Innholdsfortegnelse for 10-Jan-26 i TV&Satellite Week

NEW SCI-FI Star Trek: Starfleet Academy From Thu 15 Jan, Paramount+ (first two eps from 15 Jan, then weekly) The best and the brightest from across the galaxy are boldly going to the 32nd century in a Star Trek spin-off set among Starfleet Academy’s next generation of leaders. The 10-part series is based in the same time period where Star Trek: Discovery left off and stars Holly Hunter as the captain of the USS Athena, Nahla Ake. ‘I used to watch Star Trek with my father when I was eight years old. It’s extraordinary that this story is still being told and people have a hunger for it,’ says Oscar-winning The Piano star Hunter, 67. ‘The pull of that was exotic and interesting, but so was the challenge of playing…

NEW Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens Fri, 8pm, BBC2 (box set, BBC iPlayer) Born in Germany, green-fingered guru Monty Don is best known as the lead presenter of Gardeners’ World (inset), which he joined in 2003. He is a regular on the BBC’s annual coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and has previously explored some of the world’s most beautiful and historic gardens in travels to a range of countries including American, France, Italy, India andJapan. HIS NEW SHOW Now aged 70, Don travels through Switzerland, France, Austria and Germany as he visits extraordinary gardens along the Rhine from the Alps to the North Sea. Highlights include Haldenstein Castle, now home to an abundance of roses, and the island garden of Mainau in Germany, which boasts world-famous blooms and a…

Assassin’s Creed Lola Petticrew (above), Zachary Hart and Toby Wallace will star in Netflix’s live-action version of the video game, which centres on a battle throughout history to determine whether humanity should be controlled or have free will. Down Cemetery Road Apple TV’s crime drama, based on Mick Herron’s novels, will return for a second run with Dame Emma Thompson (above) and Ruth Wilson back as private investigator Zoë Boehm and art conservator Sarah Trafford. One Attempt Remaining In Netflix’s comedy, Jennifer Garner (above) will play a woman who, after a bitter divorce, must reunite with her ex when they learn that the cryptocurrency they won years before could yield them a fortune. But can they remember their password?…

Pole to Pole with Will Smith NEW Available: Wednesday 14 January Genre: Travelogue Season: 1 Episodes: 7 It’s ‘around the world in 100 days’ for Hollywood actor Will Smith, as he embarks on a mammoth global adventure across seven continents for his visually stunning new series, Pole to Pole with Will Smith. Venturing 26,000 miles from the South Pole to the North Pole, he experiences all the Earth’s biomes – polar ice, desert, jungle, mountain, savannah and swamp – while also learning what it’s like to live in some of the world’s most extreme landscapes. ‘As a little boy, I always wanted to be an explorer,’ says the 57-year-old Men in Black and King Richard actor. ‘I had a mentor named Dr Allen Counter, who was a brilliant scientist and a fearless explorer. He was always going on…

COMEDY DRAMA Choke Disney+ Sam Rockwell stars as a scuzzy, sex-addicted conman who pays for the hospital bills of his sick old mother (Anjelica Huston) by pretending to choke on food in posh restaurants and playing on the sympathies of those who try to rescue him to get money out of them. Director Clark Gregg’s dark-hued comedy drama is extremely intelligent, confident and clever, based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club. 2008, 18, 88MIN MYSTERY CHILLER The Empty Man Disney+ This strange and mysterious horror begins with a bizarre 20-minute prologue before we get to the meat of the tale, in which ex-cop James Badge Dale searches for his neighbour’s missing teen daughter. But his journey takes a multitude of bizarre turns… Despite a hefty…

Football LIVE! FA Cup: Third Round BBC1, TNT Sports & Discovery+ Premier League and Championship clubs enter the competition, with ties including Wolves against Shrewsbury Town. Travelogue NEW Tour de Fred - Ireland: Part Deux ITV1, 12.30pm Fred Sirieix continues his Irish odyssey, cycling around the scenic Co Wexford. Music NEW Paul Young at the BBC BBC2, 8.45pm A selection of archive performances ahead of the Every Time You Go Away singer’s 70th birthday on 17 January. Drama Waiting for the Out BBC1, 9.35pm While on a rare night out with his brother, Dan (Josh Finan) is drawn into a tense search to help one of the inmates.…

FREE TO AIR TLC Sky Channel 133/134, Virgin 113/128, Freeview 12, Freesat 144, Freely 17 The channel is free to air from today, with programmes including Young Sheldon. Football LIVE! EFL Cup: Semi-Final ITV1, Sky Sports Main Event & Sky Sports Football Defending champions Newcastle play Man City in their semi-final first leg. Documentary NEW Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith More4, 9pm The Good Life actor looks at the work that goes into maintaining stately homes. OnDemand NEW Tell Me Lies Available today The drama returns for season three, and Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen have rekindled their relationship.…

