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Latest Twin Peaks every bit as spooky and unsettling as the original

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Kyle MacLahlan reprises his role as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks: A Lited Series Event
Kyle MacLahlan reprises his role as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks: A Lited Series Event Kyle MacLahlan reprises his role as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks: A Lited Series Event

TWIN PEAKS: A LIMITED SERIES EVENT (Cert 15, 1008 mins, Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd, available from December 4 on Amazon Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services, also available from December 4 on DVD £34.99/Blu-ray £54.99, Thriller/Fantasy/Drama/Romance)

First broadcast in 1990, Twin Peaks left an indelible mark on the TV landscape, conjured from the twisted imaginations of Mark Frost and David Lynch. More than quarter of a century later, the quixotic characters of this strange, macabre world return in an 18-part series that is every bit as spooky and unsettling as the original.

Kyle MacLahlan reprises his role as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, who is inexorably drawn back to the fictional Washington community of the title. He also plays Cooper's evil doppelganger with deathly black eyes, who begins his reign of terror in the South Dakota town of Buckhorn, aided by two shadowy associates, Darya (Nicole LaLiberte) and Ray (George Griffith).

Past and present become blurred and Cooper is miraculously gifted an opportunity to prevent the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, which brought him to Twin Peaks all of those years ago.

The eight-disc DVD and Blu-ray box sets include all 18 episodes plus nearly five hours of previously unseen special features.

DARK (10 episodes, streaming from December 1 exclusively on Netflix, Thriller/Drama/Romance)

The first German-language original series on Netflix is a 10-part supernatural drama with faint echoes of Stranger Things – albeit with a colour-bleached visual palette and mood of grim foreboding – created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese.

Set in a sleepy German community situated in uncomfortable proximity to a nuclear power plant, Dark cuts back and forth in time between the present day and 1986 to explore the tangled fortunes of four families.

In one narrative thread, Michael Kahnwald (Rudolph Sebastian) kills himself by hanging and his teenage son Jonas (Louis Hofmann) struggles to come to terms with the shocking discovery. Elsewhere, a boy called Erik Obendorf (Paul Radom) goes missing, and soon after teenager Mikkel Nielsen (Daan Lennard Liebrenz) vanishes during a night time hike through the woods with his friends.

High school principal Katharina Nielsen (Jordis Triebel) is haunted by the disappearances, while the school's resident bruiser Bartosz Tiedemann (Paul Lux) has many reasons to feel guilty.

As the series unfolds, events in the same town, almost 30 years apart, unearth dark secrets between the generations and an enigmatic figure called The Stranger (Andreas Pietschmann) makes his presence felt in the dual time frames.

FEAR THE WALKING DEAD – THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON (Cert 18, 688 mins, Entertainment One, available now on Amazon Prime Video/iTunes and other download and streaming services, available from December 4 on DVD £34.99/Blu-ray £44.99, Horror/Thriller/Romance)

Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis) is separated from his partner Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and her daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam Carey) at the beginning of these 16 episodes of the prequel to The Walking Dead.

Also this series, Alicia is tormented by the murder of Andres and Madison's son Nick (Frank Dillane) comes to terms with the horrifying repercussions of his first decision as a leader.

Businessman Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) vows revenge against Daniel Salazar (Ruben Blades), who abandons him to be devoured by the marauding undead, and Daniel's plucky daughter Ofelia (Mercedes Mason) is an active participant in the downfall of the community of Broke Jaw.

The five-disc DVD and Blu-ray box sets include the episodes Eye Of The Beholder, The New Frontier, TEOTWAWKI, 100, Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame, Red Dirt, The Unveiling, Children Of Wrath, Minotaur, The Diviner, La Serpiente, Brother's Keeper, This Land Is Your Land, El Matadero, Things Bad Begun and Sleigh Ride.