The best of TV and streaming this week

Tom Hollander’s titular writer ruffles feathers in ‘Capote vs The Swans’; BBC2’s ‘Pompeii: The New Dig’ documents a game-changing excavation; ‘Baby Reindeer’ is an unsettling truth-based stalker drama; biographical costume drama ‘Franklin’ stars Michael Douglas stars as Benjamin Franklin; season 2 of gritty Belfast police drama ‘Blue Lights’; Amazon Prime’s ‘Fallout’ is an apocalyptic video-game adaptation — reviews by Dan Einav

Capote vs The Swans TV review — star-studded cast forms a flock of exposed New York socialites
Demi Moore, Naomi Watts and Chloë Sevigny play a coterie of women whose feathers are ruffled by Tom Hollander’s Truman
Pompeii: The New Dig, BBC2 review — poignant remains, pickaxes and 2,000-year-old pizza
Surprising and moving BBC docu-series charts the most significant new excavation at the site for a generation
Baby Reindeer review — Netflix’s unsettling stalker drama makes for difficult viewing
The seven-part series is based on a disturbing real-life ordeal experienced by its writer and star, Richard Gadd
Franklin, Apple TV+ review — story of a polymath patriot who secured the future of America
Part biography and part costume drama, Michael Douglas plays Benjamin Franklin with twinkling mischief
Blue Lights series 2 review — engrossing and authentic police drama returns to BBC1
Creators Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson set the series within the very real tragedies of Belfast’s past and present
Fallout TV review — Westworld showrunners return with subterranean sci-fi
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy imagine a nuclear apocalypse in new Amazon series adapted from popular video game