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

NEW FACTUAL Once Upon a Time in Space Monday, 9pm, BBC2 (box set, BBC iPlayer) More than 65 years since the Soviet Union’s Sputnik triggered a space race with the USA, the world is entering a new era of exploration with billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos competing for dominance and predicting that millions of people will be living in space by 2045. This week, BAFTA-winning filmmaker James Bluemel takes a look back at mankind’s journey towards the stars. Featuring archive footage and interviews with astronauts, the first episode of the four-part series focuses on those who were selected by NASA to be astronauts in 1978 – many of whom were civilians with no military experience. Here are three of their stories… ANNA FISHER In 1978, NASA hired their most…

Chad Powers Genre: Comedy Season: 1 Episodes: 6 (released weekly) Twisters and Anyone but You’s Glen Powell (left) stars as arrogant college football quarterback Russ Holliday whose once-promising career ends abruptly following his deplorable behaviour after blowing a championship game. Eight years later, in a nod to Mrs Doubtfire, Russ transforms himself into a new player, Chad Powers, with a wig and facial prosthetics and talking in a high-pitched drawl. But keeping up the act in front of his new teammates isn’t easy in a delightfully silly and very likeable sports comedy. The Lost Bus Genre: Action drama Episodes: One-off A bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a schoolteacher (America Ferrera) steer more than 20 children through a wildfire in California in a taut and immersive disaster movie inspired by a 2018 true story. Play Dirty Genre: Action drama Episodes: One-off An…

Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers NEW Available: Thursday 30 October Genre: One-off documentary Having shot dead seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos was executed in 2002. At the time of her death, aged 46, she had come to be regarded as one of America’s most infamous female serial killers. And in 2004, her story was brought to the screen in the acclaimed biopic Monster starring Charlize Theron in an Oscar-winning role. Now, Netflix’s one-off documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers offers a fresh take on Wuornos’ troubled life. She claimed to have suffered a catalogue of abuse during her traumatic childhood, became a sex worker and had been convicted of armed robbery. The film also re-examines the murders, taking an in-depth look at how, following her arrest…

NXT Halloween Havoc Saturday 25 October The sixth annual wrestling event takes place in Prescott Valley, Arizona, and features, among others, Oba Femi, Jacy Jayne, Ethan Page, Sol Ruca, Trick Williams and Kelani Jordan. Nightmares of Nature Tuesday 28 October Narrated by Stranger Things’ Maya Hawke, the second season of the wildlife series focusing on the dark, chilling side of nature follows an opossum, an iguana, and a jumping spider as they try to stay alive inside an abandoned lab in the Central American rainforest. Physical: Asia Tuesday 28 October South Korean sports reality show. Teams from South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Thailand, Mongolia, Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines compete against each other in a number of events including Mongolian wrestling, Turkish oil wrestling and Muay Thai. Down Cemetery Road Wednesday…

MOVIE OF THE WEEK THE LONG WALK Based on Stephen King’s very first story, this is as superb as it is chilling THRILLER From Monday, buy or rent from digital stores including Prime Video and Sky Store Set in a despotic, desperately poor alternate United States, this powerful dystopian drama, based on the first novel written by Stephen King, has a brutally simple, devastatingly gripping premise. Fifty young men, chosen by lottery, take part in the walk-or-die contest of the title. The winner is promised life-changing riches, but fall below a three-mile-per-hour pace and you receive three warnings, after which one of the soldiers accompanying the walkers shoots the slacker in the head. In the hands of director Francis Lawrence, no stranger to staging dystopian contests on screen having helmed…

BBC iPlayer A free video-on-demand service from the BBC, featuring BBC dramas including Luther, Doctor Who and Line of Duty, as well as hits including The Responder and This City Is Ours. There are many comedies, too, from Not Going Out to Ghosts and Mrs. Brown’s Boys, plus all episodes of The Traitorsand Race Across the World. You can also watch BBC channels live. It’s available online and on devices including mobile phones, tablets and smart TVs. ITVX This free streaming channel is the home for all ITV shows, films and much more - from drama box sets such as Trigger Point to Love Island episodes and James Bond movies. It can be accessed on smart TVs and an app to download. You can upgrade to ITVX Premium for an extra…

