The Shows Must Go On: Under Salt Marsh, 56 Days, Wonder Man and Steal

UNDER SALT MARSH (Sky Atlantic)
Brian Gleeson flies the Irish flag in this limited-edition series about a teacher and former detective, Jackie Ellis, who discovers the body of one of her students. The coroner’s verdict is accidental drowning but Jackie is certain he was murdered and that the killing is linked to the disappearance three years earlier of her niece. Unfolding at a furious pace with red herrings and plot twists galore, the heavyweight cast also includes Kelly Reilly, Jonathan Pryce and Rafe Spall, who plays the cop colleague she royally pissed off before being slung off the force.

56 DAYS (Prime Video)
If it’s intense psychosexual dramas you’re after, look no further than this new eight-parter, which whisks Catherine Ryan Howard’s Dublin-set source novel off to the States. After a chance supermarket encounter, Oliver and Ciara start doing it like Discovery Channel mammals, until an unidentifiable body is discovered. Avan Jogia and occasional pop singer Dove Cameron play the two lovers/lusters who may or may not be involved in the slaying.

WONDER MAN (Disney+)
Breaking down the Marvel Universe fourth wall, this endearingly daft series focuses on two struggling Hollywood actors desperate to star in the titular superhero movie. With Aquaman’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley playing the rival thesps, there’s no shortage of star power or gobsmacking SFX, which both explain the rumoured $255 million season budget. There’s also a great turn from Arian Moayed as Department of Damage Control agent P. Cleary who deserves a series all of his own.

STEAL (Prime Video)
Having previously starred as Sansa Stark in Game Of Thrones whilst getting married to/divorced from Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner plays an office worker who gets caught up in a billion pound heist. Things are bad but become even worse when the gambleholic – if it’s not a word, it should be – DCI Rhys is assigned to the case which becomes more baffling by the episode. A busy ’26 for Turner also finds her appearing as Lara Croft in the latest, as-yet-untitled Tomb Raider escapade.