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  • YELLOWSTONE

    Another chance to watch this series, first shown on Paramount+. A family finds itself having to defend their ranch against others trying to take over their land.

    📲Channel 5, 9pm, Friday

    🖥️My5

    Oh, goody!


    This was on my "to download" list, now I won't need to! Thanks for the heads up on this. Let's hope Ch5 show more good stuff from the CBS/Paramount empire rather than the usual dross.

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  • Yes, there has been a distinct improvement in the content of Channel 5 under the current owners.

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  • Your listings highlights for the week beginning 22 July are now available at post #2 of the link below.



    Top pick dramas for the week are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️SPECIAL OPS: LIONESS

    This new thriller brings us a story about an anti-terrorist unit that comprises female operatives whose task it is to infiltrate families with the intention of gathering intelligence from within.

    🖥️Paramount+ (from Sunday)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️EVIL

    Season 3 of this drama series begins. Kristen receives a restraining order.

    📲Alibi, 10pm, Monday

    🖥️UKTV Play


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️FROM

    The second season of this sci-fi series begins. A bus full of newcomers arrives in town.

    📲Sky Sci-Fi and Sky Showcase, 9pm, Tuesday

    🖥️NOW (box set)


    TOP PICK

    ↔️MILDRED PIERCE

    A woman struggles to raise her children during the depression.

    📲Sky Atlantic, 10pm, Tuesday

    🖥️NOW


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE

    Michelle seems devastated when her secret boyfriend is found dead, but did she have anything to do with it?

    📲Channel 4, 10pm, Wednesday

    🖥️Channel 4


    TOP PICK

    ↔️COBRA

    Politicians struggle to deal with events when Britain suffers a mass blackout.

    📲Sky Max, 10pm, Wednesday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️GHOSTS OF BEIRUT

    Thriller about the hunt for a Lebanese terrorist who was evading capture. Based on a true story.

    🖥️Paramount+ from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️GOOD OMENS

    Return of this comedy drama. Archangel Gabriel is in a state of confusion as he arrives to warn of an imminent catastrophe.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday


    TOP PICK

    ↔️WESTWORLD

    Another chance to see this drama series from the start.

    📲Sky Sci-Fi, 9pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW


    THE WEEK’S BEST FILMS SELECTION


    🆕⭕️PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: NEXT OF KIN

    Horror feature about a woman who goes to an Amish community to seek information about her mother.

    📲Film4, 11.15pm, Saturday


    🆕⭕️HIGH HEAT

    The owners of a restaurant are forced to defend their restaurant from the Mob.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 12.20am, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️HOUSE PARTY

    When two house cleaners are assigned to clean the mansion of the absent owner, they decide to arrange a party, which predictably gets out of control.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 7.10pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️ WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

    Romantic comedy. Kaz agrees to an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

    🖥️Netflix, from Monday


    🆕⭕️TILL

    A black Chicago boy is lynched for wolf-whistling at a white woman. His mother fights for justice in this amazing drama based on a true story.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Monday


    🆕⭕️HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS

    Helen decides to enrol on a survival course following her divorce.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    ⭕️HIS HOUSE

    Previously shown on Sky, this is a film non-subscribers will have missed. A refugee couple escapes South Sudan, but the house they are allocated in England seems to have a terrifying evil presence.

    📲BBC2, 11.45pm, Thursday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    🆕⭕️THE BEANIE BUBBLE

    This comedy is based on the true story of the creator of the Beanie Babies for children, and the women who helped to make them a success.

    🖥️Apple+ from Friday


    🆕⭕️I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY

    Whitney Houston’s career starts in gospel music, and she soon becomes the famous singer we all remember. But her marriage to Bobby Brown is the beginning of the end for her.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️THE SILENT TWINS

    Drama based on a true story.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 1.35am, Friday

    🖥️NOW

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    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️CLEAN SWEEP

    A Garda detective is assigned to investigate the murder of his wife’s ex, oblivious to the fact that it was his wife that killed him.

    📲BBC4, 9pm, Saturday

    🖥️BBCiPlayer (Box Set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️WOLF

    DI Jack McCaffery is obsessed in his quest to find answers to the disappearance of his brother in the 1990s when he was just a 10-year-old boy.

    📲BBC1, 9pm, Monday

    🖥️BBCi-Player (Box Set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️PHYSICAL

    The last season of this drama about a housewife who decides to build a fitness empire.

    🖥️Apple TV+ from Wednesday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️DEPARTURE

    The third season of this drama series begins. A ferry suffers an explosion, leaving many passengers either dead or missing.

    📲Sky Witness, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️NOW


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️VANISHING ACT

    Melissa Caddick was a crooked financial advisor who swindled her both her clients and friends to fund her lifestyle, but the one day she went missing. This drama tells the story.

    🖥️ITVX from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART

    The life of Alice is upended after a fatal fire at her home and she is taken in by her estranged grandmother, June.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video (weekly after the first three episodes) from Friday


    THE WEEK’S BEST NEW FILMS


    🆕⭕️THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

    When a father and son are shipwrecked on a remote island, they become prey to the owner of the land who uses his property for human hunting.

    📲Legend, 9pm, Saturday


    🆕⭕️THE BEST MAN

    Special Ops soldiers must combat terrorists to save hostages in a remote hotel who are being held to ransom.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 4.05pm, Sunday


    🆕⭕️STOLEN IN HER SLEEP

    A woman unwittingly makes a new friend who happens to be psychotic and tries to steal her baby daughter.

    📲Channel 5, 2.15pm, Monday

    🖥️My5


    🆕⭕️GHOST SQUAD

    Charlie makes a bet with a bully to spend Halloween night in a haunted house.

