Looking to spend this weekend with the feet up in front of the telly? Our TV experts reveal the 20 best shows and films for you to stream on demand right now... The ex-cricketer reflects on his sporting career, and the crash that nearly ended his life Certificate: 18 Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff has had quite a life, and it's captured in succinct style here by the filmmaker John Dower, who won a BAFTA for that excellent Lockerbie documentary he made for Sky. Dower had exclusive access to Flintoff for a year in order to make this feature-length profile, which tracks the ex-cricketer's recovery from that awful car crash in 2022, and also finds him in a reflective mood on his cricketing career. And what a career it was - the cricketing could have easily filled up the film's running time on its own. Flintoff won two Ashes series with England, a level of success that propelled him to national hero which, along with the easy charisma that always made him so fun to watch on the pitch (and celebrating, off it), allowed his second career as a broadcaster. That included Top Gear, of course, and the emotional core of this film is his reflection on the incident at Dunsfold Aerodrome while filming the show that could very easily have ended his life. (98 minutes) Race Across The World Ordinary people rise to the challenge of getting from A to B Year: 2019- Certificate: pg We're now up to series five of this exhilarating contest, which sees ordinary people take on epic treks without the mod cons. In the first race, five pairs of contestants had to navigate from the Meridian Line in Greenwich, London, to Singapore more than 9,000 miles away. In the second, the five eager teams had to get from Mexico City to Ushuaia in Argentina and the third series saw them travel the breadth of Canada, from Vancouver to Newfoundland. The rules are rigid. They can only travel by road, rail or sea, and must relinquish their mobile phones. They're not allowed a credit card or any other means of getting cash, but they're each given £1,300 and a basic world map. And if they run out of money they can work en route. The first series featured childhood friends Sue Last, 57, and Clare King, 58, who last donned rucksacks when they were 21 for an Interrailing tour. The stars of the second included diabetic mum Jo and her son Sam, who has ADHD. And two pairs of fathers and daughters grew closer over their gruelling races in series three. In the first episode of each series, they all face the daunting task ahead of them in high spirits - but how long will that last? Not everyone makes it to the finish line. The show's great fun and is one of those rare things: a programme that can be enjoyed by all the family. The most recent fifth series starts at the Great Wall of China. (Five series) You (Series 5) The final series of the serial killer thriller, starring Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley Certificate: 18 Around seven years after creepy Joe Goldberg first stepped onto our screens, we finally learn his fate - will he be left free to kill and 'love' again, or will justice find him? No spoilers here, but the fifth and final series opens with our twisted antihero riding high, married to rich Brit Kate Lockwood (Charlotte Ritchie) and living a seemingly decent life in New York City, playing the doting high-society husband and father. So, who are the other players in Joe's endgame? Meet the wonderfully named Bronte, a classic You female character - damaged, good-looking in an offbeat kind of way and deeply in love with books - and Raegan and Maddie Lockwood, Kate's twin sisters, both of them played by Anna Camp in what has to be the standout piece of acting in these final ten episodes. Now, at ten episodes this probably goes on about two too long, but no one could accuse Netflix of not giving Joe a complete send-off, and hopefully Camp will get an award nomination out of it all. (Ten episodes) I, Jack Wright John Simm and Nikki Amuka-Bird star in a mystery drama from the creator of Unforgotten Certificate: 15 When rich family patriarch Jack Wright (Trevor Eve) suddenly dies, his family begins circling in hopes of a payday. But when his will leaves nothing to his third wife (Nikki Amuka-Bird) nor to either of his two sons (John Simm and Daniel Rigby), things turn sour. And the situation only darkens when it turns out that Jack's death was not suicide, as first suspected, but murder... Unforgotten creator Chris Lang writes and produces this engrossing six-part drama digging into the turmoil that follows unexpected revelations in a rich man's will and the fractures in his family revealed by the realisation that they are all suspects in his murder. Simm, Rigby and Amuka-Bird are joined by James Fleet and Gemma Jones, as well as Liz Kingsman and Harry Lloyd as the coppers delving into a case that just gets murkier and murkier the deeper they dig. (Six episodes) Havoc (2025 film) Tom Hardy stars as a cop on a mission in an action thriller set in the US, but filmed in Wales Certificate: 18 Battered and world-weary police detective Walker (Tom Hardy) struggles to keep his head above water in the face of the tidal wave of criminal activity threatening to drown his city. When a drug deal goes wrong he finds himself trying to save a corrupt politician's son, all while being pursued by... well, pretty much everyone, from a vengeful crime syndicate to his fellow cops. As a copper with a dark past, Hardy embraces his inner John Wick in an urban actioner that showcases his bruised charm at the same time as offering up some truly spectacular action sequences. With The Raid on his CV, director Gareth Evans has form when it comes to gritty thrillers and this one is a corker. There's top-flight acting talent on display