Innholdsfortegnelse for 20-Jul-24 i TV&Satellite Week

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FOOTBALL Wednesday & Thursday There’s no British interest in Paris, but there’s still plenty to enjoy, as Thierry Henry takes charge of the French men’s team, with his squad including Michael Olise and Crystal Palace’s Jean-Philippe Mateta. In the women’s event, former Chelsea boss Emma Hayes coaches the USA, plus World Cup winners Spain and Brazil, whose squad features Seleção’s record goalscorer Marta in her sixth Olympics, also feature. MEN’S RUGBY SEVENS Wednesday & Thursday Great Britain failed to qualify. Hosts France – including superstar Antoine Dupont – and two-time defending champions Fiji are the favourites. ARCHERY Thursday Six archers have been selected for Team GB, including Bryony Pitman and Tom Hall, both competing in their second Games, although Britain hasn’t won an archery medal since 2004. HANDBALL Thursday There’s no…

NEW COMEDY Young Sheldon Sunday, 8pm, E4 Prepare to say goodbye to the Cooper family as The Big Bang Theory prequel Young Sheldon returns for its final season. Viewers last saw teenage genius Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage) travelling to a science programme at a German university, accompanied by his mother Mary – not knowing that a tornado had just struck their Texas home town, destroying Meemaw’s house. As the seventh season begins, Sheldon’s twin sister Missy steps up to run the household in her mother’s absence. And although Mary is devastated to be apart from her family at this time of crisis, Sheldon doesn’t want to come home early… ‘We didn’t get to go to Germany to film, but they sure faked it well,’ says Armitage, 16. ‘We had a…

My Lady Jane Genre: Comedy drama Season: 1 Episodes: 8 What would have happened if Lady Jane Grey hadn’t been executed in 1554 after only nine days on the English throne? That’s the central premise of this wonderfully witty and marvellously irreverent historical fantasy, which also imagines a race called Ethians, who can change into animals. Fiercely independent Jane (Emily Bader, left) is forced to marry bad boy Guildford Dudley (Killing Eve’s Edward Bluemel), only to discover he is hiding a dangerous secret. The fabulous cast includes Anna Chancellor and Rob Brydon. Land of Women Genre: Comedy drama Season: 1 Episodes: 6 (released weekly) Eva Longoria (right) plays a New York socialite hiding out in small-town Spain with her mother and daughter due to her husband’s shady business dealings in…

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare NEW Available: Thursday 25 July Genre: Action comedy Filmmaker Guy Ritchie takes us on an actionpacked World War Two comedy caper in his latest movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Starring Henry Cavill as thrill seeker Gus March-Phillipps, it loosely recounts the true story of the first-ever special-forces group, as they are set a daring mission by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and military officials – including James Bond creator Ian Fleming – to destroy German U-boats in the North Atlantic. The film sees March-Phillipps assembling a top-secret combat unit, composed of a motley crew of unruly agents, including Alan Ritchson as Danish naval officer Anders Lassen and Babs Olusanmokun as Richard Heron. But their off-the-books black-ops sabotage mission soon sees them having to use entirely unconventional…

LIVE SPORT Olympics From Wednesday, times vary, BBC1, BBC iPlayer, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 & Discovery+ The greatest show on Earth gets under way in Paris this week when more than 10,000 athletes from across the globe gather in the French capital for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. After a delayed, pandemic-affected Tokyo Games that saw stars compete in empty stadiums, Paris looks set to be an unforgettable celebration of speed, strength and stamina. And with France just one hour ahead of UK time, we won’t need to stay up through the night to watch all the action. Team GB is sending more than 300 athletes to Paris as we try to surpass our haul of 64 medals at Tokyo, including 22 golds, when we finished fourth in the medal…

NEW CRIME DRAMA McDonald & Dodds Sunday, 8pm, ITV1 Bath’s answer to Lieutenant Columbo, the unassuming DS Dodds, played by The Crown’s Jason Watkins, is a detective you underestimate at your peril, as his partner in crime-solving DCI Lauren McDonald (Tala Gouveia) quickly realised after arriving from London to work alongside him in the beautiful West Country city. The chalk-and-cheese detectives are back in action this week in a fourth, three-part series of the hit ITV1 crime drama McDonald & Dodds, which starts with an investigation featuring guest roles for former Bond villain Toby Stephens, John Gordon Sinclair, Lydia Leonard and singer and actor Pixie Lott. Here, Gouveia and Watkins give us a heads-up on what’s in store for their decidedly different crime-solving colleagues… What can you tell us about…

