5. You’ve never seen Tudor London brought to life like this
There are many historical dramas on TV that are – how can we put this – stuffy and about as exciting as watching paint dry. You know the sort of thing: corsets, stiff collars, a tendency for couples to stand three feet apart when declaring love. This show is completely different. It’s brightly coloured, sometimes crude, always clever – just like Shakespeare himself. And its leading lady Alice Burbage, played by Olivia DeJonge (The Visit), is a modern heroine worth rooting for, able to meet Will as an equal in intelligence and passion. If you’re not hooked on its binge-worthy merits within an episode or two, we’ll eat our doublets.
Find the first four episodes of Will from Thursday 28 December in On Demand > Box Sets, with new episodes arriving weekly