Fleabag (15)

Spirit Entertainment Limited, £12.99

Beck - The Series: Volume Two (15)

Arrow Films, £22.99

The Outlaws (15)

Arrow Films, £17.99

The People V OJ Simpson (15)

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, £14.99

AS WELL as mists and mellow fruitfulness, autumn is the season of box-sets as hibernating families, couples and singletons stock up on entertainment for the winter ahead. It seems counter-intuitive to pay for something you could have watched free on BBC Four or online, but then again it's easy to miss the good stuff amidst a summer of football, Olympics and the return of Strictly Come Dancing.

One of the sleeper hits of the year so far has been six-part comedy series Fleabag, which aired initially on BBC Three then won a BBC Two slot. Written by and starring Broadchurch actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge as twentysomething cafe owner Fleabag, and based on her award-winning 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show of the same name, it's eye-poppingly rude and refreshingly honest about everything from masturbation to sibling relationships. Fellow Broadchurcher Olivia Colman also features (as Fleabag's poisonous step-mother) and there's a role for Bill Paterson as her well-meaning but ineffectual dad. One for fans of Lena Dunham's Girls and Sharon Horgan's Catastrophe.

The 10 seminal novels featuring Swedish detective Martin Beck were written between 1967 and 1975 by husband and wife team Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, with the first of several film versions also coming in 1967. But the long-running TV series has jettisoned the 1960s setting and much of the hard-hitting social commentary and kept only the characters, with Peter Haber now into his 19th year in the Beck role. This volume two could equally be called season six (the numbering is confusing), though the four feature-length episodes are notable for the departure of Beck's dependable sidekick Gunvald Larsson and the arrival of red-bearded Norwegian detective Steinar Hovland (Kristofer Hivju, aka Tormund Giantsbane in Game Of Thrones).

We see plenty of Swedish, Danish and French dramas in the UK, but Flemish black comedies are thin on the ground. Enter The Out-Laws, a 10-parter about four sisters who team up to try to murder their odious brother-in-law, Jean Claude (Dirk Roofthooft). And he really is odious: nicknamed De Kloot (it's as rude as it sounds in Flemish), he and the series became a sensation in Belgium when it screened in 2012. Imagine Desperate Housewives re-written by Sally Wainwright and the aforementioned Sharon Horgan.

Finally, to the first instalment in writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski's unfolding American Crime Drama anthology series, which will centre on what they call “the before and after moments” of recent American history. They've just started filming a new series about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but this gripping 10-part drama looks at OJ Simpson's 1994 trial for murder. Based on Jeffrey Toobin's book of the same name, The People V OJ Simpson stars Cuba Gooding Jr as Simpson, and John Travolta and Sarah Paulson as rival lawyers Robert Shapiro and Marcia Clark. It's good: the nine Emmys were well-deserved.

Fedora (PG)

Eureka!, £19.99

Although one of the undisputed giants of Hollywood and a film-maker whose writer-director credits include Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, Billy Wilder's final years were less glorious. This 1978 film, his penultimate, is a case in point: most studios refused to back it and it was set to become a TV movie until United Artists stepped in. But even they gave it only a limited release.

Today it's hailed by some as a neglected classic, though that seems to be pushing the pendulum too far the other way. It's certainly worth a watch, however. For a start it reunites Wilder with his Sunset Boulevard star William Holden and returns to some of the same themes in a story about a washed-up Hollywood producer trying to track down the elusive star Fedora, now retired. The film opens with Fedora's suicide (she goes under a train) then tells the story of her last few weeks in flashback. It's a little hackneyed at points, a little creaky at others, but there are some great one-liners and some bonkers set-piece moments. How much better it would have been, though, had Wilder been able to cast his first-choice actresses - Faye Dunaway and Marlene Dietrich.

The Commitments: 25th Anniversary Special Edition (15)

RLJ Entertainment, £19.99

Walk into five Scottish charity shops and at least one of them will have a second-hand copy of Alan Parker's 1991 smash hit The Commitments. The much-loved film is shown regularly on television too, so in that respect this pricey 25th anniversary edition looks a little like naked opportunism. That said, it's always worth a fresh look to remind yourself what a great piece of work it is, and the extras package will certainly please and inform the hardcore fans. As well as an audio commentary by Parker, there's a brand-new interview with him (he says it's the only film he's made where he looked forward to getting out of bed in the morning), behind-the-scenes featurettes and older interviews with Roddy Doyle, whose book the film is based on, and producer Lynda Myles. The soundtrack isn't too shabby, either.