Our picks of what to watch during the week ahead. DO YOU KNOW YOUR PLACE? Monday, BBC Two Vernon Kay hosts this quiz celebrating the UK and all its quirks. Alongside him, Traitors star Paul Gorton acts as an unreliable guide, leading a daily tour packed with fun, facts and fibs.  CELEBRITY PUZZLING Monday, 5 Following a successful first series, Celebrity Puzzling returns with more fiendishly clever brainteasers, including a host of new games. Each episode sees Jeremy joined

BAFTA award winning comedian Michael McIntyre returns with his unmissable night of family entertainment filmed at London's prestigious Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Celebrities will start to get nervous as fan favourites Send to All and The Midnight Gameshow will return. If they snooze, they lose as sleepy celebs across the UK and beyond could be in for a rude awakening as Michael will be waking up more famous faces in the middle of the night to play the hilarious Midnight Gamesh

Once again hosted by father and son duo Bradley and Barney Walsh, the show will see the Gladiators competing against a brave set of contenders in the ultimate test of speed and strength. They will take part in a series of brand-new games alongside classic challenges including fan-favourite The Eliminator. In this round, Hammer puts a sock in it, Viper leaves the other Gladiators in the dark, and the Contenders take on another new, punishing event. Gladiators cont inues Saturd

Richard Osman hosts the teatime quiz where a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games. This week's contestants are Michelle Ackerley, Katie Derham, Karen Hauer and Geoff Norcott. A daily winner is declared following a quickfire round at the end of each show, and the scores are tallied across the week, resulting in an overall champion being crowned on Friday. Will the winning stars opt for the much-co

On this week’s episode of The Jonathan Ross Show, Jonathan is joined by father and daughter duo Danny and Dani Dyer, the star of Grey’s Anatomy and Ferrari, Patrick Dempsey, comedian, actor and the BRIT Awards host Jack Whitehall, plus multi award-winning musician Self Esteem will be chatting and performing in the studio. Father and daughter duo Danny and Dani Dyer join Jonathan ahead of the launch of their brand-new series The Dyers' Caravan Park as the pair endeavour to res

Britain's sharpest armchair critics are back to share more of their insightful and passionate takes on the week's biggest and best shows. Each episode is filmed over the previous seven days, covering that week’s TV and news highlights. In each household, Gogglebox will capture their instant reactions, love/hate relationships and fierce debates on the best and worst television shows of the past week – all from the comfort of their sofas. From the Saturday night juggernauts

Based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood and set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones telling the story of House Targaryen, for HBO and Sky. Cast returning for the third series include Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall, Matthew Needham, Tom Bennett, Kieran Bew, Kurt Egyiawan, Freddie Fox, Clin

The BBC have reportedly axed crime drama Virdee, which is based on the best-selling novels by AA Dhand, after one series due to low ratings. The series starred Staz Nair in the lead role of Bradford-based detective, Harry Virdee. He was joined by Aysha Kala (Criminal Record, Indian Summers) who plays Harry’s wife, Saima and Vikash Bhai (Crossfire, Limbo) as Saima’s brother, Riaz. Set and filmed entirely in Bradford, Virdee tells the story of Detective Harry Virdee, a dedicate

The BBC and SISTER have released a first look at The Split Up, a new six-part legal drama for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. With story and characters created by Ursula Rani Sarma (Bodkin, Delicious), based on The Split, created by multiple award-winning Abi Morgan (The Split, Eric). The series is produced by SISTER in association with Little Chick. The new pictures reveal the first glimpse of the Kishan Law family - set within the charged world of Manchester’s high-net-worth divor

Here's a rundown of what happens on tonight's episode of Love Island All Stars, which continues on ITV2 and ITVX. THE TRUTH HAS ENTERED THE CHAT: MAYA JAMA HAS QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERING Maya has burning questions for the Islanders from the public and first up Samie is in the hot seat as the public want to know: “Will Samie tell the truth about what Sophie said about Belle on the call…” The Islanders are shocked as Samie explains herself to Belle. When Lucinda hears the ex

Graham Norton welcomes the biggest stars of film, TV and music on to his sofa for chat, performances and comedy. Across the series the cream of the celebrity crop will delight viewers with tales from the most-talked about TV series and movies. Plus, the biggest Hollywood stars will exclusively discuss the movie moments that have kept the nation on the edge of their seats. The hottest actors, musicians, broadcasters and comedians will appear alongside stars of the stage and

Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty, 28 Weeks Later) has been cast as guest series lead in the new series of Line of Duty.  The BAFTA-winning actor will play Detective Constable Shaun Massie in the next instalment of Jed Mercurio’s hit crime thriller when it films this spring. Joining returning series leads Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar, Carlyle is the first new cast member to be announced for series seven. He follows in the footsteps of previous

