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To Die For (1995) Made his film debut as a teen killer in Nicole Kidman’s comic thriller. Ocean’s Eleven (2002) Played a mechanic in the heist-caper remake, reprising the role in two sequels. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Received an Oscar nomination as the treacherous Wild West outlaw Robert Ford. Manchester by the Sea (2017) Won an Oscar for his portrayal of a grief-stricken janitor in small-town Massachusetts. Oppenheimer (2023) Had a supporting role as a military official in the box-office blockbuster.…

EASTENDERS Linda’s blackmail horror! Linda is shaken when she’s accosted in The Vic by a man called Fraser, who claims to be a mate of Dean’s. The mysterious Fraser offers her an intriguing deal regarding Dean’s murder charge that leaves her shocked, and while Elaine throws him out for upsetting her daughter, Linda later confides in Johnny that she’s tempted. Johnny pleads with his mum not to agree to Fraser’s request as there could be serious ramifications for their plan to pin Keanu’s murder on Dean, and the worry drives Linda back to the bottle. After seeking advice from Jack about what to do, conflicted Linda is horrified to receive a blackmail letter and is devastated that someone else knows she is the murderer. Crisis talks with Sharon and Denise…

NEW On the Edge Monday, 10pm, 10.35pm & 11.10pm, C4 The anthology series returns with three new short films. Wet Look stars Iwan Rheon and Tanya Reynolds as Rob and his mermaid girlfriend Gwynn, who’s struggling with life on land. Letting Go focuses on foster dad Gabriel, who can’t bear to let go of teenager Faith, who has been in his care for years. The Final Countdown tells the story of devoted husband Ray, who refuses to admit that wife Dora needs professional care for her dementia. LAST ONE House of the Dragon Monday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic The Targaryen civil war combusts as two new dragonriders – Addam of Hull and Daeron Targaryen – take to the skies in the spectacular finale of Season 2. The pair have both acquired…

G’Wed The Liverpool-set comedy will be back for two more series on ITVX, as student Reece (Dylan Thomas Smith, above) and his pals negotiate the complexities of age-gap romances, the issue of consent and how to make money while trying to concentrate on their studies. Adolescence Netflix’s crime drama, in which each of the four episodes will be filmed in one shot, will see Stephen Graham (above) play Eddie Miller, whose 13-year-old son Jamie (Owen Cooper) is charged with the murder of a girl at his school. Ashley Walters co-stars. The Ex-Wife A second run of Paramount+’s thriller, about the dynamic between mum Tasha (Celine Buckens), her hubby Jack (Tom Mison) and his ex Jen, will find Tasha in hiding, while Jack is out of jail and Jen (Katie McGrath,…

Piglets In ITV1’s comedy about trainee cops, it emerges that rookie Steph (Callie Cooke) has signed up so she can confront her ex, Mike (Ukweli Roach), one of the trainers, while dopey Paul (Jamie Bisping) is on a mission to help his dodgy family. Sophie Morgan’s Fight to Fly C4’s film follows the presenter’s Rights on Flights campaign to improve conditions for disabled travellers. She also learns about an invention that could enable wheelchair users to stay in their chairs on a plane. McDonald & Dodds The return of ITV1’s crime drama finds the mismatched sleuths (Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia) delving into the case of a woman who has been missing for years. Dodds is also perturbed by the disappearance of his office chair… Linford BBC1’s profile of Linford…

NEW ACTION COMEDY The Instigators From Friday 9 August, Apple TV+ Casey Affleck and Matt Damon have been close friends ever since their childhoods in Boston, and have worked together on a string of Oscar-winning projects – from 1998’s Good Will Hunting, also starring Affleck’s older brother Ben, to 2023’s Oppenheimer. This week, the pals reunite to play a pair of hapless thieves who go on the run in Apple TV+’s action comedy The Instigators. Set in Boston, the film follows the fortunes of Rory (Damon), a cash-strapped ex-Marine who’s desperate to reconnect with his son, and Cobby (Affleck), a struggling ex-con. The strangers team up to steal the ill-gotten funds of corrupt politician Mayor Miccelli (Ron Perlman) during an election-night party. However, when the robbery goes wrong, Rory and…

LIVE SPORT Olympics Sat-Fri, times vary, BBC1, BBC2, BBC iPlayer, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 & Discovery+ NOAH LYLES (USA) KWAKYE: ‘Noah really tries to show off his personality by making a statement on and off the track. I love watching him run, and I love to see what crazy thing he’s going to do before a race or what colour his nails are.’ WHEN TO WATCH Men’s 100m final is on Sunday; men’s 200m final is on Thursday. KEELY HODGKINSON (Great Britain) RADCLIFFE: ‘Keely defended her European women’s 800m title in June and hopefully she can upgrade that on the global stage. She’s still young but we’ve got huge hopes for her. It’s going to be hard, because she’ll be up against Kenya’s world champion Mary Moraa, but it’s sure…

LIVE SPORT Olympics Sat-Fri, times vary, BBC1, BBC2, BBC iPlayer, Eurosport & Discovery+ SATURDAY 3 AUGUST EQUESTRIAN After the shock suspension of Charlotte Dujardin, Team GB’s joint most-decorated female Olympian, the spotlight at Versailles will be on our riders in the team dressage – Charlotte Fry, Carl Hester and replacement Becky Moody. GYMNASTICS There are medals in the men’s floor, women’s vault and men’s pommel horse, where Max Whitlock aims to become the first gymnast to win medals on the same apparatus at four consecutive Games. ATHLETICS The women’s 100m final should feature the USA’s world champion Sha’Carri Richardson, who missed Tokyo after testing positive for cannabis, alongside Brits Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita and Jamaican duo Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who is retiring after her fifth Games. It’s…

