Best MedicineDoc Martin's US remake, starring The Good Wife's Josh CharlesYear: 2026Certificate: 12Watch now on NOWWatch now on SkyAn American version of Doc Martin, starring The Good Wife's Josh Charles as the big-city surgeon who moves to a coastal town after developing a fear of blood. The result is a light drama with more obviously comic gears than the original, co-starring Abigail Spencer (Timeless) as the Doc's love interest, Louisa, and Annie Potts (Ghostbusters) as his plain-talking Aunt Sarah.The town where the previously Boston-dwelling Doc has moved to is Port Wenn, Maine, where he used to holiday as a child. The doc had hoped it would be a quiet port to ride out his own personal storm, but Port Wenn turns out to be full of residents with oddball medical complaints in a way that recalls the considerably quirkier (but similarly heartwarming) Northern Exposure. In episode nine, Martin is joined by a familiar face - Martin Clunes from the original British series - as Dr Robert Best, Martin's stubborn father. Watching the two of them walk about on screen is rather surreal, and reinforces how strong Charles is in the role, managing to make it his own while clearly playing the same basic character. A second series has been ordered. (13 episodes) Alice And SteveMidlife romantic comedy starring Nicola Walker and Jemaine ClementYear: 2026Certificate: 15Watch now on Disney+Alice and Steve used to go out together. The fiftysomething friends met at the legendary Hacienda nightclub way back when and still like having a good time now. We're shown that right at the start of this six-part British comedy, when they hit the bars hard after the funeral of their friend. As played by Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement, they're a relatable pair of people trying to find their way in mid-life, at a point when their personal lives are anything but simple and when time seems increasingly at a premium and choices feel important. Created by Sophie Goodhart, a writer on Sex Education and Rivals, this 'wrong-com' is all about choices and one choice in particular: when Steve starts dating Alice's rebounding 26-year-old daughter, Izzy (A Good Girl's Guide To Murder's Yali Topol Margalith), which is a choice that Alice really doesn't enjoy. It's a tricky concept to play out well and, were it not written by a woman, this could be in serious danger of being a sleaze-fest. As it is there's a lot of charm and humour here even if a lot of it feels like the show is succeeding in spite of itself. Margalith in particular is a big part of why it comes off - she makes it way more believable than Clement does - while watching Walker's Alice reel from it all is a joy in itself. (Six episodes) Brexit: A Very British Civil WarThe inside story of Brexit told by the people who were thereYear: 2026Certificate: pgWatch now on BBC iPlayerTen years on, this is the inside story of how Brexit got done - and, as we all know, it was anything but an easy, clean-cut job. Featuring interviews with all the key players - including David Cameron, Michael Gove, Nigel Farage and the Daily Mail's own columnists Boris Johnson and Sarah Vine - they reveal what really happened behind the scenes: the schisms, swear words and sulks. The story starts with the 2015 General Election as it dawns on the then prime minster Cameron that his party's somewhat unexpected outright win means his government must commit to a Brexit referendum within the first half of the parliament. Let the campaigning commence! On the one side was Nigel Farage, who failed to win a seat and resigned as UKIP leader but quickly U-turned and set up Leave.EU to campaign for Brexit. On the other was Cameron, who while continuing to negotiate with the EU, realised the importance of recruiting political big beasts Boris Johnson and Michael Gove onto the Remain campaign. Which way they decided to go would change the face of Britain... (Two episodes)Tiger IslandCameras capture the apex predators from land and airYear: 2026Certificate: 12Watch now on BBC iPlayerOn an isolated river island in Nepal, there are greater concentrations of Bengal tigers than anywhere else on the planet, and it's an ideal place for cameras to capture these formidable and otherwise reclusive creatures in action. This two-parter follows scientists, film-makers and local guides as they deploy drones, robot cams and good-old-fashioned stakeouts to film these incredible animals and learn more about them. The team, including big-cat scientist Dan O'Neill, are frequently awestruck by their encounters, but there's even more drama with the animals themselves as we follow these stunning apex predators in their natural habitat. Absolutely marvellous. (Two episodes)Kevin Bridges: In Search Of The Beautiful GameThe comedian explores how fans devote themselves to football around the worldYear: 2026Certificate: 12Watch now on BBC iPlayerThere are plenty of documentaries about