Travelogue NEW Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens BBC2, 8pm (box set, BBC iPlayer) Monty takes a trip along the river Rhine, stopping on the way at an alpine garden. Documentary David Baddiel: Cat Man C4, 8pm The writer and comedian argues the case for cats, who are in his opinion, severely underrepresented compared to dogs. Entertainment NEW Taskmasterclass C4, 10pm Greg Davies and his minion Alex Horne analyse past tasks, including Romesh Ranganathan’s ‘Tree Wizard’ task. NEW The Rip Available today Matt Damon (right) and Ben Affleck star as Miami cops facing a moral dilemma when they unearth a huge cash stash.…

NEW THRILLER Hijack From Wednesday 14 January, Apple TV (released weekly) Idris Elba picked up an Emmy nomination for his tour de force performance as master negotiator Sam Nelson in the first series of Apple TV thriller Hijack – and this week he’s back in the firing line. After foiling a terrorist plot on board a packed jumbo jet last time out, in the eight-part second series Sam finds himself battling for control of a packed subway train on Berlin’s U-Bahn. IN HARM’S WAY At the start of this week’s opening episode, Sam arrives in the snowswept German capital for a meeting at the British Embassy, after pestering them for an audience for several months. But when he boards the subway to begin his journey on the city’s underground, it…

The Rip NEW Available: Friday 16 January Genre: Thriller Hollywood powerhouse duo and long-time friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck join forces again for an explosive thriller on Netflix. Inspired by true events, The Rip follows morally questionable cops operating in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, and centres on a tactical narcotics team who are reeling from the murder of one of their own officers when they receive a tip-off about a stash house in the city of Hialeah. Led by Lieutenant Dane Dumars (Damon), they arrive to find Desi Lopez Molina (Sasha Calle) claiming it’s her dead grandmother’s house. But when Dane and his right-hand man, Detective Sergeant JD Byrne (Affleck), uncover more than $20 million in cash, the stakes instantly skyrocket. Required by law to count the cash at the scene, the crew spirals as…

The Night Manager Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) is running a low-key surveillance operation in the second season of BBC1’s espionage drama, but after he spots a face from the past, he tries to infiltrate the life of a Colombian businessman. Amadeus Sky Atlantic’s take on Peter Shaffer’s play sees musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Will Sharpe) arrive in 18th-century Vienna. But fellow composer Antonio Salieri (Paul Bettany) views him as a threat and plots against him. Red Eye The return of ITV1’s thriller finds DS Hana Li (Jing Lusi) investigating the death of a diplomatic courier. When she attends an embassy reception, she faces further danger and a reunion with ex-colleague Clay Brody (Martin Compston). Wild London In BBC1’s documentary showcasing wildlife in the capital, cameras follow pigeons taking a…

NEW TRAVELOGUE Lorraine Kelly’s Norwegian Odyssey Thursday, 8pm, C4 Lorraine Kelly is kicking 2026 off by swapping her TV-studio sofa for a snow-capped Scandinavian adventure when the daytime presenter goes in search of sea eagles and the Northern Lights in a new three-part C4 series, Lorraine Kelly’s Norwegian Odyssey. ‘I’ve wanted to do travel shows since I was a kid, but I’ve never had the opportunity,’ says the 66-year-old, who travels more than 1,000 miles through Norway’s epic landscape, where she discovers the local culture, history and food. ‘Growing up in Scotland, I was fascinated by tales from across the water – of Viking longboats and Norse warriors and really wanted to meet my northern neighbours.’ Her travels start at the gateway to the fjords in Ålesund. She sails through…

Football LIVE! FA Cup: Third Round TNT Sports & Discovery+ Including Derby County v Leeds United, Portsmouth v Arsenal, West Ham v QPR and Hull City v Blackburn Rovers. Snooker LIVE! The Masters BBC2, BBC4 & TNT Sports, from 12.45pm Day one of the event from Alexandra Palace, with defending champion Shaun Murphy (above) facing China’s Wu Yize. Drama NEW Call the Midwife BBC1, 8pm Following on from the Christmas special in Hong Kong, we’re back in Poplar, with the nurses fighting for women’s rights. OnDemand NEW Grosse Pointe Garden Society Available today AnnaSophia Robb stars in this drama about members of a gardening club digging into a murder mystery.…

