Innholdsfortegnelse for 19-Apr-25 i TV&Satellite Week

SCI-FI The Last of Us Easter Monday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic The tentative calm in the sanctuary town of Jackson looked to be short-lived at the end of last week’s opening episode of Season 2 of The Last of Us, as vengeful soldier Abby (Dopesick’s Kaitlyn Dever) and her crew arrived on the scene. Abby has already stated her intention to find and kill Joel (Pedro Pascal) – but how far is she willing to go to achieve her goal? ‘Abby is a woman dealing with intense grief and loss, and that’s the fuel for her rage,’ Dever, 28, tells TV&Satellite Week. ‘This show asks the questions: who is the villain and who is the hero? I don’t feel that the answers are so black and white. I really wanted to…

The Studio Genre: Comedy Season: 1 Episodes: 10 (released weekly) Seth Rogen is hilarious as Matt Remick, who lands his dream job – running Continental Studios – but the permanently flustered Matt is faced with one farcical crisis after another in a fun satire of the movie business, co-created by Rogen. Big names play themselves as Matt has dealings that don’t go well with directors Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard, and with stars such as Charlize Theron, Steve Buscemi and Anthony Mackie. The top-notch support cast includes Schitt’s Creek’s Catherine O’Hara and Agatha All Along’s Kathryn Hahn. Holland Genre: Thriller Episodes: One-off There’s a surreal quality to this mystery thriller starring Nicole Kidman (right) as a woman living a seemingly idyllic life until she suspects that her husband (Matthew Macfadyen) is harbouring a secret. Con Mum Genre: Documentary Episodes: One-off A…

Secrets of the Penguins NEW Available: Easter Mon Genre: Documentary Season: 1 Episodes: 3 Penguins have always held a special place in our hearts, but these lovable flightless birds are also resourceful and resilient, as explorer Bertie Gregory reveals in his new documentary series. The three-parter captures remarkable behaviour from different species in contrasting habitats as they negotiate life’s challenges. In the opener, embedded with an Antarctic colony of emperor penguins, Gregory captures some remarkable footage, including two expectant parents practising how to transfer an egg from one to the other by using a snowball. He also reveals the power of the huddle, which protects the colony from harsh winter storms. For the chicks that are left to fend for themselves when their parents head off to sea, it’s a vital survival strategy they must learn quickly.…

Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey Easter Monday Documentary revolving around wildlife volunteer Gareth Thomas, who finds purpose as he rehabilitates an endangered baby pangolin called Kulu in South Africa after the creature is rescued from the illegal wildlife trade. Secrets of the Penguins Easter Monday Executive produced by James Cameron, this docuseries uses cutting-edge tech and the latest scientific research to show how various penguin species live in their different habitats in Antarctica, the Galapagos Islands and South Africa. Narrated by Blake Lively. See feature, page 16. Abortion Dream Team Easter Monday Documentary about the impact of the Polish government’s introduction of a near-total ban on abortion. Four women set up the Abortion Dream Team to help those in need, despite the risk of being prosecuted and imprisoned. Sea Lions of the…

MOVIE OF THE WEEK TRAP THRILLER Friday, 12.10pm & 8pm, Sky Premiere If you are expecting some wild twist in M Night Shyamalan’s latest, you will be disappointed. There isn’t one. It doesn’t turn out that everybody was dead the whole time or that the wind was out to kill us. Here’s the crazy thing though: for once, Shyamalan doesn’t need that bluff to deliver a wildly entertaining thriller. In Trap, Josh Hartnett returns to the screen as long-suffering dad Cooper to teen daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue). The two are attending an arena concert by pop star Lady Raven (M Night’s daughter Saleka Shyamalan) when Hartnett’s secret serial killer dad slowly realises the entire concert is a ruse by the FBI to nab him. He spends the majority of the…

Snooker LIVE! World Championship BBC2, BBC4, TNT Sports 3 & Discovery+, coverage from 10am World number one Judd Trump will be one to watch. Continues all week. Animation PREMIERE Lightyear BBC1, 5.40pm Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear (voiced here by Chris Evans) gets to tell us his origin story in this fun animated space adventure. Sci-fi Doctor Who BBC1, 7.15pm The Doctor and Belinda arrive in Miami in 1952 in this week’s timely adventure, where a cartoon villain is causing trouble. Music NEW An Evening with Elton John & Brandi Carlile ITV1, 9.05pm Sir Elton John performs songs from his album collaboration with Brand Carlile.…