    📲Sky Cinema Family, 1.35am, Tuesday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

    The third and final instalment in this story.

    🖥️Disney+ from Wednesday


    🆕⭕️THE HORSE DANCER

    Samantha is removed from the Olympics gymnastics team due to her attitude. She is sent back to the Black River Horse Camp for the summer, where she learns a few things about herself.

    📲Sky Cinema Family, 1.40am, Wednesday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️MARGAUX

    A party at a ‘smart’ home turns deadly as the revellers realise that the house’s AI system is picking them off one at a time.

    🖥️Paramount+, from Friday

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  • Your listings highlights for the week commencing 5 August 2023 are here!



    Your top pick dramas are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY

    The basketball comedy drama returns for its second season.

    📲Sky Atlantic, 2am, Sunday

    🖥️NOW from Monday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING

    Season 3 sees the unlikely investigators looking into the death of an actor on the opening night of a new production.

    🖥️Disney+ from Tuesday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️ANNIKA

    Season 2 of this crime drama commences. Annika and her team investigate a drowning, which was no accident.

    📲Alibi, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️UKTV Play


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️PAINKILLER

    Drama about the addictive drug OxyContin, its manufacturers and the victims. An investigator for the Attorney’s Office seeks the truth behind the scandal.

    🖥️Netflix from Friday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️CRUEL SUMMER

    Season 2 of the drama. A love triangle between Isabella, who comes to stay with Meghan and her best friend Luke, ends tragically.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video from Friday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE REUNION

    A novelist is holding a dark secret relating to the disappearance of his friend in 1997. When he is invited to the anniversary reunion of the school he went to in the French Riviera, he starts to worry that his secret will be revealed. New to terrestrial TV but previously shown on the premium version of ITVX.

    📲ITV1, 9pm, Friday

    🖥️ITVX (Box Set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️BILLIONS

    Final season of the drama. Chuck continues to do what he can to bring Mike Prince to justice.

    📲Sky Atlantic, 9pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW

    🖥️Paramount+ from Friday 11 August


    THE WEEK’S BEST NEW FILMS


    🆕⭕️ASSASSIN

    A private military operation invents a futuristic microchip technology that enables the mind of an agent to inhabit the body of another person to carry out covert, deadly missions.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6.15pm Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️THE HARBINGER

    Mavis calls on a friend to help her to deal with some very worrying events that are playing out where she lives.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6.15pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️MUMMY’S STOLEN MEMORIES

    A mother’s life is turned upside down when her son is drawn to a strange woman at a climbing gym. He refuses to tell her what she said and starts to behave strangely.

    📲Channel 5, 2.15pm, Monday

    🖥️My5


    🆕⭕️YOU HURT MY FEELINGS

    An author is devastated by an unexpected revelation about her marriage to Don, a kindly therapist who is bored with his life.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, Tuesday


    🆕⭕️C’MON C’MON

    When radio journalist is left to care for his young nephew, the boy brings a new perspective to his life.

    🖥️Film4, 11.10pm, Wednesday


    🆕⭕️HEART OF STONE

    Action packed spy thriller in which a rookie intelligence operative at MI6 is actually an experienced field agent who works for the Charter, which in turn works undercover using AI technology in an effort to ensure world peace.

    🖥️Netflix from Friday


    🆕⭕️RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE

    LGTBQ+ romantic comedy. The son of the US President attends a British royal wedding, but any expectation that he will be on his best behaviour is soon dispelled when he rows with Prince Henry.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video from Friday


    🆕⭕️JAGGED MIND

    Horror drama. A woman’s hallucinations and blackouts are revealed to be part of a series of time loops that she cannot control.

    🖥️Disney+ from Friday


    🆕⭕️LOVE IN TAIPEI

    Romantic comedy. US teenager Ever Wong’s parents organise a surprise trip for her to Taipei.

    🖥️Paramount+ from Friday


    🆕⭕️A MAN CALLED OTTO

    A retired and grumpy widower finds something to live for when new neighbours arrive and he looks after a stray cat.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm Friday

    🖥️NOW

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  • Your listings highlights with all the new shows coming to your screens during the week commencing 12 August are now at post #2.



    Your top pick dramas are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️CRUEL SUMMER

    A teenager is accused of the disappearance of a well-liked teenager in this psychological thriller.

    📲E4, 10pm

    🖥️Channel 4, Monday

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️HENPOCALYPSE!

    Comedy series about five women at a hen party who find that an apocalyptic epidemic has struck and they are left only with their party paraphernalia to call upon..

    📲BBC2, 10pm, Tuesday

    🖥️BBCi-Player (Box Set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE BOLD TYPE

    A newly promoted writer is unsettled when she is assigned a big story about why her ex broke up with her.

    📲BBC3, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️BBCi-Player (Box Set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️SANDITON

    The third season of this drama returns. As Georgiana prepares to receive her inheritance, an unexpected threat to her future looms when a counter-claim challenging her birthright is received.

    🖥️ITVX from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️FBI

    Special Agent OA is tasked with locating a bomb that threatens to wreak havoc.

    📲Sky Witness, 9pm, Thursday

    🖥️NOW


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️FBI: INTERNATIONAL

    An investigation is launched into the murder of a police detective.

    📲Sky Witness, 10pm, Thursday

    🖥️NOW


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️HARLAN COBEN’S SHELTER

    When Mickey’s new friend disappears, he decides to find out what happened to her, which takes him to a spooky looking mansion occupied by an old woman.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video from Friday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️FBI: MOST WANTED

    A family of four is found dead in a Georgia motel room.

