Best TV shows on Apple TV

Sweeping drama of forbidden love and longing told in Korean, Japanese and English, based on Min Jin Lee's best-selling novel.

Oscar winner Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram headline a seven-part limited series created and directed by Alma Har'el set in 1966 Baltimore. A young girl vanishes without trace on Thanksgiving and the story grips concerned citizens. Jewish housewife Maddie Schwartz (Portman) embraces her dream to become an investigative journalist by seeking uncomfortable answers about the disappearance. Her enquiries lead her to fiercely determined mother Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram), who is firmly tethered to political struggles within the city

A rookie FBI agent risks his life to uncover a scandal at the heart of the American horse racing industry in a four-part documentary series directed by Dan Johnstone and Castor Fernandez. Novice agent Scott Lawson from rural Tennessee acts on a hunch about brothers Omar Trevino Morales and Miguel Trevino Morales, leaders of Los Zetas, one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico. Lawson carefully infiltrates the cartel and tracks the siblings' racehorse transactions in the United States, uncovering a multimillion-dollar money laundering operation. The series interviews the FBI agent for the first time and relives the case with other key figures including Assistant United States Attorney Doug Gardner and IRS agent Steve Pennington

An 11-year-old history nerd travels through space and time to save his parents in a rollicking live-action comedy created by Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris and Taika Waititi, based on Terry Gilliam's 1981 film. Eleven-year-old Kevin (Kal-El Tuck) stumbles upon a time portal in his bedroom, which allows him to ricochet through periods in history. The boy is accompanied on his odyssey by a ragtag group of thieves comprising Alto (Tadhg Murphy), Bittelig (Rune Temte), Judy (Charlyne Yi), Penelope (Lisa Kudrow) and Widgit (Roger Jean Nsengiyumva). Together, the Time Bandits make mischief during the prehistoric age ruled by dinosaurs, the Ice Age, the Trojan War and the Harlem Renaissance

Jake Gyllenhaal headlines an eight-part adaptation of Scott Turow's best-selling novel, which was previously immortalised on screen as a 1990 film directed by Alan J Pakula starring Harrison Ford. Chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Gyllenhaal) is one of the leading lights of Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's office led by district attorney Raymond Horgan (Bill Camp), who is about to stand for reelection. Rusty's colleague Carolyn Polhemus (Renate Reinsve) is found raped and murdered in her apartment and he is arrested on suspicion of the crime by detective Tommy Molto (Peter Sarsgaard), who is supporting the campaign of Horgan's rival Nico Della Guardia (O-T Fagbenle). Faced with accusations about his relationship with Carolyn, Rusty leverages what remains of his professional reputation to seek justice and repair his fractured marriage to wife Barbara (Ruth Negga)

Eva Longoria serves executive producer and one of the lead stars of a six-part drama comedy inspired by Sandra Barneda's best-selling novel La Tierra De Las Mujeres. New York doyenne Gala (Longoria) is shellshocked to discover that her husband has failed to repay a debt to powerful and dangerous people. Her spouse vanishes without trace and Gala is forced to flee her home with her aging mother Julia (Carmen Maura) and teenage daughter Kate (Victoria Bazua) for her mother's hometown in northern Spain. Starting anew poses serious challenges: Julia abandoned the close-knit community 50 years ago, where family secrets have been buried for decades. As wine and conversation flow freely, Gala learns she cannot outrun the past

Revolutionary Dr Hari Seldon predicts the imminent fall of the Empire and the need to rebuild mankind by establishing The Foundation in a sci-fi drama based on Isaac Asimov's books.

A devoted family man seeks a path back to his loved ones in a mind-bending nine-part sci-fi thriller adapted from Blake Crouch's best-selling novel. College physics professor Jason Dessen (Joel Egderton) lives in Chicago with his wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and son Charlie (Oakes Fegley), blissfully happy with his life choices. The patriarch is drugged and abducted and regains consciousness in a science laboratory in an alternate Chicago, where another Jason decided to pursue his calling as a quantum mechanics physicist and never married Daniela. Instead, this other Jason built a device that allows the user to travel between every conceivable reality generated from every possible decision or outcome of an event. Jason deduces he has become a victim of himself and his family is in grave danger

Dramatic imagining an alternate space race between America and the Soviet Union, which subverts events on the moon in 1969.

Hollywood sprinkles its magic over social revolution in a six-part dramatisation of an outlandish true story, based on Joshuah Bearman's magazine article. Black Panther founder Huey P Newton (Andre Holland) is determined to evade the FBI and escape to Cuba. He enlists the help of famed film executive Bert Schneider (Alessandro Nivola) to pull of an elaborate plan involving a fake movie production. Everything that can go wrong with the hare-brained scheme does and Schneider and his team have to think on their feet to avoid discovery and disaster

Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell stars in and executive produces an eight-part detective story directed by Fernando Meirelles. Private investigator John Sugar (Farrell) is tasked with solving the disappearance of Olivia Siegel (Sydney Chandler). She is the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel (James Cromwell), who will pay handsomely for her safe return. As John follows the haphazard trail of evidence, he unearths the Siegel family's darkest secrets and many compelling motives for wanting to abduct Olivia

A loveable underdog vows to gatecrash 1969 Palm Beach high society in a life-affirming comedy drama written by Abe Sylvia, based loosely on Juliet McDaniel's novel Mr & Mrs American Pie. Insatiable social climber Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig) arrives in Palm Beach and quickly realises that the dividing line between the haves and have nots is admission to the most exclusive club in town: Palm Royale. Evelyn Rollins (Allison Janney) is queen bee of this hive of dark secrets and she deeply resents Maxine's efforts to worm her way into rarefied circles where she clearly doesn't belong. Unperturbed, Maxine makes friends with staff including master mixologist Robert (Ricky Martin) to elbow her way into the club and undermine Evelyn's influence

A quest for worldwide fame ignites one of the biggest manhunts in American history in a seven-part conspiracy thriller based on the best-selling non-fiction book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer. A few days after the Confederate surrender in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) is fatally shot at the theatre, in front of his wife Mary (Lili Taylor), by stage actor John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle). Around 1500 people in the audience witness the callous crime yet Booth manages to escape. U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies) spearheads the manhunt to capture Booth and bring him to justice, whatever the personal cost.

Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle star in a wartime drama about the 100th Bomb Group, known as the 'Bloody Hundredth', who carry out daring aerial raids over Nazi Germany.

Great British Bake Off co-host Noel Fielding portrays the dandy highwayman in an irreverent comedy adventure created by Claire Downes, Ian Jarvis and Stuart Lane, who gleefully rewrite 18th-century history. Corrupt lawman Jonathan Wilde (Hugh Bonneville) appoints himself chief thief-taker in an era of highway robberies and daring heists. Dick Turpin (Fielding) is the most famous of these outlaws, famed across Britain for his glorious hair and unabashed charm. Wilde vows to put Turpin behind bars but his prey is a showman of considerable cunning and guile, who is supported by a band of lovable misfits

A brave astronaut vows to piece together her fractured life in a psychological thriller created and written by Peter Harness. In the aftermath of a disaster in space that almost kills her, Jo (Noomi Rapace) returns home to Earth to the loving embrace of her daughter. However, reality back on terra firma doesn't gel with the visions in Jo's head and she fears her duties far above the surface of the planet may have irrevocably warped her mind. Desperate to expose the truth, Jo flirts with paranoia and wild conspiracy theories to reclaim what she contends has been stolen from her

Fashion sows seeds of hope during the second World War In Nazi-occupied Paris in a finely tailored 10-part series created by Todd A Kessler, featuring costumes made collaboration with the House of Dior. At a pivotal moment in the 20th century, the reign of Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) as the world's most famous fashion designer is threatened by the rise of Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn). His creative brilliance restores beauty to the stricken capital and inspires rivals and contemporaries including Chanel, Pierre Balmain (Thomas Poitevin) and Cristobal Balenciaga (Nuno Lopes). Grammy Award winner Jack Antonoff curates a soundtrack of contemporary cover versions by the likes of Bleachers, Nick Cave, Lana Del Rey, Matty Healy from The 1975, and Florence Welch

Grief forces a therapist to readjust his own outlook on life in a comedy drama created by Brett Goldstein, Bill Lawrence and lead actor Jason Segel. Co-starring Harrison Ford.

Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon star in a frothy drama exploring the cutthroat world of broadcast news and the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning.

Two talented police officers vie for supremacy on the streets of contemporary London in an eight-part crime thriller created by BAFTA Award nominee Paul Rutman. Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty (Peter Capaldi) has a long and distinguished career in the capital and he is determined to protect his legacy at all costs. An anonymous telephone call relating to an old case draws the attention of Hegarty and Detective Sergeant June Lenker (Cush Jumbo), who is eager to impress her superiors in the early stages of her career. Against a backdrop of institutional racism, the two detectives impose their chosen narratives on a historic murder conviction

Legendary Entertainment laid the foundations of its so-called Monsterverse in 2014 with the big screen action adventure Godzilla directed by Gareth Edwards. Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters and Godzilla Vs Kong have expanded this fantastical world of interconnected characters and stories, which will deepen further with the release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire in April 2024. This 10-part series provides a narrative bridge to the forthcoming sequel, set in the aftermath of the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that left San Francisco in ruins. Schoolteacher Cate (Anna Sawai) joins forces with Army officer Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) to expose the dark secrets of the shadowy organisation known as Monarch. In flashbacks to the 1950s, the young Lee (played by Russell's actor son Wyatt) works closely with scientist Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) and explorer Bill (Anders Holm) to establish Monarch and protect humanity from hulking kaiju and the omnipresent threat of nuclear war

Young American women cause a commotion among 1870s English aristocracy in a music-driven period drama created by Katherine Jakeways and directed by Susanna White, which is inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel. Led by an all-female creative team, the series focuses on the exploits of Conchita Closson (Alisha Boe), Lizzy Elmsworth (Aubri Ibrag), Mabel Elmsworth (Josie Totah), Jinny St George (Imogen Waterhouse) and her younger sister Annabel aka Nan (Kristine Froseth). The fun-loving quintet have been instructed to secure wealthy husbands and titles by turning heads during a tightly corseted London season. Jinny and Nan's mother (Christina Hendricks) watches intently as men with power and girls with fortunes disregard centuries of tradition in pursuit of wedded bliss

Docuseries chronicling John Lennon's 1980 murder

In 1977, the Hodgson family living at 284 Green Street in Enfield made bold claims about a poltergeist haunting their home witnessed by two of the children, Margaret and her sister Janet. The case ignited newspaper headlines and has been repeatedly dramatised on stage and screen including The Conjuring 2. This four-part documentary delves into more than 250 hours of rare audio recordings to recreate terrifying events from 46 years ago including present-day interviews with people affected by the case. Actors perform testimony on the audio tapes inside a replica of the house in Enfield, blurring lines between fact and fiction