INTERVIEWS
All the latest interviews with the good and the great from telly and live comedy
INTERVIEWS
All the latest interviews with the good and the great from telly and live comedy
UPCOMING TV
UPCOMING TV
DOCTOR WHO RETURNS SATURDAY 11TH MAY
CONFIRMED
WEDNESDAY
24 APRIL
SEASON 2
THE BIG DOOR PRIZE
APPLE TV+
A small town is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears, promising to reveal everyone’s true potential. Soon residents start changing jobs, rethinking relationships, and questioning long-held beliefs—all in pursuit of a better future.
SUNDAY
5 MAY
SERIES 2
THE RESPONDER
BBC ONE
Martin Freeman stars as an urgent response officer trying to stay on the straight and narrow. But when he crosses a top drug dealer, he starts to fall back into old ways.
WEDNESDAY
8 MAY
BRAND NEW
DARK MATTER
APPLE TV+
Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. It will follow Jason Dessen, played by Joel Edgerton, a physicist, professor and family man who one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago, is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself.
WEDNESDAY
8 MAY
SERIES 9 FINAL SERIES
INSIDE NO.9
BBC TWO
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's anthology series continues for one final series. Staying true to the show’s anthology format, it will contain six brand new standalone half-hour films, each set in a different location, inviting viewers into Shearsmith and Pemberton’s world of the extraordinary and macabre.
SATURDAY
11 MAY
RETURNING
DOCTOR WHO
BBC ONE
Doctor Who will return on Saturday 11th May and for the first time ever, the Doctor will land with two episodes premiering on BBC iPlayer at midnight, before arriving on BBC One later that day right before the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final. The new season will see Ncuti Gatwa return as the Fifteenth Doctor, alongside Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday.
THURSDAY
16 MAY
SEASON 3 PART 1
BRIDGERTON
NETFLIX
Bridgerton is back for its third season and finds Penelope Featherington has finally given up on her long-held crush on Colin Bridgerton after hearing his disparaging words about her last season. She has, however, decided it’s time to take a husband, preferably one who will provide her with enough independence to continue her double life as Lady Whistledown, far away from her mother and sisters. But lacking in confidence, Penelope’s attempts on the marriage mart fail spectacularly.
WEDNESDAY
22 MAY
SERIES 4
TRYING
APPLE TV+
As Trying returns, we fast-forward six years, discovering that Nikki and Jason, played by Esther Smith and Rafe Spall, are experienced adopters having built a lovely little nuclear family, enriched by an extraordinary support network. However, as their teenage daughter, Princess, starts to yearn for a connection with her birth mother, Nikki and Jason find themselves confronted with the ultimate test of their parenting skills.
THURSDAY
13 JUNE
SEASON 3 PART 2
BRIDGERTON
NETFLIX
Bridgerton is back for its third season and finds Penelope Featherington has finally given up on her long-held crush on Colin Bridgerton after hearing his disparaging words about her last season. She has, however, decided it’s time to take a husband, preferably one who will provide her with enough independence to continue her double life as Lady Whistledown, far away from her mother and sisters. But lacking in confidence, Penelope’s attempts on the marriage mart fail spectacularly.
FRIDAY
14 JUNE
BRAND NEW
PRESUMED INNOCENT
APPLE TV+
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Scott Turow, Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the lead role of chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich, the series takes viewers on a gripping journey through the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when one of its own is suspected of the crime. The series explores obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together. The star-studded ensemble cast of the thriller also includes Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, O-T Fagbenle and Renate Reinsve.
TBC
TBC
SUMMER
BRAND NEW
LAND OF WOMEN
APPLE TV+
A new dramedy starring Eva Longoria as Gala, a New York empty nester whose life is turned upside down when her husband implicates the family in financial improprieties, and she is forced to flee the city alongside her aging mother and college-age daughter. To escape the dangerous criminals to whom Gala’s now vanished husband is indebted, the three women hide in the same charming wine town in northern Spain that Gala’s mother fled 50 years ago, vowing never to return. The women seek to start anew and hope their identities will remain unknown, but gossip in the small town quickly spreads, unraveling their deepest family secrets and truths.
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BRAND NEW
ALAN MUST WIN
E4
A brand new reality show that sees a larger-than-life cast compete in a popularity contest set inside a unique environment. However, in amongst the group there is an underdog that no one is expecting. For now, let’s just call them ‘Alan’… Whilst these contestants are busy competing for popularity, what none of the group know is that living secretly next door is a group of celebrities, playing their own game and doing everything they can to make sure that Alan. Must. Win.
SERIES 2
ALMA'S NOT NORMAL
BBC TWO
Set in her home town of Bolton, Alma's Not Normal sees Sophie Willan play Alma, whose tumultuous childhood has led to continual chaos. Following a breakup, she embarks on a new beginning and wants to finally get herself sorted. With a rebellious streak a mile wide and no qualifications to boot, Alma decides to explore the role of an escort to support her dreams of being a star. Many adventures and misadventures ensue as she navigates the past she’s had and the future she wants.
SERIES 2
AM I BEING UNREASONABLE?
BBC ONE
The hit comedy thriller written by Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli who also star as Nic and Jen returns. As series one came to an end, the series took another twist with a conclusion that saw viewers learn what really happened between Nic and Alex, played by David Flynn, that fateful night on the train.
SEASON 3
AND JUST LIKE THAT...
