What to Watch: The Dig, The Great and Wandavision... here's the best TV and movies out this week

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Daylight is in short supply, the weather’s grim and the lockdown blues are kicking in - at least there’s plenty of streaming material to bide the time.

Here are the films, TV shows and special streaming events on our cultural radar right now, plus some of our favourites from recent weeks that you can catch up on…

New to Netflix this week is period drama The Dig, which tells the incredible true story of how a buried Anglo Saxon ship filled with treasures was discovered at Sutton Hoo in the nineteen thirties, which remains one of Britain’s most extraordinary archeological discoveries. Starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes.

If you've watched Bridgerton, but are craving another dose of colourful and surprisingly contemporary costume drama, watch The Great on Channel 4. The series puts an irreverent spin on the early life of Russian queen Catherine the Great. Starring Elle Fanning and former Skins star Nicholas Hoult.

At the start of 2020, the BBC gave Arlo Parks a video camera to record the making of her debut album. Then Covid hit. The iPlayer documentary, called A Pop Star in a Pandemic, captures an extraordinary year for Parks — one that didn’t play out as planned but still featured some incredible moments.

You can also try the weird and wonderful Wandavision. It’s the first Marvel TV series to land on Disney+, but it’s not exactly what you’d expect from a superhero story. Instead, Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda - aka Scarlet Witch - and Paul Bettany’s Vision, have swapped saving the world for living it up in American suburbia.

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