Ramy Youssef explores Muslim American life with wit and warmth in No 1 Happy Family USA

No 1 Happy Family USA
From Thursday, Prime Video
As the co-creator of the brilliant comedies Ramy and Mo, Ramy Youssef has been exploring the Muslim American experience with wit and precision for several years. His latest series is an adult animation about the Hussein family. It begins in 2001, which patriarch Rumi is confident will be a good year for the family – this optimism is misplaced. The series is a study in privilege and diasporic desperation, with a dark subtext: despite his best intentions, Rumi’s desire to fit in and prove himself and his family’s loyalty to the US is almost never rewarded. But, as ever, Youssef renders the Husseins’ travails with warmth, comedy and humanity. Phil Harrison

The Last of Us
Monday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
Anybody else hear a clicking noise? Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey’s hit drama, dealing with the fallout of an apocalyptic fungal infection, is back for a second season. It starts with a flashback scene which signals major trouble ahead, but in the present the most pressing problem for Joel (Pascal) is that he feels emotionally estranged from a now 19-year-old Ellie (Ramsey) – who hasn’t told anyone about her immunity to the fungus. Catherine O’Hara and Kaitlyn Dever are two top additions to the cast, and though the opener begins slowly, it inevitably has an action-packed payoff – with the threat of new monsters ahead. Hollie Richardson

Just Act Normal
Wednesday, 9pm, BBC Three
A punchy new comedy drama with a lot of heart and a really great breakthrough cast. Based on Janice Okoh’s award-winning play Three Birds, it is set on a Birmingham council estate and follows three siblings – Tiana (Chenée Taylor), Tanika (Kaydrah Walker-Wilkie) and Tionne (Akins Subair) – who are struggling to keep up appearances of normality after their mum disappears. Romola Garai also stars as a well-intentioned teacher. HR

Government Cheese
From Wednesday, Apple TV+
Hampton Chambers (David Oyelowo) is a dreamer; a man who won’t let minor inconveniences such as jail or debts to crime families slow his roll. Upon his release from prison, he returns to his home in the San Fernando Valley to find that his family aren’t particularly pleased to see him, despite him having invented a self-sharpening drill that he’s sure will make his fortune. What unfolds is a surreal, mildly hallucinatory fable that feels gratuitously quirky but is carried along by fine performances and an era backdrop (the US in 1969) that raises the stakes for a Black family just about getting by. PH

The Diamond Heist
From Wednesday, Netflix
Sometimes life is better for being predictable. And everything about this documentary series about the attempted 2000 theft of the Millennium Star diamond from the former Millennium Dome is in its rightful place. The robbers – who look and sound exactly how a gang of London diamond robbers should – now seem breezily cocky about the whole thing (“It was a bit of a pisstake, putting it where it was”). As do the Flying Squad cops who foiled their plan. And the whole enterprise is tied together by the inevitable presence of Guy Ritchie as executive producer. PH

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