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Best TV shows to watch on NOW (May 2026)

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- A prison transport officer must team up with a killer after their convoy is ambushed on the way to court. Action thriller, starring Tahar Rahim and Izuka Hoyle
- A teacher who was a detective makes a shocking discovery that reopens the wounds of a cold case. Crime drama, starring Kelly Reilly and Rafe Spall
- Fantasy prequel to Game of Thrones following Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg as they travel through Westeros. Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell star
- Drama starring Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie about two ice-hockey players whose on-ice animosity conceals a secret romance between the two
- Historical drama based on Peter Shaffer's play about musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and envious court composer Antonio Salieri. Starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany
- A woman searches for answers after her son goes missing from a playdate. Mystery thriller based on the book by Andrea Mara, starring Sarah Snook
- Jared Harris, Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgård star in a five-part dramatisation of the story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history.
- An enigmatic genius and a mysterious entrepreneur are pitted against each other in a deadly chase across Italy. Thriller, starring Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar
- An FBI agent heads up a task force to tackle a string of drug-house robberies in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia. Crime drama, starring Mark Ruffalo
- Drug smuggler Max and outsider on the run JJ forge an unlikely friendship when they become caught up in a cartel's plot to transport uranium across north Africa. Action adventure based on William Langewiesche's non-fiction book Atomic Bazaar, starring Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif
- A group of teenagers experience the ups and downs of love and friendship in a world of social networks, sex, drugs, and violence.
- Drama set after a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection caused its victims to transform into zombie-like creatures. Starring Bella Ramsey
- Oscar winner Olivia Colman and David Thewlis play a seemingly ordinary married couple with murderous intentions in a disturbing four-part drama based on a true story.
- Detective drama starring Mark Gatiss as crime-solving bookshop owner Gabriel Book.
- Fantasy drama based on Deborah Harkness's novel, starring Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode. It centres on a historian who discovers a manuscript that sends her into a world of magic.
- For 10 years Sally has lived a dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally has a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author. Comedy, starring Julia Davis
- A man investigates a conspiracy after an embarrassing incident at work. Comedy, starring Tim Robinson
- Episodic anthology series from The Walking Dead TV universe. Starring Parker Posey, Samantha Morton and Terry Crews
- Nick Wasicsko takes office as mayor of Yonkers in 1987 and has to face the issue of building public housing in the white, middle-class side of town.
- A documentary crew follows the Toledo Truth-Teller, a historic but declining Midwestern newspaper trying to resurrect itself with volunteer reporters. Spin-off from US comedy The Office, starring Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore
- Comedy drama, starring Jean Smart as Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance and Hannah Einbinder as her smart young writer Ava
- Trevor Eve leads this murder msytery drama about a spiky millionaire’s controversial will. A starry cast play the family fighting over his fortune.
- American drama set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the dawn of the Prohibition era in the 1920s. Steve Buscemi stars politician-cum-gangster Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson.
- Period drama set in the 1880s following the fortunes of a young woman who lives with her wealthy aunts in New York City. Starring Louisa Jacobson





























