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CORONATION STREET Will Shona cheat on David? Shona attends a meeting with the governor of the prison that son Clayton is in, demanding to know why she wasn’t informed that her lad was suicidal. David accompanies her and is a nervous wreck when the governor reveals that Clayton issued two visiting orders and someone – whose name he can’t reveal – came to see him. David, whose first wife Kylie was murdered by Clayton, lies as Shona accuses him of being the visitor, but back on the cobbles, he reveals all to Max. When Max then learns from Steve that Shona has gone back to the prison, he follows in hot pursuit. Finding her at the gates, laying into the governor – physically and verbally – he knows that the…

NEW COMEDY DRAMA The Sticky From Friday 6 December, Prime Video Between 2011 and 2012, nearly 3,000 tons of maple syrup – valued at over $18 million – was stolen from a storage facility in the biggest heist in Canadian history. Now, Prime Video’s comedy drama The Sticky has taken that story as the inspiration for a tongue-in-cheek crime caper starring an unlikely gang of robbers. CANADIAN CAPER Tough, middle-aged maple-syrup farmer Ruth Landry (The Good Fight’s Margo Martindale) is struggling to make ends meet looking after her comatose husband when she learns that the Quebec Maple Association intends to shut down her farm. Fearing the total loss of her livelihood, Ruth is on the verge of selling up when family friend and small-time mobster Mike Byrne (Chris Diamantopoulos) invites…

The Listeners Teacher Claire (Rebecca Hall) thinks she is the only person who can hear a strange noise in BBC1’s drama. But she is surprised to discover that one of her students, Kyle (Ollie West), can also pick up the sound and they secretly work together to learn more. Dune: Prophecy Sky Atlantic’s prequel to the sci-fi epic sees soldier Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel) team up with beleaguered Emperor Corrino (Mark Strong) to eradicate the powerful Sisterhood, led by Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson). After the Party In C4’s New Zealand-set drama, indomitable gran Penny (Robyn Malcolm) is repulsed when ex-hubby Phil (Peter Mullan) resurfaces five years after she accused him of committing a sexual crime against a teenage boy at a party. Moonflower Murders BBC1’s whodunnit follow-up finds publisher Susan…

NEW Primrose Railway Children Sunday, 5.30pm, CBBC & BBC iPlayer Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s modern reimagining of The Railway Children transfers the adventure to Scotland, and the city of Glasgow, to be more specific, where the Robinson siblings, Perry, Becks and Phoebe, live a comfortable life with their parents. However, after their father (Kevin McKidd) disappears, the children and their mum are uprooted to the remote Scottish Highlands, where unexpected excitement, adventure and a new sense of belonging awaits them. This promises to be a treat for all the family. NEW Cooking Buddies Sunday, 9.30am, CBBC & BBC Player Buddy Oliver is back in the kitchen for a festive special of his cooking show, and he’s joined by twotime world champion street dancer Meesha Garbett, who needs help to make a…

A troubled cop carries out a disturbing investigation in the Caribbean in C4’s upcoming drama Get Millie Black. The five-part series, airing next year, sees Tamara Lawrance head the cast as Millie-Jean Black, a no-nonsense Scotland Yard detective who, as her UK life becomes difficult, leaves her job and moves back to Jamaica, where she was born. Working with the Jamaican police force, she looks into the worrying case of a missing person, which takes her from capital city Kingston to the post-colonial plantations. As the investigation escalates across the globe and she grows unsure of where she belongs, Millie-Jean finds herself back in London, but danger surrounds her… COLOURFUL CHARACTERS Gershwyn Eustache Jnr co-stars as Curtis, Millie-Jean’s secretly gay police partner, Joe Dempsie is Scotland Yard inspector Luke Holborn,…

OUTNUMBERED BBC1 The Brockmans are back! Eight years after we last saw the comedy family on screen, hapless parents Pete and Sue (Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner) gather their now grown-up brood – Ben (Daniel Roche), Jake (Tyger Drew-Honey) and Karen (Ramona Marquez) – to celebrate a traditional family Christmas. What can possibly go wrong? Well, fate, neighbours, hyenas and bus-replacement services, apparently! DEATH IN PARADISE BBC1 Don Gilet (below) makes his debut as Saint Marie investigator DI Mervin Wilson in a feature-length special that transports us to the sunny Caribbean island, where a tourist dressed as Santa is found dead. In spin-off Beyond Paradise, meanwhile, Humphrey and Martha have a Christmas to remember as they foster a withdrawn teenager. LOCKERBIE: A SEARCH FOR TRUTH Sky Atlantic This factual drama…