SKY COMEDY
Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis return as Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.
SERIES 2
AVOIDANCE
BBC ONE
Created by Romesh Ranganathan and Benjamin Green, BBC One comedy Avoidance, about living your life avoiding conflict, avoiding making decisions and avoiding the mess that causes will return for a second series, starring Romesh Ranganathan, Jessica Knappett, Mandeep Dhillon, Lisa McGrillis and Kieran Logendra.
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SERIES 5
BAD EDUCATION
BBC THREE
Layton Williams and Charlie Wernham return as Stephen and Mitchell, and their unique approaches to teaching. Vicki Pepperdine will also return as headteacher and control freak Ms Hoburn and Mathew Horne's Mr Fraser continues to hang around the school kitchen.
SEASON 2
BAD SISTERS
APPLE TV+
Bad Sisters follows the tight-knit Garvey sisters who have always looked out for each other. In season one, when their brother-in-law winds up dead, his life insurers launch an investigation to prove malicious intent, and set their sights on the sisters, all of whom had ample reason to kill him. The ensemble cast is led by Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene and Eve Hewson as the Garvey sisters along with Claes Bang, Brian Gleeson, Daryl McCormack, Assaad Bouab and newcomer Saise Quinn.
BRAND NEW
BATTLE IN THE BOX
DAVE
Jimmy Carr will host the ground-breaking new comedy reality gameshow in which pairs of comics and some of the nation’s favourite celebrities battle it out for pride, prizes and most importantly floorspace. Living in a pressure cooker like no other, Battle in the Box promises to test the endurance and ingenuity of some of the UK’s biggest names from comedy, TV and entertainment.
SERIES 5
THE BAY
ITV1
The latest case for Morecambe MIU will focus on the emotionally complex life of a divided family. With the father and mother of the victim, bitterly divorced, Jenn Townsend and the team will have to tread very carefully to keep the whole family onside.
BRAND NEW
BETTER OFF DEAD?
BBC ONE
Liz Carr to front new BBC One documentary on assisted dying. A long-term campaigner against a change in the law, Liz observes that disabled people are rarely consulted about the issue.
SERIES 3
BILLY CONNOLLY DOES...
GOLD
With more exclusive access to Billy in his Florida home, Billy Connolly Does...The Decades finds the Big Yin stepping back in time to look at how politics, celebrity, sex, TV and football have changed for all of us in the last 50 years.
BRAND NEW
BLACK CAB
CHANNEL 5
A contemporary thriller based in Liverpool about a lonely taxi driver’s growing obsession with a late-night Radio DJ. Robert Glenister leads the cast as Tony, a 50-something cab driver from Liverpool, who used to be a respected teacher but lost his job, his confidence, and his marriage. His only lifelines are cafe-worker Rosa, played by Suzanne Packer, whom he forms a growing attachment to, and a late-night radio talk-show host called Lawrence, portrayed by Sean Pertwee whom he spends his nights listening to as he ferries passengers across the city.
SERIES 2
BLACK OPS
BBC ONE
In series two, Dom and Kay, played by Gbemisola Ikumelo and Hammed Animashaun, are set to be thrust into a new adventure with Akemnji Ndifornyen also reprising his role as gang boss Tevin.
BRAND NEW
BOARDERS
BBC THREE
A new six-part coming-of-age comedy-drama created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor. It follows the lives of five underprivileged black students from inner-city London who win scholarships to an elite boarding school.
SEASON 4
THE BOYS
PRIME VIDEO
More from the fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and as revered as gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. Intent on stopping the corrupt superheroes, The Boys, a group of vigilantes, continue their heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven and Vought - the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers up their dirty secrets. It's the seemingly powerless against the super-powerful.
BRAND NEW
BUT WHEN WE DANCE
BBC ONE
A new one-off comedy-drama from Vicar of Dibley writer Paul Mayhew-Archer about two people who fall in love at a ballet class for people with Parkinson's disease, run by the English National Ballet.
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SERIES 12 SERIES 13
CALL THE MIDWIFE
BBC ONE
The return of the popular drama centred around the practice of midwifery in 1960s East London.
BRAND NEW
THE CHILDREN
BBC TWO
A new feature-length drama which begins on one summer’s night in 1945, and follows child survivors and presumed orphans of the Holocaust.
SERIES 2
THE CHRIS & ROSIE RAMSEY SHOW
BBC TWO
Following a successful first series, The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show returns with six brand new episodes. The show follows the huge success of real-life husband and wife Chris and Rosie Ramsey's number one podcast Shagged.Married.Annoyed.
SERIES 3
CLARKSON'S FARM
PRIME VIDEO
It's another year on Diddly Squat Farm and Jeremy aims to diversify, expanding his limited agricultural knowledge under the watchful eye of his no-nonsense team; tractor driver Kaleb, stone wall favourite Gerald, advisor ‘Cheerful’ Charlie, Jeremy’s better-half-turned-farm-shop-keeper Lisa and many more.
BRAND NEW
CODE OF SILENCE
ITV1
Created and written by Catherine Moulton, Code of Silence introduces us to Deaf catering worker, Alison Woods, played by Rose Ayling-Ellis. She’s struggling to make ends meet, juggling two jobs, in a police canteen and a local bar, while also doing her best to support her Deaf mum, Julie.