The latest schedules have been confirmed for week commencing 28th February 2026. The full rundown of the new and returning programmes can be found below. Dates Confirmed The BRIT Awards (New) - Entertainment Saturday 28th February, 8:15pm, ITV1 Bill Bailey's Vietnam Adventure (New Series) - Fact Ent Saturday 28th February, 9:15pm, Channel 4 Forensics The Real CSI (New Series) - Factual Sunday 1st March, 9pm, BBC Two Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing (New Series) - Reality Monday

Having launched with over 2.4million viewers on 5 in October 2024, Ellis garnered critical acclaim for being the first black solo female-led detective series in the UK, with Sharon D Clarke receiving praise for her portrayal of DCI Ellis – a detective fighting a system rife with flaws. Series two will once again follow the DCI, played by three-time Olivier Award winner and BAFTA nominee Sharon D Clarke, a tenacious cop who, along with her right-hand man DS Harper, played by A

The Sun newspaper has revealed that a pilot for a new dating format was filmed last year, and reports that it's set to be commissioned for a full series. Titled 100 Day Split, it will feature young couples who may have 'the itch', with the show allowing them to spend time apart to discover if they are still as committed to each other as they once were. The pairs will mingle with each other and face challenges to test their relationship across the series. Meanwhile, earlier t

Channel 5 have announced a special week of The X-Files from Monday 2nd March, with episodes airing daily at 10pm. Monday 2nd March S1E1 Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work on a special project called The X-Files. While he is a believer in the paranormal - fuelled by a lost memory where his sister was abducted by aliens - she is a scientist and prefers to look for rational, logical explanations. Their first case takes them

The BBC has commissioned a slate of new shows to mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, on Friday 8 May, and will be showcasing some of the finest programmes from his extraordinary seven-decade career in a week-long celebration of his work and legacy. Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure In 1976, production began on David Attenborough's Life on Earth. No-one had ever attempted a natural history series on this scale before. This is the remarkable stor

A bold new series which takes eight pairs of strangers with completely opposed opinions, beliefs, lifestyles, and bad habits, and handcuffs them together 24/7 in the ultimate test of survival. The couples will be handcuffed together through thick and thin, as they navigate eating, dressing and even sleeping just inches apart. Shackled around the clock, the pairs will be sent on a road trip across our beautiful nation, in the hope they find common ground along the way.  If a p

Can You Keep a Secret?, the hit sitcom starring Dawn French, will return to BBC iPlayer and BBC One after a stellar first run, where the series launch captivated audiences of 5.3 million across 28-days. The series landed as the third biggest comedy launch on BBC iPlayer since 2024 with an audience of 3.3 million (62% of the audience) across 28-days (behind Ludwig 5.5 million and Amandaland 4.3 million). Created and written by Simon Mayhew-Archer, and Big Talk Studios, Mayhay

Here's a rundown of what happens on tonight's episode of Love Island All Stars, which continues on ITV2 and ITVX. SERVING UP STATS: THE ISLANDERS FACE THE NUMBERS AS THEY GET ANSWERS TO THEIR BURNING QUESTIONS It’s a new day in the Villa and Scott gets a text revealing that the Islanders are getting a chance to ask the public some questions.  In their pairs, they will get to ask one question about their own couple and one question about another couple.  Scott reveals to the g

No Strings Attached, formerly titled The Really Rude Puppet Show, will not be returning for a second series on Channel 4, TV Zone understands. The show, which aired on E4 despite being commissioned for Channel 4's main channel, debuted last Autumn, nearly three years since it was filmed. Each episode saw host Mel Giedroyc invite different celebrity guests to an intimate book club for two. The guests were handed an erotic fantasy story, in which they are the lead protagonist,

The latest 7-day consolidated ratings for programmes shown or released for the last week have been released by BARB. The top-50 breakdown can be found on BARB's website here . In the first week of the year without The Traitors, the BBC continued to dominate the week with 7 of the top-10 shows. The series finale of The Night Manager topped the week with 6,088,900 on Sunday night. It was preceded by Call The Midwife with 6,049,700. The return of Death In Paradise was watched by

Here's a rundown of what happens on tonight's episode of Love Island All Stars, which continues on ITV2 and ITVX. WHITNEY AND YAMEN UNCORK THEIR FEELINGS ON THEIR VINEYARD DATE Still enjoying their Vineyard date, Yamen tells Whitney: “If us coming in last [in the game] lead to us going home, I would have been perfectly fine, I got what I needed out of this…I got my ‘ting’, I know we like each other…we’re good to go!” Whitney adds: “I’ve always been like, ‘I don’t have a type’

Get ready to soak up some Mediterranean sunshine in the first-look pictures for witty and painfully relatable eight-part drama series Two Weeks in August, coming soon to BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Made by the multi-award-winning Various Artists Limited (I May Destroy You, Such Brave Girls) the series follows a group of friends reuniting for a summer holiday. Written and created by Catherine Shepherd (Sally4Ever, The Shrink Next Door), Two Weeks in August is a story about friend