NEW Elsbeth Tuesday, 9pm, Sky Witness This 10-part spin-off from The Good Wife and The Good Fight follows unconventional Chicago attorney Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston, above) as she arrives in the Big Apple to assist the NYPD – beginning with the murder of a theatre student – while secretly investigating corruption in the force. Wendell Pierce co-stars and there are guest turns from Jane Krakowski, Stephen Moyer and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. NEW Love & Death Saturday, 10pm, ITV1 (box set, ITVX) Based on a true story, this seven-part drama stars Elizabeth Olsen as bored 1980s Texas housewife Candy Montgomery. Despite her seemingly perfect life, Candy embarks on an illicit affair with fellow church member Allan Gore (Jesse Plemons). But when the infidelity is discovered, it leads to a shocking attack…

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast Sinéad Keenan (above), Caoilfhionn Dunne and Roísín Gallagher will star in a comic thriller on Netflix about three close pals who unearth secrets after the death of an estranged friend. The Dispatcher In Apple TV+’s six-part Australia-set thriller, based on Ryan David Jahn’s novel, Patrick Brammall (above) will play a former detective turned police dispatcher whose daughter vanished a decade before. But a call for help leads him to believe he can find her at last… Sirens Netflix’s black comedy sees Julianne Moore (above) as philanthropist Michaela, whose assistant Simone (Milly Alcock) adores her. But Simone’s sister Devon (Meghann Fahy) has concerns about their relationship, and a battle of wills ensues. Kevin Bacon co-stars.…

Spent Model Mia (Michelle de Swarte, above) flees the US to move back to London after her overspending leaves her bankrupt in BBC2’s comedy drama, but she hides her money woes from her loved ones, while her agent Mills (Matt King) offers her bizarre work. The Turkish Detective A thrilling motorbike chase through the souks brings high drama in BBC2’s whodunnit, as unconventional Istanbul-based sleuth Çetin Ikmen (Haluk Bilginer) and his team look into the murder of a student. The Night Caller In Channel 5’s thriller, troubled cabby Tony (Robert Glenister) starts to feel an affinity with radio DJ Lawrence (Sean Pertwee, above), but the presenter’s strong opinions inspire Tony to commit a shocking act, with devastating repercussions. Guy Martin’s Lost WW2 Bomber The presenter’s C4 documentary sees him witness…

BLACK COMEDY Friday, on demand, Netflix ★★★ A real-life 1920s scandal – one that’s enough to turn the air blue – takes centre stage in Thea Sharrock’s dark comedy. Wicked Little Letters is set in the quaint coastal town of Littlehampton, where residents begin receiving a series of foul-mouthed anonymous letters. Accusations are levelled at Rose (Jessie Buckley), an Irish single mum viewed with suspicion by some – notably pious Edith (Olivia Colman), who still lives with her parents (Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones) and seems envious of Rose’s free-spirit. When the police (Hugh Skinner, Paul Chahidi) are called, little progress in the case is made. Only Gladys (Anjana Vasan), an intuitive WPC, realises Rose might not be the guilty party. But this being 1920, she’s patronised by the patriarchy, her…

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Tokyo was affected by the pandemic, so are you excited it’s business as usual for Paris? When you look back at Tokyo, it couldn’t have been much worse. In Tokyo, the athletes were unbelievably successful and we celebrated some amazing moments, but Paris will raise things to the next level. Probably more than anything, it is the time zone. People will come home from work, turn the telly on and it will all be happening right there and then. Does your sporting background in the Invictus Games help when you interview athletes? It does, but it is my previous career as a marine that helps me most. I haven’t experienced the elite level of competition at the Olympics, but I have experienced the self-sacrifice and discipline that it takes to…

