18 Great TV Shows You Might Have Missed

This new Belfast drama follows three new recruits in the city’s police force. Probationer Grace tries to help a fellow single mother whose son has fallen in with a notorious gang. However, fulfilling her promise could put her at risk from both sides of the law. Meanwhile, her fellow new recruits Annie and Tommy deal with an apprehensive colleague and undercover agents at work in the city, while their superior officer finds himself being threatened by MI5.

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Actor Jason Watkins and his wife Clara Francis tell the emotional story of their daughter Maudie, who died suddenly aged just two and a half in the early hours of New Year's Day 2011. Maudie died of undiagnosed sepsis, a condition where the body's immune system overreacts to an infection, causing it to go into overdrive and attack the body's tissues and organs. Since the tragedy, Jason and Clara have been seeking to raise awareness of sepsis and also to help and give hope to other bereaved parents. Now, as the family are about to move from the flat where Maudie was born and died, they feel the time is right to tell their story and explore their own grief.

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In this new drama starring Kiefer Sutherland, nothing is what it seems when John Weir, master of corporate espionage, finds himself at the centre of a shadowy conspiracy. He navigates the twisting, turning universe of deception as both a victim and master. But after what appears to be another successful day on the job, his world is blown to pieces.

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In the seaside town of Margate, Trish is pregnant and expecting a girl, and her sisters Clare and Leila rally around her along with their mum. But their other sister Mel makes an unexpected return and threatens to destabilise the entire family. The comedy stars Lily Allen, Freema Agyeman, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Gabby Best.

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Magpie Murders is a 2016 mystery novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and the first novel in the Susan Ryeland series. The story focuses on the murder of a mystery author and uses a story within a story format. Now it’s a BBC drama. Susan's (Lesley Manville) search for the author’s missing last chapter leads her to Abbey Grange, the grand home of Alan Conway, where she discovers that his notes are also missing. Meanwhile, Atticus Pünd and his faithful assistant Fraser are in Saxby on Avon investigating the murder of Sir Magnus Pye.

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Along the rugged Welsh coastline, vicar's son Bobby Jones finds a stricken man at the bottom of the cliffs who utters a mysterious question before dying. These enigmatic final words send Bobby and his socialite friend Lady Frankie Derwent on a crime-solving adventure. Hugh Laurie directs his own adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery, starring Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton.

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Finding Michael is an emotionally driven documentary that shares details of what happened in 1999, when Michael Matthews became the youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest. But three hours after he reached the top of the world, aged just 22, he disappeared into blinding snow and his body was never found. Now, 23 years later, his brother British entrepreneur and broadcaster Spencer Matthews sets out on a journey to Everest to find Michael.

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Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley), a reporter for the Record-American newspaper, becomes the first journalist to connect the Boston Strangler murders. As the mysterious killer claims more and more victims, Loretta attempts to continue her investigation alongside colleague and confidante Jean Cole (Carrie Coon), yet the duo finds themselves stymied by the rampant sexism of the era. Nevertheless, McLaughlin and Cole bravely pursue the story at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.

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Based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six is a limited musical-drama series detailing the rise and precipitous fall of a renowned rock band. In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two charismatic lead singers – Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) – the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out show at Chicago's Soldier Field, they called it quits. Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth. This is the story of how an iconic band imploded at the height of its powers.

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The Power is an emotionally driven global thriller from the team behind Chernobyl, and is based on British author Naomi Alderman’s award-winning novel. The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature: suddenly, and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. The series features a cast of characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world. The series stars Toni Collette.

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The fourth and final series of Succession is currently showing on Sky Atlantic and Now. The show continues its exploration of power and family dynamics through the eyes of patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four grown children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Siobhan (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Connor (Alan Ruck). The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) moves ever closer. The prospect of this seismic deal provokes existential angst and familial division among the Roys as they anticipate what their lives will look like once it is complete. A power struggle ensues as the family weighs up a future where their cultural and political weight is severely curtailed.

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When private detective Philip Marlowe (Liam Neeson) is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger), it looks an open and shut case, but Marlowe soon finds himself in the underbelly of Hollywood, unwittingly drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress (Jessica Lange). For Neeson’s 100th film, the ensemble cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (His Dark Materials), Danny Huston (Yellowstone), Alan Cumming (GoldenEye) and Colm Meaney (Gangs of London).

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The Reluctant Traveller is a globetrotting travel series hosted by Emmy award winner Eugene Levy (Schitt’s Creek). Its eight episodes follow Levy as he visits some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing destinations in Costa Rica, Finland, Italy, Japan, Maldives, Portugal, South Africa and the United States, exploring remarkable hotels and the places and cultures surrounding them. Self-confessedly not your typical travel show host – he’s not usually adventurous or well-versed in globe-trotting – Levy agrees the time is finally right for him to broaden his horizons. Packing his suitcase with some trepidation, he hopes his experiences might lead to a whole new chapter in life, even if that means confronting some long-held fears.

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Fleishman Is In Trouble is the story of recently divorced 41-year-old Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg), who dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had in his youth before he got married at the tail end of medical school. But just at the start of his first summer of sexual freedom, his ex-wife Rachel (Claire Danes) disappears, leaving him with 11-year-old Hannah and nine-year-old Solly, and no hint of where she is or whether she plans to return. As he balances parenting, the return of old friends Libby (Lizzy Caplan) and Seth (Adam Brody), a potential promotion at the hospital that is a long time coming — and all the eligible women that Manhattan has to offer — he realises he’ll never be able to figure out what happened to Rachel until he can finally face what happened to their marriage in the first place.

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Noele ‘Nolly’ Gordon was a legend in her own lifetime. As flame-haired widow Meg Richardson in the long-running soap opera Crossroads, she was one of the most famous people in Britain. Then in 1981, at the height of the show’s success and the peak of Nolly’s fame, she was axed without ceremony, warning or explanation. With the boss’s words ‘all good things must come to an end’ ringing in her ears, Noele found herself thrown out of the show that had been her life for over 18 years. It's A Sin’s Russell T Davies’s ITV drama – starring Helena Bonham Carter – brings the true Noele Gordon once more into the spotlight. And at last, the biggest question of all can be answered – why was she sacked?

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This drama – which first aired in January – is undoubtedly the biggest show of 2023 so far. The story takes place 20 years after modern civilisation has been destroyed. Starring Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones), it’s based on the popular video game of the same name – but you don’t need to have played it to enjoy this dystopian thriller. A hardened survivor is hired to smuggle a 14-year-old girl out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heart-breaking journey, as they both must traverse the US and depend on each other for survival.

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Shrinking is Apple’s ten-episode comedy starring Jason Segel and written by Emmy-winning Ted Lasso co-creators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. Also starring Harrison Ford in one of his first major television roles, the show follows a grieving therapist (Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge and tumultuous changes to people’s lives – including his own.

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After the release of Pam & Tommy last year (starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan), actress and model Pamela Anderson finally tells her story in her own words. An intimate and humanising portrait of one of the world’s most famous bombshells, the film follows the trajectory of Pamela Anderson’s life and career from small-town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist and mother. Discussing her rise to fame on 80s show Baywatch to her turbulent relationship with heavy metal singer Tommy Lee, Pamela discusses the highs and lows of her career, and what it’s like being one of the most famous women on the planet.

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