WHAT TO WATCH 19-25 APRIL
- Elliot Gonzalez
- 2 days ago
- 5 min read
Who will be crowned this year's Celebrity Big Brother champion?
This week's best telly includes the fifth and final season of hit Netflix drama You as well as the return of Race Across the World and Who Do You Think You Are?. Plus who will walk out of the Celebrity Big Brother as this year's winner?
Elsewhere, Freddie Flintoff opens up in a new documentary for Disney+, Nikki Amuka-Bird stars in a new drama for U&Alibi and Elton John and Brandi Carlile team up for a concert special on ITV1.
Here are 7 TV shows you can't miss this week...
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BRAND NEW CONCERT SPECIAL
AN EVENING WITH
ELTON JOHN & BRANDI CARLILE
Saturday 19th April at 9.05pm on ITV1
Hosted by Dan Levy, An Evening with Elton John and Brandi Carlile, will feature live performances, captivating stories about the pair’s careers and their enduring friendship, as well as an intimate look at their new collaborative album.
Filmed at The London Palladium and accompanied by a live band, Elton John and Brandi Carlile will perform songs from their new album, Who Believes in Angels?, a selection of their individual greatest hits as well as duetting on some iconic tracks, giving the audience a chance to experience their beloved songs as never heard before.
Between these electrifying solo and duo performances, Elton and Brandi will also invite the audience to a sit-down conversation on stage, hosted by their close friend Dan Levy, that will pull back the curtain on their 20-year friendship and look into their remarkable lives and journeys.
Plus they will take a look at exclusively shot, 'behind the scenes' footage from the making of the album. Additionally, throughout the evening, those closest to Elton and Brandi will pay emotional tributes to the artists’ illustrious careers.
STREAM ON ITVX
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RETURNING FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
Tuesday 22nd April at 9pm on BBC One
Who Do You Think You Are? returns this week for its 22nd as eight celebrities uncover astounding revelations as they dive into their families' heritage.
Spanning almost 800 years of history, the celebrities unearth remarkable stories from tragic romances and early Hollywood glamour to harrowing revelations of war and slavery. It will take viewers across the UK and around the world including Jamaica, Morocco, India, Poland, Germany, Ireland, the USA and France as the celebrities search for answers.
In the opening episode, actor Andrew Garfield embarks on a journey of emotional contrasts, from pre-War Poland; to the Treblinka Nazi death camp; to the sunshine and glamour of early Hollywood.
Other celebrities taking part this series, include Diane Morgan, Mishal Husain, Ross Kemp, Aisling Bea, Will Young, Fred Sirieix and Layton Williams.
8 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER
3
RETURNING FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
RACE ACROSS THE WORLD
Wednesday 23rd April at 9pm on BBC One
Race Across the World is back for a fifth series and the starting point for this year's epic race is The Great Wall of China as five teams must navigate three of Asia’s most diverse nations, China, Nepal and India, in a race of over 14,000km to reach the finish line, Kanniyakumari, the southernmost tip of India.
The teams include: sisters, Elizabeth and Letitia; former married couple, Yin and Gaz, brothers, Brian and Melvyn; teenage couple, Fin and Sioned and mother and son, Caroline and Tom.
Racing across vast distances without smartphones or bank cards, and armed only with cash equating to the cost of flying the route, our teams will be pushed to their absolute limits. Only one team can claim victory over the others and win the cash prize of £20,000.
8 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER
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BRAND NEW DRAMA
I, JACK WRIGHT
Wednesday 23rd April at 9pm on U&Alibi
This week sees Unforgotten writer, Chris Lang, brings us a new drama about a family feud. I, Jack Wright promises to be a propulsive, darkly comic and moving murder mystery family drama which offers many twists and turns as one family deals with treachery and hidden agendas from all involved.
Trevor Eve plays Jack Wright, a powerful and successful businessman, who leaves his family in disarray when they learn of his suicide.
When the provisions of Jack’s final will and testament are made known, his third wife, Sally Wright, played by Nikki Amuka-Bird, and two sons, Gray Wright and John Wright, played by John Simm Daniel Rigby, are shocked to discover they have been largely cut out of Jack’s enormous fortune.
As DCI Hector Morgan and DC Katie Jones, played by Harry Lloyd and Liz Kingsman, delve further into the case, they realise Jack’s cause of death was in fact murder.
Their sights turn to the Wright family, where the mother of all feuds is beginning. As each family member becomes more reckless and desperate in their bid to own a piece of Jack’s legacy, dark secrets and resentments are revealed with explosive consequences.
6 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
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RETURNING DRAMA
YOU
Thursday 24th April on Netflix
Joe's story comes full circle to New York, as a family conflict threatens his glamorous marriage and an alluring new crush revives his darkest impulses during the hit drama's fifth and final season on Netflix.
10 EPISODES
STREAM ON NETFLIX ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
6
GENRE
FLINTOFF
Friday 25th April on Disney+
On Disney+ this week, a brand new documentary, Flintoff, offers an intimate and unprecedented look at the life of one of Britain’s most beloved sportsmen and TV personalities. Former international cricketer and broadcaster Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff.
With exclusive access to Flintoff and featuring his wife Rachael and close friends including Michael Vaughan, James Corden, and Jack Whitehall, the documentary follows his compelling life story from winning two Ashes series for England, to becoming a British TV icon, and finally, returning to the game following his life-altering car crash in 2022 during the filming of Top Gear.
Flintoff promises to be a story of resilience through career highs, personal challenges, and the pressures of living under the public gaze as director John Dower has been granted exclusive access to Freddie over the last year to film his recovery and document his cricketing career.
STREAM ON DISNEY+
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LIVE FINAL
CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER
Friday 25th April at 9pm on ITV1
It's been a brilliant series of Celebrity Big Brother so far this year and with the countdown to this year's final well and truly on, who will emerge from reality TV's most famous house victorious?
If I had to pick my top five, it would be Danny Beard, Donna Preston, Chesney Hawkes, Angellica Bell and Jojo Siwa. But could another housemate snatch victory from them?
Who wins... you decide!
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