What the Isreali offensive started out as what it has become are not necessarily the same thing
I really don’t know what you expect Israel to do! You cannot negotiate sensibly with these people. They are violent, sadistic rapists and cowards to boot, using their own people for protection.
REALLY!
Your take on the Old boy network places it higher it see than the Freemasons or other loyalties, a little hard to swallow.
I am well aware that this is an unpopular view, simply because the man in the street would find it hard to believe that these things happen.
Unfortunately, the powers that be understand this, and that’s how it manipulates the masses.
Yes, I understand. They say that drinking too much alcohol leads to memory loss.
Not only that, but it can also lead to memory loss.
I think we are seeing consolidation being the name of the game, aren’t we?
It must be a god idea, then… 
They probably paid much less than they sold it for too. That's how these things normally work out as.
exactly how is UKTV a minnow?... it's the BBC.
But how do they look in comparison to the US streamers? In that sense, they are definitely minnows.
I agree. However, Lis Truzz proposed exactly that. She wanted to free up business and money flow. She will be proven to be right.
I am 100% in support of Milton Freidman.
Of course she will be proved right. It is so obvious. I think Rishi opposed her so that he could get into office. He was VERY miffed when she got the job, so he had a word with his chums in the city. The rest is history.
It has been a acknowledged that the lockdown was a mistake. We won’t be doing that again.
We found that in this country, too, Fred. The politicians need reminding of this.
40% and 45% tax rates are beyond the pale.
Yes, there will be quite a few shocks until the industry finds some sort of equilibrium!
Your listings highlights for the week commencing 2 December 2023 are now available in the attachment below.
TOP PICK
🆕↔️FARGO
When a woman gets into trouble with the police, she is horrified to re-discover a life that she thought she had escaped.
🖥️Amazon Prime Video (released weekly), from Saturday
TOP PICK
🆕↔️HIDDEN ASSETS
The second season of this Irish crime drama. Claire is assigned to the team when the lead Detective Sergeant faces an unexpected challenge.
📲BBC4, 9pm, Saturday
🖥️BBCi-Player
TOP PICK
🆕↔️THE DOLL FACTORY
A doll painter is offered an opportunity to start a new life in this period thriller.
📲Channel 5, 9pm (first episode only), Tuesday
🖥️My5 (first episode only)
🖥️Paramount+ (complete series)
TOP PICK
🆕↔️MAYFAIR WITCHES
A neurosurgeon discovers from her dying mother that she is part of a family of witches.
📲BBC2, 9pm, Wednesday
🖥️BBCi-Player
TOP PICK
🆕↔️MY LIFE WITH THE WALTER BOYS
A teenager, Jackie, is removed from her home when her family is killed in an accident. She must now live with her guardian and her family on a Colorado farm.
🖥️Netflix, Thursday
TOP PICK
🆕↔️PLATFORM 7
Psychological thriller about a woman who takes her own life at a railway station and becomes stuck in the afterlife, not understanding what happened to her.
🖥️ITVX, from Thursday
THE WEEK’S BEST NEW FILMS
🆕⭕️THE FATHER
A daughter tries to find her father a suitable carer as he declines into dementia. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman, whose acting proves to be superb.
📲Channel 4, 9.25pm, Saturday
🖥️Channel 4 (online)
🆕⭕️A THOUSAND AND ONE
After she is released from prison, a mother kidnaps her son to avoid being caught up in the care system and settles in Harlem. However, she faces a hostile environment.
🖥️Sky Cinema Premiere, 9.40pm, Saturday
🖥️NOW
🆕⭕️YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER
A teenager’s mother disappears. Then she returns, but her daughter suspects that there might be something weird happening, which is not related to her psychiatric condition.
📲Film4, 11.40pm, Saturday
🆕⭕️THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D’ARTAGNON
The trio of musketeers find themselves assisting the queen to conceal the affair she is having with an English duke.
📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 11.40pm, Sunday
🖥️NOW
🆕⭕️KINDLING
Based on a true story. A group of friends reunite with one of their number on learning of his terminal illness.
📲BBC2, 11.15pm, Wednesday
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕⭕️LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
Thriller in which a family face an unexpected nightmare when things go badly wrong on their Long Island weekend break.
