What to watch now 'Game of Thrones' is over

Game of Thrones rushed to its breathless, slightly over-twist-filled conclusion last week, leaving many of us at a loss as to where to get the series fixes needed to keep our minds off dragons and white-walkers for a whole year.

However there's no need to despair as there are plenty of options in the coming months. Drugs, porn, Thai girls, lifestyles of the rich and famous, outer-space, '80s nostalgia, serial killers and Victorian murder are just some of these forthcoming offerings's favourite things.

THE DEUCE

The Charles Dickens of television David Simon returns to HBO with his ambitious drama about the gritty world of pornography in '70s New York.

Starring James Franco as a pair of twin brothers and developed by crime writer and long-time Simon collaborator George Pelecanos, the pilot episode has already offered a tantalising mix of characteristic street-wise Simon dialogue and morally complex characters playing out their daily struggles against the backdrop of the murky social and economic forces at work in the shadows around Times Square.

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NARCOS SEASON 3

Pablo Escobar is dead and Boyd Holbrook's DEA agent Michael Murphy is no longer part of the cast but season three of the epic story of the Colombian cartels will belong to Pedro Pascal's agent Javier Pena as he pursues the Cali Cartel - "the biggest drug lords you've never heard of", who turned drug-running into a mammoth operation run like "a Fortune 500 company".

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TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL

Jane Campion returns with a new six-part series, once again starring Elizabeth Moss as Detective Robin Griffith. This time she's in Australia investigating the murder of a Thai prostitute that will lead her to reconnect with her adopted daughter, butt heads with Nicole Kidman and plunge into the murky underworld of the surrogacy black market.

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RIVIERA

Irish director Neil Jordan makes his television debut with this 10-part series starring Julia Styles as a widow who, after her husband is blown up on his yacht, discovers the dark secrets lying behind the lavish, apparently perfect life she once led.

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THE VIETNAM WAR

PBS's favourite son, documentarian Ken Burns, turns his attention to "the most important event in US history since the end of World War 2", in a long-time-in-the-making epic series which is sure to shed new light on the darkest chapter of America's Cold War misadventures.

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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY

After much speculation from trekkies the world over, the first Star Trek television series in over a decade has finally arrived. Starring Jason Isaacs and Michelle Yeoh, the show takes place in the pre-Kirk/Spock days before the adventures of the good ship Enterprise.

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WILL & GRACE REVIVAL

It's 12 years since Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally convinced strait-laced US audiences that gay men weren't really that bad after all. Now, the reunited team is back to see whether there's really anything left that might provoke the more jaded, over-exposed television audience that's developed in their absence.

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM SEASON 9

Six years after TV's favourite grump was kicked out of New York by the then mayor Michael Bloomberg, Larry David is back to make everyone cringe as he self-sabotages his way through the chaos that is his life, in season nine of the show.

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MINDHUNTER

David Fincher's much-anticipated 10-part series about a pair of FBI agents who interview convicted serial killers is, if the hype is to be believed, set to be everyone's next crime obsession when it lands on Netflix next month.

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STRANGER THINGS SEASON 2

The Spielberg-influenced kids with a curiosity for the supernatural are back for a second series that promises to be much darker but still full of the sly references to the '80s that made the first season a smash hit for Netflix last year.

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ALIAS GRACE

After the acclaimed Handmaid's Tale adaptation earlier this year, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood provides further television inspiration with this adaptation of her novel about a woman accused of murder in 1843. This time it's spearheaded by the power-duo of writer Sarah Polley and director Mary Harron, making it all a very Canadian affair.

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SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT

Spike Lee makes his first foray into television with an adaptation of his 1986 film about a woman and her three very different lovers. Developed in collaboration with his wife, the 10-part series will give Lee a chance to correct some of the attitudes of his approach to the original material - in particular a cringe-worthy rape scene that he still regrets.

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