Innholdsfortegnelse for 5-Apr-25 i TV&Satellite Week

NEW COMEDY DRAMA Hacks Friday, 9pm & 9.40pm, Sky Max & Sky Showcase Veteran stand-up Deborah Vance (Emmy-winning Jean Smart) finally achieved her lifelong goal of landing her own late-night show during the third season of acclaimed US comedy-drama Hacks. But when she chose not to hire Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), the writer who’d helped Deborah to reinvigorate her flagging career, as head writer, Ava saw red – and blackmailed Deborah into giving her the job anyway. As Hacks returns for a fourth season, Deborah and Ava are barely speaking to each other, though they’re putting on a public show of unity for the cameras. But has their working relationship been damaged beyond repair, or can the frenemies reach a détente? TV&Satellite Week caught up with Smart, 73, to find out more……

Your Friends & Neighbours NEW Available Friday 11 April Genre: Drama Season: 1 Eps: 9 (first two eps from Fri 11 April, then weekly) Best known for playing Mad Men’s dapper Don Draper, the brilliant ad exec with a rocky private life, Jon Hamm is back as another haunted high-flyer in glossy drama Your Friends & Neighbours. Hamm stars as Andrew ‘Coop’ Cooper, a hedge-fund manager who thought he had it all until he discovered his wife Mel (Amanda Peet) was having an affair with his BFF Nick (Mark Tallman). Another shattering life event follows when Coop is fired from his well-paid job, and he struggles to find another position. Meanwhile, he is unable to connect with his two kids, is angry at his ex-wife, and is in a turbulent casual relationship with Sam (Olivia Munn),…

The Ex-Wife NEW Available: Thursday 10 April Genre: Thriller Season: 2 Episodes: 4 Gripping thriller series The Ex-Wife left viewers on tenterhooks at the end of the last season following a cliffhanger car crash, a faked death and a menacing ex-husband slowly emerging from a coma. And there are plenty more gasp-out-loud moments as the series returns for a second four-part outing on Paramount+. The drama picks up three years later with Tasha (Celine Buckens) having escaped her abusive ex Jack (Tom Mison) and living a new life in Cyprus under a false identity with her daughter Emily – who secretly survived the crash – while Jack languishes in prison for causing Emily’s ‘death’. SECRETS AND STRESS Meanwhile, in London, Jack’s ex-wife Jen (now played by Katie McGrath) has also moved on and is preparing to…

This City Is Ours BBC1’s gangland drama sees crime boss Ronnie Phelan (Sean Bean, above) suspect there might be a rat in his crew after a drugs deal goes wrong. And when the gang goes to Spain, events take a shocking turn, leaving one of them in danger… Big Night of Musicals Michael Ball teams up with Our Dementia Choir for a performance of The Impossible Dream in BBC1’s toe-tapping extravaganza, while host Jason Manford duets with Daniel Mays (above, with Manford). Neil & Martin’s Bon Voyage On U&Gold, Men Behaving Badly stars Neil Morrissey and Martin Clunes (both above) reunite for a French odyssey, in which they canoe along the Dordogne and climb the largest sand dune in Europe. Old Hands, New Tricks In BBC1’s documentary, Rose Ayling-Ellis (above)…

NEW DOCUMENTARY World’s Toughest Drive: An African Adventure Thursday, 11pm, C4 When retired British Army colonel Guy Deacon set off on a solo road trip through Africa in 2019, he wasn’t just pursuing a lifelong dream, he was on a mission. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease almost a decade earlier, the intrepid adventurer was embarking upon an epic 18,000-mile journey in his VW van to raise awareness of the neurological disorder, particularly in African regions where symptoms are often misunderstood. ‘One of the main misconceptions about Parkinson’s across Africa is that the shaking, slurred speech and depression that are symptoms of the disease are explained as witchcraft and the person suffering is believed to be “cursed”,’ explains Deacon, 63, whose expedition from his Dorset home through 25 countries down to South Africa…

