Innholdsfortegnelse for 25-Jan-25 i TV&Satellite Week

NEW THRILLER Paradise From Tue 28 Jan, Disney+ (first three episodes from 28 Jan, then weekly) If life is a lottery, then the residents of the aptly named Paradise have definitely hit the jackpot. But when a murder shakes the community to its core, is everything really as it seems in the picturesque and serene city? This eight-part, high-stakes thriller begins with just another day in Paradise for Xavier (This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown), the head of security for President Cal Bradford (James Marsden). But after he kisses his children, Presley and James, goodbye and leaves for work, Xavier makes a gruesome discovery inside Cal’s bedroom that changes his life forever. He finds the president dead on the floor, and after the authorities descend upon the crime scene,…

NEW Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis Wednesday, 9pm, BBC1 One of TV’s most popular actors, Idris Elba’s early career included 1990s roles as a prison officer in ITV’s The Governor and a vampire hunter in C4’s Ultraviolet. He made his name as drug kingpin Stringer Bell in US drama The Wire (2002-2004) and has also appeared in Luther as London cop DCIJohn Luther, family patriarch Walter in Sky comedy drama In the Long Run, and negotiator Sam Nelson in Hijack on Apple TV+. HIS NEW APPEARANCE In a BBC1 special, the actor explores the devastating effect of knife crime. He meets offenders, bereaved families, social workers and the police to understand youth violence, and discusses the problem with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and King Charles III. ‘So many…

The Dry ITVX’s Irish-set comedy will return for a final season, as recovering alcoholic Shiv Sheridan (Roisin Gallagher, above) has to take a stark look at the decisions she has made, while she and her dysfunctional family try to come to terms with a shocking secret. Bad Monkey Vince Vaughn (above) will reprise his role as disgraced cop-turned-health inspector Andrew Yancy for a second run of Apple TV+’s comic crime drama, inspired by Carl Hiaasen’s novels. It will see Yancy become embroiled in more murder and mystery in the Florida Keys. Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen In Netflix’s horror series, executive produced by Stranger Things’ the Duffer brothers, Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco (both above) will play a bride and groom beset by disaster.…

ANIMATION Moana 2 From Tuesday Originally conceived as a TV series, this sequel to Disney’s hit musical adventure fails to hit the same heights. Plucky young Moana (voiced by Auli’i Cravalho) is again on an ocean-spanning quest to save her South Sea island, accompanied by a trio of fellow islanders as well as her pet pig and chicken. But it’s almost an hour before she joins up with her former companion, shape-shifting, swaggering, tattooed demigod Maui (DwayneJohnson), which is a great shame. The thin plot, underwhelming songs and jarring modern touches let things down, but the ravishing animation will keep you on board. 2024, PG, 100MIN DRAMA Emmanuelle On all week This loose, modern-day remake of the1974 erotic drama tells the adventures of Emmanuelle (Noémie Merlant) through a feminist…

Holocaust: Finding My Family Monday, 9.25am, CBBC On Holocaust Memorial Day, there’s another chance to watch this Newsround special about one family’s experiences during the Holocaust. LEGO DREAMZzz ITVX, Prime Video, Netflix & Sky It’s time to celebrate International LEGO Day on Tuesday 28 January, so grab some bricks and get building, while watching the adventures of Mateo, Z-Blob and their friends in the LEGO DREAMZzz Dream World. Wish Dragon Available now, Netflix With Chinese New Year on Wednesday (29 January), why not tune in to this 2021 animated adventure about a college student who finds a teapot inhabited by a wish-granting dragon?…

President Cal Bradford James Marsden Cal tries to do right by his people, but believes he has enemies. Can he rely on Xavier to protect him? Samantha Redmond Julianne Nicholson She’s a political force of nature, but Samantha works hard to bury her crippling grief. Gabriella Torabi Sarah Shahi Paradise’s therapist offers support to the city’s prestigious leaders. But can she help Xavier? Billy Pace Jon Beavers Xavier’s friend and fellow agent is on duty, along with colleague Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom), on the night Cal is killed.…

