Murderville

Monday

BBC Three, 10.15pm

The original UK version of this semi-scripted, semi-improv detective sitcom was a riot, throwing celebrity guests into murder cases without scripts to follow with hilariously chaotic results.

The US remake sees the gravelly voiced Will Arnett (G.O.B. in Arrested Development) take over as the feckless senior detective, Terry Seattle, who also happens to be the ex-husband of his chief of police, Rhonda Jenkins-Seattle (Haneefah Wood). Joining him are the likes of Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley), Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct) and Ken Jeong (Community), but it's Conan O'Brien and his proven improv credentials who gets the series off to a flier.

Barry S4

Monday

Sky Comedy, 10.45pm

Barry is now into its fourth and final series, and what began as a Hollywood satire has become something psychologically darker. Mainly because of Bill Hader's titular hitman's arc, as Barry has gradually learned to confront his long-suppressed emotions and the nature of his profession through Gene Cousineau's (Henry Winkler) acting classes.

But he never managed to leave his killing ways behind, and the finale of series three finally saw the law catch up with him. The trailer for series four sees him behind bars and losing his mind, while Hader has teased the spreading of "Barry's disease" (read: murderousness) among his ex-girlfriend, fellow actor Sally (Sarah Goldberg), and Chechen mob boss NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan).

The Diplomat

Thursday

Netflix

If The Americans is anything to go by, Keri Russell should dazzle in The Diplomat, which again sees her juggle a career in international relations with a difficult marriage as Kate Wyler, the titular career diplomat. It will be a slight change of pace, though, as we join Kate just as she lands a job as the U.S. Ambassador to the UK (there probably won't be any of The Americans' borderline psychopathic espionage).

As Kate's tasked with defusing international crises and forging strategic alliances in London, she has to wrestle with her marriage to Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), whose political stardom also confuses her professional life.

Dead Ringers

Friday

Prime Video UK

Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession) has modernised David Cronenberg's 1988 cult classic Dead Ringers, and gender swapped the leads. Rachel Weisz stars as the identical twin gynaecologists, Elliot and Beverly Mantle, sharing drugs, lovers and loose ethics. As she says in the trailer, among several nods to the original film including the iconic red scrubs and an '80s banger, "it's impossible to describe this relationship to anyone outside of it."

Ostensibly the twins' mission is sound: they want to change the way women give birth. But do the ends justify their unorthdox means?