The week in TV: Alias Grace; Blue Planet II; Trust Me I’m a Doctor and more
Netflix’s Margaret Atwood adaptation is every bit as mighty as The Handmaid’s Tale. And David Attenb..
Netflix’s Margaret Atwood adaptation is every bit as mighty as The Handmaid’s Tale. And David Attenborough’s oceanic survey is a gorgeous triumph
Alias Grace Netflix
Blue Planet II (BBC1) | iPlayer
Trust Me I’m a Doctor (BBC2) | iPlayer
Bounty Hunters Sky1
Man Down (C4) | All 4
Strike Back Sky1
Another month, another Margaret Atwood tale making it to the small screen and, if there’s any justice, getting us all talking, all enthralled, once again. Atwood has hardly been unacknowledged in the book world – Kazuo Ishiguro recently said she, not he, should have taken this year’s Nobel for literature – but it is surely splendid to see her work so richly and newly imagined.