🖥️Netflix, from Friday
🆕⭕️YOUR CHRISTMAS OR MINE 2
Comedy sequel in which James and Hayley become separated from their families again when they set off to go ski-ing in Austria.
🖥️Amazon Prime Video, from Friday
🆕⭕️TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS
The Autobots are joined by some new Transformers, the Maximals, in their efforts to conquer the planet.
🖥️Paramount+, from Friday
🆕⭕️A PRINCE AND A PAUPER CHRISTMAS
When an informant goes missing in a criminal investigation, a desperate young federal agent recruits his doppelgänger to play the role.
📲Channel 5, 3.15pm, Friday
🖥️My5
🆕⭕️MAY DECEMBER
When a Hollywood actress carries out research about a married couple and their controversial past, the marriage comes under strain.
📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm, Friday
🖥️NOW
OLD BOY’S TV & STREAMING CHOICE: 25 November 2023
🆕 - New to TV or new to free TV
↔️ - Series
⭕️ - Film
👬 - For under-12s
📲 - Channel/time
🖥️ - On demand/streaming service
🎹 - Music
***SUGGESTED RECORDING & WATCHLIST PICKS
These listings apply to Virgin Media viewers in England. Sky Atlantic is not available on Virgin Media but can be accessed through the NOW streamer.
Regional variations in timings may apply for certain programmes on BBC and ITV1. Most of the channels and all the streamers are also available on other platforms.
The focus of these listings is mainly on selected new films, dramas, music, entertainment shows, important scheduled events (not sport) and documentaries.
Many programmes shown on TV channels are also available within the On Demand section of your pay TV provider.
Some programmes shown on TV channels do not appear on demand until the next day.
Programmes shown exclusively on ITVX are on the subscription version of the channel only.
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👁SATURDAY
25 November 2023
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🆕⭕️BEAU IS AFRAID
A man with anxiety issues sets off on a challenging journey to get back to his mother.
📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 4.50pm
🖥️NOW
TOP PICK
🆕↔️DOCTOR WHO
The time shifting spaceman returns for a new season of three programmes starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate. Dr Who and Donna are reunited after the doctor is surprised to regenerate into one of his previous reincarnations.
📲BBC1, 6.30pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕↔️DOCTOR WHO: UNLEASHED
Taking a look behind the scenes.
📲BBC3, 7.30pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕↔️MY WILD CATS
📲Sky Nature, 8pm
🖥️NOW
🆕FREDDIE MERCURY: AUCTION SPECIAL
📲Sky Arts, 8pm
🖥️NOW
🎹🆕TAKE THAT: REEL STORIES
The group look back at their career with the help of a video compilation.
📲BBC2, 8.30pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕↔️CONCORDE: THE RACE FOR SUPERSONIC
Documentary.
📲Channel 4, 8.30pm
🖥️Channel 4 (online)
🆕DOCTOR WHO: 60 YEARS OF SECRETS & SCANDALS
📲Channel 5, 8.30pm
🖥️My5
🆕↔️LOCKERBIE
Documentary into the Pan Am terrorist incident.
📲Sky Documentaries and Sky Showcase, 9pm
🖥️NOW
🆕BEYOND THE HEADLINES: THE ELIZABETH THOMAS STORY
The victim of an abduction when in school is interviewed on her experience.
📲Crime + Investigation, 9pm
🖥️Crime + Investigation Play
🆕TAKE THAT: RADIO 2 IN CONCERT
📲BBC2, 9.30pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕STASI FC
Documentary about the Stasi’s control of BFC Dynamo.
📲Sky Documentaries, 2am
🖥️NOW
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👁SUNDAY
26 November
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🆕⭕️FARAWAY DOWNS
An English aristocrat goes to Australia to persuade her unfaithful husband to sell his cattle ranch. Based on the earlier version of the story, ‘Australia’, made in 2008.
🖥️Disney+
🎹🆕JUNIOR EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
From the Palais Nikaïa, Nice.
📲BBC2, 3pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕⭕️LOVE AGAIN
After her fiancé’s death, a woman continues to send emotional texts to his telephone number for comfort, but then his number is reassigned.
📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 6pm
🖥️NOW
🆕LIDL vs FORTNUM & MASON: WHO DOES BETTER?
