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The 2001 film Legally Blonde followed Elle after her boyfriend Warner Huntington III, an aspiring senator, broke up with her because she wasn’t “serious” enough for that kind of world. This sparked the famous line: “So you’re breaking up with me because I’m too… blonde?!”

To prove him wrong, Elle enrols in Harvard Law School alongside him (“what, like it’s hard?”) and graduates top of the class.

The new series, Elle, will focus on the high school years that crafted Woods into the star we saw in Legally Blonde.

Based off author Jenny Han’s (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before) trilogy of the same name, The Summer I Turned Pretty stars Lola Tung in her screen debut as Belly Conklin, a girl who can’t make her mind up between two brothers.

In many ways, what inspired The Power was my whole life,” is how author Naomi Alderman begins her roller-coaster tale. “I had just had a really bad break-­­up – one of those break-ups where you wake up every morning crying – and, having had this terrible break-up, I got on the Tube and saw a poster advertising a movie, which had a beautiful woman crying.

Loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac, the fictional band Daisy Jones and the Six are one of the biggest bands in 70s America; until they mysteriously split up right at the height of their career.

Over 10 episodes, the series will unpack what tore the band apart, told through interviews with Daisy and the six.

Daisy Jones, the band’s lead singer, will be played by Riley Keough (The Girlfriend Experience), Granddaughter of rock icon Elvis Presley.

The series is based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s history of Middle-earth and is set during a time of peace in Middle-earth’s Second Age. 

The show will explore the forging of the Rings of Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the fall of the island kingdom Númenor and the final alliance between elves and men. 

After her brother gives his life hunting the enemy, Elven warrior Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) is convinced evil still lurks in Middle-earth and decides to take up the sword and finish his mission.

Inside No. 9

Monday

BBC Two, 9.30pm

The RTS Award-winning duo Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton bring back their delightfully twisted anthology for another series of horror, comedy, drama, and everything in between.

Victory is not always achieved by the first out of the blocks or the fastest car into the opening corner. Sometimes, steadiness of purpose and coming from behind is more effective. That sums up the strategy that Discovery has adopted in the uber-competitive streaming wars.

Having watched Netflix, Amazon Prime and, more recently, Disney+ and others enter the global streaming market, Discovery+ will launch its own service in the US only in January. Some observers have argued that it might be too little, too late.

To those who know him, it is very on-brand that Nick Frost’s new sitcom is a paranormal romp, relentlessly firing out jokes while two ghost hunters uncover spooky goings-on in their house-to-house investigations.

A mild obsession with the extraordinary is in Frost’s creative DNA. His preoccupations, along with those of his best friend, Simon Pegg, were evident in his Spaced days: the cult Channel 4 series often made passing reference to zombies and conspiracy theories.

The nine-part series, directed by Anthony Philipson and produced by 72 Films, will explore the team's first season in their new stadium and the impact of their manager Mauricio Pochettino being replaced by José Mourinho, plus how the club has dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Guided by Tom Hardy’s narration, the documentary will show how the club performs both on and off the pitch during a crucial season.

Insecure

Sky Comedy

Tuesday 30^th June, 9pm

The fourth series of the LA based comedy once again explores the complexities of friendship, dating and adulthood.