Tabla de contenidos para 6-Sep-25 en TV&Satellite Week

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NEW DRAMA The Rumour Wednesday-Friday, 9pm, 5 Soon to return as vet’s wife Helen Herriot in the new series of All Creatures Great and Small, Rachel Shenton takes on a very different role in 5’s five-part drama about a community that’s rocked by a vicious rumour. Shenton plays Joanna, who moves to the quiet town of Flinstead with her son, Alfie, to make a fresh start. ‘Joanna has uprooted her life from London and moved to the suburbs where her mum lives,’ says Shenton. ‘She doesn’t have a very strong sense of self and is desperate for her and Alfie to fit in and make new friends.’ As the drama begins, it’s Alfie’s first day at a new school and Joanna is starting a job as an estate agent. But…

RADIO 2 IN THE PARK: SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS Saturday, 9.10pm, BBC2 Ahead of Bryan Adams’ live performance at 10pm, daytime highlights include Belinda Carlisle, Stereophonics, Ronan Keating, Jessie J, Marti Pellow, Ella Henderson and Kid Creole and the Coconuts. RADIO 2 IN THE PARK: SUNDAY HIGHLIGHTS Sunday, 10pm, BBC2 All the best highlights from Sunday daytime, including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Olly Murs, Anastacia, Soul II Soul, Louise, Suede and David Gray. DEF LEPPARD: RADIO 2 IN THE PARK Sunday, 10.50pm, BBC2 Closing the weekend are rock-legend headliners Def Leppard, performing some of their biggest hits including Animal, Pour Some Sugar on Me and Hysteria. BEST OF RADIO 2 IN THE PARK Friday, 10.20pm, BBC4 A round-up of highlights. • There’s also live coverage on BBC iPlayer throughout the weekend.…

NEW DRAMA The Newsreader Thursday & Friday, 9pm (times vary), BBC2 (box set, BBC iPlayer) As Australian drama The Newsreader returns for its third and final season news presenters and ex-lovers Helen Norville and Dale Jennings are forced into a ratings war, which could prove ruinous for both their careers. When we last saw ‘the golden couple of news’, Dale (Sam Reid) announced their split on a TV talk show, as Helen (Anna Torv) left to cover the 1988 US election. It’s now 1989, and in the opening episode Dale is riding high at News at Six, while Helen is preparing to launch a current affairs programme, Public Eye, on a rival channel. The former dynamic duo are determined to stay friends, until Helen is blindsided by the announcement that her…

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Coldwater ITV1’s thriller stars Andrew Lincoln as a repressed dad who moves his family to Scotland. Black Rabbit Jude Law and Jason Bateman headline Netflix’s drama about troubled New York brothers. Gen V The return of Prime Video’s The Boys spin-off introduces a new Dean (Hamish Linklater). Michael Palin in Venezuela The broadcaster explores the South American country on 5. Standard Subscription rates (1 year): UK £174.99, Europe 539 Euros, USA $610, Rest of World £469. For inquiries, contact TV&Satellite Week Subscriptions, Freepost Future Plc, or email help@magazinesdirect.com. If you require any other issue/s of Future Plc magazines, these are available online at magazinesdirect.com Editorial Complaints TV&Satellite Week is a member of IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation), which regulates the UK print and digital news industry. We abide by the Editors’…

NEW COMEDY DRAMA Only Murders in the Building From Tuesday 9 September, Disney+ (first three episodes from Tuesday 9 September, then weekly) After forays into the worlds of Broadway and Tinseltown, the latest run of Disney+’s comic whodunnit Only Murders in the Building finds the amateur detectives dipping their toes into the milieus of New York mobsters and the city’s super-rich. The fifth 10-part season of the award-winning comedy drama sees the true-crime podcasters – shrewd artist Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez), nervy actor Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin) and highly strung director Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) – back on the case as they investigate the demise of Lester (Teddy Coluca), the veteran doorman at their Manhattan apartment complex The Arconia. CLOSE TO HOME Lester was found lying in a bloody fountain…

