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Five things for you to watch this weekend

/Tymon Smith

LOOT — APPLE TV+

Apple TV+ continues to mine the modern workplace for laughs after the critical success of its recent series Severance with this lighthearted and silly, easy-laughs comedy. Maya Rudolph stars as the wife of a tech billionaire who, when she finds out he’s been cheating on her for years, divorces him and uses the opportunity provided by her mammoth $87bn settlement to find out what exactly her longrunning charitable foundation and its employees do, much to their irritation and with predictably ridiculous but often enjoyably charming results.

MONEY HEIST: KOREA JOINT ECONOMIC AREA — NETFLIX

Netflix transports the formula and thrills of its hugely successful Spanish heist drama to Korea. The set-up and some of the plot elements are similar to the original but this time the stakes are politically charged and specific to the strange noman’s-land of the joint economic area that separates North and South Korea, where much of the action takes place.

IDRIS ELBA’S FIGHT SCHOOL — BRITBOX

While filming the reality series The Fighter, about his own boxing trials and tribulations in 2016, Idris Elba was so impressed by the set-up at an SA township boxing academy that he turned its mission of instilling discipline and establishing order in the lives of underprivileged youth into the material for this new reality series. Elba supervises the boxing training and life purpose reorientation of a group of tough, poor British youths as they look to find their own success and personal fulfilment inside and outside the ring.

MAN VS BEE — NETFLIX

Comedian Rowan Atkinson returns to the physical comedy high jinks of his most famous creation, Mr Bean, in this short, sharp series in which he plays a hapless housesitter named Trevor who finds himself increasingly at maddening war with a bee.

THE NEWSPAPERMAN — SHOWMAX

Fittingly arriving just as the world marks the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, this extensive and thorough documentary tells the remarkable life story, warts and all, of legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who stood behind his journalists’ groundbreaking investigation into the scandal, which eventually brought down US president Richard Nixon and his cabal of corrupt apparatchiks.

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