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If you’ve made your way through our September picks and are looking for something new, this month’s streaming picks have something for everyone. There is a classic romantic comedy, some British crime drama and even some contemporary dance. The weather might be turning, and the sun might be shining – but these picks will have you wanting to spend some more time on the couch.

Yellowjackets season two

• In season one, a high-school girls’ soccer team survive a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness.
• Season two introduces Lauren Ambrose and Elijah Wood to the cast.
• Central to this season is the power Lottie (Courtney Eaton/Simone Kessell) has over the group.
• – Stuart Richards

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The Way Home

• The Way Home tells the story of three generations of women coming to terms with their trauma and how it has shaped their past and present.
• If you enjoy Christmas movies where a pretty, white heterosexual woman returns home to be conveniently reunited with a lost love, then The Way Home is for you.
• Ultimately, The Way Home is more enjoyable than the sum of its parts.

Am I

• The dancers are all in black with only their feet, arms and faces visible, accentuating the shapes made by their upper bodies.
• The backdrop is a wall of golden white light bulbs, which light in different patterns: at times a pixelated digital screen, other times an exploding sun.
• They move through sequences using silver rods to produce line drawings in two dimensions, then three-dimensional clusters and networks.

While the Men Are Away

• Well-meaning Gwen falls instantly for Frankie; the intense Esther is soon exchanging meaningful looks with Robert.
• The costumes and production design have a soft-focus, Women’s Weekly glamour – a far cry from rationing and making do.
• While the Men Are Away is a fantasy of queer visibility and acceptance, but the uneven script, churning plot and the often-didactic tone undermine its ambitions.

Annika season two

• Neon (New Zealand); season one is available in Australia on iView and BritBox The second season of offbeat BBC police procedural Annika stands apart in a genre that usually veers towards silliness or misanthropy.
• Season one followed the establishment of Glasgow’s specialist Maritime Homicide Unit, a small and unflappable team, which spends its time fishing bodies out of Scottish waterways and solving odd coastal crimes.
• This is all while Annika navigated the prickly relationship with her teen daughter Morgan.

• What passes for “British history” is, all too often, merely the history of England with bits of the histories of Scotland, Wales and Ireland tacked on when they affected events in England.
• “You wouldn’t say it if you were in Belfast.” It only takes a short stroll through Belfast to see why.
• The events of 1690 are still a sensitive topic in Northern Ireland, but they’re largely unknown in the rest of the UK.

School constraints

• It is quite normal for any country’s educational system to give priority to its national history.
• This has remained central to government thinking ever since the introduction of the national curriculum at the end of the 1980s.
• Teachers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have long tried to balance the history of these nations with that of England.
• But for teachers in England, the problem is compounded precisely because England dwarfs the other nations in size and population.

The role of broadcasters

• The Northern Ireland Brexit Protocol and the continuing saga of demands for Scottish independence remind us that these histories should not be of interest only to nerds: we all need to know them.
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• Cut through the noise with a carefully curated selection of the latest releases, live events and exhibitions, straight to your inbox every fortnight, on Fridays.

• Meta’s blocking of Canadian news on its social media sites, Facebook and Instagram, poses serious problems for Canadian media.
• Outlets that rely on social media to reach their target audiences will likely struggle to get by.
• Add this conundrum to the over-reliance on American telecommunications services, and the need to rethink funding Canadian communication is urgent.

Trickle-down funding just doesn’t work

• Some outlets will no doubt suffer as a result of U.S. tech companies blocking Canadian news.
• Yet, Canadian authorities are sticking to a funding model that relies on dwindling cable TV subscribers.
• Funding from commercial Canadian cable companies trickles down to fund the alert system.
• This fall could put funding for the emergency alert system in jeopardy.

Two lessons for Canadians

• In order to fix these problems, Canadians must bear in mind two lessons about how not to construct communication systems.
• Lesson one: Do not rely on American media and communication infrastructure to protect the interests of Canadians.
• Ensuring safety and services to Canadians is not the priority.
• Lesson two: Do not rely on ever-changing elected leaders or ever-changing commercial communication services to provide stable support for media that serves the needs of all Canadians.
• Statistics Canada reports that Canadians are not prepared for the next pandemic, flood or wildfire.

An independent an well-funded media

• Canadian media and telecommunications services must not be dependent on either U.S. or Canadian commercial interests or Canadian politicians.
• Canadian public service media should be required to provide services beyond the broadcasting technology of the 20th century.
• The old promises of the CBC have not been met, and warnings about reforming Canadian media have been largely ignored.
• The damage to Canadian media caused by social media extortion and the loss of cable TV revenue makes it clear that the time for piecemeal reform has passed.

• Europe’s leading patent pool operator has unveiled a new mission statement to accompany the presentation of a redesigned corporate image and website today.
• They hold pivotal patents that underpin key technologies in 5G, C-IoT, DVB-T2, VP9, AV1 and Wi-Fi 6.
• Founded by Roberto Dini in Italy in 1982, Sisvel now has offices across Europe, as well as in North America and Asia.
• “It is so gratifying to reflect on the success that Sisvel has enjoyed over the last four decades.