Our Picks of the Week

TELEVISION

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6

THE LARKINS

Never a dull moment on the farm Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.30pm Streaming: TVNZ+ The first season of the Darling Buds of May remake suffered some withering reviews (“Jaded, hackneyed, lazy programming”, reckoned the Independent), but viewers liked it enough for a second to be commissioned. The story alights on the summer of 1959, where Pop (Bradley Walsh) and Ma Larkin (Jo Scanlan) and their large brood are preparing for the school holidays. Various kinds of chaos ensue over six episodes, with a dreadful new family, the Jerebohms, going to war on Pop, Primrose (Lydia Page) entering journalism and falling for the new vicar, and a series of village events converging on the farm. Everything will work out in the end.

THE BAY

A new face in Morecambe Screening: TVNZ 1, 9.35pm Streaming: TVNZ+ This third season comes with a new lead character, DS Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason, Lost, Cobra) after the departure of Morven Christie from the show. DS Townsend barely has a chance to get acquainted with her new desk at Morecambe CID before a body is found in the bay. It turns out that the dead man, a young boxer, comes from a difficult family – and, meanwhile, her own family is struggling to settle in the town. The pressure is on, but over six episodes it becomes clear who exactly dunnit.

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