Innholdsfortegnelse for 15-Feb-25 i TV&Satellite Week

NEW AWARDS BAFTA Film Awards Sunday, 7pm, BBC1 Get ready for a night of glitz, glamour and great movies, as Hollywood’s biggest names descend on London’s Royal Festival Hall for the BAFTA Film Awards. Coming ahead of next month’s Oscars, the event – hosted for a second year by David Tennant – celebrates another stellar 12 months for cinema with political thrillers, compelling dramas and a certain spellbinding musical leading the nominations. Plus, actor Jeff Goldblum and Take That are set to perform live. Here, Tennant, 53, tells us more… Are you excited about hosting again? Yes, it’s a lark! Everything went past in a bit of a blur last year, but it was so much fun. It’s a privilege to be part of the night, and to get another crack…

The Diplomat In the third season of Netflix’s political thriller, Bradley Whitford (above) joins as Todd, the husband of wily US president Grace Penn – portrayed by Whitford’s former The West Wing co-star Allison Janney – as Grace takes up her place in the White House. Lucky Annette Bening (above) will star as a sinister mob boss in Apple TV+’s drama, based on Marissa Stapley’s novel, which sees Anya Taylor-Joy as a woman who grew up in a criminal family. But, to move on from her murky past, she must dabble with illegality for one last time. Grenfell Netflix’s documentary will examine the events that led up to the fire on 14 June 2017 at Grenfell Tower in West London. Survivors, bereaved families and firefighters will share their harrowing memories…

THRILLER Leave the World Behind Netflix A mysterious pandemonium sends Mahershala Ali and daughter Mayha’la Herrold to a rural retreat where Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke are staying. The inscrutable Ali says they’re the owners, driven home by a blackout in New York. As the families clash, a series of ominous crashes, including a kamikaze fleet of driverless cars, get the movie cooking. It nimbly paints a scarily plausible picture of how fast chaos and conflict erupt. 2023, 15, 138MIN BLACK COMEDY The Menu Disney+ This dark, macabre comedy takes gleeful aim at the entitled awfulness of the super-rich. The setting is a private island to which well-heeled diners, including Nicholas Hoult’s pretentious foodie and his date (Anya Taylor-Joy), have travelled to sample the $1,250-a-head tasting menu being offered by…

NEW DRAMA A Thousand Blows From Friday 21 February, Disney+ As TV&Satellite Week meets up with Stephen Graham at a fancy London hotel, the Liverpudlian actor is keen to share the origins of his new Disney+ drama, A Thousand Blows, which transports viewers into the brutal world of bare-knuckle boxing in Victorian London. The 51-year-old actor recalls how he was working on Peaky Blinders when his wife – actor and producer Hannah Walters – suggested that the show’s creator, Steven Knight, might like to be involved in the new project. ‘I thought there was no chance, but she sent Steven the idea anyway,’ smiles Graham. ‘And four days later he told us he’d love to write it.’ Packed with crime and violence, the story of real-life fighter Henry ‘Sugar’ Goodson proved…

NEW TRAVELOGUE Two Men on a Bike Monday, 9pm, More4 David Baddiel and Hugh Dennis first worked together on radio sketch show The Mary Whitehouse Experience, which transferred to TV, back in the 1980s. Now both in their early 60s, the old friends are saddling up for a four-part travelogue in which they spend two weeks cycling across France, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. This week takes them from the west coast of France to the city of Bordeaux, the Garonne canal and a chateau, the former home of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – and it’s fair to say their approaches to the pedalling challenge are somewhat different. POWER PLAY Keen cyclist Dennis, riding a traditional road bike, has cycled in France before. ‘I rode the route of a stage…

Zero Day NEW Available: Thursday 20 February Genre: Political thriller Season: 1 Episodes: 6 In a glittering career spanning 60 years, Hollywood legend Robert De Niro has starred in some of the greatest movies of all time. Now aged 81, the New Yorker could be forgiven for dialling down his work commitments. Instead, he is taking his first major role in a TV series as he headlines Netflix’s much-anticipated six-part thriller Zero Day. Leading an all-star cast, De Niro plays George Mullen, a former US president who’s called out of retirement after a cyberattack results in thousands of fatalities and brings America to the brink of national disaster. As chaos and conspiracy theories reign, current US President Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett) assigns George to oversee the Zero Day Commission, tasked with investigating the global crisis. But with…

The Space Race NEW Available: Friday 21 February Genre: Documentary In 1961, Ed Dwight was an aeronautical engineer and US Air Force captain when he received a letter from the Pentagon, authorised by President John F. Kennedy, asking him if he’d like to become America’s first Black astronaut. But although Dwight underwent astronaut training with NASA, and was featured on the covers of magazines, he never got to achieve his dream. Instead, in 1963, NASA announced an all-white crew, famously known as the Mercury Seven, for America’s first spaceflight program. So what happened? PUSHING AGAINST BARRIERS Now aged 91, Dwight features in new Disney+ documentary The Space Race, which tells the little-known stories of the first Black pilots, engineers and scientists who set their sights on becoming astronauts – but who were often…