EMMERDALE John jumps off a cliff… and takes Aaron with him Having got hold of the address for John and Aaron’s remote cottage, concerned Robert rocks up and rightly accuses John of Nate’s murder. But when the brothers’ confrontation turns physical, Robert ends up unconscious. Aaron, meanwhile – who now knows that his ‘heroic’ husband is a wrong ’un – makes his escape and frantically searches for a hatch in the woods, which he believes is connected to Mack’s disappearance. But he’s unable to locate it, and is then stopped in his tracks by a gorge. What’s more, when he turns around, he’s faced with his bloodied, unhinged husband. Fearful Aaron begs John to lead him to Mack, but as John’s on the verge of calling the police to confess everything,…

LIVE The National Television Awards Wednesday, 8pm, ITV1 Some of our favourite shows and stars are among the nominations at London’s O2 Arena asJoel Dommett (pictured) hosts the annual awards show voted for by viewers. Ludwig, Rivals, Slow Horses and The Traitors are all in contention, while Netflix hit Adolescence is up for three awards, including Drama Performance nods for Stephen Graham and breakthrough star Owen Cooper. LIVE NFL Big Game Night Sunday, 5.30pm, 5 To celebrate the NFL coming to 5 on Sundays (see Sport Week, page 29), Dermot O’Leary (right) hosts a new American football-themed game show, joined by Strictly star Sam Quek and former NFL pro player Osi Umenyiora. During breaks in play, two teams will go up against each other in general knowledge questions and offbeat tasks.…

Playing Gracie Darling NEW Available: Thursday 11 September Genre: Mystery drama Season: 1 Episodes: 6 A child psychologist is forced to confront a horrific incident from her teenage past in a chilling new drama set in Australia. The White Lotus star Morgana O’Reilly plays Joni, who was 14 when her best friend Gracie Darling vanished following a séance in the 1990s. Twenty-seven years on, Gracie has never been seen since – but over the years, local teens have turned her disappearance into a copycat game named after her. The adult Joni is now working as a child psychologist, but she’s drawn back to her hometown when she’s contacted by the town’s police officer, Jay (Rudi Dharmalingam), who was also present as a teenager at the séance when Gracie disappeared. Jay has shocking news – another young girl has…

NEW FACTUAL Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams: Ultimate Test Sunday, 8.10pm, BBC1 (BBC2, N Ireland) (box set, BBC iPlayer) England legend Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff was praised in the House of Commons for his remarkable work promoting the sport he loves in Field of Dreams, the award-winning BBC series that saw him set up a youth cricket team in his home town of Preston, and then take the lads on a tour of India. Now, his inspiring campaign continues in a third series as he attempts to expand his grass roots cricket operation across the northwest of England. NEW CHALLENGES In this week’s first episode of the four-part series, the 47-year-old sets about creating a new boys team in Bootle on Merseyside, and assembling his first-ever girls team in Blackpool. The…

NEW Deadly 60 Weekdays, 6pm, CBBC & BBC iPlayer Plucky naturalist Steve Backshall is back with another series of the wildlife documentary, in which he takes a close look - usually far too close for our liking! - at some of the world’s dangerous creatures. This time around, we’re treated to some up close and personal footage of animals including jaguars, fruit bats and, probably the one we’re least excited about, the Australian funnel-web spider. Shudder. NEW Peppa Pig Weekdays, 7.35am, Milkshake! on 5 It’s all change for the Pig family in brand new episodes, with their new arrival due any day! But before baby Pig arrives, Mummy and Daddy Pig realise they’ll need more space, so start to look for a bigger home - but none of the houses…

