• Mad Men is back! Find out how Don Draper and his associates are faring now that they’ve started up their own ad agency, and how Don’s coping as a single man.
• Remember Shane Meadows‘ award-winning film about his northern childhood This Is England? Well, he’s made a four-part sequel catching up with Shaun and the gang, called This Is England ’86.
• From sequels to remakes… Bouquet of Barbed Wire shocked British TV viewers back in 1976 with its portrayal of tempestuous family relationships, and now Trevor Eve and Hermione Norris star in a reworking of the drama set to stun a new generation.
• The police and prosecutors are back on the case in our very own Law & Order: UK. Jamie Bamber talks about how his character has been affected by a string of gruelling cases, and what’s to come in the new series.
• TV Spy gets a new addition – raunchy new US drama Swingers, starring Jack Davenport and Grant Show as 1970s neighbours who are about to get a whole lot more familiar with one another.
• Tara Fitzgerald and David Morrissey find themselves living in the shadow of fear as a stalker tears their life apart in U Be Dead.
All this, and of course our pick of the rest of this week’s new dramas, comedies, documentaries and films, our small but perfectly formed soap round-up, and a comprehensive guide to rugby union’s new Premiership season; and of course the very best listings for Sky and Virgin customers.
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