📲Channel 5, 8pm
🖥️My5
🆕↔️MARK ROBER’S REVENGINEERS
Inconsiderate shoppers is the focus of this first programme in the series.
📲Discovery, 8pm
🖥️Discovery+
🆕↔️INCREDIBLE ANIMAL JOURNEYS
📲National Geographic Wild, 8pm
🖥️Discovery+
🆕THE YEAR THE THAMES FLOODED
Documentary about the 1928 disaster in which the River Thames burst its banks and flooded London.
📲Channel 5, 9pm
🖥️My5
🆕QUEER PLANET
📲Sky Nature, 9pm
🖥️NOW
🆕↔️SECRETS OF MISS AMERICA
📲Crime + Investigation, 10pm
🖥️Crime + Investigation Play
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👁MONDAY
27 November
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TOP PICK
🆕↔️THE DOLL FACTORY
Scarred by smallpox in Victorian London, Rose’s beauty is no longer in evidence to secure a well-to-do husband, and this affects her whole life. She no longer has the confidence to go outside, and only does so when accompanied by her sister Iris to protect her. But Iris feels hemmed in and seizes the opportunity to get closer to Louis despite being warned off.
🖥️Paramount+ (first two episodes, then released daily).
🆕↔️MAKE IT AT MARKET
📲BBC1, 4.30pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕BUFFALO SOLDIERS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS
📲PBS America, 8.20pm
TOP PICK
🆕↔️THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR
This six-part thriller. When a couple move to their new house and befriend their neighbours, all seems well, but everything is upended when Evie finds out about their neighbours’ open relationship…
📲Channel 4, 9pm
🖥️Channel 4 (online)
🆕↔️JULIUS CAESAR: THE MAKING OF A DICTATOR
Documentary.
📲BBC2, 9pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕WONDER BOY
Performance from the Bristol Old Vic.
📲Sky Arts, 10pm
🖥️NOW
🆕FAUST
📲Sky Arts, 2am
🖥️NOW
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👁TUESDAY
28 November
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🆕↔️VERIFIED STAND-UP
Stand-up comedy series.
🖥️Netflix
🆕THE MOVEMENT AND THE ‘MADMAN’
Documentary about the stand-off between President Nixon and the anti-war campaign.
📲PBS America, 8.25pm
🆕↔️KENNEDY
Documentary.
📲Sky History, 9pm
🖥️NOW
🆕↔️BERLIN 1933
Documentary about the escalating nightmare of Berlin in Hitler’s Germany in 1933.
📲BBC4, 9.10pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕↔️MYSTERY AT BLIND FROG RANCH
📲Discovery, 10pm
🖥️Discovery+
🆕THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE SPECIAL
📲Sky Arts, 10pm
🖥️NOW
🆕↔️HARLEY QUINN
Animation.
📲E4, 10.35pm
🖥️Channel 4 (online)
🆕↔️THE MURDER OF LYN DAWSON: THE TEACHER, THE GROOMER, THE KILLER
📲Sky Crime, 2am
🖥️NOW
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👁WEDNESDAY
29 November
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TOP PICK
🆕↔️SLOW HORSES
Season 3 of this spy thriller commences.
🖥️Apple+TV
TOP PICK
🆕↔️AMERICAN HORROR STORIES
Season 3 of the series lands with four new stories.
🖥️Disney+
🆕↔️RESERVATION DOGS
Season 3 of the comedy following the lives of the Oklahoma teenagers.
🖥️Disney+
🎹🆕AMERICAN SYMPHONY
Documentary on singer-songwriter Jon Batiste.
🖥️Netflix
🆕↔️BAD SURGEON: LOVE UNDER THE KNIFE
Documentary series about a surgeon whose operations tended to result in death.
🖥️Netflix
🆕↔️THE INCIDENT ROOM
Documentary on the murder of Julie Hogg in Stockton-on-Tees in 1989.
📲Channel 5, 8pm
🖥️My5
🆕BEING KAE TEMPEST
An ‘Arena’ documentary profiling the artist and rapper.