Dominic West The actor will star alongside Sienna Miller in Sky’s London-set legal thriller War, about a tech boss and his film-star wife who are embroiled in a divorce case that pits two rival law firms against each other. Glenn Close C4’s six-part drama Maud, based on Helene Tursten’s short stories, will see the Hollywood icon play no-nonsense Maud Oldcastle, who has committed murder and will go to any lengths to hide her secret. Danny Dyer In ITV1’s game show Nobody’s Fool, the actor and his Rivals co-star Emily Atack will oversee proceedings as10 contestants in a ‘smart house’ try to convince each other of their intelligence in a bid to win up to £100,000. Coming Back Sky Atlantic’s acclaimed drama Gangs of London, which stars Sope Dirisu as troubled…

NEW CRIME DRAMA Task Monday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic Best known for playing The Hulk in the Avengers film franchise, Mark Ruffalo ditches the green giant this week to star as a grizzled and greying FBI agent in Sky Atlantic crime drama Task. From writer Brad Ingelsby, the creator of Mare of Easttown, and set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, the gritty seven-parter sees Ruffalo play beleaguered, heavy-drinking father Tom Brandis. Tom is still grappling with the fallout of his wife’s sudden death and struggling to mend his fractured relationships with his children – biological daughter Sara (Phoebe Fox) and adopted daughter Emily (Silvia Dionicio) – when he’s forced back into the field by his bureau chief (Martha Plimpton) to set up a task force investigating a string of drug-den…

NEW MUSIC Bryan Adams: Radio 2 in the Park Saturday, 10pm, BBC2 Bryan Adams zips up his leather jacket to perform live on BBC2 on Saturday night when the rock superstar takes to the stage to headline at Radio 2 in the Park. Forty-five years on from his first album, the Canadian has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and he’ll be entertaining the Chelmsford crowd with hits Run to You, Summer of ’69 and, of course, (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, which topped the UK singles charts for 16 consecutive weeks in 1991 – a record that’s never been broken. KEEPING UP THE TEMPO ‘I think you’re obliged as a performer to play [the hits], but I love it,’ he says. ‘When you play live…

NEW ENTERTAINMENT Taskmaster Thursday, 9pm, C4 Taskmaster returns for its 20th series this week, with comedians Maisie Adam, Reece Shearsmith, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ania Magliano and Phil Ellis being put through their paces by big boss Greg Davies and his assistant, ‘Little’ Alex Horne. As usual, the contestants will attempt to come up with ingenious and hilarious solutions to the mini-missions that have been set for them, while Davies evaluates their efforts and decides who has pleased him – and who has fallen disastrously short. In an exclusive interview with TV&Satellite Week, Adam, 31, reveals how she got on… Were you excited when you got the call to do Taskmaster? Massively! It’s still the show that, as a comedian, you really want to get to do. Fans love to speculate online…

THE MAIN EVENT LIVE FOOTBALL Thu 4 Sept-Tue, BBC, ITV1 & S4C With 48 countries set to feature in next summer’s expanded World Cup finals, there’s never been a better chance for all four home nations to qualify for the tournament. As Scotland and Northern Ireland begin their campaigns, and England and Wales continue their impressive starts, we look ahead to this week’s games… MISSION ACCOMPLISHED The World Cup is just nine months away, and aside from co-hosts Canada, Mexico and USA, 10 nations have already qualified for next summer’s finals which will feature 48 teams for the first time. Reigning world champions Argentina and five-time winners Brazil have both booked places on the plane, along with Ecuador, South Korea, Iran, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, plus Jordan and Uzbekistan…

A brooding new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein is coming to Netflix later this year. Penned and directed by Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro, the film streams from Friday 7 November and sees Oscar Isaac play talented but dangerously ambitious scientist Victor Frankenstein, whose dream of understanding the secrets of life leads him to create the Creature, played by Jacob Elordi. But events take a terrifying turn, which brings trauma for both Victor and his haunted monster… Mia Goth will co-star as Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor’s love interest, while Charles Dance is his domineering father Leopold, Felix Kammerer is his brother William, and Christoph Waltz is arms dealer Harlander, who funds Victor’s work. David Bradley plays an enigmatic blind man who shows the Creature kindness, and Lars Mikkelsen and…