Drama makes a welcome return

PICK OF THE WEEK

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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.

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.