Innholdsfortegnelse for 24-Aug-24 i TV&Satellite Week

1 Wednesday’s opening ceremony (from 6.30pm, C4) will feature a parade of athletes along the Champs-Élysées and the Place de la Concorde. 2 A stadium has been built at the foot of the Eiffel Tower to stage the blind football, although sadly there is no British involvement. 3 Despite problems with water quality at the Olympics, the para triathlons are set to feature a swim leg in the River Seine. 4 The medals are stamped with Paris 2024 in braille, a tribute to Frenchman Louis Braille, who invented the reading-and-writing system for the visually impaired. 5 The Paralympics mascot, Phryge, is the same as the Olympics mascot, but with a prosthetic running blade.…

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power NEW Available: Thu 29 August Genre: Fantasy drama Season: 2 Episodes: 8 (first three episodes from 29 August, then weekly) The first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power left some fantasy fans underwhelmed as it began the story of how villain Sauron forged the Rings of Power and rose to dominate Middle-earth. Set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the action followed Lady Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) as she hunted Sauron, only to discover in a shocking climax that he had been hiding in plain sight as her companion, Halbrand. Now, as the epic fantasy, based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, returns, fans will finally discover Sauron’s next…

NEW WILDLIFE Big Cats 24/7 Sunday, 8pm, BBC2 (box set, BBC iPlayer) Botswana’s Okavango Delta is one of Africa’s last remaining wildernesses and home to an array of lions, cheetahs and leopards. In BBC2’s Big Cats 24/7, a team of international wildlife filmmakers – including the UK’s Gordon Buchanan – follow the Okavango Delta’s magnificent felines, using cutting-edge technology to record their activities around the clock. ‘We’re not just filming them, we’re trying to understand everything that’s going on in their world,’ says Buchanan. ‘During this project, everything else in your life sort of disappears – it’s all about the particular cats that you’re after.’ In the opening episode, Buchanan follows one of the largest prides in Africa as they deal with the challenges that come from having 28 members…

ANIMATION Despicable Me 4 From Monday ★★★ In this latest outing, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) is enjoying life with wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig), adoptive daughters Margo, Edith and Agnes and new baby son Gru Jr. But when Gru’s evil nemesis, cockroach obsessed Maxime le Mal (Will Ferrell), breaks out of prison plotting revenge, the family has go into hiding in suburbia. Can they possibly blend in..? Though the plotting is slight, the winning voice cast (also including Steve Coogan and Sofia Vergara) is good value and, of course, the zany Minions never fail to raise chuckles. 2024, U, 94MIN ACTION COMEDY Sasquatch Sunset From Monday ★★★★ This absurdist comedy follows a female sasquatch (Riley Keough) and three fellow bigfoot males (Jesse Eisenberg, Nathan Zellner and Christophe Zajac-Denek) through the…

NEW One Zoo Three Weekdays, 5.35pm, CBBC Zookeeper brothers Aaron, Tyler and Cam are back with new episodes. We’re introduced to animal residents at Hertfordshire Zoo, while the three also visit Belgium’s Pairi Daiza Zoo to meet giant pandas and walruses. Total DramaRama Daily episodes, Pop Back-to-back episodes of the animated comedy which sees the characters from Total Drama aged down from teenagers to tiny toddlers in an alternate universe, and taken care of by Chef Hatchet. Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Sunday, 9am, Pop Max In a special longer episide, Marinette journeys to Shanghai and learns much more about her origins.…

WHEELCHAIR TENNIS All eyes will be on Wimbledon champion Alfie Hewett as the men’s singles event gets under way on the clay courts of Roland-Garros on Friday. Hewett has won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments, already has three silver Paralympic medals to his name, and is currently world No.1. WHEELCHAIR RUGBY The atmosphere will be electric in the Champ-de-Mars Arena for the smash-and-grab action of the wheelchair rugby, which kicks off on Thursday morning with the opening match between Australia and reigning champions Great Britain, captained by Gavin Walker. The British team are in action again against Denmark the following day. BADMINTON First contested at the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2021, the badminton competition will be staged at La Chapelle Arena from this Thursday. With…

NEW CRIME DRAMA Sherwood Sunday & Monday, 9pm, BBC1 Set in Ashfield, a Nottinghamshire town divided by the legacy of the 1984 miners’ strike, the first season of Sherwood was a huge hit with viewers as it centred on two shocking murders and delved into issues such as organised crime and ‘spy cops’. Now, the award-winning drama is back on BBC1 for a second season that focuses on the wave of gun crime that once earned Nottingham the unenviable nickname ‘Shottingham’. DOMINO EFFECT David Morrissey is among the original members of the starry cast who are reprising their roles, joined by a number of new faces including Oliver Huntingdon as drug dealer Ryan Bottomley. As the new series begins, a disillusioned Ryan commits a deadly attack on one of his…

Only Murders in the Building NEW Available: Tuesday 27 August Genre: Comedy drama Season: 4 Episodes: 10 (released weekly) The amateur detectives at the heart of Disney+’s Only Murders in the Building are getting a taste of Hollywood glamour as the comic whodunnit returns for a fourth season. After successfully solving a clutch of baffling homicides, artist Mabel (Selena Gomez), actor Charles (Steve Martin) and director Oliver (Martin Short) are stunned to hear that the true-crime podcast they’ve made about their investigations is being turned into a big-budget movie. ‘Taking the characters to LA is exciting. It’s probably my favourite season,’ says Gomez. ‘Everyone had a blast and viewers are in for a ride!’ But despite their new location, murder is still preoccupying the sleuths. The last run ended with yet…