Documentary NEW Guy Martin: The British Train That Changed the World C4, 7.30pm The engineering enthusiast celebrates 200 years since the first passenger train. Factual NEW Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing BBC2, 9pm (box set, BBC iPlayer) Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse try their angling luck in Hampshire’s Itchen. Drama NEW Trigger Point ITV1, 9pm (box set, ITVX) Vicky McClure returns as bomb-disposal officer Lana Washington in the explosive police drama. Continues tomorrow. Factual NEW Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch BBC2, 9.30pm (box set, BBCiPlayer) The This Country siblings investigate haunted locations around the UK.…

Football LIVE! EFL Cup: Newcastle Utd v Tottenham Hotspur ITV1, k-o 8pm Carabao Cup holders Newcastle take on Spurs in tonight’s fourth-round match. OnDemand NEW Ballad Small Player Available today Colin Farrell stars as a conman gambler who is deep in debt in this high-stakes thriller set in Macau. OnDemand NEW Down Cemetery Road Available today Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson team up to find a missing youngster in this thriller. OnDemand LAST ONE Slow Horses Available today Jackson Lamb’s motley crew of agents race to save London as series five of the spy drama draws to a close.…

NEW CBeebies Prom: A Bedtime Story Sunday, 9.25am, CBeebies & BBC iPlayer Recorded in front of a live audience during this year’s BBC Proms season, a host of familiar CBeebies stars take to the stage to introduce younger viewers to a live orchestra and classical music. Presenter Joel Dommett is also on hand to read a special tale penned by Claire Wetton, known for her work on Horrible Histories and Horrible Science. Music featured includes Grieg’s Morning Mood and Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy. Who knows - maybe one or two young viewers will be inspired to become the next Mozart… Harry Potter Showing all week, Sky Movies Family A fresh new cast are currently busy filming the new HBO adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and…

NEW THRILLER Down Cemetery Road From Wednesday 29 Oct, Apple TV (first two eps on 29 Oct, then weekly) Calling all fans of Slow Horses! Author Mick Herron is swapping MI5 outcasts for nosy neighbours as another of his acclaimed novels gets the Apple TV treatment. Set in a sleepy Oxford suburb, Down Cemetery Road is an eight-part, razor-sharp thriller based on Herron’s 2003 book of the same name. Adapted by Slow Horses writer Morwenna Banks, it follows art restorer Sarah Trafford (His Dark Materials’ Ruth Wilson), whose uneventful, ordinary life is upended when a neighbour’s house explodes during her dinner party. When Sarah learns that a five-year-old girl, Dinah Singleton, has gone missing in the blast, she becomes obsessed with finding her and hires acerbic, reluctant private investigator Zoë…

NEW Robson Green: World’s Most Amazing Walks Monday, 8pm, U&Yesterday (box set, U) Born in 1964 in Hexham, Robson Green began his TV career in1989 as hospital porter Jimmy Powell in BBC1’s Casualty before achieving popular success as Fusilier Dave Tucker in ITV drama Soldier Soldier. Other drama credits include Touching Evil, Wire in the Blood, Grantchester and The Game, while he has made a slew of outdoors documentary series including Extreme Fishing, Weekend Escapes and The Amazon with Robson Green. HIS NEW APPEARANCE This week, Green explores some of the greatest trails the planet has to offer in World’s Most Amazing Walks. Over the course of eight episodes, he’ll be heading to France, Spain, Austria, Poland and Portugal, but the actor starts out closer to home by walking the…

The Buccaneers Apple TV’s 19th-century-set drama will return for a third series, in which Nan (Kristine Froseth, above) and her fellow Americans face fresh challenges in their bid to find happiness among the English aristocracy, while a new Duke at Tintagel causes trouble. Discretion In Paramount+’s thriller, Elle Fanning (above) will play a young associate working at a Dallas law firm for the summer, who clashes with her formidable mentor (Nicole Kidman) after she uncovers a host of unsettling non-disclosure agreements and a dark conspiracy. Would You Rather: Decide to Survive Romesh Ranganathan (above) will present Prime Video’s comedy show as famous faces try to avoid elimination by taking part in challenges in which hypothetical ‘Would you rather…?’ decisions are brought to life.…