Vietnam: The War That Changed America NEW Available: Friday 31 January Genre: Documentary Season: 1 Episodes: 6 In the spring of 1968, as students around the world protested against the Vietnam War, Bill Broyles was studying at Oxford University when he saw footage of the brutal and bloody Battle of Hue on television in a crowded common room. For the 23-year-old Texan, it proved to be a pivotal moment in his life, and soon afterwards he enlisted in the US Army, determined to serve his country in the controversial conflict. ‘I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, with a bunch of working-class people. I realised those guys fighting in Vietnam were just like my high-school friends and I didn’t want to abuse my privilege and have someone take my place,’ explains Broyles in an exclusive…

You’re Cordially Invited NEW Available: Thursday 30 January Genre: Romantic comedy Mayhem and mishaps ensue when two weddings are double-booked into the same venue on an idyllic island resort off the coast of Georgia in new Prime Video romcom You’re Cordially Invited. At the centre of the chaos are the rival family members who have planned the big days – high-powered exec Margot (Reese Witherspoon), who is organising her younger sister Neve’s wedding, and Jim (Will Ferrell), the doting father of the other bride, Jenni. RIVALRY As each tries to ensure their own bridal party takes precedence, their feud escalates into an epic showdown, featuring cake catastrophes, sneaky sabotage and even a tussle between Jim and a deadly alligator! ‘It’s about a double-booked destination wedding and all the insanity that ensues,’ says writer…

The Lost Women Spies Sky History’s documentary series explores how female agents were secretly sent behind enemy lines to aid the French Resistance as part of the Special Operations Executive in World War Two. The Island (An t-Eilean) After a woman is murdered in BBC iPlayer’s Gaelic whodunnit, family liaison officer Kat Crichton (Sorcha Groundsell) returns to her one-time home in the Outer Hebrides to assist the investigation. Grantchester Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) decides to head off to a new parish in ITV1’s period crime drama, but he struggles to break the news to his friend and crime-solving partner DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green). Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake When the ex-Strictly star helps out at the Dogs Trust in U&W’s fly-on-the-kennel-wall series, he meets pregnant poodle Mel and…

NEW FACTUAL Six Nations: Full Contact From Wednesday 29January, Netflix England fly-half Marcus Smith comes under the spotlight in the second outing of Netflix’s glossy sports series Six Nations: Full Contact, which goes behind the scenes of last year’s rugby Six Nations Championship, in which Smith scored an incredible winning drop goal against eventual title winners Ireland. ‘Rugby is getting massive, the sport is reaching a different audience and it’s just amazing to be a part of,’ says Smith, 25. ‘We compete as hard as we can in training because we’re desperate to get selected,’ says the Harlequins fly-half. ‘The Six Nations is very intense and that’s how you want to practice because we know the games are going to be like that. ‘Unfortunately in the hardest, most intense training…

LIVE RUGBY UNION France v Wales Friday, kick-off 8.15pm, ITV1 & S4C The Men’s Six Nations Championship kicks off in Paris on Friday evening as Wales look to end a dismal run of results, which included the wooden spoon in 2024’s tournament. But it won’t be easy against a France side that won all of their Autumn internationals, including a close-fought victory over the All Blacks. We asked ITV’s team of presenters and pundits for their predictions… IRELAND Can Ireland become the first team to win three Six Nations titles in a row? They will be without coach Andy Farrell, who is preparing to lead the Lions on their tour to Australia, but interim coach Simon Easterby has a strong squad at his disposal, including Leinster stars Ciarán Frawley and…

Matthew Lewis In Murder Before Evensong, Channel 5’s six-part adaptation of the first of Reverend Richard Coles’ whodunnit novels, the actor will play Canon Daniel Clement, who turns crime-solver when a killer strikes. Tom Hanks The Oscar-winner will narrate BBC1’s10-part natural-history series The Americas, which showcases the wildlife across Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and South America. Coming Back Still Waters, a sequel to C4’s Welsh thriller The Light in the Hall, sees Sian Reese-Williams return as Caryl, now a trainee journalist, who investigates a man’s death in an explosion. Robert Glenister and Mark Lewis Jones co-star. A second six-part run of ITV1’s Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour will follow the singer as he travels across Australia with his celebrity pals, meeting wine producers and chefs along the way…