Documentary NEW How to Keep Your Brain Young 5, 7pm Dr Amir Khan examines ways we can boost our brain power, whatever our age. Factual NEW Landscape Artist of the Year Sky Arts, 8pm Stephen Mangan hosts as the painting contest begins in the Lake District. OnDemand NEW Hijack Available today Idris Elba returns as negotiator Sam Nelson, who is swept up in a crisis when the subway train he is on in Berlin is hijacked. OnDemand NEW Pole to Pole with Will Smith Also on Nat Geo, 8pm & 9pm The Hollywood actor sets off on an epic journey across the globe.…

The Revenge Club Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 6 Six strangers bond at a divorce support group and decide to carry out acts of revenge on each other’s exes, but things don’t go according to plan and it’s clear from the start that retribution comes at a terrible price. The starry cast includes Line of Duty’s Martin Compston, Slow Horses’ Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Shetland’s Douglas Henshall and Mrs Sidhu Investigates’ Meera Syal, who ably convey the damaging effects of hurt and betrayal in an entertaining thriller with a vein of dark humour running through its six episodes. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Genre: Thriller Episodes: One-off Josh O’Connor shines in a sparkling cast as a priest in Upstate New York, as Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig, right) investigates a murder. Taylor Swift: The End of an Era…

Tell Me Lies NEW Available: Tuesday 13 January Genre: Drama Season: 3 Episodes: 8 (first two episodes from 13 January, then weekly) Steamy US drama Tell Me Lies returns to Disney+ this week with a third helping of scandalous secrets and breathtaking betrayals as we follow on/off couple Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco and their pals at the fictional Baird College in Upstate New York. The drama picks up just as Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen (Jackson White) have rekindled their tumultuous romance in time for spring term. Although the pair promise things will be different this time, indiscretions resurface and Lucy becomes embroiled in a controversy. The new season also explores how the pair’s best friends – including Wrigley (Spencer House), who blames himself for the death of his brother, and Bree (Catherine Missal), who discovered her…

The Borgias Saturday 10 January All three seasons of the historical drama from 2011-13 starring Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia, patriarch of the powerful Borgia family in Renaissanceera Italy who schemes his way to become Pope Alexander VI in 1492. Previously shown on Sky Atlantic. Grosse Pointe Garden Society Sunday 11 January Drama starring Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Melissa Fumero. Four members of a suburban garden club get entangled in a murder and bury the body in the club’s communal garden. But when there are plans to dig up the garden, they must find a way to move the corpse. Also airing two episodes weekly on ITV2. See feature, page 16. Tell Me Lies Tuesday 13 January In the drama’s third season, Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White)…

MOVIE OF THE WEEK MOVIE OF SISU Road to Revenge Jorma Tommila’s one-man army returns to take on sadistic Soviet Stephen Lang ACTION THRILLER Available now, buy or rent from digital stores including Prime Video and Sky Store Rarely has the phrase ‘it does what it says on the tin’ been more appropriate than in this blast ’em up action sequel to savour. A superb Jorma Tommila lets his expressive face do the talking as the strong, silent hero who, in 1946 on the Finnish/Soviet border, returns to his house where his family was massacred during the war. Dismantling his home plank by plank, he loads the entire house on a lorry and sets off to find a safe place to live. However, danger lies ahead in the form of scene-stealing Stephen Lang’s…

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Football LIVE! FA Cup: Third Round TNT Sports 1, kick-off 7.45pm Can Liverpool avoid a potential giant-killing by League One side Barnsley - the 1912 FA Cup champions - tonight? Cookery NEW Jamie’s Feast for a Fiver C4, 8pm As we try to recoup some of the expense from the festive period, Jamie is here to help with some budget-friendly recipes. Documentary NEW Beauty Queen and the Catfish BBC3, 9pm, 9.45pm & 10.30pm Abbie Draper (above) talks about her experience of being harassed online. Drama NEW Industry BBC1, 10.40pm (times vary) As the drama returns for a fourth series, Sir Henry’s (Kit Harington) new marriage to Yasmin (Marisa Abela) is under strain.…

Travelogue NEW Lorraine Kelly’s Norwegian Odyssey C4, 8pm The presenter explores Norway, starting in Alesund, the gateway to the fjords. Entertainment NEW Rob & Romesh vs Team GB: Winter Special Sky Max & Sky Showcase, 9pm The pair try out winter sports, including curling, ahead of next month’s Olympics. OnDemand NEW Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials Available today Set in the 1920s, a star-studded cast including Martin Freeman star in this adaptation. OnDemand NEW Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Available today A new sci-fi drama set in the Star Trek universe follows a group of cadets at the Academy.…