveig.
Sunday 8 December, 2.05am, Film4

The Case of Sally Challen

Sentenced to life imprisonment after bludgeoning her husband to death with a hammer in 2010, in recent years the gruesome case of Sally Challen has become the focus of legal precedent. Arguing her appeal on the grounds of coercive control, this doc follows her unlikely court case with emotive testimony from her family and friends.
Monday 9 December, 9pm, BBC One