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Box sets: New series to download, stream or buy on DVD/Blu-ray

Catherine Deneuve in The Truth
Catherine Deneuve in The Truth Catherine Deneuve in The Truth

WHITE LINES (10 episodes, streaming and available to download from May 15 exclusively on Netflix, Drama/Romance)

SHOT in English and Spanish, White Lines is a slow-burning murder mystery created by the team behind Money Heist, which transports viewers to the throbbing nightlife of sun-kissed Ibiza.

Legendary Manchester DJ Axl Walker (Tom Rhys Harries) vanishes without trace on the beautiful Spanish island at the height of the party season. Local police appear unable to solve the mystery.

Twenty years later, Axl's body is discovered on a beach, sparking a fresh quest for answers. His tenacious sister Zoe (Laura Haddock) arrives back on Ibiza to unravel the mystery by applying pressure to her brother's former friends and acquaintances.

They quickly discover that Zoe is willing to do whatever it takes to expose their lies and deceptions, even if that means skirting perilously close to the wrong side of the law.

9-1-1 – SEASON 3 (18 episodes, starts streaming from May 19 exclusively on NOW TV, Thriller/Drama/Action/Romance)

MEMBERS of emergency services in Los Angeles face life-or-death decisions in the third series of the fast-paced drama from the Ryan Murphy stable, which screens in weekly instalments on Sky Witness and streams exclusively on NOW TV.

At the end of the second series, cop Athena Carter Grant (Angela Bassett) and fire station captain Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) married, while firefighter Eddie Diaz (Ryan Guzman) faced a tough decision about his future with son Christopher (Gavin McHugh).

The third series begins in devastating fashion with a tsunami, which hits Santa Monica Pier just as Christopher is enjoying a day out with his father's colleague and good friend, Buck (Oliver Stark).

The aftermath of the disaster ripples through subsequent episodes as Buck confronts ghosts of the past, Eddie almost kills a fellow competitor at his fight club, and Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) re-evalutes her role at the call centre.

THE AFFAIR – THE FINAL SEASON (Cert 15, 696 mins, Showtime, available now on Amazon Prime Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services, available from May 18 on DVD £29.99, Drama/Romance)

THE Golden Globe award-winning drama created by Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi barrels through more twists and turns during its final series, which arrives on DVD this week.

The death of Alison Lockhart (Ruth Wilson) casts a long shadow over her grown-up daughter Joanie (Anna Paquin), who is sent to Montauk on a work assignment as a coastal engineer.

As Joanie attempts to outrun ghosts of her past and discover the truth about her mother's demise, Noah Solloway (Dominic West) must confront his own demons when Hollywood adapts his book Descent for the big screen.

Tensions with ex-wife Helen (Maura Tierney) impact his relationship with their four children, Martin (Jake Siciliano), Stacey (Abigail Dylan Harrison), Trevor (Jadon Sand) and Whitney (Julia Goldani Telles).

The four-disc DVD set includes all 10 episodes.

THE TRUTH (Cert PG, 107 mins, Curzon Artificial Eye, available now on Curzon Home Cinema, from May 18 on Amazon Prime Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services, also available from May 18 on DVD £22.99, Drama/Romance)

AWARD-winning Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda ventures to France to make his first feature outside of his homeland and elicits an eye-catching central performance from Catherine Deneuve.

She plays Fabienne Dangeville, grand dame of French cinema, who has a Cesar on the mantelpiece and commands the adoration of countrymen and women for her performances.

Fabienne is poised to release a memoir entitled The Truth as she prepares for her next film.

Hitting the campaign trail to promote the book, Fabienne plays host to her screenwriter daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) and her actor husband Hank (Ethan Hawke).

They arrive from New York with their young daughter Charlotte (Clementine Grenier).

As Lumir reads her mother's book, she is staggered by the extent of Fabienne's deception, trotting out rose-tinted anecdotes that never happened to polish her public image.

The divide between reality and fiction forces the two women to address their differences and seek common ground.

THE LAST NARC (4 episodes, streaming from May 15 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, Documentary)

THE 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA Agent Enrique 'Kiki' Camarena shines a light on a conspiracy that stretches to the upper echelons of power in this fascinating four-part Amazon Prime Video docuseries directed by Tiller Russell.

Special Agent Hector Berellez, who led the DEA's investigation into Camarena's murder, is a key figure in The Last Narc, sharing the story of how he followed a trail of evidence from the killing fields of Mexico at great personal risk.

He details how three bodyguards of drug lords Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo became informants and cracked the case wide open.

Berellez's shocking testimony is accompanied by the words of Camarena's widow and other key players in the case, who bore witness to a grimy chapter in the war on drugs.