The Michael Peterson case dramatized and a new comedy series from Mike Myers: What to stream on Crave and Netflix this week

With so many different streaming platforms and cable offerings to navigate, choosing what to watch has never been harder. To make things easier, here are our best tune-in tips for the week ahead.

TUESDAY

Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive

Free diver Johanna Nordblad attempts to break the world record for distance travelled under ice with one breath. Watching this will surely leave you breathless.

Netflix

Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known

This star-studded tribute documentary to “Spring Awakening” is being released to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the show’s Tony Award-winning Broadway run. The one-night-only reunion brings the original cast together backstage, at rehearsals and even in their homes. It also features performance footage from the original 2006 run, which launched the careers of Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele.

9 p.m., Crave

WEDNESDAY

The Circle

Have you ever tasted something so good you just immediately know that the chef will never be able to replicate the flavour again? That’s how I feel about “The Circle.” The first season of the show featuring strangers isolated in different apartments in the same complex who communicate only through social media was groundbreaking. It also had one of the best ensemble casts ever and everything since has looked like a cheap knock-off. After a couple of ho-hum seasons, this one could determine the future of the series.

Netflix

Meltdown: Three Mile Island

This four-part documentary series tells the story of ordinary people who do extraordinary things. It explores the 1979 near-disaster at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. According to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the accident happened due to a combination of “equipment malfunctions, design-related problems and worker error” resulting in “small off-site releases of radioactivity.” We will meet some of the heroes involved.

Netflix

Casual

Directed by Oscar nominee Jason Reitman, this series follows a bachelor brother and his divorced sister as they try to live under one roof again. The cast features Michaela Watkins (“The Dropout”), Tommy Dewey (“The Mindy Project”) and Tara Lynne Barr (“God Bless America”).

CBC Gem

THURSDAY

The Staircase

True crime seems to be a popular theme as we head toward the end of the week. This highly anticipated HBO Max miniseries follows the compelling true story of Michael Peterson, the novelist accused of killing his wife, Kathleen Peterson. The lead role is played by Colin Firth. The first three episodes will be released at once with new episodes streaming every Thursday after that.

9:50 p.m., Crave

The Pentaverate

A Canadian journalist can rely only on himself after discovering that five men have been working to influence world events for the greater good. While that sounds like a serious plot line, this is actually a limited comedy series created by Mike Myers for Netflix. It also serves as a spinoff to Myers’ 1993 dark comedy “So I Married An Axe Murderer.”

Netflix

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

The latest spinoff of “Star Trek” is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike was in charge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. It features characters seen in “Star Trek: Discovery” including Pike (Anson Mount), Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and science officer Spock (Ethan Peck), and follows them in the years before Captain Kirk came aboard.

9 p.m., CTV Sci-Fi Channel & Crave

FRIDAY

The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith

This Amazon original docuseries examines one of the coldest murder cases in Canadian history. Beverly Lynn Smith, 22, a mother of a 10-month-old, was brutally killed in 1974. The police used a controversial sting operation in the case and the search for Smith’s killer has continued across four decades. This project debuted at the Hot Docs film festival and all four parts will be available to stream Friday.

Prime Video

The Big Conn

This four-part docuseries tells the true story of Eric C. Conn (yes, that’s his actual name) and a group of corrupt government officials who worked together to steal over half a billion dollars in the largest U.S. government fraud case in history. The story is told from Conn’s perspective versus what his family, confidants and co-conspirators have to say about him.

Apple TV Plus

Welcome to Eden

This Spanish import is about a group of young adults who attend an exclusive party on a remote island. What they end up finding is anything but a good time. It feels like a new spin on Leonardo DiCaprio’s “The Beach.”

Netflix

Murtz Jaffer is a Toronto-based entertainment writer and a freelance contributor for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: @murtzjaffer

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