football players and teams, but fans are a critical part of the live game and have not received due attention. Here, comedian and superfan Kevin Bridges is on a mission to explore that side of football and to find out how fans like him devote themselves to the beautiful game in countries including Brazil and the US. A proud Scot, Bridges was 11 years old in 1998 when his national team last qualified and, like a lot of people, has become slightly disillusioned with the trajectory of the sport in the 28 years it has taken them to qualify once more - especially when it comes to the astronomical ticket prices, and not just at the World Cup. Can he put the joy and soul back into the game by talking to those who find joy in the grassroots game? The journey starts in Scotland before taking him to the favelas of Brazil and, along the way, he meets such stars of the game as Brazilian great Cafu and Scotland's John McGinn. (59 minutes) The ChoralRalph Fiennes stars in Alan Bennett's charming wartime village dramaYear: 2025Certificate: 12Watch now on NOWWatch now on Sky'Don't worry about me, Mr Duxbury. Too smart to get shot.' So says the chorus master - rather fatefully, you fear - as he sets off to the front in Alan Bennett's charming portrait of villagers looking for joy during the First World War. The choir needs a replacement for its missing master, and so Mr Duxbury (the chairman, played by Roger Allam), takes a chance in appointing a (gasp!) homosexual in the departing man's stead. Said homosexual is played by Ralph Fiennes, so you can imagine he'll probably take the job. Still, it's not an easy offer for Duxbury to make as, on top of his homosexuality, Dr Henry Guthrie lived in Germany for years and is also an atheist. Guthrie only takes the job on the condition that he's given total creative control, and that's the catalyst for a wave of change to roll through the community. A typically Bennett film in both its rhythms and its characters, The Choral is a patient, bucolic delight, with just enough poignancy (the arrival of call-up papers is an ever-present threat) to keep you off balance and make the charm feel all the warmer. In the later stages of the film, look out for Simon Russell Beale playing none other than Sir Edward Elgar himself. (113 minutes) Every Year AfterCanadian lakeside romance based on the popular novelYear: 2026Certificate: 15Watch now on Prime VideoBased on the bestselling novel by Carley Fortune and set in the picture-perfect Canadian lake town of Barry's Bay, Every Year After is an eight-part romance told partly in flashback. It opens as obituary writer Persephone 'Percy' Fraser (British actress Sadie Soverall) receives sad news that calls her back to the town where she spent so many happy summers with Sam (Matt Cornett), her best friend and later something more - until something very bad happened indeed.Flashbacks to all that unfold in parallel with the present day story, the meat of which tracks Percy's return to Barry's Bay as a cynical twentysomething, when she reunites with Sam. He's with someone else now, but are he and Percy actually soulmates who should never have been parted? The question of who's supposed to be with whom permeates the entire show, which is spikier than the book and features all manner of tangled love affairs. Think of it more like a junior Virgin River and less like The Summer It Turned Pretty, in terms of tonal expectations.Among the characters, brothers Sam and Charlie have a lively chemistry - and they're easy to tell apart, too, as Charlie spends most of his time walking around with his shirt off. Sam and Percy's bond is nicely acted, too, although a downside to this show is that so many of the characters are unpleasant to one another so much of the time - so, if you're familiar with the book, be prepared for some surprises. Death bubbles away as a theme in the background, too, from the reason Percy returns to the Bay to the nature of her job and even her name (Persephone is the Greek goddess of the dead), which also feels different from the book.The story draws largely on Fortune's novel Every Summer After, but there are moments that point towards the sequel One Golden Summer too, so a second series seems like a fair bet. Among the adult cast, fans of 24 may recognise Elisha Cuthbert as Sue - Sam and Charlie's ill-fated mum. (Eight episodes)Off CampusRacy college romance based on the Elle Kennedy booksYear: 2026Certificate: 15Watch now on Prime VideoA racy US college romance based on the books by Elle Kennedy and starring Malory Towers' Ella Bright as one half of a couple that starts out as fake - but becomes very real. Bright plays Hannah, a smart music student who strikes a bargain with Garrett (Belmont Cameli), a less smart, college hockey star with a ladies' man reputation. He'll pretend to be her boyfriend to make someone jealous if she tutors him to help with his grades. However - and it's not a spoiler to say