LIVE FOOTBALL Tuesday & Wednesday, Prime Video & TNT Sports The remaining English clubs couldn’t have been handed more glamorous or daunting opposition as the Champions League reaches the quarter-final stage this week – plus, there’s the mouth-watering prospect of an Arsenal versus Aston Villa semi-final if both teams progress. We asked TNT Sports expert Martin Keown, who played for both clubs, to talk us through this week’s first legs… ARSENAL v REAL MADRID Tuesday, kick-off 8pm, Prime Video After a 9-3 aggregate win over PSV Eindhoven, the Gunners face Carlo Ancelotti’s Spanish giants, who are seeking a 16th win in the competition. ‘This should be fascinating,’ says Keown. ‘A lot of teams sit deep against Arsenal and Mikel Arteta’s team has struggled to break them down. Whether Real will…

Drama NEW Reunion BBC1, 9pm (box set, BBC iPlayer) Matthew Gurney stars as a deaf man who is desperate to right his wrongs after his release from prison, in this thriller. Drama LAST ONE The White Lotus Sky Atlantic, 9pm As our stay at the White Lotus draws to an end, Jaclyn (above), Laurie and Kate are forced to reassess their friendship. Documentary NEW Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz BBC2, 9pm In this unflinching one-off, the historian looks at the enormity of the Holocaust. Documentary NEW What They Found BBC2, 10pm From Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes comes this film about the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp.…

Golf LIVE! The Masters Sky Sports Main Event & Sky Sports Golf, coverage from 2pm Dare we dream of a fifth Major title for Rory McIroy at Augusta this year? Documentary NEW World’s Toughest Drive: My African Adventure C4, 11pm Guy Deacon sets off on a journey to highlight the reality of life with Parkinson’s. OnDemand NEW Black Mirror Available today Are you sitting uncomfortably? Charlie Brooker’s twisted sci-fi anthology returns with six brand new episodes. OnDemand NEW G20 Available today Viola Davis stars as US President Danielle Sutton, who leaps into action when terrorists attack the G20 summit.…

NEW SCI-FI Black Mirror From Thursday 10 April, Netflix Acclaimed writer Charlie Brooker is lifting the lid on more dystopian dramas as his sinister sci-fi anthology Black Mirror returns for a seventh season on Netflix. The six episodes feature the likes of Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Chris O’Dowd and Dame Harriet Walter, and once again, each instalment is set to give us unsettling pause for thought about our ever-shifting relationship with technology (see panel, below). But for the first time, the new run also features a hotly anticipated sequel, as we rejoin the crew of the starship USS Callister, who featured in an Emmy-winning episode of the fourth season in 2017. In the original, downtrodden Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons) devised a hit online game, Infinity, and secretly trapped clones of his…

LAST ONE DRAMA The White Lotus Monday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic It’s checkout time this week as the guests say their goodbyes to The White Lotus – but who’ll be flying home in business class, and who’ll be heading to the morgue? The anthology series has a tradition of teasing a death at the opening of a season and withholding the victim’s identity until the final episode – and as the demise of fan-favourite Tanya at the end of Season 2 proved, nobody is too important to kill off. Set in a luxurious Thai resort, the third season has seen the latest batch of super-rich holidaymakers experiencing many dark nights of the soul as they’ve been forced to confront their deepest insecurities. DARK DAYS ‘These people are all in some kind of…

Adolescence Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 4 Undoubtedly a contender for awards, this is a powerful, thought-provoking and harrowing drama that is a whydunnit rather than a whodunnit. It opens with 13-year-old Jamie (a brilliant Owen Cooper) arrested for stabbing a girl to death. Stephen Graham plays his father, who’s convinced the police have made a mistake until he is shown incontrovertible evidence of his son’s guilt. The episodes are filmed in one continuous shot, making it a compelling, immersive and unmissable experience. NCIS: Origins Genre: Crime drama Season: 1 Episodes: 18 (released weekly) Austin Stowell (right) does a good job playing a younger version of Mark Harmon’s beloved NCIS special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs in a prequel set in 1991 when the investigator was starting out. Tracker Genre: Drama Season: 2 (part 2) Eps: 9-20 (released weekly) The second run resumes with a…

Magpie NEW Available: Thursday 10 April Genre: Thriller Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley plays a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage in her latest movie project, powerful psychological thriller Magpie. The actor, who turns 33 on 10 April, portrays former publisher Anette, a stay-at-home mum who has two young children with her arrogant husband Ben (Shazad Latif), a struggling writer. Having moved from London to the countryside, Anette feels unhappy, and is desperate to return to the workforce. Meanwhile, when the couple’s young daughter Matilda is cast in a period movie, Ben escorts her to set every day – and soon becomes besotted with the film’s glamorous star Alicia (Matilda Lutz). ISOLATED AND IN DANGER Anette becomes ever-more suspicious of Ben’s infatuation, and the cracks in their marriage grow more dangerous as Anette’s life…

