Shazad Latif is Allen’s unlikely ally in Sky’s drama about drug smugglers on the run. Plus: a tribute to the late drag star The Vivienne. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif make a punchy pair in this action-packed crime series. Max (Allen) is a drug smuggler who meets enigmatic JJ (Latif) while on a job driving from north Africa to the Middle East, and they’re quickly swept up in all sorts of trouble. But what starts as a bid for survival – from violent extremist ambushes to the CIA and MI6 closing in – soon becomes a tale of redemption. Hollie Richardson

Hot Milk’s mother-daughter meltdown or losers on the lash in The Inbetweeners Movie, some films leave us feeling as foolish as their protagonists for trying to escape reality

As we near the end of a hot, dry August, I’m longing for a Mediterranean getaway; salt-crisp skin, a Fanta lemon, and a tinge of pink across my shoulders. I’m also thinking about what I like to call “sunburn cinema” – homegrown films like recent release Hot Milk (adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel), which remind us we’re a nation uniquely ill-equipped to deal with the sun. Or, as one popular Letterboxd review puts it: “Oh no, the Brits are on trauma vacation again”.

Sunburn is the hallmark of a particular kind of Brit abroad, visual evidence of the lack of decorum that we notoriously display across the resorts and beach towns of Europe. Sunburn cinema, however, pinpoints what makes us inclined to chaos and self-sabotage.

Nottinghamshire council’s administration says it will no longer deal with local paper, in unprecedented move

A Reform council leader’s decision to ban his councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper is a “massive attack on local democracy” and a sign of things to come should the party form the next government, the outlet’s editor has warned.

In an unprecedented move, Nottinghamshire county council’s four-month-old Reform administration has said it will no longer deal with the Nottingham Post, its online edition and a team of BBC-funded local democracy journalists that it manages.

Spurred into action by the species’ threatened future, two best friends embarked on a project to release 250 of the animals in Devon

Doing somersaults in the corner of a field in Devon this week were the fluffy results of an audacious wildlife project by two 13-year-old girls.

Best friends Eva Wishart and Emily Smith had become devoted to harvest mice, and were upset, a couple of years ago, to find out the species is threatened in England due to farming practices and habitat loss.