The best new TV and films to stream next week – from Black Cake to Mr and Mrs Smith

WITH the winds blowing wild thanks to storms Isha and Jocelyn, we wouldn't blame you for wanting to stay in this week.

Thankfully, there's plenty on the box to keep you entertained - and The Sun's TV Mag has picked out some highlights.

NETFLIX

The Greatest Night In Pop - Available Monday

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A staple of any 80s compilation or playlist, We Are The World was American pop’s answer to Do They Know It’s Christmas, a superstar-filled charity single designed to raise some serious cash for famine relief in Africa.

And, just like with the British single, organising the recording of the track - which featured the likes of co-writers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen, was a minor miracle of organisation.

The story of how the single came about, and that legendary recording session in January 1985, is revealed in this wonderfully nostalgic documentary.

It’s crammed with never-before-seen footage and new interviews with some of the artists who took part, including Lionel himself, Bruce, Smokey Robinson, Cyndi Lauper and Dionne Warwick - and it’s certain to imprint the song in your brain for days afterwards.

NASCAR: Full Speed - Available Tuesday

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Forget the increasingly predictable F1, if you want genuine motorsport drama, jeopardy and death-defying driving, NASCAR is where it’s at.

New five-part docu-series Full Speed goes behind the scenes of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs and championship race, meeting the drivers, their teams and families, who wait nervously as they hurtle round the tracks at several hundred miles an hour.

Featuring extensive access to many stars of the sport, including Ryan Blaney, William Byron, Ross Chastain, Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace, Christopher Bell, Joey Logano and Kyle Larson, this is the ultimate insider’s guide to one of the most spectacular sports on the planet.

Jack Whitehall: Settle Down - Available Tuesday

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Jack Whitehall’s had a very busy time of late. He’s made more Bad Education, turned up in the second season of hit American series The Afterparty and starred in movies like Robots, Jungle Cruise and Clifford the Big Red Dog.

On top of that, he’s also been touring his new stand up show, Settle Down, to great acclaim - phew. But if you haven’t been able to bag a ticket, don’t worry, because Netflix were good enough to send some cameras along when Jack took to the stage at the O2 in London last summer.

So sit back, and prepare to chuckle as Jack discusses life since he decided to, yes, settle down, covering topics including becoming a father, dogs, drinking and dining alone.

Orion And The Dark - Available Friday

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All children have irrational fears but Orion (voiced by Jacob Tremblay) seems to have more than his fair share. This otherwise normal schoolboy is terrified of everything from bees to dogs, mobile phone radio waves to falling off a cliff.

Overshadowing all the others, however, is a big, shadowy fear that he has to face every night - a fear of the dark. So imagine his surprise - not to mention terror - when the actual Dark itself (voiced by Paul Walter Hauser) pays him a visit and spirits him away on a special journey that, he hopes, will help Orion realise there’s nothing to be scared of.

A wonderful and warm animated comedy adventure, that’s perfect for fans of Inside Out, plus any kids who can’t quite shake their childhood worries.

Baby Bandito - Available Wednesday

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Ice skaters and dangerous heists don’t often go together, which is why this new, eight-part thriller from Chile - based on a true story - feels refreshingly unlike most crime dramas.

When passionate skater Kevin (Nicolás Contreras) meets and falls in love with the privileged Genesis, he’s desperate to find a way to keep her in the manner she’s become accustomed.

So, obviously, he decides to pinch plans drawn up by a dangerous group of gangsters to steal $7 million from the airport. One heist later and Kevin is the most-wanted fugitive in the country - can he and Genesis escape those out for revenge and find their happy ever after? A fun, Bonnie and Clyde-style romp.

Let’s Talk About CHU - Available Friday

Love is a complicated thing, whatever language you speak. In this romantic comedy drama from Taiwan, Chu Ai (Chan Tzu-hsuan) is a wax therapist who spends her spare time running a sex education vlog.

But while she finds it easy to talk about love and relationships online, real life turns out to be much more of a challenge. Whether it’s her own friends-with-benefits relationship with Ping-ke (Kai Ko), the marital difficulties of her elder sister, or the love woes of her brother, Chu discovers that happiness can be hard to find. Will she ever manage to have a meaningful relationship?

AMAZON FREEVEE

Neighbours - Available Monday to Thursday

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What could possibly go wrong when five Ramsay Street residents head off on a rural holiday home getaway? Well, quite a lot, as it happens - this is Neighbours, after all. Sadly, this week, tragedy strikes Erinsborough, and one of the group – which is made up of Aaron, David, Nicolette, Leo, and a pregnant Krista Sinclair – will meet an untimely end. The drama! But which character is set to float up to soap heaven? All will be revealed.

