Innholdsfortegnelse for 16-Aug-25 i TV&Satellite Week

SLOW HORSES Apple TV+ Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb (left) and the other Slough House spies are back for a fifth season when they are called into action after London is rocked by a series of random events. STRANGER THINGS Netflix Released in three parts, the final season revisits the gang in Hawkins, Indiana, as they prepare for a showdown with Vecna, while the military chases Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown, inset). ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Disney+ After the Arconia’s doorman Lester died at the end of the last run, Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short, left) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) investigate foul play in Season 5. BLUE LIGHTS BBC1 Michael Smiley (Bad Sisters) joins the BAFTA-winning drama for Series 3, as response officer Grace (Sian Brooke, left) and her team…

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox NEW Available: Wednesday 20 August Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 8 (first two eps from 20 August, then weekly) On the night of 1 November 2007, 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy. Five days later, her American room-mate Amanda Knox was arrested for the crime. Now, Disney+ drama The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, inspired by the case and based on Knox’s 2013 memoir, gives her take on how, along with Raffaele Sollecito, her then boyfriend, she was convicted and spent almost four years in prison before being exonerated. ‘For something that was so televised and so heavily in the media, it’s going to be a different perspective on the case with some new things for people to think about,’ says Tell Me Lies’ Grace Van Patten, 28,…

007: Road to a Million NEW Available: Friday 22 August Genre: Reality Season: 2 Episodes: 8 Get ready to be shaken and stirred as eight new pairs of contestants embark on an exciting James Bond-inspired global adventure in the second series of Prime Video’s reality competition 007: Road to a Million. With Succession star Brian Cox back as The Controller, this time the stakes are even higher as the duos must compete directly against each other – rather than individually – in a series of physical, psychological and strategic missions against the clock, with the poorest-performing pair being eliminated in each episode. Having defeated all their rivals, the final surviving couple face The Controller in person in London to try to get their hands on a whopping £1 million prize. Here, Cox, 79, reveals more… What’s new for…

Parenthood BBC1’s wildlife series, which explores animal parenting, sees an African social spider in Namibia being eaten by her spiderlings, while a boxer-crab mother (above) in Indonesia cultivates anemones from the reef to use as weapons against predators. The Count of Monte Cristo In U&Drama’s new take on the classic novel, sailor Edmond Dantès (Sam Claflin, above) steers his ship through a terrible storm, but when he is promoted, his rival Danglars conspires against him. 7 Wonders of the World with Bettany Hughes The historian (above) heads across the globe to uncover more about the legendary landmarks. She visits the Step Pyramid of Djoser to learn about the Great Pyramid of Giza. Griff’s Great American South Griff Rhys Jones (above) showcases the US’ southern states in C4’s travelogue. He begins…

THE CONTENDERS England have been on a winning streak since their World Cup final defeat to New Zealand in 2022, and the Red Roses will be aiming to lift the trophy for a third time following victories in 1994 and 2014. Head coach John Mitchell has youth and experience in his squad, including flanker Marlie Packer, who has played in the last three World Cup finals. ‘England are my favourites,’ says Daley-McLean. ‘Canada will be in contention, and have talisman Sophie de Goede back from injury, but as long as England stay focused, I can’t see anybody beating them.’ THE HOME NATIONS The opening Pool B clash between Wales and Scotland is Daley-McLean’s ‘tie of the round’ and she believes Wales have what it takes to get out of the…

Evening Planner Crime Drama NEW The Brokenwood Mysteries U&Drama, 8pm The New Zealand crime drama starring Neill Rea returns for an 11th series. Documentary Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy ITV1, 9pm A profile of the Friends actor, whose death in October 2023 shocked the world. Documentary NEW Confessions of a Brain Surgeon BBC2, 9pm Veteran neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reflects on his 40-year-long career. OnDemand The Real Housewives of London Available today The global reality series lands in London, where six socialites create the real-life drama. NEW…

