Former Love Island stars dominate this week's telly!
This week's best telly sees 12 former islanders return to the Love Island villa for a second chance at love, one of the show's most successful islanders, Molly-Mae gives viewers unprecedented access into her life and one of last year's All Star islanders, Chris Taylor, takes to the ice as Dancing on Ice returns.
Elsewhere, Severance returns for its highly anticipated second season on Apple TV+ and Paramount+ launch their new psychological thriller The Crow Girl.
Here are 5 TV shows you can't miss this week...
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RETURNING TALENT SHOW
DANCING ON ICE
Sunday 12th January at 6.30pm on ITV1
Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern host the first live show of this year's Dancing on Ice as 11 celebrities embark on the ultimate challenge of mastering ice skating.
Skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean will perform a brand-new routine in the opening show as they head up the ice panel once more, alongside returning judges Ashley Banjo and Oti Mabuse. But who will brave the dangers of the ice to become champion of the rink?
Taking part his year are Olympic Rowing Legend Sir Steve Redgrave, footballer and pundit Anton Ferdinand, television presenter Michaela Strachan, comedian Josh Jones, soap favourites Charlie Brooks, Chelsee Healey and Sam Aston, TV personalities Chris Taylor, Dan Edgar and Ferne McCann plus The Traitors favourite Mollie Pearce.
9 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
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RETURNING REALITY TV
LOVE ISLAND: ALL STARS
Monday 13th - Friday 17th January at 9pm on ITV2
Dating royalty returns as Love Island: All Stars returns for its second series in South Africa and once again hosted by Maya Jama.
Having won over the nation and made a name for themselves the first time round, 12 former islanders are now back for more, to not only search for love again, but to cement their status as dating royalty.
CONTINUES NIGHTLY
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3
BRAND NEW DRAMA
THE CROW GIRL
Thursday 16th January on Paramount+
Paramount+'s new psychological thriller The Crow Girl is adapted by Erik Axl Sund’s novel of the same name and stars Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly and Dougray Scott and follows DCI Jeanette Kilburn and partner DI Lou Stanley hunt for a killer after bodies of unidentified young men show up around Bristol, beaten and full of the anaesthetic lidocaine.
We follow Jeanette and her team as they piece together the connections between the killings, enlisting the help of prime suspect Carl Lowry’s psychotherapist, Dr Sophia Craven, who offers a fresh but troubling perspective on the case.
With the killer inching ever closer to home, Jeanette and the team are in a race against time to untangle the web of secrets to solve this mystery.
The Crow Girl also stars Elliot Edusah as diligent rookie DC Mike Dilliston, Clara Rugaard as Victoria Burkeman, Victoria Hamilton as Superintendent Verity Pound and Chloé Sweetlove as Madeleine.
6 EPISODES
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BRAND NEW REALITY TV
MOLLY-MAE: BEHIND IT ALL
Friday 17th January on Prime Video
Prime Video's new reality series Molly-Mae: Behind it All promises to give viewers unprecedented access into Molly-Mae’s life, behind the vlog camera, taking viewers beyond the headlines to uncover the real Molly-Mae, following her journey after her highly publicised break-up.
We’ll see Molly-Mae adapt to the challenges of motherhood, all while preparing to launch her biggest business venture to date: ‘Maebe’. In this intimate look, we uncover how these experiences have shaped her into the powerhouse entrepreneur she is today.
Balancing the demands of motherhood, the weight of her brand’s success, and the high stakes of her latest business launch, this documentary offers an unfiltered glimpse into her strength and ambition. This is Molly-Mae as we’ve never seen her before - raw, real and redefining what it means to thrive under intense public scrutiny.
6 EPISODES CONTINUES IN SPRING
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RETURNING DRAMA
SEVERANCE
Friday 17th January on Apple TV+
Following the huge success of its first season, Severance is back for its second season, with Adam Scott returning as Mark Scout who leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that 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.
In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.
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