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DVDs and Downloads: Riviera, Orange Is The New Black, Shimmer Lake and Le Mans

Julia Stiles as Georgia Clios in Riviera
Julia Stiles as Georgia Clios in Riviera Julia Stiles as Georgia Clios in Riviera

Riviera (10 episodes, streaming from June 15 exclusively on NOW TV, Thriller/Drama/Romance)

Julia Stiles from 10 Things I Hate About You and the Jason Bourne franchise headlines this gripping 10-part Sky Atlantic thriller set in the sun-baked playground of the rich and fabulous, which is also available via NOW TV. She plays brilliant American art curator Georgia Clios, whose husband Constantine (Anthony LaPaglia) is a banking magnate and billionaire philanthropist with powerful friends in high places. The couple's whirlwind lifestyle of designer couture and lavish parties is blown to smithereens when Constantine is apparently killed in a explosion aboard a yacht belonging to a Russian oligarch. In her hour of grief, Georgia rebuilds bridges with Constantine's ex-wife Irina (Lena Olin) and her son Adam (Iwan Rheon), and learns dark secrets about the man she loved. In the process, Georgia stumbles into the criminal underworld, where she will need to fight for her life to avoid a similar fate to Constantine.

Orange Is The New Black – Season Five (13 episodes, streaming from June 9 exclusively on Netflix, Comedy/Drama/Romance)

A riot inside Litchfield Penitentiary has devastating consequences for the inmates in 13 episodes of the award-winning Netflix comedy drama based on Piper Kerman's memoir of the same name. The fifth series concentrates on just three days in the lives of Piper (Taylor Schilling), her partner Alex (Laura Prepon) and the other inmates as Daya (Dascha Polanco) decides whether she is going to pull the trigger on guard Thomas Humphrey (Michael Torpey) and the light the fuse on war with the authorities. The prisoners are still hungry for revenge for Poussey Washington (Samira Wiley), who died needlessly last series after she was improperly restrained. This quest for vengeance, at any cost, tests allegiances to breaking point.

Shimmer Lake (Cert 15, 86 mins, streaming from June 9 exclusively on Netflix, Comedy/Thriller/Romance)

A sheriff investigates a bungled bank heist in Oren Uziel's directorial debut, a darkly comic crime thriller which unfolds in reverse chronological order, one day at a time to reveal the circumstances that lead to disaster. Trigger happy criminal Ed Burton (Wyatt Russell) and his two associates Andy Sikes (Rainn Wilson) and Chris Morrow (Mark Rendall) plan to steal a small fortune from the bank managed by Brad Dawkins (John Michael Higgins). Their ham-fisted attempt goes awry and Andy's brother, town sheriff Zeke Sikes (Benjamin Walker), is enlisted to catch the culprits with the aid of junior law man Reed Ethington (Adam Pally). Meanwhile, Andy's paranoia steadily spirals out of control as he plots to escape town with his lover Steph Burton (Stephanie Sigman).

Le Mans: Racing Is Everything (6 episodes, streaming from June 9 exclusively on Amazon Prime, Documentary)

DIRECTED by Emmy Award nominee James Erskine, this turbo-charged six-part Amazon Original unscripted series goes behind the scenes of the non-stop 24-hour race dating back to 1923, which has been called "the Mount Everest of motorsports". The programme is granted unprecedented access to the Aston Martin, Audi, Nissan, Porsche, Rebellion and Toyota teams as they build their cars for one of the highest attended single-day sporting events in the world. Episodes also follow some of the key drivers over the entire 24 hours of the competition including Australian Formula 1 trailblazer Mark Webber, English teenage gamer Jann Mardenborough and Nico Prost, son of Formula 1 legend Alain Prost.