Documentary NEW Inside Longleat 5, 8pm Cameras go behind the scenes of Longleat House and Gardens, 75 years after it first opened its doors to the public. Factual NEW Who Do You Think You Are? BBC1, 9pm The series starts with an emotional journey back to World War Two for Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield. Factual NEW Joe Lycett’s United States of Birmingham Sky Max & Sky Showcase, 9pm The comedian sets off to visit 18 Birminghams across the US and Canada. OnDemand NEW Sea Lions of the Galapagos Available today Actor Brendan Fraser lends his deep tones to this film about a sea lion pup called Leo.…

Thriller PREMIERE Trap Sky Premiere, 12.10pm & 8pm With director M. Night Shyamalan at the helm, expect twists a-plenty in this killer thriller starring Josh Hartnett. OnDemand NEW Havoc Available today Tom Hardy stars as a jaded detective on a mission to rescue a politician’s son, in this intense action thriller from Gareth Evans. OnDemand NEW Den of Thieves: Pantera Available today Gerard Butler reprises his role as LA sheriff Nick O’Brien in this heist thriller. OnDemand NEW Flintoff Available today Looking at the life and career of cricketer Freddie Flintoff, including his recovery from the near-fatal car crash in 2022.…

FIRST LOOK A deaf woman faces emotional turmoil as she tries to help bring down a gang in ITV1 drama Code of Silence. The six-part crime thriller, airing from 18 May, stars Rose Ayling-Ellis as Alison Brooks, who works in a police canteen. But when DS Ashleigh Francis (Charlotte Ritchie) and DI James Marsh (Andrew Buchan) spot Alison’s talent for lip-reading, they realise that she could be an asset for their covert investigation into a heist that is being plotted by underworld figures. As Alison is drawn into the dangerous new realm of undercover surveillance and has to lip-read conversations between the criminals, trouble brews when she becomes drawn to one of the suspects, Liam Barlow (Kieron Moore)… GROUNDBREAKING Nathan Armarkwei Laryea, Joe Absolom, Beth Goddard, Andrew Scarborough and Rolf…

NEW Freddie Flintoff Flintoff From Friday 25 April, Disney+ Since retiring from cricket in 2010, Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff has been a regular on our TV screens, with appearances as a team captain on A League of Their Own and host of game show Cannonball, while he has also charted his own eating disorder in Living with Bulimia. He recently coached a team of young cricketers from his home town of Preston in Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams and its sequel, Field of Dreams on Tour, and presented a reboot of darts quiz Bullseye last Christmas. HIS NEW SHOW This week, Flintoff is the subject of a feature-length Disney+ documentary that looks back at a cricketing career that saw him win two Ashes series with England and become a national sporting…

I Will Find You In Netflix’s adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller about a man (Sam Worthington) who breaks out of jail after being wrongly accused of killing his son, Britt Lower will play his former sister-in-law, a reporter who uncovers a shocking secret, while Milo Ventimiglia is her ex. The Husbands Juno Temple will headline Apple TV+’s comic drama – based on Holly Gramazio’s book – as a Londoner who discovers that a string of husbands are emerging from her attic, allowing her to experience various new lives. But what does it mean for her future? A Man on the Inside The second run of Netflix’s comedy starring Ted Danson as undercover investigator Charles will see the actor’s real-life wife Mary Steenburgen (with Danson) play a former musician who crosses…

Football LIVE! Premier League Sky Sports Main Event & Sky Sports Premier League Coverage of Ipswich v Arsenal (k-o 2pm) and Leicester v Liverpool (k-o 4.30pm). Music NEW Gareth Malone’s Messiah: The Concert BBC2, 6.10pm Gareth leads eight novice singers in a performance of Handel’s Easter classic. Documentary NEW Our Changing Planet: Restoring Our Rivers BBC1, 7pm A look at two projects breathing new life into rivers, including the removal of a dam. Factual NEW Pilgrimage: The Road Through the Alps BBC2, 9pm (box set, BBC iPlayer) A group of celebs embark on a journey to explore their faith. Continues to Tuesday.…

Factual NEW Race Across the World BBC1, 9pm Five pairs of travellers set off from the Great Wall of China on what promises to be the backpacking trip of a lifetime. Drama NEW I, Jack Wright U&Alibi, 9pm (box set, Sky Box Sets, Virgin TV Box Sets & NOW) The death of a prominent businessman (Trevor Eve) leads to a battle of wills. OnDemand NEW Andor Available today Cassian Andor and the rebels are on the brink of war with the Empire, as the Star Wars spin-off returns. Stars Diego Luna. OnDemand NEW Carlos Alcaraz: My Way Available today This documentary series follows the 21-year-old tennis star through the 2024 season.…