📲BBC2, 9pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕THE BODY UNDER THE PATIO: MURDER IN SUBURBIA
📲Channel 5, 10pm
🖥️My5
🆕SOUTH TO BLACK POWER
📲Sky Documentaries, 2am
🖥️NOW
🆕SAM JAY: SALUTE ME OR SHOOT ME
📲Sky Comedy, 2am
🖥️NOW
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👁THURSDAY
30 November
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🆕⭕️OBLITERATED
Party celebrations after ensuring a nuclear device is deactivated prove to be premature when it is discovered that the device they thought they had made safe was fake. So, worse for wear after the party, can they get their acts together sufficiently to find the real device and save Las Vegas?
🖥️Netflix
👬🆕THE BAD GUYS: A VERY BAD HOLIDAY
Animation.
🖥️Netflix
👬🆕⭕️FAMILY SWITCH
An unusual cosmic event results in two parents and their children to swap bodies. This couldn’t have happened on a worse day…
🖥️Netflix
🆕↔️MY KIND OF TOWN: KIRKCUDBRIGHT
📲BBC Scotland, 8pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕↔️MOUNTAIN MEN
📲Sky History, 9pm
🖥️NOW
🆕↔️HILLSONG: A MEGACHURCH EXPOSED
📲ID, 9pm
🖥️Discovery+
🆕SHAKESPEARE: KING LEAR
📲Sky Arts, 9pm
🖥️NOW
🆕EILISH McCOLGAN: RUNNING IN THE FAMILY
📲BBC Scotland, 10pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
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👁FRIDAY
1 December
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🆕⭕️CANDY CANE LANE
Eddie Murphy stars in this comedy about a Christmas obsessive father who is made redundant just before Christmas and so decides to enter a Christmas decoration contest for a cash prize. But he hasn’t bargained on a troublesome elf.
🖥️Amazon Prime Video
🆕⭕️THE SHEPHERD
An airman helps an RAF pilot who is in some danger as he flies home for Christmas.
🖥️Disney+
🆕⭕️THE NAUGHTY NINE
When Andy is omitted from Santa’s list due to his naughtiness, he gets together with other naughty kids to steal presents from the North Pole warehouse.
🖥️Disney+
🎹🆕SPIRITED
A musical festive comedy loosely based on ‘A Christmas Carol’.
🖥️AppleTV+
🆕↔️QUENTIN BLAKE’S BOX OF TREASURES
Animation based on the books of Sir Quentin Blake.
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕↔️ANCIENT CHINA FROM ABOVE
📲National Geographic, 6pm
🖥️Disney+
🆕⭕️GENIE
After Bernard is forced to work on his daughter’s birthday, it is the last straw for his wife, who decides to seek a separation. Bernard finds some help for his situation when he inadvertently unlocks a genie after having rubbed an old jewellery box.
📲Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm
🖥️NOW
🆕THE BIG BRITISH BEEF BATTLE
Looking at the impact of beef production on climate change.
📲Channel 4, 8pm
🖥️Channel 4 (online)
🆕LOCH NESS: THEY CREATED A MONSTER
📲BBC Scotland, 9pm
🖥️BBCi-Player
🆕↔️POLICE INTERCEPTORS: PURSUIT AND CAPTURE
📲5ACTION, 9pm
🖥️My5
🆕BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN LIVE IN BARCELONA
📲Sky Arts, 11pm
🖥️NOW
🆕THE LAST RIDER
Documentary on cyclist Greg LeMond.
📲Sky Documentaries, 2am
🖥️NOW
I would welcome the return of 24-hour ITV News, whether streamed or through a revived TV channel (preferably both during this transitional period).
Not sure about ‘pop-up’ channels - that sounds a bit gimmicky to me. How would we be able to plug in to breaking news a few hours after it has occurred if the ‘pop-up’ channel has popped off again? How many of us have the TV on all the time anyway? I would rather have a live-stream channel, frankly.
Well, that didn’t last long!
Some people will be disappointed at this news.
It’s not often I’m lost for words…
Just to get a little perspective and for those who do not know who the hell this man is, this description of his life from Wikipedia may prove interesting.
We have to accept - this man is like Marmite, and the two sides are never going to agree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist)
In the middle of the page, click on the ‘did you mean…’ part and the information will be displayed.
Good for him! He certainly knows how to achieve change.
He should be PM. Liz Truss would make a good Deputy/Home Secretary!
It’ll be interesting to hear how they explain that to their people.