DISCOVERY+ & EUROSPORT Streaming service Discovery+ offers by far the most-comprehensive coverage of the Games, showing 3,800 hours of live action via more than 55 feeds. Presenters Laura Woods and Craig Doyle are joined by current Olympic star Tom Daley, plus a host of medal winners including rower James Cracknell. Wall-to-wall coverage will also be shown on Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2. Subscription to Discovery+ starts at £3.99 per month. Visit discoveryplus.com BBC With more than 250 hours of live coverage being broadcast on BBC1, BBC2 and BBC iPlayer, plus a nightly highlights programme, you’ll struggle to miss out on the best of the action in Paris. Presenters include Gabby Logan, Clare Balding and JJ Chalmers, joined in the studio by gold medallists including Dame Laura Kenny and Rebecca Adlington,…

EMMERDALE Cain and Charity go in search of AWOL Belle… Charity is worried that Belle is being controlled by husband Tom, and her fears escalate when she discovers the young couple have left the village for Wales. Confiding in Cain, she tells the mechanic that Tom reminds her of DI Bails, the corrupt cop who abused her. With neither able to get in touch with their relative, they break into the newly-weds’ home to try to find out Belle’s whereabouts. Finding an address for a cottage Tom has rented, they immediately head over there and are horrified to see that it’s been trashed and there’s blood on the wall. A special episode then takes viewers back to the moment Belle arrived with Tom for their ‘holiday’. She’s unaware that Tom…

NEW COMEDY Animal Control Sunday, 8.30pm, E4 Pythons, pumas and raccoons are among the many unruly guest stars making an appearance in E4’s new US sitcom about a group of animal-control workers who tackle troublesome creatures in Seattle. The 12-part comedy stars The Bear’s Joel McHale as Frank Shaw, a bitter and disillusioned senior animal-control officer who was fired from his previous career as a cop. Frank is forced to adapt to a job that he feels is beneath him and work alongside a team of colleagues he considers his inferiors, while dealing with a whole menagerie of animals – including a goose on the loose, a bear in a hot tub, and a herd of rampaging ostriches. VICIOUS ‘The ostriches were really something,’ laughs McHale, 52. ‘They were super…

NEW PROFILE Linford Thursday, 8.30pm, BBC1 During the 1980s and 1990s, superstar athlete Linford Christie was one of the biggest celebrities in Britain thanks to a glittering career that saw him win a haul of medals, including 100m gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. But then everything came crashing down following a dramatic drugs scandal that shocked the nation and saw him disappear from public life. Now 64, Christie looks back at the highs and lows of his career in new 90-minute documentary Linford, which also hears from his family, childhood friends and fellow athletes Sally Gunnell and Jonathan Edwards. ‘I was born to run, and regardless of whatever obstacles they threw in my way, it never stopped my belief,’ recalls Christie. ‘I was never the fastest – I just…

PREMIERE Robin and the Hoods Friday, 9am & 4.15pm, Sky Premiere Robin Hood is a tale almost older than time, and there have been so many versions of the story, with actors from Frank Sinatra, Kevin Costner and Taron Egerton taking on the titular role. But now it’s time for something a bit different and more current… In what feels like a similar vein to the 2019 update of King Arthur in The Kid Who Would Be King, Robin is an 11-year-old schoolgirl (Darcey Ewart) who, with her friends ‘the Hoods’, tries to prevent a callous real estate developer (Naomie Harris) from flattening the scrubland where they play. Gwendoline Christie also stars. NEW Dora Dora Weekends, 8.35am, Milkshake! on Five & My5 If we were to work out the age of…

C4’s innovative upcoming cop drama Patience will follow a young neurodivergent woman with a talent for crime-solving. The six-part series, which has been adapted from Walter Presents’ French series Astrid, is set in York and centres on Patience Evans (Ella Maisy Purvis), who is neurodivergent and works for Yorkshire Police in the criminal-records department, where she enjoys collating evidence. But shrewd detective Bea Metcalf (Laura Fraser) soon realises that Patience’s powers of observation and intuition could be put to good use to help crack cases, and they form a bond. FRESH VOICES The drama, in which all the neurodivergent characters are played by neurodivergent actors, also explores Patience’s time as part of a support group for autistic adults who share their experiences. ‘I’m incredibly honoured to bring Patience Evans to…