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Tuesday 8 April Japanese animé. High schooler Amate Yuzuriha, who lives an ordinary life in a space colony, meets refugee Nyaan and gets caught up in illegal mobile-suit duels. As she pilots a GQuuuuuuX, Amate encounters Shuuji, the pilot of a Gundam that is being pursued by the space army and the police. How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) Tuesday 8 April The fourth and final season of the German crime comedy about Moritz and his best friend launching Europe’s largest online drug business from their bedroom. Moritz is released from prison after four years and can finally start his own (this time legal) business. But there is a problem… Kian’s Bizarre B&B Tuesday 8 April Korean reality series about the creation and running of a…

SCI-FI ANIMATION Friday, 9.20am & 6.10pm, Sky Premiere The robo-chameleons get a shiny new upgrade in Transformers One, a CGI prequel set on their home planet Cybertron that reignites the spark that’s so often been absent from the franchise’s customary bombastic live-action entries. Doing away with humans helps, instead director Josh Cooley’s film concentrates on the hitherto untold origin stories of the heroic Optimus Prime and his evil nemesis Megatron, introduced to us initially as mining bots Orion Pax (voiced by Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 (Brian Tyree Henry). A chance to elevate their station sees them forging wary alliances with their by-the-book supervisor Elita-1 (Scarlett Johansson) and a blabbermouth we’ll come to know as Bumblebee (Keegan-Michael Key). Yet it also exposes secrets that shake their reality to its core, sowing…

Football LIVE! Premier League TNT Sports & Sky Sports Today’s coverage kicks off with Everton v Arsenal (k-o 12.30pm), before Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest (k-o 5.30pm). Horse Racing LIVE! Grand National Festival ITV1, coverage from 12.15pm, feature race starts at 4pm Irish Grand National winner Intense Raffles is one of the runners to watch. Documentary NEW Charles & Camilla: 20 Years Married – A Royal Love Story 5, 9.15pm The relationship of the King and Queen. Music NEW Covers in the Piano Room at the BBC BBC2, 10.40pm Performances from Vernon Kay’s Radio 2 show, featuring Jessie Ware and Pink.…

Football LIVE! Champions League TNT Sports, kick-offs 8pm In tonight’s quarter-final first legs, Arsenal host defending champions Real Madrid and Bayern Munich play Inter. Docudrama NEW Jack the Ripper: Written in Blood Sky History, 9pm (box set, Sky Box Sets) How the Whitechapel murders may have led to the rise of tabloid journalism. OnDemand PREMIERE Paddington in Peru Available today Paddington sets off for deepest, darkest Peru with the Brown family, to look for his missing Aunt Lucy. OnDemand NEW The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox Available today Cameras follow the 2024 baseball season of the Boston Red Sox.…

Sci-Fi Animation PREMIERE Transformers One Sky Premiere, 9.20am & 6.10pm Chris Hemsworth voices a young Optimus Prime for this animated prequel set on the Transformer planet of Cybertron. Comedy Drama NEW Hacks Sky Max & SkyShowcase, 9pm & 9.40pm Deborah (Jean Smart, right) finally has her dream job – but does writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) have the upper hand? OnDemand NEW Your Friends & Neighbours Available today Jon Hamm stars as a recently divorced, jobless man who resorts to petty crime to stay afloat. OnDemand NEW Pets Available today This heart-warming documentary from Bryce Dallas Howard shows the special bonds humans share with their pets.…

A mismatched couple embark on a torrid romance against the tense backdrop of Northern Ireland’s Troubles in C4’s upcoming drama Trespasses. The four-part series, airing later this year, is adapted by Ailbhe Keogan from Louise Kennedy’s acclaimed novel. Set in 1975, it sees Lola Petticrew play Catholic schoolteacher Cushla, who also works in her family’s pub outside Belfast. But Cushla’s life is upended when she meets an older man, married Protestant Michael (Tom Cullen), who frequently defends IRA suspects and is connected to an intriguing Bohemian circle. Against the odds, the pair fall in love, and begin a clandestine affair that could spell danger for them both. STAR-STUDDED CAST Gillian Anderson co-stars as Cushla’s chaotic, bickering mother Gina, while Martin McCann, Oisín Thompson, Emily Taaffe, Barry Ward, Lisa Dwyer Hogg,…