    📲Sky Witness, 9pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW


    THE WEEK’S BEST FILMS


    🆕⭕️KANDAHAR

    A CIA Black Ops agent and his Afghan interpreter must evade deadly forces as they escape Iran after a whistleblower reveals the agent destroyed a nuclear facility.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, Saturday


    🆕⭕️BIOSPHERE

    The last two men on Earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️AMMONITE

    A fossil hunter’s lonely life is changed for the better by meeting palaeontologist’s wife.

    📲BBC2, 10pm Sunday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    🆕⭕️A VIEW TO KILL FOR

    After inheriting her estranged father’s mansion, Molly and her family relocate there. But after a break-in at her new home, she finds that the culprit has left a warning.

    📲Channel 5, 2.15pm, Monday

    🖥️My5


    🆕⭕️HALLOWEEN ENDS

    Corey still suffers guilt from the tragedy involving the child he was babysitting four years ago, but he finally forms a relationship with Allyson.

    🖥️Netflix from Thursday


    🆕⭕️BAD THINGS

    Ruthie invites a friends to stay at an abandoned hotel left to her by her grandmother, but it turns out not to be such a nice gesture after all when bad things start to happen.

    🖥️Shudder from Friday


    🆕⭕️DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES

    Based on the game, this fantasy comedy doesn’t disappoint. A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but they fall foul of the wrong people.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 11.35am and 8pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW

    🖥️Paramount+

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  • Your listings highlights with all the new shows coming to your screens during the week commencing 19 August are now at post #2.



    Your top pick dramas are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️JOE PICKETT

    Season 2 sees Joe facing off two dangerous men while in search of a missing hunter.

    🖥️Paramount+, from Sunday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON

    Frannie was born into slavery in Jamaica but now finds herself in London, where she is employed as a maid by George Benham, to whom she was gifted by her former owner. But when the Benhams are murdered, Frannie gets the blame and is imprisoned.

    📲ITV1, 9pm, Monday (first shown on ITVX)

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    ↔️THE TOWER

    Another chance to watch this crime drama. An investigation follows after a police officer and a young girl fall from a tower block.

    📲ITV3, 11pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️INVASION

    Season 2 of this sci-fi drama begins. Caspar has been regenerated following his encounter with the aliens. Space engineer Mitsubishi Yamato needs to contact the aliens once more for the benefit of mankind.

    🖥️Apple+, from Wednesday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️STAR WARS: AHSOKA

    Ahsoka must work to keep the peace while the Galactic Empire rebuilds itself into an even more menacing force than before.

    🖥️Disney+ from Wednesday (weekly after the first two episodes)


    THE WEEK’S BEST FILMS


    🆕⭕️SHE SAID

    Drama based on a true story concerning the assaults and intimidation Harvey Weinstein inflicted on innocent young women.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 5.50pm, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️GREATEST DAYS

    Musical in which a nurse gets an opportunity to see her favourite band from her childhood days perform in Greece.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Sunday


    🆕⭕️THE POWER OF THE DOG

    When a rancher (George) marries Rose, his brother becomes enraged and takes it out on Rose.

    📲BBC2, 10pm, Sunday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    🆕⭕️WHO IS ERIN CARTER?

    Erin’s carefully guarded secrets from her past risk being exposed when she is forced to tackle armed robbers to protect her daughter.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    🆕⭕️M3GAN

    An inventor’s niece is presented with a pretty AI doll but she turns out to be intimidating.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW

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  • Invasion, as crap as it is, and the new Star Wars, are the ones I will def be checking out.


    Thanks as always, OB. :thumbup:

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  • The choice should improve in the autumn (writers strike permitting!)

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  • Your listings highlights with all the new shows coming to your screens during the week commencing 25 August are now at post #2.



    Your top pick dramas are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE WOMAN IN THE WALL

    Following a teenage pregnancy, Lorna (played by Ruth Wilson) is confined within a convent and is subject to a brutal regime in Ireland. Her child is taken away from her, and later in her life she is still seeking answers to the fate of her child.

    📲BBC1, 9.05pm, Sunday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE CHELSEA DETECTIVE

    Max gets a new partner, who proves to be a force to be reckoned with.

    🖥️Acorn TV, from Monday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE TOWER

    Return of the crime drama. Lizzie is assigned to investigate a serious domestic violence complaint involving the abuse of Matt Brannon’s girl friend and their daughter.

    📲ITV1, 9pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    ↔️MANHUNT

    Another chance to see this three-part drama series about the case of Levi Bellfield.

    📲ITV3, 10pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️SO HELP ME TODD

    A Defence Attorney and her son work together to solve crimes, but it is an uneasy relationship, not helped by son Todd’s unconventional methods.

    📲Alibi, 9pm, Tuesday

    🖥️UKTV Play


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️SCREW

    The return of the drama series. Rose returns to work following the killing of Toby, a prison officer on the team.

    📲Channel 4, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️Channel 4 (box set)


    TOP PICK

    ↔️THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND THE CANOE

    Another chance to see the drama telling the story of John Darwin, who faked his death to enable his wife to claim on the insurance to deal with their bankruptcy.

    📲ITV3, 10pm, Thursday

    🖥️ITVX


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE WHEEL OF TIME

    Season 2 of this fantasy drama starts. Rand becomes aware that he has not defeated evil as he had at first believed.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️POWER BOOK IV: FORCE

    The crime drama returns. Tommy means business following the death of Liliana.

    🖥️LIONSGATE+, from Friday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️WARRIOR

    The third season of this martial arts drama begins. An enhanced police presence piles on the pressure for the Hop Wei.