NEW DRAMA The Company You Keep Tue, 9pm, Alibi (box set, Sky Box Sets, Virgin TV Box Sets & NOW) After starring as much-loved patriarch Jack Pearson in glossy American family drama This Is Us, Milo Ventimiglia was delighted to be offered a very different role in drama The Company You Keep, which comes to Alibi this week. The 10-part series sees the California-born actor play confidence trickster Charlie Nicoletti, whose father, mother and sister are also con artists and who run a Baltimore bar as a front for their nefarious activities. After This Is Us, I was looking for something different with a completely new character,’ reveals Ventimiglia, 47. ‘Then this project came along and it was a wonderful opportunity to play a heartfelt con artist.’ As the series…

NEW FACTUAL Titanic in Colour Sun, 8pm, C4 (box set, Channel 4) Nothing brings history to life like colour photos and film footage. But when the Titanic was lost to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after famously hitting an iceberg, she took with her almost all evidence of life on board. Today, only grainy black-and-white photographs of the vessel remain. But thanks to colourisation techniques, C4’s Titanic in Colour brings to life the ship’s lavish interiors and the dramatic true stories of those on board. ‘It makes you realise that these people didn’t exist in a black-and-white world,’ says historian Guy Walters. ‘They existed in a world as colourful as ours.’ This week’s first episode begins with the Titanic’s construction in Belfast, and includes the…

NEW Lego DreamZzz Weekdays, 8.30am & 7.00pm, Cartoon Network Young and old alike will love this 10-part series which brings the world of children’s dreams – and nightmares! – to brick-built life. This computer-animated adventure follows Brooklyn-based brother and sister Mateo and Izzie as they join the mysterious Night Bureau – a top-secret agency that is tasked with protecting the Dream World. Along with their friends, Cooper, Logan and Z-Blob, the siblings must use the power of their imagination to defeat the evil Nightmare King. NEW Yo Gabba GabbaLand Friday, AppleTV+ Inspired by the hit cultural phenomenon Yo Gabba Gabba! comes this brand new 10-part show. Pre-school viewers will be invited to join familiar friends Muno, Foofa, Plex, Brobee and Toodee – and meet magician Kammy Kam (Kamryn Smith, above). They’ll…

During their glittering Olympic careers, track cyclists Dame Laura Kenny and Joanna Rowsell won golds together in the women’s team pursuit at both London and Rio. Now, the pair are rivals on screen, with Kenny part of the BBC team and Rowsell providing analysis for Discovery+ and Eurosport. We caught up with them to hear more… Is it exciting to be presenting rather than competing? KENNY It’s going to be totally different but I’m thrilled to be at the Olympics and to be able to enjoy it. When you compete, you are just focused on your own event, so this time I get to experience all of it. ROWSELL I worked on the Tokyo Games, but due to COVID-19, I was in a studio in London, so I am looking…

NEW COMEDY DRAMA Slip From Thursday 8 August, ITVX A dissatisfied New Yorker must work out what she really needs from life as she moves through parallel universes in offbeat comedy drama Slip. ITVX’s seven-part series is created and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, who also stars as Mae, a museum curator struggling to keep the spark alive in her humdrum marriage to writer Elijah (Whitmer Thomas). NEW LIFE When Mae has a one-night stand with charismatic musician Eric (Amar Chadha-Patel), however, she awakens to discover that she is now Eric’s troubled wife and her former life never existed. She soon realises that each time she ‘slips’ and has a sexual encounter with someone else, she ends up in an alternate reality featuring that new partner as her significant other. As…

NEW CRIME DRAMA Vienna Blood Sunday, 9pm, BBC2 (box set, BBC iPlayer) Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and psychoanalyst Max Liebermann haven’t seen each other for a while when Austria-set crime drama Vienna Blood returns to BBC2 this week, but it doesn’t take them long to pick up where they left off. It’s 1909 as the show returns with a two-part cat-and-mouse mystery. Rheinhardt’s career is in tatters following two high-profile murders on his watch. Meanwhile, Liebermann is riding high, in the wake of a US tour, and is intrigued when his old partner-in-crime-fighting asks for help in tracking down a traitor code-named Mephisto, who is at the heart of a politically sensitive case. ‘There’s a big conspiracy that sets the story off. It’s high stakes politically and socially and goes to a…

Will Trent Genre: Crime drama Season: 2 Episodes: 10 (released weekly) The second season of the captivating crime drama begins with Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez, left) looking into a car bombing and, with his keen powers of observation, deducing that the victim was not the intended target. As he uncovers a complex plot, the usually buttoned-down detective makes a connection with a bomb-disposal expert played by This Is Us star Susan Kelechi Watson. Meanwhile, serial killer James Ulster (Grey’s Anatomy’s Greg Germann) taunts a troubled Will from prison. Sunny Genre: Thriller Season: 1 Episodes: 10 (released weekly) Parks and Recreation’s Rashida Jones (right) joins forces with a cute robot to investigate her missing husband and son in this quirky and darkly comic, Japan-set thriller. The…

The Mallorca Files NEW Available: Thu 8 August Genre: Crime drama Season: 3 Episodes: 8 Detectives Miranda Blake (Elen Rhys) and Max Winter (Julian Looman) are back to solve more crimes as The Mallorca Files moves to a new home on Prime Video for its third season. Originally launched in 2019 as part of BBC1’s daytime schedule, the series follows by-the-book Brit Miranda and her rakish German counterpart Max as they keep criminals in check on the Balearic island under the supervision of Chief Inés Villegas (María Fernández Ache). ‘Prime Video very much liked what the show was, so it’s more of the same, but more epic in scale,’ says Rhys. ‘At the heart of the show, it’s still Max and Miranda and the “will they, won’t they?” We’ve been exploring…

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