What’s new to watch this week

Darby & Joan (Tomorrow, Acorn TV) Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi team up for this eight-part Australian drama about two people trying to find themselves in the middle of nowhere. Brown’s Jack Darby is a retired detective fleeing past mistakes. Scacchi’s Joan Kirk is a widow attempting to outrun grief. They embark on an Outback odyssey full of mysteries and colourful characters.

The Rehearsal (8pm, Thursday, SoHo) Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder created and stars in this six-part series where he aims to help ordinary people rehearse difficult conversations or life events, through the use of actors and sets. The subjects include a New Yorker who wants to confess to his pub trivia team that he lied about his Master’s degree and an Oregon woman who wants to simulate adopting and caring for a baby.

A League of Their Own (Friday, Prime Video) Penny Marshall’s beloved 1940s-set, 1992 sports dramedy gets an eight-part makeover. Mozart in the Jungle’s Will Graham and actor-writer Abbi Jacobson (who plays lead character Carson Shaw) widen the lens to focus on a generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball, in or outside the All-American Girls P – rJoafmeses s ioCnrao l oBtaseball League.