    📲Sky Max and Sky Showcase, 10pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW and Sky Box Sets (box set)


    THE WEEK’S BEST FILMS


    🆕⭕️WIFELIKE

    A widower is provided with an AI companion that is in the image of his wife.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6pm, Saturday


    🆕⭕️AGENT GAME

    A CIA officer becomes the target of a rendition operation after being the scapegoat for the death of an interrogation subject.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 4.20pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️BENEDETTA

    A nun is afflicted with shocking religious visions.

    📲Film4, 11.15pm, Sunday


    🆕⭕️WOMEN TALKING

    A group of Mennonite victims of sexual abuse are given a ‘fight or flight’ vote after the detention of men from the colony.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Monday


    👫🆕⭕️SECRET HEADQUARTERS

    A child discovers the secret headquarters of a powerful superhero hidden beneath his home and must defend it when villains attack.

    📲Film4, 6.55pm, from Wednesday


    🆕⭕️CHOOSE LOVE

    Romantic comedy. While Cami has an apparently good choice of boyfriend, she has two other potential suitors to choose from. As a viewer, you can decide which choice she should make.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    🆕⭕️TÁR

    Lydia Tár finds all the elements conspiring against her just days away from recording the symphony that will change her life.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW

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    TOP PICK

    ↔️BLUE MURDER

    Janine goes back to work after a period of maternity leave.

    📲ITV3, 12 m’t, Sunday

    🖥️ITVX


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE INHERITANCE

    When their father dies suddenly, his children are shocked to find they have nothing left to them in his will. They discover that his whole estate has been left to a woman they do not know.

    📲Channel 5, 9pm, Monday

    🖥️My5


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️BAD BEHAVIOUR

    Psychological drama. While Jo struggles as a writer, Alice has achieved her goal to be a world renowned cellist. Struck by Alice’s coolness towards her, Jo reflects on her past, recalling their arrival at Silver Creek.

    📲BBC3, 9pm, Monday

    🖥️BBCi-Player (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️YOU & ME

    It was love at first sight when Ben met Jess, but now tragedy leaves him struggling to move on. Previously shown on ITVX premium service.

    📲ITV2, 9pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    ↔️MANHUNT: THE NIGHT STALKER

    DCI Colin Sutton (Martin Clunes) is assigned to review a cold case to apprehend a villain known as ‘The Night Stalker’.

    📲ITV3, 10pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    ↔️THE SUSPECT

    A psychologist is asked to give his opinion in an unusual case of a young woman who has been found murdered.

    📲ITV3, 11.05pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL

    Raglan is back to meet out his own idea of justice in this crime drama. In this story, he encounters a dangerous sociopath, who has form when it comes to evading the police.

    🖥️Disney+, from Wednesday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE KILLING KIND

    A businessman warns lawyer Ingrid that she is in danger, she does not know whether to trust him as he stalked her previously.

    🖥️Paramount+, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️DEAR CHILD

    German psychological thriller about a young girl who has been incarcerated for almost 13 years. She manages to escape with her daughter, fathered by her captor, and the horror of what she has endured is revealed when she reunites with her parents.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️LOVE & DEATH

    True story about Candy Montgomery and Allan Gore, whose affair was discovered and ended in murder.

    🖥️ITVX, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE LOVERS

    Swamy’s and Janet meet in unlikely and unexpected circumstances and manage to save the lives of each other in the process. The two characters are polar opposites, but they are immediately attracted to one another.

    📲Sky Atlantic, 9pm, Thursday

    🖥️NOW (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕THE FENCE

    Comedy drama in which an 18 year old young man attempts to retrieve his stolen motorbike, but comes across some nasty people in the process. So he decides to ask his brother to assist him.

    📲Film4, 9pm, Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE CHANGELING

    Fantasy drama set in an alternate New York. A man searches for his missing wife in a strange and magical world.

    🖥️Netflix, from Friday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️TOP BOY

    The third and final season begins. Sully’s suppliers make a bid to take over his business.

    🖥️Netflix, from Friday


    THIS WEEK’S BEST FILMS


    🆕⭕️MACBETH

    In this Shakespearean tragedy, a nobleman is urged by the visions of witches and his ambitious wife to murder his way to the Scottish throne.

    🖥️Netflix, from Saturday


    🆕⭕️ACCIDENT MAN: HITMAN’S HOLIDAY

    An assassin who covers up his killings to make them look accidental is charged with looking after the son of his crime boss.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️SHARP STICK

    Comedy coming-of-age drama about a naïve woman in her 20s who embarks on an affair with a married man.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 10.45pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️SITTING IN BARS WITH CAKE

    Jane decides to occupy herself by baking cakes and offering them at bars as a way of meeting more people.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday


    🆕⭕️80 FOR BRADY

    Comedy based on true story centred around four old friends who decide to go to the 2017 Super Bowl.

    🖥️Paramount+, from Friday


    🆕⭕️RELIC

    Psychological horror film. When Bella arrives at the family home with her daughter, having received the news that her elderly mother was missing, it’s not long before she encounters unexpected terror.

    📲BBC1, 11.25pm, Friday

    🖥️BBCi-Player

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    Your Top Pick dramas for the week are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️BALI

    Drama series about the terrorist attack on Ball in 2002 and the experience of two honeymooners who are holidaying there when the explosion rips through Sari’s nightclub. First shown on ITVX premium service.

    📲ITV1, 10.25pm, Saturday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE KILLING KIND

    A lawyer defends a client accused of stalking, but afterwards he starts to stalk her.

    Previously shown on Paramount+.

