What to watch on TV this week — Severance, Dancing on Ice and more

Severance (Friday, AppleTV+)
After a show ends a great first season, it’s normal to look forward to the start of its second series with growing anticipation. The return of Severance, however, arrives with a sense of dread — not because it’s not excellent but because its icy corporate dystopia is the stuff of anxiety dreams, sending you scurrying through the white corridors of Lumon Industries right behind Adam Scott’s Mark. Employees having their consciousness “severed” so their work selves and outside selves are separate entities is a joltingly original premise, and in this series’ opening episode, directed by Ben Stiller, the show resumes its plunge down the rabbit hole after Mark and his team’s “uprising”. New cast members include Alia Shawkat and Bob Balaban,