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BRAND NEW
DADDY ISSUES
BBC THREE
Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey star in this new series which at its heart, is a classic odd couple comedy about two funny, deeply flawed characters, who just happen to be father and daughter. The show follows Gemma, who lives for the weekend when she can get blasted and party hard in Stockport, Manchester. But after joining the mile-high club with a random hook-up on her way back from a holiday to Portugal, she's pregnant, and it couldn't come at a worse time.
BRAND NEW
DANCE SCHOOL
CHANNEL 4
Created by Theresa Ikoko and Lisa Holdsworth, new drama Dance School follows an eclectic group of dance students as they navigate the intense highs and lows of coming of age in today’s complex world, captured through stories which are as joyful and funny as they are raw and truthful, brought viscerally to life via irresistible dance choreography.
BRAND NEW
DESIRE
ITV1
A new drama which focuses on Leia who after a messy divorce finds herself falling in love with an intensity she’s never experienced before. But it's the wrong man at the wrong time.
SERIES 2 SERIES 3
THE DEVIL'S HOUR
PRIME VIDEO
Jessica Raine and Peter Capaldi reprise their roles as Gideon and Lucy Chambers. The next two instalments will continue the story of Lucy, a woman caught up in the hunt for serial killer Gideon in ways she never could imagine. In Series Two, Gideon’s true intentions are finally revealed, as he attempts to involve Lucy in his mission to stop an elusive force of evil. Simultaneously a sequel and a prequel to the first chapter, expect nothing but the unexpected…
SERIES 2
DI RAY
ITV1
Parminder Nagra returns to ITV1 as Detective Inspector Rachita Ray, for a second series of police thriller, DI Ray. Set in Birmingham, the series, will see Leicester-born DI Ray investigating the murder of a high-profile criminal. Sensitive ethnic issues relating to the case ignite racial tensions, causing a personal conflict for Rachita, both as a British Asian woman and as a police officer, which she must fight to prevent a turf war erupting on the streets of Birmingham…
BRAND NEW
DINOSAUR
BBC TWO
Ashley Storrie stars in this brand new six-part comedy Dinosaur, as Nina, an autistic woman in her 30s who adores her life living with her sister and best friend Evie. Yet when Evie rushes into an engagement after only six weeks and makes Nina her maid of honour, Nina is floored. Forced to reconcile with her sister’s impulsive decision, Nina grapples with what this new challenge means, leading to a surprising journey of self-discovery.
BRAND NEW
DISABILITY BENEFITS
CHANNEL 4
Written by Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows, Disability Benefits stars Rosie Jones as Emily, a young woman with very little left to lose. Having had her state benefits cut to shreds after being made redundant, she begins to build an illegal drugs empire. But Emily isn’t your average street-dealing dope peddler – she’s sharp, funny, biting, highly educated and on top of all that, she has cerebral palsy.
BRAND NEW
DJANGO
SKY ATLANTIC
A high-concept retelling of the classic Western Django as Matthias Schoenaerts plays the mysterious gunfighter Django, and is joined by an international cast including Noomi Rapace and Lisa Vicari. After the Civil War, John Ellis has founded New Babylon, a city of outcasts, full of men and women of all backgrounds, races, and creeds, that welcomes everyone with open arms. Haunted by the murder of his family eight years earlier, Django is still looking for his daughter Sarah, believing she may have survived the killing. He is shocked to find her in New Babylon, about to marry John. But Sarah, now a grown woman, wants Django to leave, as she holds him accountable for their family’s slaughter after he left to join the War. However, Django, is adamant that he will not lose his daughter twice and decides to stay, siding John in the fight against his enemy: the Lady.
SERIES 14
DOCTOR WHO
BBC ONE
The next Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, takeS control of the TARDIS, with Millie Gibson playing the Doctor’s new companion Ruby Sunday.
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BRAND NEW
THE ELEPHANT MAN
BBC ONE
Charlie Heaton stars as Joseph Merrick, better known as The Elephant Man, in this new two-part drama which follows his compelling and extraordinary life from his working-class beginnings in Leicestershire.
BRAND NEW
ELLIE & NATASIA
BBC TWO
Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou return for a second series, this time on BBC Two, of their critically-acclaimed sketch show Ellie & Natasia, featuring characters such as the coffee spotters, the Brothers Pomodoro and a girl with a pixie haircut.
BRAND NEW
ENGLISTAN
BBC TWO
Created by Riz Ahmed, this drama tells the story of three generations of a British Pakistani family. We follow them as they pursue their dreams over four tumultuous decades.
BRAND NEW
ENTITLED
CHANNEL 4
Brett Gelman stars as Gabe, an American widower who must get to know his British wife’s estranged family in their crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside, they compete for his affections and his newly inherited fortune.
SERIES 2
EXTRAORDINARY
DISNEY+
The first series imagined a world where everyone has a superpower... except you. 10 years ago, everyone over the age of 18 got their superpower. But Jen, played by Máiréad Tyers, at 25 is still waiting to get hers. She’d take anything at this point. Adrift in a big, confusing world and armed with nothing but a bit of hope, a lot of desperation and her flatmates, Jen begins her journey to find her maybe-superpower. But in doing so, she might discover the joy of being just kind of OK.
SEASON 3
EUPHORIA
SKY ATLANTIC
Zendaya returns as Rue who in the last season had to find hope while balancing the pressures of love, loss, and addiction.
