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© Music Box Films & Modern Films 'Fremont' is a black and white film about an Afghan immigrant trying to carve out a new life in California. It's wry.  It's resolutely indie. It's relentlessly charming. © Music Box Films & Modern Films Filmed in black and white, British Iranian director Babak Jalili's film stars Anaita Wali Zada as Donya, a former translator for US troops who fled Kabul and wound up in the Bay area of California. Living in an apartment block with other refugees, she commutes from Fremont to San Francisco. There she wraps fortune cookies in a factory where she befriends a colleague Hilda Schmelling's Joanna. Donya's boss Eddie Tang's Ricky has a soft spot for her, regaling her with his childhood memories of the fortune cookie factory. © Music Box Films & Modern Films While he raves about Donya's intelligence, his wife, Jennifer McKay's Lin is less impressed. Back in Fremont, Donya hangs out with her fellow refugees...

© HBO, Sky Atlantic & NowTV It's madness. That's how people always feel when a show they love with real potential suddenly gets axed. It happened to Netflix's ' Seven Seconds ' with Regina King, Beau Knapp, Clare Hope-Ashitey and Michael Mosley which really merited a second series. Others understandably felt aggrieved that Hulu did the same recently to the Elle Fanning and Nicolas Hoult period comedy drama ' The Great ' or when HBO shut down the Dustin Hoffman betting drama ' Luck ' after one series. © HBO, Sky Atlantic & NowTV Now you can add 'Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers Dynasty' to that list. And it has to be said the disappointment and anger at HBO is fully justified. HBO unearthed a real gem last year with  the first season  of Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht's show about the rise of the LA Lakers. A well written, highly entertaining show, you didn't have to know much about the Lakers or basketball or the NBA to enjoy it...

© BBC So here's an Autumn treat. BBC1's miniseries 'The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies' is a cheeky tale about a conman. With the exception of Derek Jacobi, it doesn't boast any household names. However it might just be one of the best British TV dramas you will see this year. © BBC Written by Penelope and Ginny Skinner, it's a playful five episode drama about a man who's morally bankrupt but dangerously charming. The man is Alistair Petrie's Dr Robert Chance. Petrie's character does many monstrous things throughout the show. However his fraudulent behaviour is executed so amusingly, you'll find yourself giggling at the brazenness of his appalling behaviour and then feeling rather uncomfortable about it. © BBC The show is not, though, solely about the perpetrator. Its tailored, though, around a victim - Rebekah Staton's Alice Newman and her efforts to expose his cruelty. Alice, who is a personal assistant in a Cambridge fashion ...

                                         © RTE It was 'The Late Late Show' but not exactly as Irish television audiences have known it. Yes, there was the Chris Andrews ' To Whom It Concerns ' theme tune in the opening credits and a brief taste of Nat King Cole at the end.  Yes, there was 'The Late Late Show' owl. There was even the voice of its first host, the late  Gay Byrne  introducing the new host Patrick Kielty when he first appeared on the show as a stand-up in 1996. © RTE But then there was a new set which looked straight out of the ' Late Night with David Letterman / Stephen Colbert ' playbook. There were US talk show style blasts by the house band during the ad breaks and closing credits of classic rock songs like The Rolling Stones' ' Gimme Shelter ,' Don Henley's ' Boys of Summer ' and Van Morrison's ' Moondance '. And unlike the three previous hosts, Kielt...

© Sky Atlantic They call it the "meet cute'. It's that moment in romcoms where two would-be lovers meet for the first time usually in hilarious circumstances. No matter how different they are, from that moment love will somehow find a way of bringing them together. Love always conquers all. © Sky Atlantic David Ireland's new six part Sky Atlantic series 'The Lovers' is an unashamedly enthusiastic romcom. It has all the romcom ingredients you'd expect like a potential love rival, one or two missed rendezvous, big romantic gestures and comic mishaps that threaten to derail the love affair. But this miniseries also gives the genre and especially the "meet cute" a typically dark Belfast twist. Roisin Gallagher's east Belfast supermarket assistant Janet is depressed. © Sky Atlantic She's so depressed, she presses a sawn off shotgun under her jaw as she slouches up against the backyard wall of her two up, two down house. Janet's about to pul...