Dark Comedy

Sky releases the trailer for series two of The Flight Attendant

Kaley Cuoco is back as chaotic Cassie Bowden, who was introduced in series one as an alcoholic air stewardess who gets caught up in a murder investigation. 

Series two sees Bowden living a newly sober and healthier life in Los Angeles while secretly moonlighting as a CIA asset in her spare time. 

However, her life is once again turned upside down when an overseas assignment accidentally leads to her witnessing a murder, causing her to become entrapped in another international fiasco. 

ITV commissions dark comedy Passenger for ITVX

Written by Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch), the six-part series is set in the small northern village of Chadder Vale and follows a tight-knight community that is turned upside down when a series of strange and unnatural crimes begin to occur. 

Former Met Police Detective Riya Ajunwa has been working in the village for five years and is desperate for that one big case that will challenge her and make her feel alive again.

Everything you need to know about After Life series two

Ricky Gervais and Kerry Godliman (Credit: Ray Burmiston/ Netflix)

What happened in series one?

Series one introduced journalist Tony (Ricky Gervais), a man whose life is turned upside down when his wife Lisa (Kerry Godliman) dies from breast cancer.

Overtaken by grief and unable to move on, Tony considers suicide but instead decides to live a life doing and saying whatever he wants, regardless of who he offends.

Talking to his therapist, he remarks that a good day for him is "when he doesn’t want to shoot random strangers and then turn the gun on himself”.

BBC commissions new Scottish drama Guilt

Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives in Guilt (credit: BBC)

The four-part series will follow Mark Bonnar (Catastrophe) and Jamie Sives (Chernobyl) as brothers Max and Jake, who unintentionally run over and kill an old man called Walter.

As Jake is uninsured and under the influence, his successful and seemingly more responsible brother Max convinces him to cover-up the accident.

However, when relatives and neighbours begin to suspect that Walter hasn’t passed away through natural causes, the consequences of their actions come back to haunt them in ways that neither could have imagined.