Miss Austen Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes) is on a mission to locate her late sister Jane’s letters, as she attempts to protect the author’s legacy in BBC1’s period drama. But when she reads the correspondence, it brings back painful memories. Amandaland BBC1’s Motherland spin-off sees Amanda (Lucy Punch, above left with Dame Joanna Lumley) move to a new area and try to impress local mum, Della (Siobhán McSweeney). But a teenage party goes awry and Amanda is left humiliated. Boyzone: No Matter What In the Sky Documentaries series, the surviving members of the group speak about the challenges of fame, their relationship with manager Louis Walsh, and the impact of bandmate Stephen Gately’s death in 2009. Mussolini: Son of the Century A tense Sky Atlantic drama charts the terrifying rise…

HISTORY James May’s Great Explorers Thursday, 9pm, Channel 5 Explorer Sir Walter Raleigh is famous for chivalrously throwing his cloak over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I, discovering potatoes and tobacco, and establishing England’s first colony in the Americas. However, as James May discovers in the second episode of his series, he didn’t actually do any of those things. REAPPRAISAL ‘The man was a complete charlatan,’ says May. ‘He was famous for lots of things he didn’t actually do, but let’s not let the facts get in the way of a good story.’ May traces Raleigh’s history back to his modest upbringing in Devon, where his parents fell on hard times and he was one of five sons. However, after he studied at London’s Inns of Court, his clever rhetoric…

NEW Gladiators: Epic Pranks Weekdays, CBBC & BBC iPlayer Nitro plays hilarious pranks on his fellow gladiators, and there may be some tricks played on the audience too, in this fun companion show. NEW Happy Town From Monday, Sky Kids on Demand Former Spice Girl Mel B narrates this new animated series for pre-schoolers, in which best friends Pep the hedgehog and ladybird Tabitha leap into action whenever there’s an unhappy resident in Happy Town. NEW Paddington in Peru Available to buy or rent as a digital download now The bear’s latest adventure takes him all the way back to deepest, darkest Peru. See review, page 22…

BBC1’s forthcoming Liverpool set drama This City Is Ours follows a dangerous criminal family and their associates. The eight-part series, airing this spring, stars Sean Bean as gang boss Ronnie Phelan, who runs an organised-crime network with the help of friend Michael Kavanagh (James Nelson-Joyce). When Ronnie indicates that he might be retiring, Michael contemplates the future. But trouble brews after a shipment of drugs vanishes, leaving the Phelan empire under threat. As tensions mount, Ronnie’s son Jamie (Jack McMullen), who wants to succeed his father, clashes with Michael over control of the business and how it should be run, and Michael ends up fighting to secure his dreams of a happy family life and keep Diana (Hannah Onslow), the woman he loves, safe. Julie Graham co-stars as Ronnie’s wife…

Amanda Holden The presenter will host BBC1 quiz The Inner Circle, where contestants answer questions before deciding which of their fellow players to team up with in order to secure a cash prize. But betrayal may await… David Tennant In ITV1 drama The Hack, inspired by the phone-hacking scandal, the actor plays investigative journalist Nick Davies, who found evidence of hacking at the News of the World. Robert Carlyle co-stars. Suranne Jones ITV1’s six-part heist drama Frauds will see the actor as dying confidence trickster Bert, who has been in a Spanish prison for10 years but wants to carry out one last job with friend Sam (Jodie Whittaker). Coming Back Marble Hall Murders, a sequel to BBC1’s Moonflower Murders, will follow book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) as she investigates…

Born Jim Grant, author Lee Child worked in TV production before becoming a novelist, publishing his first Reacher novel, Killing Floor, in 1997. The character has now featured in 28 novels and short stories, selling more than 100 million copies worldwide, and was previously portrayed by Tom Cruise in two feature films. In 2020, Child announced he would hand over the book series to his younger brother Andrew, who’s also a novelist, while he focused on Prime Video’s TV adaptation. Since then, the siblings have collaborated on six Reacher novels. According to Andrew, the siblings share a personality trait that feeds into the Reacher narrative. ‘If we encounter a bully, we have no choice, we have to do something about it,’ he reveals. ‘And we have got ourselves in so…

