This third standalone story in The Terror anthology series is set in an understaffed, underfunded and quite possibly cursed psychiatric hospital. Dan Stevens stars as Peter “Pepper” Coffin, who has been wrongfully committed to the institution and is forced to reckon with its tatty malevolence. We meet the patients in their past and present lives and connect them via the sinister Dr Walter (John Benjamin Hickey) who may just be the key to the whole mystery.
It doesn’t lack jump-scares but also generates a subtler, more genuinely unsettling ambient hum of horror. Phil Harrison “It was chewing up everything in its path!” So begins the first episode – about terrifying tornadoes – in an intense new series about the science behind natural disasters. It’s presented by actor Liev Schreiber, for reasons unknown, and features first-hand footage taken across the world, along with eyewitness accounts.
Hollie Richardson Extreme heat is tackled in this instalment of the series dramatising how the climate crisis affects animals, from increased drought to the rise of wildfires around the globe. That means a wombat in Australia, a leopard in Zambia and a kangaroo rat in Arizona all abruptly find themselves starring in their own mini disaster movies. Graeme Virtue A pair of Wolfie’s crowd-pleasers for your delectation: the Third Horn Concerto, featuring star soloist Felix Klieser; plus his exuberant Symphony No 35, AKA the “Haffner”, whose first movement, Amadeus advised, should be “played with fire”.
Also, pieces by Elgar, Britten and, making its Proms debut, Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness concerto for bassoon. Ali Catterall Jamie asked Claudia to sing a few notes, which he then improvised from when he first played in the competition. Will he need her help again in the final?
He plays on stage along with Grace, who lost all her fingers after meningitis, Harri, with his song inspired by his grandad, wildcard teen Sophie and “piano-breaker” Gabby. HR “No guns, no body” and a cast of suspects: this acclaimed US drama knows how to set up a tale. And as a dollar bill changes hands in a struggling rust belt town divided by culture and class, secrets emerge, aided by John Carroll Lynch, Leslie Odom Jr, Nathaniel Martello-White and more.
Hannah Verdier Getting up close and personal with animals can be a life-affirming way of feeling at one with nature. It can also be a way of avoiding the messier everyday of being human. For Helen Macdonald (a febrile Claire Foy), in Philippa Lowthorpe’s adaptation of Macdonald’s bestselling memoir, it is the tug between the two that brings her world crashing down.
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