Some more big ones for you this week! Birmingham detective series DI Ray continues, as Taylor Sheridan’s brilliant Lioness returns for season 2 in the CIA’s women-led war on terror. Acorn TV brings us the next season of delightful amateur detective series Whitstable Pearl. And Billy Crystal leaves comedy far behind in Before.

Lioness

Nicole Kidman is either the hardest working actress in Hollywood, or there are two of her. She returns in season 2 of this superb binge-worthy drama inspired by a real-life CIA undercover team and also starring Zoe Saldaña. Synopsis: “As the CIA’s fight against terror moves closer to home, Joe, Kaitlyn and Byron enlist a new Lioness operative to infiltrate a previously unknown threat.”

October 27. Paramount Plus.

Before

After the mysterious death of his wife (Judith Light), child psychiatrist Eli (Billy Crystal) has some secrets of his own in Apple TV+’s new psychological thriller.

REVIEW

 25 October. Apple TV+

Whitstable Pearl

This English seaside drama is as cozy as it gets for fall viewing. Pearl Nolan, a single mum-turned-sleuth, and owner of a family-run seafood restaurant, investigates new cases with her sidekick (and crush) DCI Mike McGuire. Kerry Godliman of Trigger Point stars.

21 October Acorn TV

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Also Streaming/catch-up in October:

DI Ray. 20 October. ITV1

SPOILER ALERT: RECAP-REVIEW

Blackshore. 19 October. RTÉ One and RTÉ Player

SPOILER ALERT: RECAP-REVIEW

The Lincoln Lawyer. 19 October. Netflix

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. 1 August. Netflix.

The Cate Blanchette thriller Disclaimer. She is really good in it, but it’s Kevin Kline (remember him in The Big Chill, French Kiss – yes it’s really him) who really steals the show.) 18 October Apple TV+

SPOILER ALERT: RECAP-REVIEW

Showtrial Series 2. 20 October. BBC One/BBC iPlayer

SPOILER ALERT: RECAP-REVIEW

Sweetpea. 17 October. Sky Atlantic

SPOILER ALERT: RECAP-REVIEW