Edward ‘Treacle’ Goodson James Nelson-Joyce Treacle is worried about his elder brother Sugar and urges him not to fight Hezekiah. William ‘Punch’ Lewis Daniel Mays Lewis runs Sugar’s pub and acts as the MC during the illegal fights, which are held at the back of the venue. Mr Lao Jason Tobin Originally from China, Mr Lao now runs the boarding house in London where both Mary and Hezekiah find lodgings. Alec Munroe Francis Lovehall Hezekiah’s friend is the first to step into the ring when he decides to fights Sugar’s brother, Treacle. Esme Long Morgan Hilaire A member of the Forty Elephants criminal gang, Esme is excited by plans for Mary’s daring heist.…

NEW MOBO Awards: Access All Areas Fri, 11.25pm, BBC1 (12.55am Scotland) Since retiring from football in 2019, former Manchester City and England defender Micah Richards has found a new career as a TV pundit, including appearances on Match of the Day. He presented the documentary Micah Richards: Tackling Racism in 2021 and currently stars in A League of Their Own, which, on Thursday (9pm, Sky Max & Sky Showcase), sees the team joined by former football boss Sean Dyche and boxer Tony Bellew. HIS NEW APPEARANCE This week, Richards will be on the red carpet at the MOBO Awards in Newcastle, where he’s nominated in the Best Media Personality category. Co-hosted by Strictly contestant Eddie Kadi, the awards celebrate achievements in music of Black origin and also feature a Best…

It’s a special night for national treasure Warwick Davis (left), as he receives the coveted BAFTA Fellowship award for outstanding contribution to film and TV. Cast as Wicket the Ewok in 1983 Star Wars sequel Return of the Jedi (inset below left), the actor, comedian and presenter has also played the title role in fantasy adventure Willow (1988) and portrayed Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter franchise (2001-2011). ‘The Fellowship is an honour for everyone living with dwarfism or any form of difference, reminding us that our uniqueness can be our greatest asset,’ says Davis, 55. ‘I look forward to continuing to inspire the next generation of storytellers to dream big.’…

Prime Target Genre: Thriller Season: 1 Episodes: 8 (released weekly) In this stylish conspiracy thriller, brilliant Cambridge University mathematician Edward Brooks (One Day’s Leo Woodall) finds himself in deadly danger after he’s on the verge of discovering a pattern in prime numbers that would give him access to every computer security system in the world, including those of banks and governments. Quintessa Swindell co-stars as an operative for the NSA (America’s National Security Agency) who teams up with Edward to uncover those out to destroy his research. High Potential Genre: Crime drama Season: 1 Episodes: 13 (released weekly) Kaitlin Olson (right) stars as a quirky cleaner with an exceptionally high IQ and forensic eye for detail who is hired by LAPD’s Major Crimes unit as a consultant. The Night Agent Genre: Thriller Season: 2 Episodes: 10 In the second season of the action-packed espionage thriller,…

Evilside NEW Available: Friday 21 February Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 6 If you liked the chilling, forbidding darkness of True Detective: Night Country, you might want to try Finnish noir crime drama Evilside, set in the isolated and snowbound far north of the country where a terrible murder has taken place. The story follows the ritualistic killing of a teenage boy, Aapo, in a remote fishing village. As detective Ulla Penttinen (Amira Khalifa) arrives in the community to investigate, she discovers that God-fearing local residents are accusing one of Aapo’s friends, bullied outsider Johanna (Olivia Ainali), who many believe is a Satan-worshipping killer. Ulla, who is a specialist in cases involving teenagers, becomes convinced of Johanna’s innocence and tries to uncover the truth. But as the killer threatens to strike again, can Johanna clear her name…

Legacies Sunday 16 February All four seasons of the 2018-22 fantasy drama which is a spin-off of The Originals and part of The Vampire Diaries universe. Seventeen-year-old Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell), attends the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted, where supernatural beings can learn to control their abilities and impulses. American Murder: Gabby Petito Monday 17 February Docuseries about 22-year-old Gabby Petito, who was killed by her fiancé Brian Laundrie in August 2021, while the couple were on a road trip across the US and documenting their ‘van life’ journey on social media. Two months later, Laundrie’s body was also found. 90 Day Fiancé Monday 17 February Season 11 of the reality series. Using a 90-Day fiancé visa, potential spouses-to-be travel to America to live with their partners…

FAMILY ADVENTURE Available now, to buy or rent from digital stores including Sky Store and Prime Video Paddington’s third big-screen outing is a thoroughly enjoyable, good-natured, family friendly romp that viewers will undoubtedly delight in. The story takes Michael Bond’s marmalade-loving bear away from his adopted London home – site of so much hilarious bear-out-of-water slapstick in the first two films – and back to his roots in Peru. Paddington, accompanied by the Brown family, is returning to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, but when they reach the jungle home for retired bears they learn from Olivia Colman’s Mother Superior that Lucy has gone missing. Setting off to find her, the group hires the dubious services of riverboat captain Hunter Cabot (Antonio Banderas), whose secret dreams of finding the mythical,…