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5-30Mountainhead (Sky Atlantic, Sunday 1 June, 9pm)
- Jesse Armstrong's satire about tech moguls at a retreat called Mountainhead.
- Starring Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef, and Cory Michael Smith.
- A deep-fake tool launch causes financial and social meltdown.
- The moguls ponder exploiting the chaos for world domination.
- Similar to Succession, focusing on the super-rich and their expendable view of people.
See How They Run (Channel 4, Saturday 31 May, 9.20pm)
- A comic whodunnit set after the 100th West End performance of The Mousetrap in 1953.
- An American director is murdered.
- Starring Sam Rockwell as a sozzled Insp Stoppard and Saoirse Ronan as an eager PC Stalker.
- Features a star-studded cast including Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Reece Shearsmith, and Harris Dickinson.
Inside Out (BBC One, Sunday 1 June, 3.30pm)
- Inventive animation about the emotions inside a child's brain.
- Joy (Amy Poehler) controls 11-year-old Riley's mind.
- Moving to San Francisco brings Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) into play.
- Joy and Sadness go on a quest into Riley's mind to save her.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Great! Action, Sunday 1 June, 9pm)
- Directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones.
- Jones plays a Texas ranch foreman who seeks to honor his friend, an illegal immigrant.
- The immigrant was shot by a border patrolman (Barry Pepper).
- A modern Western with themes of friendship and loyalty.
Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story (Great! Action, Sunday 1 June, 9pm)
- Documentary about Irish author Edna O’Brien.
- Features O’Brien discussing her life and experiences at age 93.
- Covers her traumatic childhood, oppressive marriage, and the misogyny she faced.
In the Loop (BBC Two, Tuesday 3 June, 11.45pm)
- Armando Iannucci's comedy about governmental fools from the UK and US.
- The bungling of apparatchiks leads to a potential war.
- Peter Capaldi returns as Malcolm Tucker, bullying a minister (Tom Hollander).
National Anthem (Film4, Wednesday 4 June, 11.20pm)
- A queer coming-of-age drama set in New Mexico.
- Dylan, a laborer, finds a community of LGBTQ+ folk at the House of Splendor ranch.
- He develops an attraction to rodeo rider Sky (Eve Lindley)