this - the agreement leads to more than either of them expect. With a couple of charming leads, some bruising, Heated Rivalry-style ice hockey action and an atmosphere that strives to capture the 'magic that is the college experience' (in the words of show creator Louisa Levy) Off Campus has a decent shot at entering the pantheon of modern teen romances, and the initial release makes it particularly well-timed to capture those looking to graduate from My Life With The Walter Boys and The Summer I Turned Pretty. Such viewers should also be aware though, that it's considerably more graphic than either of those shows right from the start, and has some dark turns later on that puts it closer to We Were Liars territory.It should also prove to be a good calling card for American-born, London-raised Bright who, rather handily for an actress, holds dual US-UK citizenship. She already has BAFTA and Emmy nominations under her belt for playing the angry Darrell Rivers on Malory Towers, and a second series of Off Campus will definitely follow this. (Eight episodes)An Unsuitable Job For A WomanHelen Baxendale stars as the private eye created by PD JamesYear: 1997-1999Certificate: 15Watch now on Prime VideoWatch now on 5 (Ch5)Helen Baxendale is Cordelia Gray, the heroine of this adaptation of the 1972 novel by PD James. Young and fresh-faced, Baxendale's Cordelia is a woman in a man's world who inherits the private detective business of her mentor Bernie Pryde when he commits suicide. A softly spoken, sensitive young woman, she does indeed seem an unlikely private eye, but Bernie saw something in her and she steadily proves her late mentor right.James's novel was published in 1972, breaking new ground in weaving feminist themes into crime fiction and was first adapted in 1982, into a film starring Billie Whitelaw. By the time this series screened in 1997, TV audiences had already watched Helen Mirren's Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect taking on the boys club. Watching it now, the pace dates the show, but Baxendale is good as the unassuming Cordelia, who is unfazed by the dismissive reception she receives and, over four multi-episode cases, she just gets better and better. (Two series)Schitt's CreekA rich family wind up living in the poor town they bought as a jokeYear: 2015-2020Certificate: 15Watch now on Disney+Watch now on BBC iPlayerIf you're after a feel-good show with big characters and lots of laughs, this is an excellent choice. The Arrested Development-style premise follows a rich family, the Roses, who suffer a financial calamity, and end up living in a backwoods town - Schitt's Creek - they once bought as a joke. Obviously, this is a huge shock.The family's stay in the town is one long redemption story, taking them from self-involved monsters to something like warm, well-rounded human beings. The key to this show is that, while it's fun to watch them struggle, you can see the humanity underneath the entitled arrogance from the start, even in shrill mother Moira, an ex-soap actress played to a tee by the late Catherine O'Hara.The warm sense of family in the series flows from the fact that it's actually a family project itself. The creators are Eugene Levy and his son Dan, who play dad Johnny and son David in the series. Dan's sister Sarah plays café waitress Twyla, too. It has a good heart, and it's the kind of series you'll miss once you've finished it, but it's worth the ride. (Six series and one special - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell) The Alien Autopsy ScandalTrue story of alien autopsy footage discovered by two BritsYear: 2026Certificate: 12Watch now on NOWWatch now on SkyIn the 1990s, British music entrepreneurs Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield claimed to have found secret footage of an alien body recovered from the 1947 crash site near Roswell, New Mexico. The grainy film was 18 minutes long and was shown on TV to much sensation in both the US and the UK in 1995. In the fallout that followed, the story behind that footage came to fascinate the public to such a degree that, in 2006, it was made into a movie comedy starring Ant and Dec called Alien Autopsy. Fast forward to 2026 and the story had largely faded into the background of pop culture, but this three-parter from BAFTA-winner John Dower (Lockerbie, The Mystery Of DB Cooper) digs back into the timeline of those extraordinary events with relish. It opens in 1993 with Ray and Gary in the US looking for footage of Elvis Presley - a search that leads them into the home of an ex-military cameraman in Florida, and to a fateful true story that turns out to be stranger than plenty of fiction. (Three episodes) Bring Me The Beauties: A Model CultThe astonishing story of cult leader Frederick von Mierers.Year: 2026Certificate: 15Watch now on HBO MaxIn the 1980s, Frederick von Mierers cut a bewitching figure. With a look that hovered between male model