What to watch on TV, Netflix, AppleTV+ and Disney+ today: Detective series Perry Mason, horror Smile and comedy Deadloch

Perry Mason

Smile

Barracuda Queens

The Ride

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Fancy a night in with some telly? We’ve got you covered.

Perry Mason

Sky Atlantic, 10pm

While Perry gets a vital piece of information from Holcomb, Della interviews Councilman Taylor and discovers a piece of incriminating evidence that may change the whole direction of the case. With Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Shea Whigham.

The Greatest Auction

Channel 4, 8pm

Vintage Louis Vuitton luggage with a colourful history, a pair of Nike trainers with a reserve price of £4,000 and Oasis song lyrics handwritten by Noel Gallagher are among the items under the hammer this week.

A Spy Among Friends

RTÉ One, 11.25pm

As Kim Philby discovers that life in Moscow is not the egalitarian paradise he might have expected, back in London his friend Nicholas Elliott is still dealing with the aftermath of his old friend’s defection. Period spy drama, with Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis.

Smile

Smile

Sky Movies Premiere, 10.10pm

Reasonably ingenious horror starring Sosie Bacon as a doctor who witnesses the shocking suicide of a patient while working long hours at an emergency psychiatric unit, and then becomes convinced that she’s being followed by an evil entity.

Barracuda Queens

Barracuda Queens

Netflix, streaming now

Moody dramas set in the ’90s are all the rage right now, so this is a Swedish offering by way of The Bling Ring story.

The Ride

The Ride

Prime Video, streaming now

You won’t find anyone more up for the ride than this herd of self-proclaimed “modern-day gladiators”. This docuseries follows a faction of professional bull riders, and their families, as they get propelled around the ring.

Deadloch

Prime Video, streaming now

It’s being touted as a “feminist Noir comedy”, but it could be summarised as “Kath and Kim become cops with deadly results”. Although that’s doing it a great disservice. Set in Tasmania in the depths of winter, things take a grim turn when a local man turns up dead. With undertones of Graham Norton’s Holding, a big-city cop is drafted in to helm the case.