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Isakapatnam is a seven-episode Telugu crime series set in a 1990s harbour town where one man controls the docks — until his own daughter sets out to take that control apart. Samuthirakani and Aishwarya Rajesh lead a period gangland saga arriving on Prime Video.

Three favourites went through and none of them lost, yet the manner split them apart. England laboured to shake off DR Congo, Belgium won a five-goal shootout with Senegal without ever protecting a lead, and only Mauricio Pochettino’s United States did what a favourite is supposed to do — control the game and never give it back.

For Disney’s live-action Vaiana, Lin-Manuel Miranda returns to the franchise he helped define — this time handing the songs to Dwayne Johnson and debut lead Catherine Laga’aia to perform on camera. Thirteen tracks. A composer’s architecture tested against voices built for something other than musical theater.