and Max Headroom, von Mierers ran a spiritual enlightenment society called Eternal Values and claimed to be an alien who had arrived from the planet Arcturus - stepping into a human body to help guide mankind through difficult times. Living in Manhattan at an extraordinarily gaudy apartment and partying at Studio 54, he was an intriguing figure to many and an intensely alluring one to the insecure. The murky story of von Mierers, and of the bizarre inner workings of Eternal Values, is told here by those who fell under their spell - primarily by the ex-model Hoyt Richards. It's not a straightforward tale and it's not particularly clearly told, but the sheer mesmerising presence of von Mierers in archive footage keeps you gripped, from one extraordinary interlude to the next. One can only imagine what it was like to actually be in a room with him. (Three episodes) The FortuneA mysterious inheritance turns Amanda's (Eleanor Tomlinson) world upside downYear: 2026Certificate: 12Watch now on 5 (Ch5)It's the sort of thing many cash-strapped Brits dream of: the sudden, unexpected inheritance of a life-changing amount of money. But for Eleanor Tomlinson's Amanda, it's the start of a nightmare.A married waitress with a young son, Amanda is quite content with her lot and has no idea why Martin Worrall (Denis Lawson), a wealthy businessman with a wife and son, would leave her his sizeable estate. Does her dementia-stricken mother (Paula Wilcox) know something? And why is the Worrall family lawyer (Nina Wadia) so keen to cut out the family he lived with?This four-part mystery gets increasingly tense and frightening as Amanda races around trying to tie together a tangled trail of secrets and make sense of it all. (Four episodes) Dear EnglandDrama about manager Gareth Southgate rebuilding England's confidence, identity, and unityYear: 2026Certificate: 12Watch now on BBC iPlayerEven if you have never watched a single game, there's no denying that football is a big part of British life. From school to workplace, family members to strangers in the pub, you cannot exclude yourself from the background hum of the national game. James Graham's four-part drama, based on his Olivier-winning stage play, is about football but can be heartily recommended to even non-fans. Insightful, funny and uplifting, there is something here that we can all get behind.It starts by presenting its hero Gareth Southgate (Jospeh Fiennes) as the classic British underdog, the last decent man in football who, after taking over as England caretaker manager in 2016, pushes for 'careful but quite radical change' to a team that has been swallowed up by ego and crippling expectation. With a new squad of younger players, empowering locker-room speeches, and with psychologist Pippa (Jodie Whittaker) at his side, the 2018 World Cup brought renewed hope that football could in fact, one day, be 'coming home'.There's something of the dizzy highs and crushing lows of watching England actually play in the rhythm of the show and Fiennes is fantastic as Gareth - you really believe it's him. But there are bigger ideas at play than match-day tactics. The football happens as England struggles with its identity, giving us a picture of a nation once proud, now uncertain. Southgate is presented as a storyteller, wanting to move on from the past and versions of England which are no longer match-fit. The result is a patriotic love letter to Southgate's quiet hero, to the beautiful game, and to England itself, from its green fields to its towns and cities, and every stadium in between. (Four episodes)Make That MovieOddball comedy from Taskmaster star Sam CampbellYear: 2026Watch now on Channel 4The Australian comedian Sam Campbell proved a big hit on Taskmaster (on Channel 4) and the most recent series of Last One Laughing (on Amazon Prime Video) and, as a result, he's been rewarded with his own sitcom. It's a bizarre affair, with Campbell as hotshot director Sam, who's scouring the country with his elite crew of filmmakers looking for ordinary people's ideas to turn into movies. In the first episode (of six), Sam and his team head to the fictional town of Sherbornedale, where Mick Hall has a great idea for a film - involving a detective and real snakes! (Six episodes) Star CitySpin-off from For All Mankind that follows the Soviet side of the space raceYear: 2026Certificate: 15Watch now on Apple TV'I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life, knowing that today is one small step on the journey that will someday take us all to the stars.' These are the words of the first cosmonaut on the Moon in an eight-part drama that imagines the Soviets were the first to land on Earth's satellite. It's a spin-off from For All Mankind - which focused on the US side of the same story with the Soviets one step ahead - and stars Rhys Ifans as the man in charge (known only as the Chief Designer) and Anna Maxwell Martin as Colonel Raskova, the