PERIOD DRAMA The Deep Blue Sea Mubi Rachel Weisz is heartbreakingly good as the tormented heroine at the heart of this sensitive adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play about a woman caught between her staid high-court judge husband (Simon Russell Beale) and a dashing former Battle of Britain pilot (Tom Hiddleston). Taking its tone from the drab mood of post-war London, the film is far from cheery, but there is much to admire, not least the superb acting. 2011, 12, 98MIN HORROR Evil Dead Rise StudioCanal Presents Primarily set in an apartment inhabited by Alyssa Sutherland and her kids, the mayhem begins with the arrival of Sutherland’s sister (Lily Sullivan) and an earthquake that gives rise to rotting, rage-filled Deadites toying with this well-drawn, likeable family. This Evil Dead entry…

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Factual NEW Secrets of Supercheap Shopping C4, 8pm Four-part documentary looking at how ‘discount disruptors’ help us save money. Travelogue NEW Robson Green: World’s Most Amazing Walks U&Yesterday, 8pm (box set, U) The actor explores famous trails, starting at Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Documentary NEW Once Upon a Time in Space BBC2, 9pm (box set, BBC iPlayer) This series looking at space travel starts with the stories of some of the men and women selected for astronaut training. Horror NEW It: Welcome to Derry Sky Atlantic, 9pm Very bad things start to happen in this supernatural prequel to Stephen King’s It, set in a small Maine town in the 1960s.…

Drama NEW Art Detectives U&Drama, 8pm (box set, U) Stephen Moyer (The Forsytes) stars in this new crime drama as a detective investigating murders in the art world. Comedy LAST EVER Brassic Sky Max & Sky Showcase, 10pm It’s time to bid farewell to the gang in the last-ever episode of the comedy, when a snowstorm brings chaos at a carvery. OnDemand NEW The Witcher Available today Liam Hemsworth takes on the role of monster hunter Geralt of Rivia, with Laurence Fishburne also joining the cast. OnDemand NEW Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers Available today Documentary about one of America’s most infamous killers, Aileen Wuornos.…

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone Available now, Netflix For teens looking for a spooky watch on Halloween, this haunting tale based on a Stephen King novella, about a teen who can communicate with his dead friend through his smartphone, could be just the thing. NEW Teen Titans Go! Friday, 8am, Cartoon Network In a Halloween special amusingly entitled Not a Halloween Special, the team are in denial that anything untoward is going on, despite the costumes, haunted happenings and spooky surprises all around them… Thunderbirds: Fab at 60 Available now, ITVX This special celebrates 60 years of Gerry Anderson’s Tracy family, best known as International Rescue and the Thunderbirds.…

Ballad of a Small Player NEW Available: Wednesday 29 October Genre: Thriller After picking up a Golden Globe in January for his performance as criminal kingpin Oswald Cobb in Sky Atlantic’s The Penguin, Colin Farrell ditches the prosthetics this week when he stars in psychological thriller movie Ballad of a Small Player on Netflix. The 49-year-old actor plays an Irish con man drowning in debt, who passes himself off as an English aristocrat, Lord Freddy Doyle, so he can lay low in Macau, one of the biggest gambling centres in the world and dubbed the Las Vegas of Asia. Having fled there with a stolen fortune, he spends his days drinking heavily and his nights frittering away what little money he has left in the city’s bustling casinos. ‘When you meet Doyle, he’s…

Slow Horses LAST ONE Available: Wed 29 Oct Genre: Drama Season: 5 Episode: 6 Jackson Lamb’s team of misfits race to save the day when terrorists launch the final stage of their multi-pronged attack on London in the finale of Apple TV’s Slow Horses. After orchestrating a massacre at the (fictional) Abbotsfield shopping arcade, the violent group have bombed London Zoo and tampered with fuel tanks, causing cars to catch fire across the city, leading to fear and panic. Lamb, played by Sir Gary Oldman, believes the gang are simply adopting the same destabilisation strategy used by MI5 in other countries in the past and knows the final act in that playbook involves attacking a place of worship. He is proved right when the terrorists give MI5 Deputy Director-General Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) a chilling deadline. She…