SERIES 2
EVERYONE ELSE BURNS
CHANNEL 4
Simon Bird, Kate O'Flynn, Amy James-Kelly and Harry Connor all return as the Lewis family, for whom faith is everything. Dad David and Mum Fiona, played by Kate O'Flynn, have brought up their children with God at the forefront of their minds, and regularly drag the kids out of bed at all hours of the morning for 'apocalypse practice'.
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BRAND NEW
THE FORTUNE HOTEL
ITV1
Fronted by Stephen Mangan, this new realiry series invites viewers into a luxury Caribbean resort filled with glamour, opulence and deception. 10 pairs of contestants will arrive at The Fortune Hotel, where they will be given an all-important briefcase. Inside one case is the ultimate jackpot of £250,000 in cash, eight are empty, and one contains the dreaded Early Checkout Card – whichever pair is left holding that case at the end of each show will see their stay brought to a dramatic, premature end.
SERIES 2
FUNNY WOMAN
SKY MAX
It’s the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool, but there’s got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be… someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is.
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BRAND NEW
THE GATHERING
CHANNEL 4
A new six-part drama from Helen Walsh that centres around a violent attack on a teenage girl during a rave on a tidal islet. Set on Merseyside, the drama focuses on a group of teens from disparate backgrounds, each of whom could have committed the crime, along with their parents - who give equal cause for suspicion.
BRAND NEW
GAYNOR & RAY
BBC ONE
Created and written by Ruth Jones and David Peet, this one-off comedy reunites Gavin & Stacey favourites Brydon and Jones in the title roles. It follows Gaynor and Ray Davies from Cardiff, two fifty-something newlyweds, both married for a second time.
BRAND NEW
GENERATION Z
CHANNEL 4
A new comedy-drama written and directed by Ben Wheatley, which sees rapacious baby boomers and disaffected teenagers at each other’s throats… this time quite literally.
BRAND NEW
GET MILLIE BLACK
CHANNEL 4
A new gripping drama from Booker Prizewinning author Marlon James, following the inimitable Millie-Jean Black, a police detective forced to quit Scotland Yard and return home to Jamaica, where she’s soon pursuing a missing persons case that threatens to expose more than she may be willing to confront.
BRAND NEW
GINO AND FRED'S EMISSION IMPOSSIBLE
ITV1
Globetrotters Gino D'Acampo and Fred Sirieix will be packing their bags for an epic new adventure, but this time they may have bitten off more than they can chew as they attempt to go green.
SERIES 2
THE GOLD
BBC ONE
The return of the factual drama inspired by the true story of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, and the decades-long chain of events that followed.
BRAND NEW
A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER
BBC THREE
The six-part compulsive teen crime thriller has been adapted from Holly Jackson's bestselling novel, by Poppy Cogan. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. Case closed. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But Pippa Fitz-Amobi - our insatiably smart, slightly square heroine - isn't so sure and she’s determined to prove it. But if Sal Singh isn’t a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pippa from the truth?
BRAND NEW
GRISELDA
NETFLIX
Executive produced by and starring Sofia Vergara in the titular role, Griselda chronicles the real life of savvy and ambitious Colombian business woman, Griselda Blanco, who created one of the most profitable cartels in history. A devoted mother, Blanco’s lethal blend of charm and unsuspecting savagery helped her expertly navigate between family and business leading her to become widely known as the “Black Widow”.
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SERIES 3
HEARTSTOPPER
NETFLIX
Based on the bestselling graphic novels from graphic novel author and illustrator Alice Oseman, who will return as writer and creator for seasons two and three. It tells a story about life, love and everything in between. Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.
BRAND NEW
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE
SKY MAX
Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar are about to leap into the unique and often sensational world of local news with Hold the Front Page, a six-part series following the comical duo's journey into the heart of grass roots Britain.
BRAND NEW
HOME TO ROOST
BBC ONE
Over twenty years ago, the Osbourne family left Britain for a life in the US and became the globe’s most iconic reality TV family when they threw open the doors of their LA home and let the world in, sharing their bizarre and hilarious life in the fly-on-the-wall show The Osbournes.
BRAND NEW
HOT FLUSH
BBC ONE
Sally Wainwright's new six-part drama Hot Flush, centres on the lives of five women of a certain age who come together to create a makeshift, butt-of-the-joke punk-rock band in order to enter a talent contest. But when they rehearse together they suddenly discover that they have a lot more to say than they ever imagined, and this is the way to say it.
SEASON 2
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
SKY ATLANTIC
The series set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, returns to continue the story of House Targaryen.
BRAND NEW
HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST
CHANNEL 4
A new comedy thriller from Derry Girls writer and creator Lisa McGee which follows a group of friends in their late thirties about to embark on the most exciting adventure of their lives.
BRAND NEW
THE HUNT FOR RAOUL MOAT
ITV
A new drama focussing on the innocent victims of Moat’s crimes, Christopher Brown, Samantha Stobbart and PC David Rathband; the police officers who put themselves in the firing line in their quest to apprehend Moat and the local journalist who sought to tell Moat’s real story in a landscape of sensationalist reporting and social media provocation. Lee Ingleby stars as Neil Adamson, a senior Northumbria Police Officer leading the race against time to apprehend Moat.
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BRAND NEW
I.D.