    📲Channel 5, 10pm, Monday

    🖥️My5


    TOP PICK

    ↔️TRIGGER POINT

    Another chance to see this exciting drama about a counter-terrorism unit that is called in to investigate an incident on a housing estate.

    📲ITV3, 10pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE MORNING SHOW

    The third season of this newsroom drama begins. It’s 2022, and with the pandemic largely behind them, the presenters are pushing for a greater say in the running of the UBA.

    🖥️AppleTV+ (shown weekly after the first two episodes), from Wednesday.


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️DOMINA

    The second season begins with the city running out of food and with the threat of revolution in the air.

    📲Sky Atlantic, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️NOW


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️WILDERNESS

    When she finds out her husband has been having an affair, she plans extreme measures to make him pay. Starring Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday


    BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK


    🆕⭕️SONGBIRD

    A courier races against time to save the woman he loves from a COVID-23 virus.

    📲Channel 4, 2.15am, Saturday

    🖥️Channel 4


    🆕⭕️SOMETHING IN THE DIRT

    Neighbours discover paranormal activity in the basement in this sci-fi comedy.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️LION

    True story about a five-year-old boy who falls asleep on a train while trying to find his family and reawakens many miles away in Calcutta, completely lost.

    📲Film4, 9pm, Tuesday


    🆕⭕️THE OTHER BLACK GIRL

    Nella is pleased when another black worker is appointed to work along side her, but when the new recruit starts to do well, Nella finds herself overshadowed by her.

    🖥️Disney+, from Wednesday


    🆕⭕️A MILLION MILES AWAY

    Drama about the true story of Michael Peña, whose humble beginnings did not quell his ambition to be an astronaut.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday


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  • The listings for the week commencing 15 September 2023 are here at post #2.



    The Top Pick dramas are few and far between this week:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️MINX

    Joyce looks for a new publisher to take on the increasing status of her successful magazine.

    🖥️Paramount+, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️CRIME

    After all the trauma of his last case and a broken relationship at home, Ray takes on a case of an assault of a VIP at a hotel, but curiously, the case gets pulled by the government.

    🖥️ITVX, from Thursday


    🆕↔️THE CONTINENTAL

    This series is a prequel to the John Wick series of films and commences with Winston who is making his mark as a businessman. But his past is about to catch up with him.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video (released weekly), from Friday


    BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK


    🆕⭕️ALL MY PUNY SORROWS

    Yoli attempts to prevent her sister from taking her own life.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6.15pm, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️SNAKE EYES

    Snake Eyes is taught by an ancient Japanese clan after he saves the life of their heir apparent.

    📲Film4, 9pm, Saturday


    🆕⭕️SPIN ME ROUND

    When Brie attends a training course, her company’s founder has her taken into his yacht, but while she hopes for romance, something else might be going on…

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 12.15am, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️EVIL DEAD RISE

    Horror. Ellie and her children encounter horrific events after her sister arrives.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    🆕⭕️LEGACY OF LIES

    A former MI6 agent and a Ukrainian journalist set about uncovering the truth behind Russian covert operations.

    📲Legend, 9pm, Thursday


    🆕⭕️CASSANDRO

    Drama of the true story about amateur gay wrestler Saúl Armendáriz.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday


    🆕⭕️NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU

    Psychological science fiction film following Bryan, who now lives on her own and is startled to wake up to strange noises which turn out to be aliens.

    🖥️Disney+, from Friday

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    The Top pick dramas are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️BLACK SNOW

    When a time capsule buried 25 years ago is opened, it reveals clues to an unsolved murder case in which a teenage girl was murdered.

    📲BBC4, 9pm, Saturday

    🖥️BBCi-Player (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE LONG SHADOW

    Drama based on the true story of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, AKA the Yorkshire Ripper. After Wilma McCann’s murder in 1975, hard working Emily Jackson becomes the victim of Sutcliffe, but initially it is her husband who is suspected of her murder.

    📲ITV1, 9pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️GEN V

    Young superheroes compete at the Godolkin University to achieve top rankings so that they can become the superheroes they want to be.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️FLORA AND SON

    After unsuccessful attempts to form a better relationship with her teenage son, Flora decides that a guitar might bring them closer together.

    🖥️AppleTV+, from Friday


    THE WEEK’S BEST NEW FILMS


    🆕⭕️BOILING POINT

    A Head Chef presides over a busy evening prior to Christmas Day.

    📲BBC1, 10.40pm, Monday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    🆕⭕️THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF HENRY SUGAR

    Comedy drama based on Roald Dahl’s story about a wealthy man who is intrigued to hear about someone who says he can see without his eyes.

    🖥️Netflix, from Wednesday


    🆕⭕️THE SWAN

    The Roald Dahl story about a boy who cannot shake off his bullies.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    🆕⭕️LOVE IS IN THE AIR

    Romantic comedy from Australia. A businesswoman falls for the man who was assigned to destroy her.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    🆕⭕️WILDFIRE

    Drama about two Irish sisters who grew up on the Irish border during The Troubles.

    📲Film4, 11.50pm, Thursday


    🆕⭕️REPTILE

    A troubled detective investigates a murder by stabbing.

    🖥️Netflix, from Friday


    🆕⭕️THE RAT CATCHER

    Another short film from a Roald Dahl story.

    🖥️Netflix, from Friday


    🆕⭕️65

    Two survivors crash land into an alien planet, which turns out to be Earth 65 years ago, when dinosaurs roamed.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday



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  • The new listings highlights for the week commencing 30 September 2023 are here at post #2:



    Top picks are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️BOILING POINT

    This is a continuation of the story that began with the 2019 short film shown on BBC1 last week, and the full 2021 feature film on Film4 shown on Saturday this week. This series is set six months after those events, with Carly now in charge of the team at a new restaurant.

