The week in TV: George Michael: Outed; The Bay; The Last of Us; Kathy Burke: Growing Up; Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers – review

George Michael, left, with his cousin Andros in the ‘pacy’ Outed. Photograph: © Andros Georgiou

George Michael: Outed (Channel 4) | (All 4)
The Bay (ITV) | ITVX
The Last of Us (Sky Atlantic) | (Sky/Now)
Kathy Burke: Growing Up (Channel 4) | (All 4)
Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers (BBC Two) | iPlayer

I still miss George Michael, who died in 2016. The attitude, the humour, the hair-trigger gob. In the opening moments of the two-part Channel 4 documentary George Michael: Outed, he’s full of it – ’tude – while he’s denying being gay. Heartbreakingly young, a crucifix earring dangling from one lobe, he shoots a withering look towards an interviewer, but also, you feel, the media, the nosey straight world in general: “Am I gay?… No, I’m not. But the main thing I’d like to express is, I don’t think it’s anyone’s business.”