CHANNEL 4
A new drama from actor and writer Genevieve Barr which centres on a young deaf woman called Emily. The drama centres on Emily, a young deaf woman, who witnesses a neighbour taking pictures of her. This leads her to explore what she might have done to warrant this unwanted attention, while simultaneously beginning a dance with a stranger that is as exhilarating as it is dangerous. I.D. is a love letter to being deaf, placing Emily on a hair-raising collision course with her past.
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BRAND NEW
JOAN
ITVX
Sophie Turner leads this new drama, written by Anna Symon and inspired by the life of Joan Hannington, the UK's most notorious jewel thief. Set in the fun, brash, aspirational world of 1980s London, Joan promises to be a powerful female story created for television by acclaimed screenwriter Anna Symon from Joan Hannington's memoirs. It's the true story of her meteoric rise from petty offender to highly talented diamond thief and criminal mastermind.
BRAND NEW
THE JETTY
BBC ONE
Jenna Coleman to star in BBC One's new four-part thriller The Jetty, from writer Cat Jones, as rookie detective Ember Manning. When a fire tears through a holiday home in a scenic Lancashire lake town, Detective Ember Manning must work out how it connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit ‘love’ triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls.
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BRAND NEW
KATHERINE RYAN: PARENTAL GUIDANCE
W
With special access to Katherine’s family life, the four-part series will lift the lid on her and her husband Bobby's different parenting styles. With special access to Katherine’s family life, viewers will see how she juggles parenthood with the glamorous and often intense lifestyle of being a comedian at the top of her game.
BRAND NEW
KIDNAPPED
BBC THREE
A new factual drama is based on the true story of Chloe Ayling, a British model who was abducted in Italy in 2017, having travelled there for a photo shoot.
BRAND NEW
KING & CONQUEROR
BBC ONE
James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau star in this story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years.
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SEASON 2
LOOT
APPLE TV+
Maya Rudolph returns as billionaire Molly Novak who has a dream life, complete with private jets, a sprawling mansion and a gigayacht, anything her heart desires. But when her husband of 20 years betrays her, she spirals publicly, becoming fuel for tabloid fodder. She’s reaching rock bottom when she learns, to her surprise, that she has a charity foundation run by the no-nonsense Sofia Salinas, who pleads with Molly to stop generating bad press.
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SERIES 3 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
THE MADAME BLANC MYSTERIES
CHANNEL 5
The Madame Blanc Mysteries sees renowned and respected antiques dealer, Jean White, return fresh from surviving an attempt on her life by the duplicitous Barbara. Across the series, Jean’s expertise in the world of antiquities proves once again the key to solving a series of murders and mysteries against the backdrop of the beautiful French village of Sainte Victoire.
BRAND NEW
THE MAN
ITV
Mike Bartlett's new psychological drama centres on the personal and professional life of Thomas Benson; a hard-working father and husband and explores the corrosive effects of bullying.
SERIES 3
MANDY
BBC TWO
Diane Morgan’s iconic character Mandy returns for a third six-part series and is once again written by, directed by and starring Morgan. Will she ever get to breed the Dobermans of her dreams?
BRAND NEW
MARY & GEORGE
SKY ATLANTIC
A new 8-part drama, created by DC Moore is based on the extraordinary true story of Mary Villiers, played by Julianne Moore, who moulded her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become the richest, most titled, and most influential mother and son England had ever seen.
SERIES 6
THE MASKED SINGER UK
ITV
The top-secret singing show returns as a new superstar lineup, disguised in head-to-toe costumes, compete to remain anonymous. As each celebrity sings, a superstar panel, along with the studio audience, are left asking ‘who’s behind the mask?’
SERIES 5
MEET THE RICHARDSONS
DAVE
Married comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont return to give viewers a peek into their madcap daily lives.
BRAND NEW
MISS AUSTEN
BBC
Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie star in this new four-part adaptation of Gill Hornby’s novel, reimagining a literary mystery. Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters - as a fascinating, witty and heartbreaking story of sisterly love, while creating in Cassandra a character as captivating as any Austen heroine.
BRAND NEW
MR LOVERMAN
BBC ONE
Based on the acclaimed 2013 novel by Bernardine Evaristo, Mr Loverman, adapted by Nathanial Price, promises to be a life-affirming story about family, love, and being true to yourself. It'll star Lennie James as the exuberant protagonist, Barrington Jedidiah Walker, Esq. Barry to his mates. Trouble to his wife, his daughters, and his lover. Seventy years old, Antiguan-born, exuberant Hackney personality, Barry is renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits.
BRAND NEW
MRS. AMERICAN PIE
APPLE TV+
A new comedy starring Kristen Wiig about a gorgeously impossible people. It follows Maxine Simmons' attempt to secure her seat at America’s most exclusive table: Palm Beach high society. As Maxine attempts to cross that impermeable line between the haves and the have-nots, “Mrs. American Pie” asks the same questions that still baffle us today: “Who gets a seat at the table?” “How do you get a seat at the table?” “What will you sacrifice to get there?” Set during the powderkeg era of the early 1970s, “Mrs. American Pie” is a testament to every outsider fighting for their chance at superficial greatness.
BRAND NEW
M. SON OF THE CENTURY
SKY ATLANTIC
Based on the bestselling book by Antonio Scurati, which chronicles the birth of fascism in Italy and the Duce Benito Mussolini’s rise to power, Joe Wright will direct the eight-part series which covers the period from the founding of Fasci Italiani in 1919 through to Mussolini’s infamous speech in parliament following the murder of socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti in 1925. The series also promises to provide viewers with an insight into Mussolini and his personal relationships, including with his wife Rachele, his lover Margherita Sarfatti, and with other iconic figures from the time. Like the novel, the series will tell the history of a country that surrendered to dictatorship and the story of a man who was able to rise from his ashes time and again.