    📲BBC1, 9pm, Sunday

    🖥️BBCi-Player (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕MY NAME IS HAPPY

    Mutlu Kaya, a finalist on Turkey’s Got Talent, was shot during an attempted abduction. With violence against Turkish women on the increase, Mutlu aims to get justice.

    📲Channel 4, 11.05pm, Monday

    🖥️Channel 4 (online)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️MY LIFE IS MURDER

    Series 3 begins. An investigation is launched into the death of a tango club teacher.

    📲Alibi, 10pm, Tuesday

    🖥️UKTV Play


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️PAYBACK

    Lexie’s perfect world is shattered when her husband is murdered in the street, but her life looks like turning even darker when a criminal bigwig gets the idea that Lexie is the means by which he can get his hands on the money that was lost when her accountant husband was murdered.

    📲ITV1, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️EVERYTHING NOW

    Comedy drama. Mia has been receiving treatment for an eating disorder at a clinic, but when she returns and meets up with her friends, she discovers they have moved on, and she struggles to make up for lost ground.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️LUPIN

    Series 3 of this thriller begins. Assane tells his family they need to leave France as he plans to steal a precious black pearl.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

    It is 1940 and the practice struggles to continue to deal with demand as Tristan serves with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps.

    📲Channel 5, 9pm, Thursday

    🖥️My5


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️GODFATHER OF HARLEM

    Following the loss of his goods in the riots, Bumpy Johnson now finds himself in debt to the Mafia to the tune of $3million.

    🖥️LIONSGATE+ (released weekly) from Friday


    THE WEEK’S BEST NEW FILMS


    🆕⭕️BOILING POINT

    Feature film starring Stephen Graham as a chef whose evening at a busy restaurant causes him severe stress. A follow-on from this film is the basis for a new series on BBC1 tomorrow.

    📲Film4, 9pm, Saturday


    🆕⭕️ALI & AVA

    Following Ali’s marriage breakup, he falls for a Ava, who has experienced a painful past. But they face disapproval from their families and respective communities.

    📲BBC2, 10.30pm, Sunday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    🆕⭕️MARI

    The death of their mother and grandmother brings two girls together.

    📲BBC2, 12m’t, Sunday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    🆕⭕️HAUNTED MANSION

    When a mother and her son move into a New Orleans mansion, they experience some unnerving paranormal events.

    🖥️Disney+ from Wednesday

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    This week’s Top Picks are:


    TOP PICK


    🆕↔️THE RECKONING

    Drama depicting the almost unbelievable string of crimes committed by Jimmy Savile in his long career as DJ and presenter in the TV industry.

    📲BBC1, 9pm, Monday

    🖥️BBCi-Player (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

    Horror series about two twins, Roderick and Madeline, who ruthlessly tread on anyone who gets in their way to achieve global superiority. But then Roderick is dismayed when his children and heirs to his empire start to die one by one.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️COBRA: REBELLION

    PM Sutherland is not out of the woods yet as he faces yet more serious challenges, this time by a group of environmental extremists who are intent on preventing the construction of a new railway line. Will this latest crisis destroy him and will Archie make his move to take control?

    📲Sky Max and Sky Showcase, 9pm, Thursday

    🖥️NOW

    🖥️Sky Box Sets


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

    Remake of the original 1995 film. Vampire Louis invites a journalist to his penthouse in Dubai to give an account of his life.

    📲BBC2, 9pm, Thursday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY

    After Elizabeth is sacked from her job at Hastings Laboratories, she is accepted for the role as host of a TV cookery show and unexpectedly finds stardom.

    🖥️AppleTV+ (weekly after first two episodes, from Friday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE GOOD SHIP MURDER

    Crime drama series. Ex-detective cabaret singer Jack Grayling investigates the death of a passenger of a cruise ship at a French port.

    📲Channel 5, 9pm, Friday

    🖥️My5


    THE WEEK’S BEST NEW FILMS


    🆕⭕️PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES

    Prequal to the 2019 film. It’s 1969, and Jud becomes aware of some disturbing facts about the local cemetery.

    🖥️Paramount+, from Saturday


    🆕⭕️NINE DAYS

    A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.

    📲Netflix, from Saturday


    🆕⭕️MOB LAND

    In a small town struggling with addiction, a sheriff tries to maintain the peace when desperate family man Shelby robs a pill mill. The supposedly easy score takes a violent turn when the New Orleans mafia enforcer is alerted.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 4.25pm, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️SLICE

    Horror comedy. When pizza delivery drivers are targeted and killed, two survivors try to catch the culprits.

    📲Film 4, 11.20pm, Saturday


    🆕⭕️BAD HAIR

    Horror. An ambitious young woman gets a weave to succeed in the fashion-obsessed world of music television. But her flourishing career may have come at a great cost when she realises that her new hair may have a mind of its own.

    📲Channel 4, 1.50am, Saturday

    🖥️Channel 4 (on line)


    🆕⭕️UNWELCOME

    Maya and Jamie move from London to the countryside of Ireland with the intent on raising their child there when it is born, but they find that there are evil ‘little people’ in the woods at the end of their garden.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 9.50pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️CANDYMAN

    Anthony, a visual artist, meets an old-timer who exposes the true story behind the Candyman. Anxious to use these macabre details as fresh grist for paintings, he unknowingly unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.

    📲BBC3, 10pm, Sunday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    🆕⭕️THE BOOGEYMAN

    After their mother dies, two girls become aware of a supernatural presence in their house.

