Nicole Kidman’s Rich People Thriller era, The Tower, Colin from Accounts and everything else to watch this week

This week, Kayleigh Dray shares three new titles to add your watchlist and sets up her very own Catherine O'Hara fan club, while Helen Bownass looks forward to another excellent Nicole Kidman thriller…

The Tower: season 3

Strap yourselves in, fans of The Tower, because DI Sarah Collins (Gemma Whelan) is back on our screens – this time investigating the brutal stabbing of a young teenager. It's not long before she crosses paths once again with Lizzie Adama (Tahirah Sharif), and finds herself on the wrong side of DI Kieran Shaw (Emmett J Scanlan), who's set up an undercover police task force in a bid to bring down south London drug kingpin Shakiel Oliver. Cue the drama. 9pm, Monday 2 September; ITV1

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Colin From Accounts: season 2

Will Ash (Harriet Dyer) and Gordon (Patrick Brammall) ever reunite with their beloved dog? It's been the question that's plagued us on a near-daily basis since that season one finale cliffhanger, so we're on tenterhooks for the next instalment of Colin From Accounts. Expect to see our dynamic duo a) officially living together, b) desperately trying to get Colin back and c) continuing to serve authentic and relatable dramedy about flawed, funny people choosing each other. 10pm, Tuesday 3 September; BBC Two and BBC iPlayer

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Slow Horses: season 4

It's one of the very best shows on TV, so we're champing at the bit for the fourth instalment of this thoroughly British espionage drama. Very few details have been shared about this one (spoilers, sweetie!), but we do know this: it will open with "a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House"… and a major player will die. Gulp. Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Hugo Weaving and more star. Wednesday 4 September; Apple TV+

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... Nicole Kidman's rich people thriller era

"Nicole Kidman is a woman of many talents, but in the last few years she has made a particularly enviable skill of starring in thrillers about the twisted lives of rich people," says Helen. "Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Expats, Nine Perfect Strangers – we've been spoilt for choice. And now we've got The Perfect Couple coming to Netflix on 5 September: a lavish family wedding goes wrong when a dead body washes up on the beach."

Here's the anatomy of the perfect Kidman thriller…

FAMILY SECRETS
Call someone 'the perfect couple' and chances are said couple will be anything but perfect. And while we don't yet know if the perfect couple is Greer and her husband Tag, or their perfect son Benji and his soon-to-be-wife Amelia, we suspect that many imperfect skeletons will come crawling out of the closet when they're all questioned about that murder. And it's not her first rodeo in a fractured family: in the recent Prime Video series Expats (directed by Past Lives's Lulu Wang) Margaret's family was so troubled her child disappeared. While in The Undoing her husband (Hugh Grant) was on the run accused of murder.

AN IMPRESSIVE CAST
Kidman has Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters), Dakota Fanning (Ripley) and White Lotus star Meghann Fahy to keep her company in her vast home. It almost rivals her Big Little Lies all-star cast of (Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz, Meryl Streep and Alexander Skarsgård).

MONEY, LOADS OF…
In The Perfect Couple, Kidman's Greer is a successful novelist living in a gorgeous mansion – with a guesthouse bigger than my flat. She's draped in chic nude tailoring (a woman who doesn't have to worry about dropping baked beans down her front) and oversized sunglasses. Similarly, the mansion her character Celeste owned in Big Little Lies was worth $6 million, while the luxury retreat she ran as Masha in Nine Perfect Strangers could easily be the next setting for series four of The White Lotus (which we also would love to see Kidman star in).

A GORGEOUS BACKDROP
The Perfect Couple is set against the sweeping lighthouse-studded coastline of Nantucket and will instantly have you googling holidays there. She's also recently filmed in New York, Hong Kong, Montauk and Byron Bay. We're petitioning to move the Stylist office to a luxury residence in a far-flung destination.

... the elemental force that is Catherine O'Hara

"I fell in love with Catherine O'Hara many, many moons ago – largely thanks to the original Beetlejuice movie," says Kayleigh. "As Delia Deetz, she was bold, unapologetically ambitious and a true visionary, point-blank refusing to be forced into the role of smiling housewife by her husband. 'I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself,' she tells him. 'If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will take you with me!'

"Respect to the woman who honours her own truth, quite frankly. It's a quality that O'Hara has perfected over the years, creating the sort of larger-than-life characters we can't help but envy for their freedom of expression. And that's why she steals the spotlight in everything she works on, whether that's Best In Show, Waiting For Guffman, Penelope or The Nightmare Before Christmas – or even her more fleeting (yet still unforgettable) performances in A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Modern Family or Home Alone.

"Her career-topping triumph, though? O'Hara's stint as the one and only Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek. The wigs! The unplaceable accent! The killer fashion sense! The point-blank refusal to settle for anything less than perfection! The glorious pronunciation of bébé! The impeccable and incredibly expansive vocabulary! The quips, the zingers, the confidence to say exactly what she's thinking when she's thinking it! Honestly, nobody could have embodied the chaotic spirit of Moira Rose Schitt as well as Catherine O'Hara. Nobody. She made the character her own, creating the sort of quotable pop culture phenomenon that will forever have a home in the TV Hall of Fame – so much so that I don't doubt she suffers vertigo from the dizzying heights of her success.

"Fingers crossed, then, that all of this means Delia Deetz's much-anticipated return in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (the sequel to Tim Burton's hit film) will bring with it all of the eclectic warmth, wit and wildness that has become so synonymous with O'Hara. And another lipsyncing Day-O-style masterpiece, of course." Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is in UK cinemas from 6 September.