too, with Hardy being joined in the trenches by Timothy Olyphant and the always magnificent Forest Whitaker. And, while Havoc gives every inch the impression of unfolding in a gritty American city, it was actually filmed entirely in Wales. (105 minutes) Andor (Series 2) Second and final series of the Star Wars drama starring Diego Luna Certificate: 12 A direct prequel to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Andor sets out to fill in the back story of thief turned revolutionary Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). The first series was shockingly good and this second run more than lives up to that promise, as it accelerates towards the events of Rogue One and the cold war between the Empire and the Rebellion grows hot. Created by writer-director Tony Gilroy, these final 12 episodes tell the darkest and most grown-up Star Wars story imaginable, charting the sacrifices and doomed heroism of all the figures who came before Luke Skywalker and made the destruction of the Death Star possible. Luna is magnificent as the cynic turned idealist, but he's matched if not bettered by a dream cast that also includes Stellan Skarsgård as ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael, Genevieve O'Reilly as stressed diplomat Mon Mothma, Forest Whitaker as unhinged rebel Saw Gerrera and Denise Gough as Dedra Meero - one of the most fascinating Imperial characters ever to have appeared in Star Wars. And don't miss Elizabeth Dulau as Kleya Marki either, a character who seems to have walked right out of a John le Carré novel. The 'cold war' aesthetic is strong in Andor's second series and there are some neat French Resistance parallels to spot as it goes on, too. Episode three, which is the last of the first batch released, is a masterclass in filmmaking - and just really good and thrilling TV to watch, quite frankly. Strap in for this one because, unlike so many other Star Wars series, it doesn't disappoint. (12 episodes) Comedy drama about ballet from the creators of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel Certificate: 15 Faced with dwindling audiences, a pair of ballet companies on opposite sides of the Atlantic come up with an audacious plan: they will swap their stars, giving a huge shot of publicity and creative energy to their respective companies in New York and Paris. But what if the stars in question really don't like the idea? Will the harried company managers in both countries be able to handle the culture clash? The Marvelous Mrs Maisel creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino have cooked up another bright drama about the entertainment world, with behind-the-scenes shenanigans of all sorts paired with some stunning dancing. Luke Kirby (Maisel's laconic Lenny Bruce) plays Jack, the head of one ballet company, with Charlotte Gainsbourg as the boss of the other, alongside a cast that includes Brit actors David Haig and Simon Callow as a comically evil billionaire. Étoile isn't the equal of Maisel when it comes to its characters, script or ending, but it is a largely fun watch and the dancing is genuinely impressive. (Eight episodes) Safe Harbor Thrilling narco-crime drama about two hackers caught in a turf war Certificate: 15 With shows like Kin and This City Is Ours we're becoming more and more familiar with how drug gangs operate in and around Britain and Europe and these home-set dramas are holding their own against the US-based narco crime shows. Here's another to add to the mix, set in the UK and Europe and created by Mark Williams, who was behind hit US series Ozark. While Kin and This City Is Ours - and, for that matter Ozark - play heavily on family dynamics, this borrows more from the heist genre, focusing on the unique set of skills of two friends, and one big job. The friends are tech bros and outliers Tobias (Alfie Allen) and Marco (Martijn Lakemeier), looking to make a killing, legally or not, but yet to find the big pay day. They agree to hack into the port of Rotterdam, a key funnel for illicit drugs, and find themselves caught in a violent turf war between the Irish mob - headed by Colm Meaney, with Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders) as his daughter and heir and Jack Gleeson (Game Of Thrones) as her unhinged brother - and a lethal European cartel. Have Tobias and Marco got what it takes to outmanoeuvre these two deadly criminal factions and come out alive, unscathed and with a bulging bank account? (Eight episodes) Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera The strong sequel to the 2018 heist movie starring Gerard Butler, which moves the action from the US to Europe Certificate: 15 You don't expect a movie with the title 'Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera' to have quiet moments of interesting conversation between men. Yet, at its best, that's exactly what this sequel to the 2018 heist movie delivers, with stars Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr and writer-director Christian Gudegast all returning for a story inspired by the Antwerp diamond heist. It finds the dishevelled O'Brien (Butler) divorced and apparently all but cut loose by the LA Sheriff's Department. He wanders over to Europe, where he finds himself slipping into work with US marine-turned-thief Donnie (Jackson Jr), who's landed himself in hot water by stealing from the wrong people. O'Brien and Donnie hit it off in scenes reminiscent of that famed De Niro-Pacino moment in Heat and, although the rest of the movie isn't the equal of that it's a neat, low-level character-driven story that isn't afraid to take its time - but is never better than when Butler and Jackson Jr are together on screen, just chatting. If you're a Gomorrah fan look out for Salvatore Esposito - who played