    🖥️Disney+, from Wednesday


    🆕⭕️SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME

    Johnny and his sister live with their mother on a reservation. When their absentee father dies, Johnny feels compelled to strike out for a new life in LA, but fears leaving his sister behind.

    📲Film4, 12.35am, from Wednesday


    🆕⭕️FAIR PLAY

    Adult drama about a couple who are deeply in love, but whose romance is tested when Emily achieves a promotion at the hedge fund organisation where they both work.

    🖥️Netflix, from Friday


    🆕⭕️THE FABELMANS

    Sammy Fableman is an aspiring filmmaker as he grows up in Arizona. This is a semi-autobiographical story by Steven Spielberg.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW

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    Top pick dramas are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE EX-WIFE

    Jack marries Tasha when she falls pregnant. but his ex-wife contacts them repeatedly and things take a dark turn in this psychological thriller.

    📲Channel 5, 9pm, Sunday

    🖥️My5


    TOP PICK

    ↔️THE GILDED AGE

    Another chance to see this drama series. In 1882, an orphaned daughter of a Union general moves to New York to live with her aunts and becomes involved with the lives of her rich neighbours.

    📲Sky Atlantic, 9pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️DARK WINDS

    A double murder at a motel and a bank robbery may be connected in this drama located on a Navajo Nation reservation in 1971.

    📲Alibi, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️UKTV Play

    🖥️Sky Box Sets

    🖥️Virgin Box Sets

    🖥️NOW (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE BURNING GIRLS

    A reverend is made aware that Chapel Cross, to which she has been assigned, is haunted by two sisters who were burnt at the stake in 1556 during a purge.

    🖥️Paramount+, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️BOSCH: LEGACY

    In this second season, Harry Bosch searches for his kidnapped daughter, but without having the resources of the police behind him.

    🖥️freevee (two episodes weekly after first four episodes), from Friday.


    BEST NEW FILMS OF THE WEEK


    🆕⭕️JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

    John is on the warpath to get his revenge on the High Table.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Saturday


    🆕⭕️CHAMPIONS

    Comedy about a hopelessly bad basketball team who get a new coach.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 5.40pm, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL

    A team of road workers wake up a vampire, causing mayhem.

    📲Film 4, 11.15pm, Saturday


    🆕⭕️SICK

    While quarantining at her family’s lake house during the pandemic, Parker and her friend are threatened by an unexpected visitor.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 4.10pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️MIDSOMMAR

    A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

    📲Film 4, 10.55pm, Wednesday


    🆕⭕️BODIES

    This one is different on a number of levels. It’s a story through time starring Stephen Graham as Elias Mannix, who suffered a horrific childhood before becoming part of a cult and seems to be connected to the same murder repeated in multiple time zones.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday

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    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THREE LITTLE BIRDS

    When three Jamaican sisters emigrate to Britain, they are not prepared for what lies ahead of them.

    📲ITV1, 8pm, Sunday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️SIX FOUR

    A gripping new drama about a detective and his wife who are shattered by their teenage daughter’s disappearance.

    📲ITV1, 9pm, Sunday

    🖥️ITVX (box set)


    TOP PICK

    ↔️DI RAY

    Another chance to watch this four-parter. Detective Ray is promoted to homicide as a ‘token hire’ and investigates a murder. However, she finds that the ‘culturally specific homicide’ is anything but.

    📲ITV3, 10pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX


    TOP PICK

    ↔️INNOCENT

    A further opportunity to watch season 2 of this series. A murder investigation must be looked at again when the woman convicted of the crime is released from prison having been found to be not guilty.

    📲ITV3, 11.05pm, Monday

    🖥️ITVX


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️LONDON KILLS

    A detective called in to investigate a serious matter that has arisen in the squad does not make herself popular when she arrests a detective constable on the team for murder.

    📲BBC1, 1.45pm, Friday

    🖥️BBCi-Player (box set)


    THE WEEK’S BEST FILMS….


    🆕⭕️PEARL

    With her husband called up to fight in the First World War, Pearl is stuck on a farm with her strict parents. But a girl can only take so much, and ultimately her fury is revealed in a violent explosion of rage.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️CRAWLSPACE

    A man hides in a crawlspace after witnessing a brutal murder. But the killers are looking for a hidden fortune and he is at risk of being discovered.

    📲Film4, 12m’t, Saturday


    🆕⭕️THE POPE’S EXORCIST

    On moving to a Spanish abbey, a family of Americans are taken aback when the son becomes possessed.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️TALK TO ME

    Party-goers are treated to the spectacle of an embalmed hand of a medium - but are the teenagers prepared for what will follow if they start exploring the supernatural by attempting to communicate through it?

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    🆕⭕️CENSOR

    A British film censor links a disturbing horror movie to her sister’s disappearance.

    📲Film4, 10.50pm, Thursday


    🆕⭕️PAIN HUSTLERS

    A salesman convinces a businesswoman that she can make money by getting doctors to buy in to a wonder drug providing pain relief. She is a struggling mother with a daughter who has health issues. She needs the income, so how far will she push it to convince the doctors to believe in the efficacy of the drug?

    🖥️Netflix, from Friday


    🆕⭕️PLANE

    A nail biting landing of a passenger plane during a thunderstorm is just the start of this action-packed adventure.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday


    🆕⭕️RETRIBUTION

    While driving with his two children, a man takes a telephone call from an unknown assailant who claims there is a bomb in his car.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW


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    Your top pick dramas for the week are:


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️FELLOW TRAVELERS

    Two men who work for the US federal government in the 1950s meet and are attracted to each other at a time when such relationships are not permitted.