PARAMOUNT+

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - Available Thursday

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Those heroes in a half shell are back, in a brilliant new reboot that brings the adventures of the brave green quartet to a new generation.

Fifteen years after a chemical spilled into New York’s sewers turns four turtles – Michelangelo (Shamon Brown Jr.), Leonardo (Nicolas Cantu), Donatello (Micah Abbey) and Raphael (Brady Noon) – into humanoids, the ninjutsu-trained gang find themselves on a mission to stop another rogue mutant, Superfly (Ice Cube), from unleashing an army of mutants.

Aided by their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan) and aspiring journalist April (Ayo Edebiri), can the Turtles save humanity? Brought to life with eye-popping, sketchbook-style animation, it’s a spectacular, action-filled treat that will delight long-time Turtle fans and Ninja newcomers alike.

A Bloody Lucky Day

After a very profitable day picking up customers, usually luckless taxi driver Oh-taek (Lee Sung-min) agrees to one last job. And it seems that his luck really is in when the customer, Hyuk-soo (Yoo Yeon-seok), asks to be driven to a faraway city in exchange for a massive fare.

However, when this enigmatic customer reveals that he’s a serial killer, and confesses to a number of gruesome murders on the highway, Oh-taek must find a way to convince the ruthless Hyuk-soo not to bump him off – and to stop this from being his last ever fare. A tense and compelling 10-part psychological thriller from South Korea.

HAYU

Vanderpump Rules - Available Wednesday

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At long last, season 11 is here and there’s only one thing that everyone wants to know about: the fallout from Scandoval. If you’re not fully up to speed on your Vanderpump gossip, here’s what you need to know: during the last series, it was revealed that show original Tom Sandoval had been having an affair with Rachel (previously known as Raquel) Leviss, best friend of his girlfriend of nearly 10 years Ariana Madix, causing all manner of heartbreak, drama and splinters in their friendship groups.

But what’s been happening over the last few months? We’re about to find out, but what we can reveal is that the new season finds Ariana with a new man and determined to avoid Tom, while Rachel will not be returning. If that wasn’t enough, original troublemaker Jax Taylor is back after a season away, guaranteeing more headaches for queen bee Lisa. Bring it on.

PRIME VIDEO

Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Available Friday

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Remember Brad and Ange’s 2005 comedy action movie, also called Mr. & Mrs. Smith, about a married couple who happened to be ruthless spies? Well, the multi-talented Donald Glover has taken that film, tinkered with the plot and created this impressive, action-packed eight-part series.

It follows the adventures of two strangers who get jobs at a mysterious spy agency, and are immediately paired up and instructed to pose as a married Manhattan couple. Gradually getting to know each other as they carry out highly dangerous missions, the pair - John (Donald) and Jane Smith (Maya Erskine) - soon begin to develop genuine feelings for one another.

Grittier and more knowing than the original movie, the series is smart and funny and boasts an enjoyable snarky chemistry between the leads, not to mention plenty of missions sure to get your pulse racing.

DISNEY+

Black Cake - Available Wednesday

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In 1960s Jamaica, runaway bride Covey (Mia Isaac) goes missing, feared drowned, following her husband’s murder. Fast-forward to the present day and when Californian widow Eleanor Bennett dies after a battle with cancer, she leaves her two feuding, grown up children – Benny (Adrienne Warren) and Byron (Ashley Thomas) - a flash drive that reveals the dramatic truth about her past and early life in Jamaica.

Unfolding over eight episodes, the series weaves a tense murder mystery around a powerful and heart-breaking family drama, which spans decades and continents. Based on the best-selling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson and produced by Oprah Winfrey.

CHANNEL 4

The Defence - Available Friday

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Lawyers don’t come much tougher than Joanna Chylka (Magdalena Cielecka). Having been beaten up by an angry mob at the end of the last series of the always-gripping Polish crime thriller, no-nonsense Chylka doesn’t want any sympathy or support – despite her colleagues’ concerns.

And when she receives a mysterious voicemail from a terminally ill priest, confessing a dark secret – that a man was wrongly imprisoned for a series of murders – Chylka, who’s still not fully recovered, gets back to work.

But her six-episode hunt for the real killer is set to lead her into a dangerous maze of power and corruption. In Polish with subtitles.

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