As we creep blinking out of our homes into a vaccine-enabled version of normality, some semblance of order should return to the world of arts and entertainment. In that spirit, and with the usual caveats, here are 21 reasons to look forward to 2021. Television Line Of Duty Filming on series six of the BBC’s blockbuster drama about a police anti-corruption was curtailed by the pandemic. It has now finished so it won’t be long before we’re once again gripped by questions both large (is Adrian Dunbar’s Superintendent Ted Hastings really H, the criminal mastermind the team have been chasing for years) and small (why does Martin Compston’s Cockney accent never slip?). This season’s star turn comes from Kelly Macdonald as DCI Joanne Davidson. Date: March.
OUT: January 7
Boston couple Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) suffer an unthinkable tragedy at the hands of a flustered midwife. Kornél Mundruczó s drama follows Martha over the next twelve months as she fights to survive relationship difficulties and a trial. Martin Scorsese is among the producers. Streaming on Netflix.
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OUT: Jan 15
Noël Coward s genteel supernatural comedy – first performed as a play in 1941 and filmed by David Lean in 1945 – gets a suitably all-star revival. A recently married couple (Dan Stevens and Isla Fisher) are haunted by the ghost of the husband s first wife (Leslie Mann), so call in the services of Judi Dench s dotty medium.