Guy Ritchie’s tall tales of toffs and robbers continue apace in this second series of The Gentlemen, as we return to the country estate of Edward Horniman, 13th Duke of Halstead. Theo James strides once again to the crease as the Duke, with Kaya Scodelario returning as Susie Glass, Eddie’s business partner and daughter of thuggish crime supremo Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone).

Bomb disposal clearly isn’t a job for the faint-hearted, but Vicky McLure’s Lana Washington, who heads the specialist Metropolitan Police bomb squad known as SO15, continues to stride boldly into the fray, even if the emotional toll is cranking itself up inexorably. This fourth season of Trigger Point kicks off as Washington and her team track the progress of a truck driving into the City of London, which they have reason to believe is crammed with explosives. Its target is the Bank of England.

In its first two series, Vigil investigated a mysterious death on a nuclear submarine and took a deep dive into drone warfare. This time around, writer/creator Tom Edge has moved the action to Svalbard in the Arctic (78 degrees north, to be exact,) where politics, greed and natural resources collide.

Published by Australian author Miles Franklin (full name Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin) in April 1901, My Brilliant Career was a hit in its day, and has been reincarnated as a movie, a play and as musical theatre. A Netflix version was only a matter of time.

You’re not going to catch Alan Ritchson playing King Lear at Stratford or doing Noël Coward at Chichester, but as an implacable warrior for truth, justice and the American way – or what was once supposed to be the American way – he’ll be a hard act to follow. Built like the Incredible Hulk’s smarter brother, and equipped with an extraordinary capacity for busting out of apparently terminal predicaments, Ritchson is in the midst of turning himself into the embodiment of Lee Child’s wrong-righting hero, Jack Reacher.

Ah, Benidorm… sea, sun, sand, sex, sangria and chips. In 5’s new six-part comedy drama, masterminded by Ian Jarvis, the popular Costa Blanca resort becomes the setting for a series of murders which are amusing brain-teasers in themselves, while the show also has a lot of fun with the various species of visitors who EasyJet themselves to Spain’s Mediterranean coast to pick up a nice dose of sunburn.

The return of Taylor Sheridan’s all-female CIA special ops unit finds the war on terror cutting uncomfortably close to the bone, with team boss Joe McNamara (Zoe Saldaña) targeted by a bunch of thuggish Russians in her own home in Virginia. Scenes of Joe being violently manhandled and strip-searched by her attackers as they search for the locator device they know is concealed somewhere on, or in, her body make for pretty gruelling viewing, even in a show that doesn’t shrink from graphic violence.

Is this the near-future? The premise of Ann Droid is that in place of our over-stretched social services, before long we may find ourselves being helped out around the home by robot assistants. This is what happens to our protagonist Sue (Sue Johnston), devastated by the death of her husband Dave two years earlier and fearful of growing progressively older and lonelier. She also suffers from low blood pressure and is liable to collapse without warning.

Based on the novel by Marissa Stapley and telly-ised by screenwriter/creator Jonathan Tropper, Lucky is a rip-roaring tale of dysfunctional criminal families, enlivened by a batch of splendid performances from an excellent cast. Front and centre is Lucky herself (full name Luciana Armstrong), a compulsive thief and skilled con artist, played quite brilliantly by Anya Taylor-Joy.

The “hiding in plain sight” technique has proved appallingly effective for a list of notorious sex offenders. When in doubt, get yourself a prominent slot on the BBC and hang out with royalty, and you can get away with almost anything.