Dame Harriet Walter has portrayed several real-life characters in her glittering TV career, including Virginia Woolf, Princess Margaret and Clementine Churchill. But she admits that playing Margaret Thatcher was a very different challenge. ‘I don’t look anything like Maggie Thatcher. I’m the first brown-eyed, dark-haired person who’s taken on the role, so I asked for a lot of help with the make-up, hair and voice lessons,’ she says. ‘I had to travel a great distance to reach her – but with James Graham’s brilliant script, Stephen Frears to guide me and Steve Coogan to accompany me, I had the dream team to help me achieve it.’…

LAST ONE DRAMA SAS Rogue Heroes Sunday, 9pm, BBC1 David Stirling has spent more than a year rotting away in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp, but he finally gets a chance to make a break for it in a gripping climax to the second season of SAS Rogue Heroes. As this week’s finale begins, the British troops being held at Forte di Gavi hear that the Italian government has fallen following the Allied invasion led by Stirling’s comrades in the SAS. Although the Italian guards at the prison abandon their posts, German troops are on their way to replace them and will kill any POWs they catch trying to flee. TAKING ACTION Realising they have less than half an hour to make their escape, many of the prisoners flee on foot,…

Missing You Genre: Thriller Season: 1 Episodes: 5 The latest adaptation of a Harlan Coben crime novel is packed with his trademark twists and proves hard to resist. It centres on DI Kat Donovan (Slow Horses’ Rosalind Eleazar) who goes on a new dating app only to be left dumbfounded when one of her suggested matches is her ex-fiancé Josh (Top Boy’s Ashley Walters) who vanished from her life 11 years ago. Meanwhile, Kat is searching for answers about the murder of her beloved police-officer father Clint (Sir Lenny Henry). The Rig Genre: Thriller Season: 2 Episodes: 6 Martin Compston (right), Iain Glen and Emily Hampshire reprise their roles of oil-rig workers in the second season of the supernatural thriller. Once again, they encounter the mysterious ‘Ancestor’. Darby and Joan Genre: Drama Season: 2 Eps: 6 (released weekly) The appealing chemistry between Greta Scacchi as…

Mythic Quest NEW Available: Wednesday 29January Genre: Comedy Season: 4 Eps: 10 (two episodes from Wed 29 Jan, then released weekly) Can a once in-demand video game recover from a dip in popularity? The Mythic Quest team are about to find out as they reunite for a fourth season of the Apple TV+ workplace comedy. After the business branched off into two rival gaming companies last season, egotistical creative director Ian Grimm (co-creator Rob McElhenney), hapless exec producer David Brittlesbee (David Hornsby), lead engineer Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao) and spirited games tester Dana Bryant (Imani Hakim) are all back together again under the fluorescent office lights of Mythic Quest HQ. A united team is crucial after the proposed Mythic Quest movie fell through and gamers started leaving. As Ian and co tackle the daunting task of making…

Big Boys Sunday 26 January In the third season of the comedy drama centring on the unlikely friendship between shy, newly out Jack (Derry Girls’ Dylan Llewellyn) and laddish mature student Danny (Plebs’ Jon Pointing), the gang enter their final year at Brent University. Veronika Monday 27 January Swedish psychological thriller. Police officer Veronika Gren (Alexandra Rapaport) is dealing with family troubles and a secret pill addiction while having haunting visions of the victims of an unsolved crime. As she tries to work out if the visions are real or just a figment of her imagination, those around her start to question her sanity. Paradise Tuesday 28 January The tranquillity of an idyllic community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals is turned upside down when a shocking…

SCI-FI ACTION Friday, 11.40am & 8pm, Sky Premiere If George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road was the ultimate stripped-down road movie, his latest takes a very different path. Furiosa is a sprawling epic about the origins of that character, first encountered in Fury Road and played by Charlize Theron, here brought to life by Anya Taylor-Joy. From her capture as a child (first played early by Alyla Browne) by bombastic, sadistic Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) after he tortures and murders her mother, before being taken under the wing by the equally cruel Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme), a vengeful Furiosa (Taylor-Joy) won’t be detered until she has hunted down the man who killed her parent. But with a film kicking 150 minutes, there are more battles and hardships to endure before that… The…