    🖥️Paramount+, from Saturday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️TIME

    Three women arrive in a prison at the same time and together they have to battle for survival in a hostile environment.

    📲BBC1, 9pm, Sunday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE BURNING GIRLS

    This drama follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place that soon reveals its community’s dark history where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.

    📲Channel 5, 10pm (first episode only), Sunday

    🖥️My5 (first episode only)

    🖥️Paramount + (entire series)


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE GILDED AGE

    The second series of this period drama begins. George and Bertha continue their battle to find their place in high society and build their very own opera house to overcome barriers to their access to the Academy of Music, which has refused entry to ‘new money’ capitalists.

    📲Sky Atlantic, 9pm (First showing was premiered at 3am), Monday

    🖥️NOW


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️SHETLAND

    Tosh is temporarily appointed to replace Jimmi, who resigned his appointment in the last series. Tosh is assigned to find a missing witness.

    📲BBC1, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

    A blind French girl escapes from Paris during the Second World War with her father and a valuable gemstone that the Nazis are trying to track down.

    🖥️Netflix, from Thursday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️UNWANTED

    Italian drama series in which a cruise ship takes 28 refugees on board when they are discovered to have suffered a shipwreck. But things change abruptly when the Captain is ordered to sail back to Libya and the refugees decide to take control of the ship.

    📲Sky Atlantic, 9pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW


    THE WEEK’S BEST FILMS


    🆕⭕️MISSING

    When a woman goes missing, her teenage daughter uses technology to try to track her down.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6pm, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️INFINITY POOL

    Horror set on an island of paradise. A man makes an error of judgement in accepting a drive with an actress and her husband, which turns into a nightmare leading to the man facing a death sentence. But there’s a possible way out…

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 10pm, Sunday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️LOCKED IN

    Psychological thriller in which a nurse (Anna Friel) attempts to discover the circumstances surrounding her patient, who has locked-in syndrome.

    🖥️Netflix, from Wednesday


    🆕⭕️NYAD

    Dramatisation about the athlete Diana Nyad, who at 64 tries to attain her dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage for protection.

    🖥️Netflix


    🆕⭕️MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE

    Hoping for one last hurrah, Mike Lane heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lured him with an offer he can’t refuse. With everything on the line, he soon finds himself trying to whip a hot new roster of talented dancers into shape.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️THE NEST

    A man decides to move his family from the US to live in a Surrey mansion. But then things begin to take a twisted turn.

    📲BBC2, 11.05pm, Friday

    🖥️BBCi-Player

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    TOP PICK

    ↔️MANHATTAN

    This drama takes place at a remote site where the US is in a desperate race to build an atomic bomb.

    📲Drama, 10pm, Saturday

    🖥️UKTV


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️LAWMEN: BASS REEVES

    In this true story, after being forced to fight in the Civil War, a former slave becomes a farmer having earned his freedom before being taken on as a Deputy Chief Marshall. He became known for the prolific number of arrests of thousands of outlaws over his time in office.

    🖥️Paramount+, released weekly after first two episodes, from Sunday.


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE VANISHING TRIANGLE

    After a number of Irish women vanish without trace, India Mullen seeks the help of a detective to investigate her mother’s murder.

    🖥️Acorn TV, released weekly after the first two episodes, from Monday.


    TOP PICK

    ↔️THE FEED

    Another chance to see this science fiction drama series. In the near future, people’s brains are connected to The Feed, which is like having the internet in your head.

    📲Virgin Ultra HD, 12.05am, Monday


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️CULPRITS

    After pulling off a major heist, the team of criminals break up to live a different life with their share of the takings. But although everything seems to go well at first, they soon find their past catching up with them.

    🖥️Disney+, from Wednesday.


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE BUCCANEERS

    Romantic drama about a group of rich young women who arrive in the UK from America in the 1870s with the intention of marrying aristocratic men.

    🖥️AppleTV+, released weekly after the first three episodes, from Wednesday.


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️SHAKESPEARE: RISE OF A GENIUS

    Documentary drama of William Shakespeare’s life.

    📲BBC2, 9pm, Wednesday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️THE NEWSREADER

    Season 2 of this Australian drama returns. The News at Six team face a challenge as a general election gets underway, with an anticipated six hours of unbroken airtime.

    📲BBC2, 9pm, Thursday

    🖥️BBCi-Player


    TOP PICK

    🆕↔️NCIS: SYDNEY

    NCIS agents are assigned to work with their Australian counterparts to help resolve multiple crimes.

    🖥️Paramount+, released weekly, from Friday


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    🆕↔️FOR ALL MANKIND

    New series 4 begins. It is now 2003 in this alternate reality and there is now further competition sparked by the discovery of mineral-rich asteroids.

    🖥️Apple TV+, released weekly, from Friday


    BEST NEW FILMS OF THE WEEK


    🆕⭕️SECTION 8

    A former Special Forces soldier is recruited by a secret government agency to assassinate targets who appear to be a threat to US security.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6pm, Saturday

    🖥️NOW


    🆕⭕️MUZZLE

    An LA cop gets a dog to replace the one drug dealers killed. Now he must track them down.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Monday


    🎹🆕⭕️BTS: YET TO COME

    The K-pop boy band perform in concert in South Korea.

    🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Thursday


    🆕⭕️THE KILLER

    Action thriller about a perfectionist assassin whose mission goes wrong.

    🖥️Netflix, from Friday.


    🆕⭕️BIG GEORGE FOREMAN

    Biopic of the boxer’s career.

    📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday.

    🖥️NOW

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