The top TV to watch this week chosen by our experts – from BBC’s The Listeners to I’m a Celebrity
FROM the return of I’m A Celebrity to Return to Paradise’s UK debut, this week has a wide selection of telly options.
Check out the top picks from our experts below!
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! – Sunday, 9pm, ITV1
A new batch of campmates enter the I’m A Celebrity jungle[/caption]It’s that time of year again as Ant and Dec head Down Under to welcome a brand new batch of famous campmates to jungle life.
TV Mag’s cover star – former Strictly Come Dancing pro turned Dancing on Ice judge Oti Mabuse – leads the line-up, which includes WAG Coleen Rooney, singer Tulisa, Corrie’s Alan Halsall, McFly’s Danny Jones, Loose Women’s Jane Moore among others.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll watch the VIPs bond, no doubt bicker over the cooking, and take it in turns to try to win food for camp in a series of scary or gross Bushtucker Trials.
Plus, don’t miss the brand new sister show, I’m A Celebrity…Unpacked, hosted by Joel Dommett, Sam Thompson and Kemi Rodgers, which airs weeknights on ITV2.
The best reality show on the box.
Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story – Sunday, 9pm, BBC2
Keanu Reeves hosts four-part series Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 story[/caption]Critics of Formula 1 often accuse it of being predictable.
But few would have foreseen what happened in 2009, when a new, independent racing team – Brawn – won the World Championship, beating giants like Ferrari and McLaren.
Presented by Keanu Reeves, this four-part series – previously available on Disney+ – talks to the people who made this unlikely victory possible, including team boss Ross Brawn and driver Jenson Button, who also scooped the Driver’s Championship.
The Winter King – Tuesday (November 19), 11.05pm, ITV1,
Agents of Shield star Iain de Caestecker stars in this Arthur legend retelling[/caption]Based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Warlord Chronicles trilogy of novels, this retelling of the King Arthur legend is set in the Dark Ages when the Saxons invaded Britain.
Iain De Caestecker stars as exiled warlord Arthur Pendragon, illegitimate son of King Uther who banished him when another of his sons dies.
But now he’s back as tensions simmer around the country. It’s no dull historical retread, more Game Of Thrones than The Sword In The Stone.
Epic!
Paddy: The Ride of My Life – Tuesday, 8pm, BBC1
TV favourite Paddy McGuinness is taking on an arduous challenge – for a good cause[/caption]We know from Top Gear that Paddy McGuinness is game for most things.
But, the TV personality and Radio 2 host didn’t take into account just how arduous a 300-mile bike ride from Wrexham to Glasgow – via Flintshire, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Dumfriesshire and Lanarkshire – would be.
This proven by the fact that it was his idea to do it on a 1980s-style Raleigh Chopper!
Still, it’s all for a very good cause – Children In Need – and Paddy’s resolve to complete the challenge is documented in this one-off programme that charts his journey every pedal of the way.
Go Paddy!
Cheaters – Tuesday, 9.45pm, BBC1
Joshua McGuire and Susan Wokoma return for more Cheaters[/caption]It’s six months on, and Josh (Joshua McGuire) and Fola (Susan Wokoma) are a couple, though maybe he’s keener to move things along than she is.
Esther (Callie Cooke) returns from her travels with a boyfriend in tow, though is she really over Josh?
Zack (Jack Fox), meanwhile, is renting a room in a house owned by a perfectly lovely suburban couple. Or are they?
The series is as saucy as ever, so be warned!
The Listeners – Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1
Rebecca Hall and Ollie West star in The Listeners[/caption]In this new drama, school teacher Claire (Rebecca Hall) thinks she’s going mad because she can hear a constant noise which nobody else can.
She becomes obsessed with finding the source of the low-level humming in this new drama.
Medical tests draw a blank and family life and her work begins to suffer.
But when her pupil Kyle (Ollie West) tells her he knows what’s troubling her and that he can hear the noise too, the pair embark on a secret journey to find its source.
This leads them into the company of others who can also hear it and believe they are the “chosen few”.
What exactly are they getting into?
A disquieting tale that will have you scratching your head as you try to work out what the heck is going on!
After The Party – Wednesday, 9pm, Channel 4
Peter Mullan and Robyn Malcolm star in gritty drama After The Party[/caption]Peter Mullan stars in this New Zealand-set drama about a sports teacher whose wife accuses him of being a paedophile – and no one believes her.
Seen through the eyes of accuser Penny (Robyn Malcolm), she’s horrified when she finds her husband in bed with a boy at a party and publicly accuses him of sexually molesting him.
But because no one’s buying it, she alienates friends and family and he heads off back to Scotland.
Then, after five years away, Phil returns like nothing ever happened, moving in with his daughter Grace and her baby son.
Incensed, Penny is determined to prove he’s a wrong ‘un.
A gritty story of one woman’s crusade falling on deaf ears, and how she’s prepared to risk everything she holds dear to prove her point.
Return to Paradise – Friday, 8pm, BBC1
Death in Paradise’s new spin-off takes the action to Australia[/caption]Death In Paradise’s second spin-off moves the action to the coast near Sydney where typically, a businessman’s washed up on the beach with a knife in his back within two minutes.
Detective Colin Cartwright (Ted Lasso’s Lloyd Griffith) thinks he’s in charge, but his boss says they need someone more senior.
Enter DI Mackenzie Clarke (Anna Samson), who’s left the Met in London under a cloud.
And she’s not welcomed back to her hometown with open arms.
“You never worried about anyone liking you, did you, Mackenzie Clarke?” snaps one witness.
That’s after a local cab driver refused to drive her, yelling “I can’t believe you came back, after what you did. Get out!”
It turns out she quit town after leaving her fiance at the altar.
So guess who the pathologist on the case is?
Only Child – Friday, 9.30pm, BBC1
Only Child sees Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh team up[/caption]Subjects like grief and pensioners losing the plot don’t sound like a barrel of laughs, but they’re handled beautifully here as comedy legend Gregor Fisher teams up with Fresh Meat’s Greg McHugh.
Actor Richard Pritchard has a part in a daytime drama until his agent (a voice only cameo for Jennifer Saunders) casually tells him the show’s over, while he’s back in Scotland visiting recently widowed dad Ken, who’s struggling.
Soon Richard’s battling bank call centres for hours about his dad’s forgotten passwords and diffusing tension with Ken’s neighbours.
But could being stuck with dad at least lead to romance for Richard?
I'm A Celebrity 2024
As the hit ITV show enters into its 24th series, a brand new batch of famous faces look set to enter the Aussie jungle once again to face terrifying Bushtucker Trials and living amongst the critters in camp in order to come out on top and be crowned King or Queen of the Jungle. The Sun's Jake Penkethman takes a look at the stars heading Down Under this year...