

The Staircase | Preview (ITV1)
Sky drama The Staircase, starring BAFTA and Academy Award winner Colin Firth (Kingsman: The Golden Circle, A Single Man) as Michael Peterson and Toni Collette (Knives Out, Muriel’s Wedding) as Kathleen Peterson, comes to ITV1. Co-produced by Annapurna Television, the eight episode limited series is written and executive produced by showrunners Antonio Campos (The Devil All The Time, Christine) and Maggie Cohn (Versace). Campos also directs six episodes, with Leigh Janiak dire


The Crow Girl | Series 2 Preview (Paramount+)
THE CROW GIRL series 2, with Eve Myles (The Guest, Gone) and Katherine Kelly (Mr Bates vs The Post Office, In Flight) reprising their roles as DCI Jeanette Kilburn and Dr. Sophia Craven in the riveting thriller. Season 2 sees DCI Jeanette Kilburn's hunt for the killers of young male asylum seekers take a shocking new turn, as a mummified body discovered in a church wall, and a body in a freezer, reveal a chilling connection. As Jeanette digs deeper, Dr. Sophia Craven begins t


The Hit List | Series 9 Preview (BBC One)
Popular BBC One music quiz The Hit List, which sees teams compete for £10,000, will return to screens for an eighth series. The Hit List produced by the award-winning Tuesday’s Child Scotland returns for its ninth series and the music‑fuelled competition is more addictive than ever. Hosts Marvin and Rochelle Humes each Saturday put three pairs of music‑loving contestants through their paces in a fast‑paced quiz that tests their ability to recognise the biggest hits from acros


Deal Or No Deal | Celebrity Specials Preview (ITV1)
The hit daytime gameshow returns with a run of primetime celebrity specials, once again presented by Stephen Mulhern. Deal or No Deal sees contestants opening the iconic red boxes as they try to win a life-changing cash prize in a nail-biting game of nerves and intuition, but standing in their way is the Banker ready to unnerve, entice and outwit our players. With tensions running high in the studio, who will have what it takes to beat the Banker? Deal or No Deal first launch


Oti And Richard's South African Odyssey | Preview (Channel 4)
This is a four-part series about coming home - but also seeing home with new eyes. Oti Mabuse left South Africa at 21 to pursue a life in dance. Now, she’s heading back – older, bolder, and full of questions. What’s changed? What’s stayed the same? And how well do you really know the place you were born once you’ve lived most of your life away from it? But she’s not doing it alone. Joining her is her brilliantly unexpected bestie: Reverend Richard Coles – priest, pop star, ph


Pompeii: Out Of Time with Tom Hiddleston | Preview (Disney+)
Host and Loki star Tom Hiddleston and Loki executive producer Kevin R. Wright reunite for the series, a fusion of cinematic scripted drama and investigative documentary storytelling that transports audiences to ancient Rome in the hours before and during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Guided by a team of archaeologists, historians, geologists and disaster experts, he uncovers remarkable evidence — and the stories of real people that challenge long-held assumptions about Pom


Johnny Vegas' Little Shop Of Antiques | Series 2 Preview (Quest)
Quest fans can look forward to more of Johnny Vegas' Little Shop of Antiques as series two airs this summer. In a follow up to the successful first season, Johnny is thinking bigger, better and more business savvy as the 8x60 series, produced by Plum Pictures, shows him betting on himself to see if he can turn his corner of Dagfields into something truly special, even branching out into the world of online sales (despite being, by his own admission, not remotely tech savvy!).


The Curse Of Love Island | Preview (Prime Video)
A revelatory look at the darker side of reality TV through the lens of the three tragic suicides linked to Love Island. Blending personal testimony, expert insight and insider accounts, this series explores the psychological toll of instant fame, relentless public scrutiny and the responsibility of an industry built on turning ordinary people into entertainment. Through the stories of former contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis, who died by suicide within two years


The Undeclared War | Series 2 Preview (Channel 4)
Second series of The Undeclared War, a six-part cyber-thriller written by Colin Teevan (Das Boot, Rebellion) and all episodes directed by Paul McGuigan (Sherlock, Inside Man). Simon Pegg (Mission Impossible, Star Trek) returns as Danny Patrick, Director of Operations at GCHQ (U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters). Siân Brooke (Blue Lights, Trying) joins the series as Barbara Patrick, Danny’s wife, ex-MI6 and now an analyst at GCHQ. Set in 2024, The Undeclared War ret


PICKS OF THE WEEK: 20-26th JULY 2026, WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK
Our picks of what to watch during the week ahead. THE UNDECLARED WAR Tuesday, Channel 4 Set in 2024, immediately after the end of season one, the team in the Malware Department at GCHQ come to terms with a massive Russian cyber-attack. But just as the British finally gain the upper hand, Danny and his team realise that Russia were not the real architects of the attack. They have a new adversary who is set to attack. And not only that, but the team realise that they have a mo


The Hairdresser Mysteries | Preview (BBC One)
The Hairdresser Mysteries, the new crime drama starring Sally Phillips created by internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Jim Cartwright (Road, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise, King of the Teds) and produced by Mill Bay Media. Infused with an upbeat 1970s spirit, the nostalgic crime drama stars Sally Phillips as hairdresser, Lily Petal who opts out of the competitive city scene to buy a small village hairdressing salon at


The Great British Sewing Bee | Series 12 Preview (BBC One)
The Great British Sewing Bee returns with brand-new host Sophie Willan. Over ten weeks, 12 of the country’s best home sewers compete to be crowned winner of the Sewing Bee crown. In the opening week, judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young set three challenges on the theme of the British summer. First up, the Pattern Challenge sees them crafting summer shorts with a patch pocket. Next, in the 90-minute Transformation Challenge, barbecue aprons become bags. Finally, there is a Sew


Lucky | Preview (Apple TV)
The pulse-pounding new limited series starring and executive produced by Golden Globe Award winner, SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Anya Taylor-Joy. Featuring a star-studded ensemble cast that also includes Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Drew Starkey, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Fichtner. Written by Jonathan Tropper and Cassie Pappas and based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel, “Lucky” centers on a young woman (Anya Taylor-Joy) who l


Murder Case: The Digital Detectives | Series 2 Preview (Channel 4)
The next generation crime series is returning for an extended second series, revealing the ground-breaking police techniques used to solve murders on Britain's streets. In the first episode of the new series, digital forensics uncover the months of online escalation of a fascination with blades that led to the murder of 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose. In February 2025, the teenager was stabbed twice in the chest by his former friend Umar Khan in the courtyard of their Sheffield




























































