5 TV series and movies to watch while spring theoretically springs

There's a new season upon us, prime time for whatever fresh starts one might desire. All those bad habits you want to move beyond were just winter manifesting itself upon you: Spring You is going to completely rule, in control of everything and completely thriving. Or, you know, you might just be the same and watch a bunch of telly while some daffodils bloom outside. All still good. You do you.

The show that is basically Gossip Girl with more lowering of jodhpurs returns for a second season with a few changes. Regé-Jean Page is absent, a new ridiculously telegenic family have arrived to create scandal and do a bunch of smouldering. Expect more betrayals, backstabbings, big-ass dresses and very smartly-attired people being dangerously horny.

Available on Netflix from March 25.

The story of disabled activists Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth lobbying for the UK’s first disability civil rights law – way more recently, fairly disgracefully, than you’d think – is told charmingly and movingly, brought to the screen with a disabled cast and by disabled writers (again, much more of a rarity than it should be). An important tale, told fantastically, and in little over an hour.

Available now on BBC iPlayer.

A combination of DIY and hijinks – DIYjinks? – courtesy of a crew of bearded, tattooed, blowtorch-toting craftsmen bringing crazy ideas and transformations to life. Turn an airport food delivery truck into a stage for a metal gig? A walk in the park. Want to turn two buses into a house? A doddle! Almost guaranteed to have you hitting up Screwfix for a deeply inadvisable angle grinder purchase.

Available now on Discovery+.

A sweeping, enormous, eight-part adaptation of Korean-American author Min Jin Lee’s bestselling multi-generational novel – the kind of telly the word ‘epic’ was invented for. Set across three countries and six decades, it’s big-budget prestige television at its most prestige: expect it to end up winning everything going.

Available on Apple TV+ from March 25.

The perpetually busy Sebastian Stan co-stars with Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones in what initially seems like a rom-com about the horrific world of modern dating, but takes a sinister turn. Jet-black and cheerfully disturbing, it escalates from “ha ha, aren’t apps nonsense” to life and death (and death, and more death) in a grotesquely entertaining way. Probably not one for after a big Mother’s Day lunch.

Available now on Disney+.