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BRAND NEW
THE NEW LOOK
APPLE TV+
An epic thriller from Todd A. Kessler, starring Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binocheset, set against the World War II Nazi occupation of Paris when Coco Chanel’s reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer ends and Christian Dior rises helping return spirit and life to the world with his groundbreaking, iconic imprint of beauty and influence that will go on to define generations to come.
BRAND NEW
NIGHTSLEEPER
BBC ONE
A new real-time thriller set on a sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London, while a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard. Can two people who’ve never met, one on the train and one not, work together to save the lives of its disparate group of passengers as the Heart of Britain service hurtles towards what might quite literally be its final destination?
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BRAND NEW
OUT THERE
ITV1
Martin Clunes and Louis Ashbourne Serkis star in this new six-part drama about County lines drug dealing. An escalating, insidious crime wave sweeping the British countryside.
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SEASON 2
PACHINKO
APPLE TV+
Epic in scope and intimate in tone, Pachinko tells an unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning. The new season will continue the riveting story that spans generations and is told across three languages - Korean, Japanese, and English.
SERIES 2
PEACOCK
BBC THREE
Allan Mustafa returns as the eponymous Andy Peacock, a personal trainer and man out of time. Now the proud owner of a body-positive fitness business and in an actual adult relationship, Andy’s life is on the up. Only his ego can mess things up now.
BRAND NEW
PLAYDATE
DISNEY+
Playdate follows what happens when Elisa’s world is turned upside down after her young daughter Lucia is kidnapped at a sleepover. Who is the mystery woman who took Lucia, and what secrets does she know about Elisa?
BRAND NEW
PRESUMED INNOCENT
APPLE TV+
Based on the acclaimed book of the same name by Scott Turow, reimagined for the screen by David E. Kelley who will serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside executive producers Dustin Thomason, J.J. Abrams and Ben Stephenson. Inspired by Turow’s beloved courtroom thriller, it tells the story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime.
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BRAND NEW
QUEENIE
CHANNEL 4
An adaptation by Candice Carty-Williams of her debut novel about a young Black woman’s value and the unrelenting trials and tribulations of life. It follows 25-year-old Queenie Jenkins, a Jamaican British straddler of both cultures, sometimes catastrophist, occasional mess, but more often than not an undervalued success, who is always, always enough.
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BRAND NEW
THE RECKONING
BBC ONE
A new drama from Jeff Pope which stars Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile, a man who rose from working-class origins to become one of the biggest stars of British television, but in death has become one of the most reviled figures of modern history following revelations of extensive and horrific abuse. The story will trace Savile through his early years in the dance halls of northern England, his career with the BBC, to his twilight years when he sought to dispel the growing rumours about his life and the legacy he would leave behind.
BRAND NEW
RED EYE
ITVX
The six-part high-octane thriller is set between an all-night plane flight from London to Beijing and the corridors of power within Whitehall. Told over an adrenaline-filled six parts and produced by Bad Wolf, Red Eye starts with Dr Matthew Nolan, played by Richard Armitage, who arrives home after attending a medical conference in Beijing and coming frighteningly close to dying in a car crash.
BRAND NEW
RIPLEY
SKY ATLANTIC
Based on Patricia Highsmith's bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels, Andrew Scott will star in the title role. In the series, Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom's acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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BRAND NEW
SAFE SPACE
SKY COMEDY
A new comedy starring, written and created by Greg Davies who plays a demotivated small-time psychotherapist heading nowhere fast until fate intervenes in the form of a new client, his rising star local MP. A dark web of revelations leads to a serious breach of client confidentially. A tale of control, power and how idiotic it makes us.
SERIES 2
SAS ROGUE HEROES
BBC ONE
The first series followed David Stirling, Jock Lewes and Paddy Mayne in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed in the darkest days of World War Two, with fellow cast members including Dominic West, Sofia Boutella, Tom Glynn-Carney and Theo Barklem-Biggs. The second series will show viewers what comes next for the SAS, following the dramatic turn of events in series one’s final episode. Further details will be announced in due course.
SEASON 2
SEVERANCE
APPLE TV+
Adam Scott returns as Mark Scout who leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself.
SERIES 2
SHERWOOD
BBC ONE
Another series of James Graham's drama which follows a tense and heart-wrenching investigation into two shocking and unexpected killings which shatter an already fractured community.
SERIES 8
SHETLAND
BBC ONE
Ashley Jensen leads the new series as DI Ruth Calder, a native Shetlander who returns to the isles after 20 years working for the Met in London. Ruth takes on the lead detective role left vacant by DI Jimmy Perez, working closely with DS Alison ‘Tosh’ McIntosh, played by Alison O’Donnell.
BRAND NEW
SHUGGIE BAIN
BBC ONE
Set during the 1980s, Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of a mother-son relationship in working-class Glasgow and will be adapted from his own debut novel, by Douglas Stuart. Shuggie’s mother Agnes, a luminous, glamourous star she has always believed herself to be, dreams of a house with its own front door, ordering a little happiness on credit. Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion’s share of each week’s benefits, all the family has to live on.