Evening Planner Documentary NEW Football’s Financial Shame: The Story of the V11 BBC2, 9pm A hidden scandal involving a group of 11 former Premier League footballers. Thriller LAST ONE In Flight C4, 9pm Katherine Kelly’s flight attendant/anxious mum Jo’s problems come to a head in tonight’s gripping finale of the thriller. Documentary NEW In the Eye of the Storm Discovery Channel, 9pm Series featuring first-hand accounts and footage of natural disasters, starting with a string of destructive tornadoes in Texas. OnDemand Hostage Available today In this thriller, Suranne Jones’ Prime Minister has an impossible choice to make when her husband is kidnapped. NEW…

Aneeshwar’s Outdoor Adventures Sat & Sun, 8.30am, Milkshake! on 5 Conservationist Aneeshwar Kunchala shows this week’s recruits how to recycle and reuse waste wood, and create a bee habitat. The Strange Chores Weekdays, 8.25am, CBBC Animated series about two teenage wannabe warrior heroes, Charlie and Pierce who, along with spirited ghost girl Que, take on supernatural chores for their strange neighbour so they can become his apprentices. Bluey Available now, Disney+ It looks as though the Aussie animated series is on track to be the most streamed show of the year for the second year running. Seasons 1-3 are available on Disney+ now.…

NEW SPORT Match of the Day Sat, 10.20pm, & Sun, 10.30pm, BBC1 Following the departure of Gary Lineker after 26 years as host, there are big changes when Match of the Day returns to our screens on Saturday night for the opening weekend of new Premier League season. For the first time, the flagship football-highlights show will be fronted by three different presenters in turn, with Sky Sports’ Kelly Cates (the daughter of ex-Liverpool star Sir Kenny Dalglish) joining BBC favourites Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman in alternating presenting duties across Match of the Day on Saturday and Sunday and Wednesday’s MOTD Champions League recaps. ‘It’s a pinch-me moment to feel part of that family’GABBY LOGAN Meanwhile, England legend Wayne Rooney will join the show’s panel of experts as a…

The Assassin Genre: Thriller Season: 1 Episodes: 6 There’s a high body count in an action-packed, drily witty thriller that is, at times, preposterous but always hugely entertaining. Keeley Hawes stars as a retired assassin living on a quiet Greek island when her son (The Good Doctor’s Freddie Highmore) comes to visit. The two have a distinctly prickly relationship, but are forced to flee the sun-kissed island and go on the run together after a hitman attempts to kill her, massacring a whole village in the process. Washington Black Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 8 George Washington Black, an enslaved boy on a 19th-century Barbados sugar plantation, embarks on a daring adventure of scientific discovery in a thrilling, globe-spanning drama. Sterling K Brown (right) stars. Critical: Between Life and Death Genre: Documentary Season: 1 Episodes: 6 A gripping, fast-paced docuseries follows the London Major Trauma…

The Darkness NEW Available: Wednesday 20 August Genre: Crime drama Season: 1 Episodes: 6 Oscar-nominated Swedish star Lena Olin takes the lead in this English-language Nordic noir as Reykjavik detective Hulda Hermannsdóttir, who investigates one final case before being forced to retire from her misogynistic and ageist police department. When hikers stumble across a frozen body in a glacier, Hulda teams up with new partner Lukas (Endeavour’s Jack Bannon) and discovers that the dead woman was a Russian journalist who had been seeking asylum. PERILS AHEAD The investigation leads to a human-trafficking ring that is exploiting refugees, and as Hulda becomes embroiled in a world of violent criminal gangs and state corruption, she is also haunted by the suicide of her daughter a year ago. ‘Hulda is impossible to deal with because she doesn’t back off. She’s unafraid,’…

