Jodie Whittaker shines in the tense, gritty tale of a real-life national scandal, while Kate Hudson’s basketball sitcom is easy to root for

Might the Corby toxic waste case be the latest scandal to be brought to national attention by a TV drama? Written by Jack Thorne and starring Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood and Robert Carlyle, this bleak but stirring true story lands somewhere between Mr Bates vs the Post Office and Erin Brockovich. It centres on the redevelopment of a decommissioned steelworks, which foreshadowed a rise in children being born with upper limb disabilities. It’s a claustrophobic and ominous affair featuring the red dust of the steel plant billowing poisonously through the town, but Whittaker is superb as Susan McIntyre, the mother battling Corby council for justice and accountability.
Netflix, from Thursday 27 February