remorseless eyes of the KGB in Star City, home to the space programme of the USSR. Like Chernobyl, the series has a keen eye for the brutality of Soviet bureaucracy and the lives of the people who are ground up inside it. Maxwell Martin is particularly excellent as the ice-cool KGB colonel, a woman whose eyes are always calculating, always judging what must be done next to keep things on an even keel - and never flinching when it has to be done. Yet she also seems to have hidden depths, not that we're likely to see them.If you're a fan of For All Mankind, you'll recognise some of the characters and, if you're not, it works just as well as standalone 'what if' drama. (Eight episodes) Cape Fear (2026 series)Javier Bardem takes the Robert De Niro role in this simmering tale of revengeYear: 2026Certificate: 15Watch now on Apple TVMenace lurks in every scene of Cape Fear, a ten-part take on the story of revenge that's been made as a film twice before - in 1962 and 1991. The casting of Max Cady, the vengeful ex-con who stalks the married lawyers who put him behind bars, has always been crucial to making the story work. In 1962 it was Robert Mitchum, in 1991, Robert De Niro and in the 2026 series it's Javier Bardem. Bardem is electrifying to watch every time he steps on screen, taunting wife and mother Anna (Amy Adams) over whether he's really wreaking revenge on her family or if it's coming apart all on its own. Anna clearly has depths she's willing to sink to across the course of the series, and Adams is terrific at portraying that in a subtle way, giving us the feeling that she has just a little of the animalistic Cady lurking inside her. Anna is married to fellow lawyer Tom, who is played in vanilla style by Patrick Wilson - a bland, faintly frustrated man who feels like a suburban prop. Albeit, one with a gun. Cady, meanwhile, is taunted by visions of his dead family and around and around the story goes, swirling deeper and deeper until, you suspect, everyone will thoroughly regret ever having met each other. This includes Tom and Anna's children, Natalie and Zack - the latter of whom is played by Joe Anders, aka the son of Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes. (Ten episodes) Rob Rinder: The Crime I Can't ForgetThe Strictly star looks back on an unsolved case from his days as a criminal barrister Year: 2026Certificate: uWatch now on NOWWatch now on SkyMore than two decades ago, Rob Rinder served as a criminal defence barrister on the case of Lucy Hargreaves, a 22-year-old mother of three from Liverpool who was murdered by three men as she slept on the sofa at home. The men also set the house on fire, and Lucy's partner Gavin Campbell and their two-year-old daughter escaped by jumping out of a window. At the trial, Rinder successfully defended one of the men accused, a man he is keen to emphasise was not guilty - and that justice, at least in his particular case, worked as it should. Still, the case has gone unsolved since, and the fact that Lucy's family were denied answers has always stayed with him. For this two-parter, Rinder attempts to redress the balance, digging back into the evidence to see if justice can be done. Lucy's family have agreed to take part in the project and here speak about the case for the first time in 20 years, meeting Rob face to face. In part two, Rob journeys to London to further his investigation and speaks to Peter Bleksley - a founding member of Scotland Yard's undercover unit and a familiar face to many from Channel 4's Hunted - who has been tracking an international fugitive who may just be one of the guilty men. (Two episodes) The WitnessThree-part drama about the impact of the murder of Rachel Nickell on her son and partnerYear: 2026Certificate: 15Watch now on NetflixNetflix's drama digs into the murder of Rachel Nickell, who was killed on Wimbledon Common in 1992 with her two-year-old son as the only eyewitness. Rachel's death left her partner Andre as lone parent to Alex, and it's the two of them who are the main focus of The Witness, a three-parter that jumps between the time right after the crime to when Alex was a teenager, showing both the immediate and the lingering impact of not just the murder but of Andre's efforts to shield Alex from the effects of it all - efforts that included leaving the country. The other reason for the time jump is the split nature of the case itself. The drama skips fairly quickly through the 'honeytrap' operation that led to the arrest of the innocent Colin Stagg, before moving onto the successful prosecution of Robert Napper, which was only concluded 16 years after Rachel's death.Essentially more of a father-son drama than it is anything else, The Witness is generally sensitively handled stuff, although the casting of Kevin Eldon and Jon Pointing - both skilled comedy actors - as part of the investigative force does make some of the early scenes feel clownish. (Three episodes)