10 TV shows to watch this December

From pitch-black comedy Landscapers to crime-drama Aranyak and Sex and The City reboot And Just Like That, Amy Charles lists this festive season's unmissable TV.

And Just Like That

And just like that… some of the 90s and early-00s' most beloved characters are making a return to the small screen. Sex and The City's Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte are back, now in their 50s, and look to still be as glamorous, ambitious and hilarious as ever. "Life is full of surprises," Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) says in the teaser trailer, as we see the ladies in New York City, working, brunching and concert-going. Very little information is available about the content of this high-profile reboot, but we know that Carrie is now a podcaster, and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) a full-time parent, while Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is still a high-powered attorney, and Kim Cattrall's Samantha won't be returning. "There's so much misogynist chatter in response to us that would never. Happen. About. A. Man," Sarah Jessica Parker told Vogue's Naomi Fry, when asked about the personal comments her and her castmates get about being women in their 50s on screen. Chris Noth's Mr Big is returning, as are Mario Cantone's Anthony, David Eigenberg's Steve, Evan Handler's Harry and in one of his final performances, Willie Garson as Stanford. Meanwhile actors ing the cast include Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights), Sara Ramirez (Grey's Anatomy) and Sarita Choudhury (Homeland).

And Just Like That premieres on 9 December on HBO Max in the US, and on Sky Comedy and Now in the UK

A Very British Scandal

From the makers of 2018's A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant as disgraced politician Jeremy Thorpe, comes A Very British Scandal, telling the story of another cause célèbre: the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, one of the 20th Century's most notorious legal cases. Claire Foy (The Crown, First Man) and Paul Bettany (WandaVision) star as the warring couple, while the writer behind it is Sarah Phelps, best known for her hard-edged Agatha Christie adaptations. The three-parter takes place in 1963, when Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, was publicly accused of infidelity by her then-husband, after he discovered a set of explicit photographs of her with other men. Speaking when the series was announced, Phelps said: "I felt very strongly that she'd [Margaret] been punished for being a woman, for being visible, for refusing to back down, be a good girl and go quietly. This drama is my tribute to her." Julia Davis and Phoebe Nicholls co-star.

A Very British Scandal will be released in December on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and will be available on Prime Video in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand at a later date

Landscapers

In May 1998, Patricia and William Wycherley were shot dead at their home in Nottinghamshire, UK, and buried in their garden. Their killers – their daughter and her husband – Susan and Christopher Edwards spent the following 15 years stealing £245,000 of their money and spending it on Hollywood memorabilia. This is the true story of Landscapers, a new true-crime black comedy starring heavyweight British actors Oliva Colman (The Crown, The Favourite) and David Thewlis (Fargo, Harry Potter) as Susan and Christopher, and written by Colman's husband Ed Sinclair. This four-part limited series tracks the couple on the run, as they are separated for the first time in their marriage and become the focus of an enormous police investigation. Watch the trailer here.

Landscapers premieres on 6 December on HBO and HBO Max in the US, and on 7 December on Sky Atlantic and Now in the UK

Harlem

From Tracy Oliver – creator of hit movie Girls Trip – comes this new comedy, again about four best friends, this time all in their 30s and living in the titular New York neighbourhood. Meagan Good (Deception), Grace Byers (Empire), Shoniqua Shandai and Jerrie Johnson star as the four leads, a professor, a fashion designer, a singer and a tech entrepreneur, respectively, each trying to figure out love, life and their careers. Recently speaking to EW, Oliver said the impetus for the series was the general perception that when you hit your 30s, you have it all figured out: "I was like, 'But I'm in my 30s and I don't have everything together.' And I have so many friends that are still figuring themselves out too, or even starting over... And so I was kind of like, 'Well, let's be truthful about how the thirties doesn't necessarily mean that you have it all together'." Other stars include Whoopi Goldberg, and Amy Poehler and Pharrell Williams serve as executive producers. Watch the trailer here.

Harlem premieres on 3 December on Prime Video

Aranyak

"I've kept my entire life on hold for one big case, and when did that big case arrive? When I left the post," says police officer Kasturi Dogra, played by Bollywood megastar Raveena Tandon, in the trailer in this new Hindi crime thriller. Set in the fictional Sironah, an Indian hill station, or high-altitude town, it sees Kasturi – "a fiercely independent, super talented cop, who is waiting for an opportunity to excel in her life," according to Tandon – suddenly faced with her biggest case yet: a missing tourist in the forest. But she's being forced to work with Angad (Parambrata Chatterjee), an officer from the city, and quickly the case becomes much more serious, as the forest reveals a much more sinister truth.

Aranyak is released on 10 December on Netflix

Emily in Paris

The American expat marketeer and inexplicable social media sensation is back for a second season, just in time for Christmas. The first season came under fire from the French, who called it ridiculous, with BBC Culture's Addison Nugent writing that it was "a parade of every Hollywood cliché about life in the French capital imaginable… how is Hollywood still getting Paris so wrong">window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'alternating-thumbnails-a', container: 'taboola-below-article', placement: 'Below Article', target_type: 'mix' });