SERIES 2
SHOWTRIAL
BBC ONE
The returning series will feature a brand new cast, including Adeel Akhtar, Nathalie Armin and Michael Socha. Alongside a new cast, the new five-part series of Showtrial, written and created by Ben Richards, will feature an explosive new murder investigation that divides the nation and takes place in the full glare of the media spotlight.
SEASON 4
SLOW HORSES
APPLE TV+
Gary Oldman returns for more from Apple TV+'s espionage series. In season three, Jackson Lamb's disgraced spies work together to foil a rogue agent when one of their own is kidnapped. Whilst season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House.
BRAND NEW
SOULS
SKY ATLANTIC
In Stockholm, pregnant pathologist Allie tries everything to prevent her beloved husband and pilot Leo from flying. In Berlin, 25-year-old Linn joins a cult whose members, for a variety of reasons, desperately want to believe in life after death. Meanwhile, in a hospital in the middle of Germany, Hanna wakes up after a serious car accident and wonders how her 14-year-old son Jacob managed to save them both from drowning. When, a few days after the accident, Jacob suddenly claims to remember a past life as a pilot of a missing passenger plane, he dramatically changes the fate of the three women. Is he telling the truth?
SEASON 2
SQUID GAME
NETFLIX
A second season of the show in which 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games.
BRAND NEW
STEELTOWN MURDERS
BBC ONE
A new factual drama written by Ed Whitmore and set in both 1973 and the early 2000s. It centres on the hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area and the remarkable story of how, in the first case of its kind, the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence. Stars Philip Glenister and Steffan Rhodri.
BRAND NEW
SUNNY
APPLE TV+
A new dark comedy starring Rashida Jones, created by Katie Robbins. Jones plays Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first, Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship, as together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.
BRAND NEW
SWEETPEA
SKY ATLANTIC
A new dark comic drama adapted by Kirstie Swain from the novel of the same name by C. J. Skuse. When a chance encounter with a stranger leads to a shocking act of violence, Rhiannon’s mask slips completely and she is forced to confront the darker side she has long kept hidden.
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SERIES 2
TABOO
BBC ONE
Tom Hardy reprises his role as James Keziah Delaney who in the first series returned home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father's shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself.
BRAND NEW
THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
SKY
A six-part limited series that tells the true-life love story of Lale and Gita Sokolov. At 26 and 18, these two ordinary young people had adult life and all of its possibilities stretching before them. But their freedom, aspirations and all prospect of a future, were snatched from them when they were transported to Auschwitz, condemned to the very worst prison, a Nazi death camp, because of their religion. They’d never met before, but one chance glance was all it took: they both knew their destiny was with each other. Surviving this hell became a must, not an if.
BRAND NEW
TEN POUND POMS
APPLE TV+
Ten Pound Poms follows a group of Brits as they leave dreary post-war Britain in 1956 to embark on a life-altering adventure on the other side of the world. For only a tenner, they have been promised a better house, better job prospects and a better quality of life by the sea in sun-soaked Australia. Stars Michelle Keegan, Faye Marsay and Warren Brown.
BRAND NEW
A THOUSAND BLOWS
DISNEY+
Brought to life by acclaimed screenwriter Steven Knight, A Thousand Blows follows Hezekiah and Alec, two best friends from Jamaica who find themselves thrust into the vibrant and violent melting pot of post-industrial revolution London's East End. Set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London.
BRAND NEW
TIME BANDITS
APPLE TV+
Lisa Kudrow, Kal-El Tuck, Charlyne Yi, Tadhg Murphy, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Rune Temte, Kiera Thompson and Rachel House to lead this new comedy which has been co-written, directed and executive produced by Taika Waititi. It promises to be a comedic journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves and their newest recruit: an eleven-year-old history nerd
BRAND NEW
TOM JONES
ITV1
Solly McLeod and Sophie Wilde star in Gwyneth Hughes' reimagining of The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling based on Henry Fielding’s classic novel. A picaresque story of the title character’s complicated journey to find real love, Tom Jones has delighted and scandalized readers since it was originally published in 1749.
SERIES 3
THE TOWER
ITV1
Based on Kate London’s brilliant second novel and adapted by screenwriter Patrick Harbinson, The Tower returns with Gemma Whelan returning as DS Sarah Collins alongside Tahirah Sharif as PC Lizzie Adama, Emmett J Scanlan as DI Kieran Shaw and Jimmy Akingbola as DC Steve Bradshaw. The series opens with Lizzie returning to Farlow station. Her boss and former lover, DI Kieran Shaw, partners her with Arif Johar. Their first call is to a domestic violence complaint against Mark Brannon, who is accused of beating up his girlfriend, Georgina Teel and terrorising their young daughter Skye.
BRAND NEW
A TOWN CALLED MALICE
SKY MAX
An explosive family saga, thriller, and crime drama collision starring Jack Rowan & Tahirah Sharif, with Dougray Scott, Jason Flemyng, and Martha Plimpton. Set amongst the beach clubs and palm trees of the Costa del Sol in the early 80s, it follows the Lords, a crime family of petty thieves from South London, as they decamp from London to Spain to profit from an unexpected windfall – and to escape the attention of the police in a high-profile murder enquiry.