Genny on the top Italian crime drama - among the well-chosen European cast that surrounds them. (144 minutes) The Not Very Grand Tour Clarkson, May and Hammond present a highlights special of the show's best bits Certificate: 12 In 2016, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond departed Top Gear and headed to Amazon to set up their follow-up show The Grand Tour. In that time they crafted some amazing, silly and occasionally quite insane celebrations of the internal combustion engine, all shot through with their trademark matey-ness, banter and practical jokes. It all came to an end, in genuinely moving fashion, in 2024. Or so we thought. This first of four highlight specials (the other three will be drip fed out over the next year or so) pays wide-eyed tribute to their efforts as the trio look back on some of their more barking achievements, from the hyper car holy trinity to muscle cars in Detroit, from a city sprint in a Bugatti and the world's craziest tank to a race between the past, present and future. Gentlemen, start your engines. (Four episodes) Secrets Of The Penguins Nature documentary series showing an unseen side to penguin existence Certificate: pg Images of Emperor Penguins trudging through Antarctic blizzards, huddling together for warmth as they wait for their eggs to hatch, are familiar from a number of wildlife documentaries. This three-part series (from the team behind Secrets Of The Elephants) offers striking images of that too, but it also digs into the ways that other penguin species find to thrive and survive. Prepare for the macaronis and chinstraps of wild South Georgia, where strong female leadership dominates among groups of birds, and diversity and even crime can thrive. And get ready to meet the African and little blue penguins that live in cities and even on the fringes of deserts. It's an eye-opening series that highlights the ways penguin groups mirror human society and might just permanently change the way you think about the flightless black-and-white birds. (Three episodes) Pangolin: Kulu's Journey Documentary about a man helping to raise and release a baby pangolin Certificate: pg Their armour-plated hides may give them the illusion of toughness but pangolins are actually a terrifyingly endangered species. Something not helped by the fact that they're also one of the world's most poached and trafficked wild animals. This film from Academy Award-winning director Pippa Ehrlich of My Octopus Teacher fame follows the story of Kulu, a baby Temminck's pangolin rescued from animal traffickers. It's also the story of Gareth, who gives up a life in the city to try to help raise Kulu and prepare him for a return to life in the wild. It's a heartfelt and powerful documentary film that illustrates not only the fragility of the pangolins' continued existence as a species but also the undeniable bond that forms between the man and the little scaly anteater. (88 minutes) Sea Lions Of The Galapagos Nature documentary narrated by Brendan Fraser Certificate: pg The life of sea lion pup Leo provides fun, drama and excitement in this nature documentary. Actor Brendan Fraser provides the knowing and witty narration as Leo grows up from his days on the rocky shoreline of the Galapagos Islands with his loving mother Luna to attempting to find his own place in the world via adventures in the surrounding seas. It's gorgeous stuff, beautifully shot both on sea and land, but with a keen eye for the ever-expanding narrative of Leo's life. Cue the little sea lion encountering playful moments with everything from marine iguanas and racer snakes to yellowfin tuna, as well as more dramatic incidents with dangerous creatures such as huge Galapagos sharks. And if you're keen to meet the filmmakers behind the cameras, it's accompanied by a feature-length documentary on its production titled Guardians Of The Galapagos, narrated by Blair Underwood. (83 minutes) Vanderpump Villa Spin-off reality series from Vanderpump Rules set in a French chateau Certificate: 15 The over-the-top drama and diva-ish romantic shenanigans of the Vanderpump Rules reality show are legendary. Set in and around the various Hollywood nightclubs and restaurants run by Lisa Vanderpump, they established the high watermark for glossy steamy relationships between beautiful people as the series charts the on-off relationships of the staff and customers. This show may change the setting - it all takes place in a genuine French chateau as Lisa attempts to expand her hospitality business empire to include a glitzy hotel on the other side of the pond - but otherwise it's business as usual as her handpicked team of waiters, chefs, hotel staff and guests fall in and out of lust and love with predictably fiery results. Ooh-la-la... The second series shifts locations again, as Lisa opens 'Castello Rosato' in Italy. (Two series) Battle Camp Netflix reality stars face off against one another in this demanding contest Certificate: 15 There's certainly no shortage of US reality TV shows on Netflix, but which one of them boasts the ultimate winner? It's time to find out as this contest takes familiar faces from shows, including Love Is Blind, The Ultimatum: Queer Love, Perfect Match, Too Hot to Handle, Selling The OC, Cheer and The Circle, and pits them against each other in a bunch of demanding and strategic challenges until only one remains to bag the $250,000 prize. They'll need physical ability to survive the tests but also enviable people skills to make the alliances that they need to avoid being voted onto the spinning wheel that will select who gets to stay or leave at each eviction session. Fans of any of the above shows are going to love watching the stars they love (or hate) being forced far, far out of their comfort zones here. (Ten episodes) The Terror: Infamy A series of bizarre deaths haunt a Japanese-American community in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor Certificate: 15 The second series of this anthology, which blends historical events with horror, both realistic and supernatural, takes place during the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. On Terminal Island in southern California, home to a thriving fishing community, residents are rocked by a series of unexplained deaths, but this is just the start of their woes. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, they lose their homes and livelihoods when they are sent to internment camps, and those dark forces follow them to the camps, too. Star Trek legend George Takei is one of the more familiar faces in the cast, playing an elderly Terminal Islander warning the younger generations about the 'bokemono' spirit, disguised in human form, that is stalking them. (Ten episodes) A third series, based on the novel Devil In Silver by Victor LaValle and set inside a psychiatric hospital, is coming. (Ten episodes) The Artifice Girl Take a journey into the dark side of AI with this psychological thriller Certificate: 15 When police investigating child abuse stumble upon a girl named Cherry being used to trap online predators, they have some pointed questions for the man behind the scheme. The answers go far beyond what they expected, though, as it's revealed that Cherry is actually a frighteningly complex AI creation. The film develops from there into an unsettling psychological thriller about the nature of computer intelligence, centring on Cherry's own rights as a seemingly sentient being. Don't go in expecting any action or big stars - most of the runtime is taken up with characters talking, and the arguments presented in that dialogue leave with you plenty to think about after. Cherry is played by young actor-on-the-rise Tatum Matthews, while the most famous person on the cast (at least at the time of release) is Lance Henriksen. (95 minutes) The Last Showgirl Pamela Anderson stars in a moving character study of a Las Vegas showgirl on a downward trajectory Certificate: 15 Pamela Anderson was unlucky to miss out on an Oscar nomination for this ode to how badly entertainment treats women later in their careers. She gives one of those vanity-free performances as Shelly Gardner, a 57-year-old Las Vegas showgirl who's in love with the old school glamour - as she sees it - of the show she's been performing in since the 1980s. Shelly passed up a relationship and parenting her daughter to stay in it, so what happens when the new owners of the venue decide to close it for good? There's a look at what her future might hold in Jamie Lee Curtis's character - a showgirl turned cocktail waitress who looks like she's on the way out of that job, too - but it's not just about the older women. One of the dancers in her 20s has to deal with looking too old for shows she auditions for and the movie pushes wider to consider how the choices we make early in life come back to roost later on. Jamie Lee Curtis's solo dance to Total Eclipse Of The Heart, on the floor of a casino full of people who couldn't care less, is a real heartbreaker. (89 minutes) Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark The first of the Indiana Jones adventures Certificate: pg The first film in the original Indiana Jones trilogy, which starts with a quest for the Ark of the Covenant and ends with arguably the best of the whole series - the 1989 outing The Last Crusade, in which Sean Connery joins Harrison Ford as Indy's dad in the race to find the Holy Grail. The second film, The Temple Of Doom, is a more generic adventure that hasn't dated quite so well, but Ford's pairing with Ke Huy Quan (who went on to win an Oscar, many years later, for Everything Everywhere All At Once) as Short Round is still terrific fun, while number four - The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - got a bad rap at the time for the dull casting of Shia LaBeouf, but still makes for spectacular viewing. All four are currently on Netflix and Sky/Now. Whichever is your personal favourite, Raiders is inarguably both a great homage to the adventure movies of old and a first-rate thrill ride on its own terms. (112 minutes) Bluey: The Sign The much anticipated half-hour special for the delightful Australian family of dogs Certificate: u If you've not heard of Bluey, the Australian cartoon about a loveable family of canines, it'll be hard for you to comprehend the level of fan anticipation that has surrounded this half-hour special of what is usually a seven-minute show. If you've seen even one of those seven-minute episodes, though, you may understand why so many people are so excited by the idea of it expanding to 30 minutes. Bluey is one of those rare children's shows that everyone in the family genuinely enjoys, because it tackles stories with a warm but philosophical and distinctly unpatronising point of view that plenty of 'adult' TV could learn from. You see children's stories and adults' stories unfold at the same time, and the children's ones often interrupt the adults' in exactly the way they do in real life. So what will its writer Joe Brumm do, given more space to roam? 'Everything will work out the way it's supposed to, Bluey,' says a voice in the trailer for The Sign, a story that mixes the sweet and the bitter to such a nice degree that it'll delight its younger fans and likely leave older ones with a tear in their eye by the end. We can't say much about the plot itself - we can say it involves some great dancing and a chase - but, suffice to say, this show stretches to half an hour far better than Peppa Pig ever did. Could a movie be next? (28 minutes)