If you looked at just the cast of this true story, you’d be sold. Aimee Lou Wood (White Lotus, Film Club), Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch), Rory Kinnear (Black Mirror), Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting) and Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey); and they are just the headliners in this story of a mother’s fight. When dozens of babies in one small steel manufacturing town are born with disabilities, their mothers set out to hold those responsible to account. It’s a tale as old as time – corruption, cover-ups, pay-offs and underestimating how far families will go to discover the truth. With only four episodes, you can devour this over a weekend, easy. – Bridget Jones
3. LOL: Last One Laughing (Prime Video)
What do you get if you lock some of Britain’s top comedians in a room together and tell them they’re not allowed to laugh? The funniest TV show of the year, that’s what. Hosted by the ubiquitous Jimmy Carr, each episode sees the comedians eliminated if they emit so much as a titter. Think it sounds easy? You try keeping a straight face while Bob Mortimer does a one-man magic show, or Daisy May Cooper pretends to ride a rollercoaster. Other star performers from season one include Rob Beckett, Richard Ayoade, Lou Sanders, Sara Pascoe, Judi Love and Joe Wilkinson. Catch up on the first season before season two lands next year. Fans of Celebrity Traitors (see number 11 on this list) will be delighted to know Alan Carr is joining the cast. – Stephanie Holmes
4. Alien: Earth (Disney+)
“Cinematic” is an over-used descriptor in the golden age of television, but Alien: Earth was the only show I watched this year with all the living room lights off. Wildly imaginative, very scary (and, at times, very funny) it was the origin story I didn’t know I was missing. Set two years before the events of the 1979 movie original, the series absolutely works as a standalone watch, even if you’ve never…