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SEASON 4 FINAL SEASON
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY
NETFLIX
Last season, at the Academy, the Umbrellas clashed with a new squad of Hargreeves siblings as a mysterious force begins to wreak havoc on the city. What will happen in the show's fourth and final season?
BRAND NEW
UNDER HER SKIN
CHANNEL 5
Jo Joyner and Rachel Shenton lead Channel 5's new psychological thriller about a woman who, on the surface, has it all. But with the pressures of modern life and a new friend secretly determined to create chaos, her world is set spiralling. Laura is a woman who has the perfect family on paper, a loving husband and two beautiful children. But like any family, there are cracks in their perfect veneer. Cracks that Emily, a charismatic stranger is hell-bent on exploiting.
BRAND NEW
UNTITLED NICÔLE LECKY SERIES
BBC ONE
Nicôle Lecky is diving into the world of teenage girls and their mothers for a new six-part mystery thriller. We meet Lorna, a self-made and successful black businesswoman from South London who has worked hard to be where she is and best friend Juliet, a white woman born into the privileged gated community they both call home.
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BRAND NEW
VIRDEE
BBC ONE
Sacha Dhawan to star in BBC One's new six-part detective drama Virdee, based on AA Dhand’s best-selling crime novels. Adapted for the screen by AA Dhand. Virdee introduces Detective Harry Virdee, played by Sacha Dhawan, a Bradford cop disowned by his Sikh family for marrying Saima, who is Muslim. Harry struggles with abandonment, constantly attempting to reunite with his family. With his personal life in chaos, he must hunt down a killer targeting the Asian community.
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BRAND NEW
WAHALA
BBC ONE
Theresa Ikoko adapts the novel of the same name. Wahala follows three thirty-something Anglo-Nigerian female friends living in London, successfully navigating a world that mixes roast dinners with jollof rice.
SERIES 2
WE ARE LADY PARTS
CHANNEL 4
Series one explored the highs and lows of the band, named Lady Parts, as seen through the eyes of Amina Hussain, a geeky microbiology PhD student, on the lookout for love. Amina is recruited to be the bands’ unlikely lead guitarist. Lady Parts’ fierce and enigmatic frontwoman Saira sees something in Amina and uses her desperation to find a husband as leverage, offering to set her up with potential matches if she agreed to join the band. Amina soon gets swept up in their joyful, anarchic energy and punk spirit. But she’s caught between two different worlds – her more strait-laced uni friends and the band, who urge her to find her voice.
BRAND NEW
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL
BBC THREE
What It Feels Like For A Girl is described as a wild, anarchic Y2K spin on a coming-of-age drama, inspired by the acclaimed memoir of the same name by the award-winning writer and journalist Paris Lees.
RETURNING
WHEEL OF FORTUNE
ITV1
Legendary game show Wheel of Fortune will be returning to our screens for eight brand new episodes, including two celebrity specials, in 2024 with Graham Norton as its new host. Once again, the game will be centred around a giant carnival wheel as the contestants spin to win a life-changing cash prize. In this thrilling game of skill and luck, the turn of the wheel secures a cash value before they pick a letter to help them solve the puzzle. For every correct letter they reveal in the puzzle they win multiples of that amount.
BRAND NEW
THE WHITE DARKNESS
APPLE TV+
Based on an acclaimed book by bestselling author David Grann, The White Darkness is inspired by the true life account of Henry Worsley, a devoted husband and father, a former soldier, a man of deep honour and sacrifice, but also a man deeply obsessed with adventure, manifesting in an epic journey crossing Antarctica on foot. Starring Hiddleston as Worsley, this is a spellbinding story of courage, love, family and the extremes of human capacity. Stars Tom Hiddleston.
SEASON 3
THE WHITE LOTUS
SKY ATLANTIC
A third installment following a new group of guests at another White Lotus property.
BRAND NEW
THE WINTER CHILD
CHANNEL 5
A new drama following Claudia, a lonely single mother and school nurse, longing for connection. Her opportunity to be a hero comes when a young child in her community, Emily Winter, goes missing. Claudia becomes embroiled in the case and fixated on uncovering the truth. However, her fascination quickly begins to turn to obsession, not only with what happened to Emily, but also with the Winter family at the heart of the case. Emily’s grief-stricken father, Owen; her cold mother, Sabine, and her twelve-year-old brother, Dean.
SEASON 4
THE WITCHER
NETFLIX
As monarchs, mages, and beasts of the Continent compete to capture her, Geralt takes Ciri of Cintra into hiding, determined to protect his newly-reunited family against those who threaten to destroy it. Entrusted with Ciri's magical training, Yennefer leads them to the protected fortress of Aretuza, where she hopes to discover more about the girl's untapped powers; instead, they discover they've landed in a battlefield of political corruption, dark magic, and treachery. They must fight back, put everything on the line - or risk losing each other forever.
BRAND NEW
THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD I CAN'T SEE
CHANNEL 4
A new comedy travelogue starring comedian Chris McCausland and sees him cross the globe to explore some of the world’s most iconic, unforgettable world landmarks, but in a new and unique way that discovers things the ordinary traveller might miss. In each episode, reluctant traveller Chris will be joined by a different special celebrity guest as his travelling companion. As well as providing a humorous ‘audio description’ of their surroundings for him, the celebrity companions will do their best to prove to Chris that there’s much more to visiting these places than just what they look like, by engaging their other senses. Will they manage to convince him that it was worth getting off his couch after all?