NEW Adrien Brody The Olivier Awards Sunday, 10.15pm, ITV1 The New York actor has won two Oscars, for The Pianist and The Brutalist. His small-screen roles include Italian-American gangster Luca Changretta in BBC’s Peaky Blinders and a sea captain in Stephen King’s Chapelwaite on Paramount+. On Sky Atlantic, he played a billionaire investor in Succession and real-life basketball coach Pat Riley in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, and was in Sky Max’s Poker Face. HIS LATEST APPEARANCE After winning an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for The Brutalist, Brody, 51, swaps screen for stage at the Olivier Awards, which celebrate the best in British theatre. He’s nominated for Best Actor for his role as an innocent man who spent 22 years on Death Row in The Fear of13,…

Shrinking In the third run of Apple TV+’s comedy drama, which will continue to follow widowed therapist Jimmy (Jason Segel) as he delivers honest and life-changing feedback to his patients, Jeff Daniels (above) is set to have a recurring guest role as Jimmy’s father. Legends Tom Burke (above), Steve Coogan and Hayley Squires will star in Netflix’s six-part 1990s-set thriller, inspired by the true story of how a group of people who worked for British Customs were sent undercover to stop illegal drug smuggling by infiltrating deadly gangs. Ted Lasso A fourth run of Apple TV+’s hit comedy will see Jason Sudeikis (above) return as the eponymous American, who has caused a stir while coaching London football team AFC Richmond. This time, the squad must ‘learn to leap before they…

G20 NEW Available: Thursday 10 April Genre: Action thriller Viola Davis is no stranger to playing strong women, from her Oscar-winning portrayal of resilient wife Rose Maxson in 2017 movie Fences to her role as Michelle Obama in 2022 anthology drama The First Lady. This week, Davis is back in the White House – this time as US President Danielle Sutton in Prime Video action thriller G20. A decorated hero of the Iraq war, President Sutton wants to leave a lasting legacy. With husband Derek and their children Serena and Demetrius in tow, she heads to the annual G20 summit of world leaders in Cape Town, where she’s due to present her vision for fostering financial stability in developing countries. HOSTAGE SITUATION ‘President Sutton is a woman with lofty goals and dreams,’…

PERIOD DRAMA Love & Friendship Disney+ Writer-director Whit Stillman proves perfectly in tune with the acid wit and sharp social perception of Jane Austen. His adaptation of her novella Lady Susan is a cinematic gem. Kate Beckinsale is perfect in the leading role of young widow Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and cunning woman who makes Machiavelli look like a bumbling innocent when it comes to scheming. Xavier Samuel, Chloë Sevigny, Stephen Fry and Tom Bennett provide deft support. 2016, U, 93MIN ANIMATION Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Netflix Marcel the Shell (voiced by co-writer Jenny Slate) lives discreetly with Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and uses ingenious improvisational techniques to obtain resources out of sight of humans. But he finds fame when a documentarian discovers the pair and his film…

Motorsport LIVE! F1: Japanese Grand Prix Sky Sports Main Event & Sky Sports F1, race starts 6am Can McClaren continue their strong start to the season with victory in Japan? Football LIVE! Premier League Sky Sports Main Event & Sky Sports Premier League Fulham v Liverpool (kick-off 2pm) and Man Utd v Man City (k-o 4.30pm). Crime Drama NEW Grace ITV1, 9pm (box set, ITVX) As the crime drama returns, Grace (John Simm, right) tries to save hundreds of lives, while settling into his role as father. Documentary NEW Schmeichel Sky Documentaries & Sky Showcase, 9pm Feature-length documentary about one of the world’s greatest goalkeepers, former Man Utd player Peter Schmeichel.…

Football LIVE! Champions League TNT Sports, kick-offs 8pm Paris St Germain host Aston Villa, while Barcelona play Borussia Dortmund in tonight’s quarter-final first-leg matches. Documentary Fridge: The Secret Genius of Modern Life BBC2, 8pm Hannah Fry takes a look at the fridge, an invention taken very much for granted. Documentary NEW Charlie Bigham: Britain’s Poshest Ready Meal? 5, 9pm Investigating the popularity of posh ready meals, from Charlie Bigham to Cook. OnDemand NEW Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing Available today The realities of child influencers.…