Riot Women In BBC1’s drama about the launch of a female punk band, shoplifter Kitty (Rosalie Craig, above) causes a rumpus in a supermarket, but teacher Beth (Joanna Scanlan) spots her singing and realises she could be integral to the group. Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles The presenter and photographer showcases the seasonal wonders of UK wildlife on BBC1. He begins in spring by filming a bittern mating ritual and finds badgers in Sussex and adders in Herefordshire. The Iris Affair Sky Atlantic’s thriller follows maths whizz Iris Nixon (Niamh Algar) as she meets Cameron Beck (Tom Hollander), who asks her to unlock some technology. Sensing danger, she goes on the run with the code… Witches of Essex As Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts team up for Sky History’s documentary,…

NEW FACTUAL Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch Sunday, 9.30pm, BBC2 (box set, BBC iPlayer) Actor siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper share a fascination with the paranormal. Now, the pair – who shot to fame as Kerry and Kurtan in their BAFTA-winning mockumentary This Country – mark Halloween by reuniting for a spooky six-part series as they stay overnight in some of Britain’s most-haunted buildings. ‘Ever since we were kids, we’ve been into the paranormal and supernatural,’ explains Daisy May. ‘I think it came from being allowed to watch a lot of horror films growing up,’ adds Charlie. ‘Our mum had friends who were spiritual mediums and there was always a Ouija board lying around at home.’ The pair will be heading to properties including a remote bothy in…

THE MAIN EVENT England v Brazil The European champions roar back in Manchester LIVE FOOTBALL Saturday, kick-off 5.30pm, ITV1 Following the victorious defence of their title at the Euros in the summer, England’s Lionesses return to action for the first time since lifting the trophy with a mouth-watering game against Brazil at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium on Saturday. It’s sure to be a fascinating match-up between the European title holders and the South American champions, who England defeated on penalties in the Finalissima in 2023. As fans get the chance to celebrate England’s back-to-back Euros success, heroes Chloe Kelly, Michelle Agyemang and Hannah Hampton have been included in coach Sarina Wiegman’s 25-woman squad. Uncapped Katie Reid, Lucia Kendall and Taylor Hinds earn call-ups, with Leah Williamson, Lauren Hemp and Lauren…

Comedy PREMIERE Psycho Therapy Sky Premiere, 6.35am & 8.30pm A struggling writer (John Magaro, above) befriends a retired serial killer (played by a scene-stealing Steve Buscemi). Rugby League LIVE! England v Australia BBC1, kick-off 2.30pm Aussie skipper Isaah Yeo is set to lead his team out against England at Wembley, for the first Ashes Test in 22 years. Football LIVE! England v Brazil ITV1, kick-off 5.30pm European champions the Lionesses take on the South American champions in what should be a fascinating match-up. Game Show NEW Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel BBC1, 8.20pm The game show returns, with tonight’s celebrity experts including Joe Marler.…

Cookery NEW Mary at 90: A Lifetime of Cooking BBC2, 7.30pm Comic Tom Allen joins Dame Mary Berry as she looks back at her career in food. Football LIVE! EFL Cup: Wrexham v Cardiff City ITV1, kick-off 8pm It’s an all-Welsh encounter in this fourth-round match at the StoK Racecourse. Documentary NEW The Good Life: Inside Out U&Gold, 9pm Dame Penelope Keith enjoys the fruits of The Good Life, 50 years on from the first episode of the much-loved comedy. Documentary NEW Storyville: Welded Together BBC4, 10pm Touching documentary about a young woman caring for her baby half sister.…

Thriller PREMIERE Companion Sky Premiere, 8.10am & 8pm Jack Quaid stars in this thriller as a man who hires an AI companion (Sophie Thatcher) for a weekend getaway. Drama NEW Return to Paradise BBC1, 8pm The Death in Paradise spin-off returns, and it seems DS Mack Clarke (Anna Samson) has decided to stick around… OnDemand NEW Witches: Truth Behind the Trials Available today Docuseries looking at the witch trials in Europe and America in the 17th century. OnDemand NEW The White House Effect Available today This film looks back to the Bush administration in 1988 to 1992, and the origin story of the climate crisis.…