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© Netflix Every now and again a TV show comes out of the blue with a relatively unknown cast and is a surprise success. ' Stranger Things ' springs to mind. ' Beef ' is another. Now Netflix has done it again with 'Baby Reindeer'. © Netflix Based on its star Richard Gadd's acclaimed autobiographical one man show of the same name , it's a twisted tale about stalking. Constantly bucking expectations, the show strays into territory the viewer might find disturbing and surprising, subverting usual victim narratives. Drawing on his own experience of being hounded in real life, Gadd plays a fictionalised version of himself, Donny Dunn - a struggling stand up comedian who works during the day in a London pub. A wannabe Vic Reeves, he's a reserved guy offstage who is still on good terms with an ex girlfriend, Shalom Brune-Franklin's Keeley's mum. Nina Sosanya's Liz is even his landlady. © Netflix While working on a shift, he takes pity on a distra

© Warner Bros Pictures Just when you thought Denis Villeneuve could not better ' Dune, Part One ,' he comes along and delivers a gobsmacking Part Two. Epic in tone and sweep, the film triggers memories of ' Lawrence of Arabia ,' ' Star Wars ,' ' Persona ' and ' The Last Temptation of Christ '. Huge in a scale and narrative ambition, it somehow avoids veering into the outlandish. In Villeneuve's previous installment, Timothee Chalamet's noble Paul Atreides and his pregnant mother, Rebecca Ferguson's Lady Jessica wound up on Arrakis, a desert planet infamous for its giant sandworms but also coveted because of its production of the valuable commodity, spice. © Warner Bros Pictures In the company of local tribal warriors known as the Fremen, Paul and Lady Jessica are trying to process the wiping out of their noble family, the House of Atreides by the fascistic House of Harkonnen. Those enemies are unaware that Paul and Lady Jessica are al

© Apple TV+ "Overnight success is a fallacy," Mark Twain once stated. "It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. "Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives and they will have a story to tell." Alternatively, you could always watch Morgan Neville's Apple TV+ doc 'STEVE (martin) A documentary in two pieces' to see how right Twain was. © United Artists/MGM For six decades, Martin has pretty much been at the top of the American comedy tree. Yes, there have been ups and downs during that time but even when there have been failures his popularity has endured. His act has often tended to flit between playing the idiot savant or sending up narcissistic showbiz assholes. Neville's documentary, however, provides some insight into the real Steve Martin and the forces that have shaped his comedy. © Apple TV+ The 78 year old is remarkably candid in the documentary - opening up about the hard work, his self doubt, struggles wit

© Netflix  There's a moment in Philip Martin's movie 'Scoop' when reaction starts tumbling in to Prince Andrew's 'Newsnight' interview on social media, when we see him naked from behind after getting out of the bathtub. As he stands dripping in his bedroom, his body sagging, TV news channels and social media are pouring over every detail of what has been an omnishambles. If you were to choose one image that encapsulates the whole film, that's it. At this point in the Netflix movie, Rufus Sewell's Prince Andrew has become the King in the song sung by Danny Kaye in Charles Vidor's 1952 musical biopic ' Hans Christian Andersen '. © Netflix Prince Andrew is in his altogethers - flattered into believing his interview was a success and then suddenly realising how much he has exposed himself to ridicule as memes spew out on Twitter about his Pizza Express alibi and his inability to sweat. In the list of disastrous TV interviews of all time, Pr

© BBC & Kudos Productions There's been plenty of movies and TV dramas about Country, Punk, Rap, Folk, Disco, Soul, Blues, Indie and Dance. However ' Peaky Blinders ' creator Steven Knight has spotted a clear gap in the market for music genre dramas. Up until now there's been no attempt to really get to grips in a TV drama or movie with the massive influence of Ska and Two Tone on British popular culture. At its height in the 1980s, Ska and Two Tone was a clear riposte to Margaret Thatcher's Britain. © BBC & Kudos Productions The music was relevant, it was very political and it was multicultural - providing a robust challenge to the far right rhetoric of groups like the National Front. Bands like Coventry's The Specials and The Selecter , Birmingham's The Beat and London's Madness and Bad Manners rode high in the charts. However the long term impact of their appearances on shows like 'Top of the Pops' cannot be underestimated. Blur an