Drama makes a welcome return

If it's fun, laughs and bonhomie you're looking for, don't expect to find it while watching The Handmaid's Tale (Saturday, Channel 4, 9pm). However, if you fancy something hard-hitting that holds up a disturbing mirror to our times, then you're in the right place.

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The drama may have been inspired by Margaret Atwood’s much-admired dystopian novel of the same name, but its storyline, involving an American theocracy, seems more prescient than ever. Now the show is returning for its sixth and final run, although its co-showrunner and executive producer, Yahlin Chang, promises it won't all be doom and gloom - she claims there will be some 'feelgood' episodes.

For star Elisabeth Moss, who plays heroine June, one of the few fertile females around, season six has a particular resonance because before filming began, she became a first-time mother herself.