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Lost Boys & Fairies
BBC One & iPlayer, 3 June, 9pm
Playwright Daf James converts his experience of adopting three children as one half of a gay
couple into sincerely felt, life-affirming fiction. Lost Boys & Fairies follows drag queen Gabriel
(Sion Daniel Young) and his husband, Andy (Hawkeye’s Fra Fee) as they struggle through the
adoption process while reckoning with their own childhoods.

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
Disney+, 7 June
Fashion designer dramas are very much in: 2024 has already brought us shows about Cristóbal
Balenciaga and Christian Dior (The New Look); now it’s time for the origin story of the famously
exacting Chanel boss. Starring Daniel Brühl, this French series charts Lagerfeld’s early career as he
furiously chased success in 1970s Paris.

The Acolyte
Disney+, 4 June
Yes, it’s yet another Star Wars spin-off – but this new series set 100 years before The Phantom
Menace has some novel twists. Helmed by Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland who pitched it
as “Frozen meets Kill Bill”, it recruits Amandla Stenberg and South Korean star Lee Jung-jae for a
mystery-thriller with a martial arts influence. RA

Staying in: Games

Star Wars: Hunters
iPhone, Android, Nintendo Switch, June 4
This long-delayed mobile game pits squadrons of 4 players against each other in arena battles -
think Star Wars, but it’s Overwatch. Characters include Wookiees, aliens, stormtroopers, bounty
hunters and, of course, (robot) Jedis/

F1 24
All platforms; out now
Every year, Codemasters comes out with a ludicrously detailed tribute to the year’s F1 season that
lets you get as nerdy as you like with the endlessly configurable cars, or simply take one for a spin
around Monaco with all the assists turned on. Keza MacDonald

Staying in: Albums