‘Tom’s a very unpredictable actor, so that kept things exciting’JESSIE MEI LI Havoc NEW Available: Friday 25 April Genre: Action thriller Fresh from playing a gangland fixer in Paramount+ crime drama MobLand, Tom Hardy is embroiled in more murky underworld business this week as troubled US detective Walker in Netflix action thriller Havoc. When a drug deal goes wrong, Walker tangles with a crime syndicate, a dodgy politician and even his own colleagues as he uncovers a web of corruption while attempting to rescue the politician’s son. ‘It’s a hard-boiled, noirish cop thriller set over two nights before Christmas, but it’s not really a Christmas movie,’ explains director Gareth Evans. ‘Walker is a corrupt cop who dabbles in some stuff he shouldn’t do. He gets tasked with finding the son of a mayoral…

Étoile NEW Available: Thu 24 April Genre: Comedy drama Season: 1 Episodes: 8 Passion, politics and pirouettes take centre stage in new comedy drama Étoile, which pulls back the curtain on the competitive and high-stakes world of professional ballet dancing. From the creators of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the eight-parter follows the dancers and artistic staff of two renowned but struggling ballet companies as they hatch a plan to trade their top talent in an effort to keep their institutions afloat. New York-based director Jack (Luke Kirby) and his counterpart in Paris, Geneviève (Charlotte Gainsbourg), devise a year-long exchange programme to revitalise public interest in their art form. But when their principal dancers are resistant to change, Jack and Geneviève find themselves managing rivalries and culture clashes rather than attracting audiences. ‘I was entranced by the notion…

Reunion In BBC1’s thriller, Daniel Brennan (Matthew Gurney), a deaf man who’s been in jail for murder, causes shock waves when he is released and immediately obtains a gun before embarking on a vengeful quest to find a face from his past. Grace The return of ITV1’s drama sees cop Roy Grace (John Simm) and his other half Cleo (Zoë Tapper) try to deal with both the loss of their baby and the arrival of Roy’s son into their lives. Meanwhile, there’s a bomb threat at a football stadium… World’s Toughest Drive C4’s documentary follows Guy Deacon, who is living with Parkinson’s, on a journey to Africa, in which he meets locals who also have the condition and have faced being stigmatised. Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz The historian…

NEW FACTUAL Our Changing Planet: Restoring Our Rivers Easter Sunday, 7pm, BBC1 Rivers are the planet’s lifeblood, vital for both wildlife and humans. Across the globe, two billion people rely on rivers for drinking water and a quarter of the food we eat depends on them, too. But many of the world’s rivers are dying from being dammed, diverted or polluted, while a third of all fresh-water species now face extinction. However, all is not lost. Two pioneering river-restoration projects that aim to bring back life to the Klamath in California and the Seine in Paris offer hope, as Liz Bonnin and Ade Adepitan discover in Our Changing Planet: Restoring Our Rivers, the fourth update in the seven-year BBC1 series. SUCCESS STORIES While Bonnin, 48, witnesses an ambitious project to…

Animation Dumbo BBC1, 7.20pm Live-action adaptation of the Disney classic about the elephant who could fly. Stars Colin Farrell and Danny DeVito. Sci-Fi The Last of Us Sky Atlantic, 9pm As the drama continues, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and her crew have arrived in Jackson, set on finding and killing Joel. OnDemand NEW Secret of the Penguins Available today Twenty years on from the Oscar-winning March of the Penguins, we learn more about the flightless birds. OnDemand NEW Pangolin: Kuri’s Journey Available today We follow the six-month journey of a baby pangolin back to the wild in South Africa.…

Documentary NEW Trump Revolution: 100 Days That Changed the World C4, 9pm Looking at the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term as US President. Drama NEW Penelope Sky Atlantic, 9pm & 10.35pm (box set, Sky Box Sets) Drama about a 16-year-old girl who embarks on a journey of self discovery. OnDemand NEW You Available today Hello you. Penn Badgley returns as stalker-killer Joe Goldberg, who has apparently turned over a new leaf for this final season. OnDemand NEW Étoile Available today Comedy drama about two world-renowned ballet companies who swap their principal dancers for a season.…