The Hunt for Shannon Matthews Sunday 17 August True-crime docuseries. In February 2008, nine-year-old Shannon Matthews vanished on her way home from school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. But the story that gripped a nation became something darker as suspicion turned closer to home. Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror Tuesday 19 August True-crime docuseries. In 2011, Christopher Thomas met Samantha Stites, and for the next 11 years, he stalked her – until the day in 2022 when he kidnapped her and held her captive in the soundproof bunker he had constructed in a storage unit near her Michigan home. Here, Stites tells her harrowing story for the first time. America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys Tuesday 19 August Docuseries about the purchase of the Dallas Cowboys by American billionaire…

Evening Planner Football LIVE! Premier League TNT Sports & Sky Sports As the new season starts in earnest, today’s live coverage features Aston Villa v Newcastle and Wolves v Man City. Documentary NEW 24 Hours: The Japanese Surrender C4, 8.10pm Examining the reluctance of the Japanese to down arms against the Allies. Drama NEW One Night ITV1, 9.30pm (box set, ITVX) Jodie Whittaker stars as a woman who has to relive a traumatic event when one of her friends writes a book about it. Football NEW Match of the Day BBC1, 10.20pm We’re ushering in a new era of the show, with Gabby Logan, Mark Chapman and Kelly Cates sharing presenting duties.…

Evening Planner Tennis LIVE! US Open Sky Sports Main Event & Sky Sports Tennis, coverage from 4pm Coverage of the new Mixed Doubles Championship at Flushing Meadows, NY. Reality NEW Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury. BBC3, 9pm (box set, BBC iPlayer) Following boxer Tommy Fury’s progress as he prepares to return to the ring. Documentary NEW History’s Most Shocking Sky History, 9pm Some of the most alarming moments caught on camera - including an exploding whale and an alligator attack. OnDemand America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys Available today Looking back at the Dallas Cowboys era during Jerry Jones’ ownership. NEW…

Evening Planner Rugby Union LIVE! Women’s World Cup BBC1, kick-off 7.30pm Hosts England kick off the tournament with their opening group game against USA at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light. Superhero Drama NEW Peacemaker Sky Max & Sky Showcase, 10pm John Cena returns as Chris Smith, aka the Peacemaker, for a second series of the entertaining superhero drama. OnDemand Invasion Available today As the sci-fi drama returns for a third season, the main characters finally come together to fight against the alien invasion. NEW 007: Road to a Million Available today The James Bond-inspired series - in which contestants compete for £1million - returns. NEW…

HOW ARE YOU? IT’S ALAN (PARTRIDGE) BBC1 Steve Coogan (right) reprises his role as Britain’s most cringe-worthy broadcaster in a six-part mockumentary that follows Alan as he returns home from a year working in Saudi Arabia and embarks on a mission to explore what makes Brits tick. MITCHELL AND WEBB ARE NOT HELPING C4 Comedy duo Robert Webb and David Mitchell (both pictured) team up with rising talent in a new six-part sketch series. Look out for Lara Ricote and Stevie Martin, plus Ghosts star Kiell Smith-Bynoe. THE PAPER Sky Max With Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais serving as executive producers, this 10-part follow-up to the US version of mockumentary The Office sees a film crew follow life at a newspaper in the American Midwest as its publisher Ned (Domhnall…

Dr Alex Anderson Ashley Thomas Abigail’s supportive husband is kidnapped while working in French Guiana with medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Kofi Adomako Lucian Msamati The chief of staff to the Prime Minister has a slightly spiky relationship with his boss Abigail, but ultimately wants her to succeed. Sylvie Anderson Isobel Akuwudike Abigail and Alex’s daughter has been struggling with the huge changes to her life since her mum became PM. Matheo Lewis Corey Mylchreest Vivienne’s stepson previously worked on her electoral campaign before landing a job with a refugee-focused charity.…