NEW COMEDY Nutcrackers From Friday 29 November, Disney+ After taking a six-year break from lead acting roles, Ben Stiller is back on our screens this week in feel-good Disney+ movie Nutcrackers. The Zoolander and Meet the Parents star plays Porsche-driving, workaholic real-estate developer Mike, who is shocked to hear that his estranged sister and her husband have been killed in a car accident in the run-up to Christmas, leaving their four young sons as orphans. Uptight Mike has no plans to take them in, but when he arrives at the family’s Ohio farmhouse to figure out what to do with the unruly boys, he’s forced to look after them temporarily while family-services agent Gretchen (Linda Cardellini) sorts out fostering arrangements. Mike is less than thrilled to be stuck looking after…

Firebrand Genre: Drama Episodes: One-off Fiction is mixed with fact in a lavish, finely acted historical drama about the last of Henry VIII’s six wives, Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander). A beloved stepmother to Henry’s three children, Katherine forms a special bond with the future Queen Elizabeth I, and is trusted enough by Henry (Jude Law, pictured with Vikander) for him to appoint her regent when he is fighting overseas. But on his return, the King becomes dangerously paranoid, in this involving tale. Endurance Genre: Documentary Episodes: One-off A 2022 expedition to locate Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, which sank off Antarctica in 1915, is combined with the retelling of the explorer’s story, including how he and all his crew survived. The Old Man Genre: Thriller Season: 2 Episodes: 8 Suspend disbelief…

NEW REALITY Meet the Rees-Moggs From Mon 2 December, Discovery+ Move over, Kim Kardashian and Tyson Fury – there’s a new reality star coming to our screens this week. Love him or loathe him, former Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg opens the door to his 17th-century Somerset manor house for Discovery+’s new fly-on-the-wall series Meet the Rees-Moggs. Over five episodes, cameras follow the devout Catholic and Eton-educated politician, his heiress wife Helena and their six children – Peter, Mary, Thomas, Anselm, Alfred and Sixtus – in the run-up to the 2024 General Election and its aftermath. And there are some fascinating insights into family life along the way. Not only does it turn out Rees-Mogg has a penchant for a daily Greggs ham-and-cheese baguette and likes his boxers ironed, but…

NEW THRILLER Black Doves From Thursday 5 December, Netflix Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw are old friends reunited by their dangerous double lives in a new Christmas-set thriller, which finds Happy Valley’s Sarah Lancashire lurking in the shadows as a steely spymaster. Created by Giri/Haji and The Lazarus Project writer Joe Barton, six-part Netflix drama Black Doves is brimming with action and dry humour. Set in London at Christmas, it follows Helen Webb (Knightley), who is married to a politician husband, Tory Minister of State for Defence Wallace Webb (Andrew Buchan), and is a devoted mother to their young twins, Oliver and Jacqueline. However, Helen is harbouring dark secrets: not only is she a professional spy, but for 10 years, she’s been stealing Government information from her husband for a…

NEW The Primrose Railway Children Sunday, 5.30pm, CBBC This one-off family drama is based on Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s heart-warming 2021 novel, itself inspired by Edith Nesbit’s timeless classic The Railway Children. It follows mum Sarah (Nina Toussaint-White) and children Phoebe, Becks and Perry, who are living a happy life in Glasgow when they are uprooted to the Scottish Highlands after dad Rob (Kevin McKidd) mysteriously disappears. NEW Artist of the Year: Masterclass Monday-Friday, 6pm & 6.30pm, Sky Arts Fans of both Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape Artist of the Year should enjoy this spin-off, which sees judge Tai-Shan Schierenberg (left) demonstrate easy-to-learn ways to create the perfect painting. Each episode focuses on a different subject or technique, with classes covering everything from painting flowers to animal portraiture. LAST…

House of VB Netflix’s documentary will shine a spotlight on the fashion and beauty business run by Victoria Beckham (above), as the former Spice Girl – along with her family and friends – recounts how she has reinvented herself as a style entrepreneur and built up the brand. The Secret Lives of Animals Hugh Bonneville (above) will narrate Apple TV+’s natural-history series, which will explore some of the key moments in the life cycles of a variety of animals as they develop remarkable ways to survive, including a reticulated humming frog. Avatar: The Last Airbender In the second run of Netflix’s live-action fantasy drama, Hoa Xuande (above) is joining the cast as anthropologist Professor Zei, while Chin Han plays secret-police chief Long Feng and Crystal Yu is Lady Beifong, the…

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