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The best of TV and streaming this week

Shane Meadows directs 18th-century drama ‘The Gallows Pole’; ‘Close to Vermeer’ goes behind the scenes at the Rijksmuseum; Amanda Seyfried and Tom Holland star in new thriller ‘The Crowded Room’; Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux play bungling Watergate burglars in ‘White House Plumbers’ — reviews by Dan Einav

The Gallows Pole, BBC2 — a wily rogue is offered a shot at redemption
Shane Meadows directs an adaptation of Benjamin Myers’s novel about a counterfeit coin racket in 1760s Yorkshire
Close to Vermeer, BBC4 — behind the scenes of a landmark show
The granular planning and tricky negotiations that went into the Rijksmuseum’s historic exhibition of the Dutch master
Amanda Seyfried interrogates Tom Holland in new thriller The Crowded Room
A troubled young man is arrested after a public shooting in New York in this 10-part Apple series
White House Plumbers TV review — screwball and screw-ups aplenty
Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux ham it up as bungling Watergate burglars, but this series can’t find a consistent tone
Maryland TV review — siblings struggle with secrets and lies
Nuanced acting from Suranne Jones and Eve Best lifts this drama
Fubar — Schwarzenegger saves the world (yet again)
Nonsensical plotting and close shaves pile up in the Governator’s enjoyable Netflix debut