The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – one of TV’s strangest ever franchises refuses to die
The jeopardy of a zombie show is surely whether the characters get bitten to death or not – but somehow the stars manage to survive endlessly. Will the spinoffs ever cease?
Battle in the Box: kids’ birthday parties have better games than Jimmy Carr’s tedious new show
Two teams of celebrities are locked in a container for 24 hours and compete for points as the comedian host tells the most soulless jokes you’ve ever heard. You’ll yearn for Taskmaster
Those About to Die: this mega-budget Roman epic is as close to actual time travel as it’s possible to get
Blood, guts, gore and Anthony Hopkins … this swords-and-sandals extravaganza may only be historically accurate-ish, but it’s the best ancient Rome to ever grace our screens
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: a rare TV show that will change your life for the better
Amy Poehler narrates this soft, soul-cleansing delight – which will make you go for a chic black coffee then throw away nine boxes of rubbish. Blessed relief!
Paddy & Molly: Show No Mersey – watching these MMA fighters limp through this show is just painful
Paddy ‘The Baddy’ Pimblett and Molly ‘Meatball’ McCann are best friends and brilliant personalities. So how has this fly-on-the-wall series ended up so deeply awkward?
Douglas Is Cancelled: Hugh Bonneville’s culture war show is skin-crawling
This drama about a newsreader caught making misogynistic jokes is full of cartoonish depictions of young people. Steven Moffat’s latest is neither funny nor interesting
Outrageous Homes: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has more fun than anyone else alive
The legendary presenter has an absurd, vampy time noseying around wildly decorated houses in quite possibly the best property show ever. All hail the Llewelyn-Bowennaissance!
The Nevermets: love is weird in this evil version of First Dates
Long-distance couples meet for the first time, including a pair who started out in a Game of Thrones roleplay chatroom. It is bizarre but strangely sweet to witness
Inside No 9: dark, funny and totally riveting – this is the best comedy the UK has ever created
The ninth and final series of the ever-inventive black comedy is packed with stars and cements its status as a classic. It’s such a shock America hasn’t tried to copy it yet
Shardlake: murder mysteries don’t get more fantastically creepy than this
Set in a spooky Tudor monastery, Arthur Hughes and Sean Bean must solve a fateful crime while all the monks seemingly have secret affairs. It’s fun, knowing TV … I just hope you’ve all done A-level history
Dead Boy Detectives: this ghost sleuth show is silly, spooky and wicked fun
Yes, this really is about teens trapped in purgatory solving crimes … but it’s so dazzling and magical you barely need to look at TikTok while you’re watching it!
The Regime: Kate Winslet is funny every time in this bizarre political drama
The actor puts in a huge performance as the Chancellor of a fictional European nation. The moral seems to be: ‘Kate Winslet’s being a bit weird, isn’t she?’
This Town: Steven Knight’s 80s-set drama is so confused scenes may as well be shown at random
The new series from the Peaky Blinders creator about the birth of two-tone music is full of dramatic tension. But this slow, frustrating show fails to actually do anything with it
Big Mood: Nicola Coughlan’s laugh-out-loud comedy should be shown to all new TV writers
The Derry Girls star is excellent alongside It’s a Sin’s Lydia West in her new sitcom about two millennial best friends – a masterclass in inventive scriptwriting
Palm Royale: A star-studded, beach club bitchfest with Ricky Martin as an evil waiter
Kristen Wiig’s big-budget new drama about infiltrating the catty world of high-society Florida is packed with celebs – from Laura Dern to the singer of La Vida Loca