Elsbeth Monday, 9pm, Sky Witness Born in Slough in1959, Tracey Ullman showcased her comedy chops alongside Sir Lenny Henry and David Copperfield in hit 80s sketch show Three of a Kind (inset) before launching a pop career. Moving to the US, in 1987 she landed self-titled series The Tracey Ullman Show, which featured shorts from a then-unknown animated series called The Simpsons. Most recently, she had a guest role in Curb Your Enthusiasm and was seen in Netflix drama Black Doves. HER NEW ROLE In this week’s episode of Elsbeth, Ullman guest-stars as Marilyn Gladwell, a quirky psychic who Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) suspects is involved in the murder of wealthy New Yorker Tim (MaxJenkins) in Central Park. Tim had clashed with Marilyn after the medium advised his widowed stepmother Phyllis…

3 Body Problem Filming is under way on the second season of Netflix’s sci-fi drama, based on Cixin Liu’s novels. Claudia Doumit (above) joins the cast as the threat from San-Ti aliens increases, while Ellie de Lange, Alfie Allen, David Yip and Jordan Sunshine also appear. Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age A five-part follow-up to Apple TV+’s natural-history series will air in November. Narrated by Tom Hiddleston (above), it explores life on Earth when woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers fought to survive as the planet froze. Monster The fourth run of Netflix’s drama anthology about notorious historical crimes will see Ella Beatty (above) play Lizzie Borden, who was accused but acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in the 1890s. Rebecca Hall and Vicky Krieps co-star.…

Invasion NEW Available: Fri 22 August Genre: Sci-fi Season: 3 Episodes: 10 (released weekly) After two seasons chronicling a devastating alien invasion through multiple, globe-spanning perspectives, the dispersed heroes of sci-fi thriller Invasion finally join forces in the new 10-part run. The action picks up with US Navy SEAL Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson) and psychic teen Caspar Morrow (Billy Barratt) embarking on a mission to destroy the alien mother ship, which crashes to Earth in the opening episode, killing the pair, who are hailed as martyrs when the drama cuts to two years later. But Earth’s fragile peace is shattered when Trevante inexplicably emerges from a portal in the Atlantic. He’s alive, but so are the hunter-killer aliens, which are evolving into deadly apex aliens and sending tendrils of terror across continents. As they tighten their grip, the…

DRAMA Clouds of Sils Maria Disney+ With much of the action revolving around the staging of a play, this beguiling meditation on acting and ageing finds three contrasting performers each at the top of their game. Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz play, respectively, a celebrated movie star, her savvy personal assistant, and a young Hollywood hotshot with a scandalous private life. It’s talky, but the interplay between the women is mesmerising. 2014, 15, 124MIN MELODRAMA I Am Love Prime Video & BFI Player Tilda Swinton gives yet another awe-inspiring performance in this superb, beautifully intricate melodrama, playing the Russian wife to an Italian (Gabriele Ferzetti) whose aristocratic family runs a textile empire in Milan. She’s the outsider who begins an affair with her son’s friend (Edoardo Gabbriellini),…

Evening Planner Football LIVE! Premier League Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League & Sky Sports+ Three top-flight games, including Manchester Utd v Arsenal (k-o 4.30pm). Documentary NEW Murder Case: The Vanishing Cyclist BBC2, 9pm (box set, BBC iPlayer) The 2017 disappearance of a cyclist was a mystery - until a call to police in 2020. Reality NEW The Only Way Is Essex ITV2, 9pm Get ready for sunkissed drama when the Essex massive head to Portugal as the show celebrates its 15th anniversary. OnDemand The Hunt for Shannon Matthews Available today The disappearance of a nine-year-old girl in West Yorkshire, which shocked the world. NEW…

Evening Planner Drama NEW Mudtown U&Alibi, 9pm (box set, Sky Box Sets/Virgin/NOW) A magistrate’s commitment is tested in this Welsh drama starring Erin Richards. OnDemand The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox Available today Drama inspired by the experiences of Amanda Knox (Grace Van Patten). NEW The Darkness Available today Lena Olin stars in this Icelandic crime drama as a detective who is on her last case before retirement. NEW The Map That Leads to You Available today Romantic drama starring Outer Banks’ Madelyn Cline and Riverdale’s KJ Apa. NEW…