NEW FACTUAL Guy Martin: Top Gun Sunday, 9pm, C4 After setting all kinds of records in his C4 series Speed with Guy Martin, this week the fearless motorcycle racer and mechanic turned TV daredevil tackles one of his biggest challenges yet as he takes to the skies in Guy Martin: Top Gun. The one-off sees Martin buckle up in a Jet Provost training plane alongside former RAF instructor Steve Hunt for an intensive course in piloting a fighter jet. ‘Steve flew a Jet Provost at 18 – after four weeks of practice, he was flying solo, so there’s no better man for the job,’ explains Martin, 42. ‘He said, “You seem to know what you’re doing,” and I thought, “Who’s told you that, mate? I haven’t got a clue what…

LIVE TENNIS From Mon, Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Tennis & Sky Sports+ Flushing Meadows stages the final Grand Slam of the year as Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff defend their singles titles in New York. Following his Olympics triumph, Djokovic will renew his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz, who has won the past two Slams, as the evergreen Serb aims for a record-extending 25th Slam and his 100th title in total – a mark only achieved by Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer. Meanwhile, home favourite Gauff will face Aryna Sabalenka, the reigning Australian Open champion, French Open title holder Iga Świątek, and Wimbledon winner Barbora Krejčíková. With this year’s event offering the biggest prize money in tennis history (each singles champion will receive $3.6million), we asked former tennis ace…

Hannah Waddingham The actor will narrate Tiddler, BBC1’s festive animation based on Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s book about a fish who is lost in the ocean and has to rely on his skills as a storyteller to get home. Rob Brydon also lends his voice. Kym Marsh In Channel 5’s The Weekend Travel Show, the actor will team up with Richard Arnold as they visit a range of holiday destinations and give advice and tips, while stars such as Susan Calman and Jane McDonald also appear. Coming Back Game show You Bet! will return for two ITV1 specials, hosted by Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern. In the show, the studio audience and a celebrity panel guess whether challengers can carry out impressive feats. Along with a second series, Gladiators…

Prometheus Stephen Dillane Zeus’ oldest friend and rival. He’s kept in chains for daily torment by his buddy, which has given him plenty of time to plot revenge… Dionysus Nabhaan Rizwan Zeus’ favourite son is half-mortal but enjoys full-god status – and his desire for more power threatens to rupture the world order. Orpheus Killian Scott A mortal musician driven by ego and love for his wife. When his life is ripped away, he can either accept his fate or attempt to defy death itself. Riddy Aurora Perrineau The muse to her rock-star husband Orpheus, a fateful encounter in a supermarket grants her wish for a major life overhaul. Hades David Thewlis God of death and Zeus’ brother, Hades runs the Underworld with bureaucratic zeal. He is put in danger…

Next week, the pals are faced with a completely different challenge – singing live at the Download Festival in front of 40,000 heavy-metal fans. After agreeing to perform Metallica anthem Enter Sandman on stage with Scottish band Bleed from Within, the boys receive some pointers from Queens of the Stone Age and Wheatus. Will the duo prove a hit with the hard-rock crowd or as unpopular as a Portaloo after a three-day weekender? For the final episode, the pair undertake UFC training with mixed-martial-arts champ Leon Edwards, before heading off to Las Vegas with UFC Hall of Fame legend Michael Bisping for International Fight Week. After grappling with the training method known as Animal Flow, our lads go head-to-head in a UFC challenge on the rooftop of the Eiffel Tower…

Who Do You Think You Are? Thursday, 9pm, BBC1 Since her phenomenal pop career with the Spice Girls, Melanie Chisholm – AKA Sporty Spice Mel C – has appeared on our TV screens as a judge and mentor on a range of talent shows, including Superstar (inset) and The Voice Kids. She’s also been on Celebrity Gogglebox, and performed at last year’s Royal Variety Performance. HER NEW APPEARANCE This week, Chisholm, 50, explores her roots in Who Do You Think You Are?, looking into the life of her ancestors Patrick and Catherine Flaherty, farmers in County Limerick who moved to Liverpool after the Great Famine hit Ireland in the mid-19th century. She also traces her four-times great-grandfather Thomas Keef, who was orphaned and brought up in a workhouse in Devon,…

SUPERHERO Friday, 11.25am & 8pm, Sky Premiere ★★★ Although lambasted upon release, Madame Web is far more fun than it has been made out to be. Admittedly, some of that is unintentional, but for the most part this is a silly but entertaining excursion into the Spider-Man-adjacent universe set up by Sony (which includes Venom and the execrable Morbius). This film is helped no end by having Dakota Johnson as its star, someone who’s transformed side-eye into a fine art. She’s Cassandra Webb, a New York paramedic who works alongside Adam Scott’s Ben Parker (yes, Peter Parker’s uncle in the future) who begins to have vivid premonitions of terrible future events. This eventually leads her to three unconnected girls (Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced and Celeste O’Connor) who are being hunted by…

In BBC1’s upcoming costume drama Miss Austen, a starry cast imagines why the letters of one of Britain’s most-famous writers may have been burnt. The four-part series, based on Gill Hornby’s novel, sees Keeley Hawes as Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra, who, in 1830, several years after her sibling has passed away, is left in a dilemma. When Cassandra goes to support her pal Isabella (Rose Leslie), who may be left homeless following her father’s death, she knows that she also needs to find a stack of Jane’s letters, which could cast a shadow over her sibling’s reputation… When she locates the private papers, Cassandra is given pause for thought about her early life, and flashbacks reveal how she and Jane (Patsy Ferran) negotiated romance, broken hearts and family crises, which…