Nobody Wants This returns for its second season – What to watch this week

October 22

Lazarus, Amazon Prime

Author Harlan Coben is once again teaming up with longtime collaborator Danny Brocklehurst (Fool Me Once, Stay Close) to create an entirely original story. At the centre of it is Sam Claflin (Daisy Jones & The Six) as Laz, a forensic psychologist who specialises in cold case murders. His life takes a darker turn when his father, Dr Lazarus (Bill Nighy), dies, stirring up haunting memories of Laz’s sister, who was killed 25 years earlier. Soon, unsettling and inexplicable experiences leave Laz questioning not only the past but his own sanity.

Riot Women, BBC1

From Sally Wainwright, the acclaimed creator, writer and director of Happy Valley, comes a fresh, irreverent comedy about friendship, music and midlife reinvention. Five menopausal women – a teacher, a police officer, a pub landlady, a midwife and a shoplifting freeloader – form a punk rock band to compete in a local talent contest, only to discover they have a lot more to shout about than they ever imagined. As the band grows closer, unexpected personal revelations emerge, including a surprising and heartbreaking connection between Beth, the teacher and Kitty, the freeloader.

October 23

Nobody Wants This, Netflix

This romantic comedy was a runaway hit last year and tells the story of Joanne (Kristen Bell), an agnostic podcaster who covers sex and dating, and Noah (Adam Brody), a rabbi who find themselves in a relationship that, uh, nobody wants. Last season ended with a major dilemma: Noah was offered the role of head rabbi at a congregation, a position that would disappear if he were to marry a non-Jewish woman. Joanne isn’t ready to convert, setting up a season of choices that could redefine their relationship and provide plenty of comic tension. Justine Lupe returns as Joanne’s sister and podcast co-host, while Timothy Simons plays Noah’s brother, both with relationship arcs of their own. Guest stars this season include Seth Rogen and Brody’s wife, Leighton Meester.

October 24

Regretting You, cinemas nationwide

When a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal, Morgan Grant and her daughter, Clara, explore what’s left behind as they confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other. Based on the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover.

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, cinemas nationwide

On the cusp of global superstardom, New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past as he records the album “Nebraska” in the early 1980s. Starring Jeremy Allen White as ‘The Boss’ and Stephen Graham as his distant father.