STEP INTO SPRING...

Fifteen sizzling new shows and returning favourites to brighten our screens in the coming weeks…

RENEGADE NELL

Disney+ (29 March) Created by Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright, this eight-episode period swashbuckler follows Nell Jackson (Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland), a bold young woman who finds herself framed for murder and ends up the most feared highwaywoman in 18th-century England. But when a mystical spirit called Billy Blind (Ted Lasso’s Nick Mohammed) appears, Nell realises that fate has placed her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. The cast includes Joely Richardson, Adrian Lester, Craig Parkinson and Frank Dillane.

THE REGIME

Sky Atlantic (8 April) From the producers of Succession, this six-part political satire stars Kate Winslet (inset) as Elena Vernham, the ruthless chancellor of a fictional European autocracy. Matthias Schoenaerts, Hugh Grant and Andrea Riseborough co-star.

ERIC

Netflix Puppeteer and kids’ TV show creator Vincent Anderson (Benedict Cumberbatch, inset) believes getting his missing son’s drawings of a blue monster puppet called Eric on TV will somehow help bring Edgar home, in this six-part, 1980s-set series inspired by a true story.

MR BIGSTUFF

Sky Comedy Danny Dyer makes his comedy-series debut in this six - parter – written by and starring Ryan Sampson. Carpet salesman Glen (Sampson, pictured with Dyer) is living with shoplifting fiancée Kirsty (Harriet Webb) in Essex when estranged brother Lee (Dyer) turns up…