Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness to Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator – the seven best shows to stream this week

Larry David is back with a typically cranky look at America’s first 250 years – and it could not be any more starry. Plus: a brave documentary about the chilling crimes of the prolific sex offender and children’s TV host There’s starry, and then there’s getting Barack Obama to cold-open your new show. Still, while he has impressive friends these days, Larry David is still Larry David – as this irreverent response to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence proves. What unfolds is a sketch comedy – featuring Jon Hamm, Kathryn Hahn and Jerry Seinfeld – in which Larry brings the essence of Curb Your Enthusiasm to scenarios including Alexander Graham Bell’s first ever phone call and the horrors of trench warfare. Larry’s capacity for semi-innocent offence endures through the ages but one truth we surely all know is that sketch shows are patchy. This one is no exception. HBO Max, out now Like his TV contemporary Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris made it his business to be surrounded by children. In Nick Sweeney’s two-part documentary, the similarities are inescapable and grotesque. Both became huge stars by cultivating superficial images of gentle harmlessn