PICKS OF THE MONTH: JUNE 2024

What to watch this month.

Lost Boys And Fairies

BBC One

Queer performance artist extraordinaire Gabriel and his partner Andy long to adopt a child. But Gabriel’s own history of childhood trauma threatens to completely derail the process.

Doctor Who

BBC One

Series continues. The new season of Doctor Who will see Ncuti Gatwa return as the Fifteenth Doctor, alongside Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, it comes after they made their highly acclaimed debut on Christmas Day in The Church on Ruby Road. Within the upcoming series, audiences will see the Doctor and Ruby travel through time and space on adventures to unknown lands, to the Regency era in England, to outer space worlds and the sixties.

UEFA Euro 2024

BBC One and ITV1

Gary Lineker, Gabby Logan, Mark Chapman and Alex Scott lead comprehensive coverage across TV and radio, and will be joined by a host of England, Scotland and European stars including the likes of Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard, Cesc Fabregas, Micah Richards, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Williams, Ellen White, Rachel Corsie and James McFadden.

Glastonbury Festival

BBC iPlayer

The BBC presents more Glastonbury coverage with both live and on-demand.

Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace

ITV1

Presenters Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell are there to support the foundlings who were abandoned as babies but do not want to be defined simply by how they started their lives - however, they have questions which are left when you have no clue as to who your birth parents were or why they left you

Soccer Aid For UNICEF

ITV1

The show will be hosted by Dermot O’Leary and Alex Scott - up in the commentary box, ITV’s voice of football Sam Matterface will once again be joined by the voice of Love Island Iain Stirling and returning stars to the Soccer Aid field this year include Usain Bolt, Jill Scott, Tom Grennan, Alex Brooker, Stephen Bartlett and Danny Dyer amongst others.

Love Island

ITV2

The Islanders must do their best to flirt, date, and couple up in a bid to avoid being ‘dumped’ from the Island - heads may turn with new arrivals, but others will prove their true feelings. From romance and heart-to-hearts to betrayal, bombshells and broken hearts, there’s never a dull moment in the ultimate search for love

Tell Me Everything

ITV2

Picking up where the series left off in series 1, we discover that Jonny and his family have moved to Hitchin – a new house, new college, and a fresh start. Jonny is continuing his journey of recovery, and has started to make friends with other students at college - Naisha, Dylan, Ella and Bex.

Queenie

Channel 4

Queenie is a razor-sharp, utterly honest, blisteringly funny and achingly yet beautifully relatable series, full of as much heart and soul as the lady herself. At its core, it’s a story about a young Black woman’s value and the unrelenting trials and tribulations of life.

Bake Off: The Professionals

Channel 4

The toughest Bake Off on television welcomes six teams from top hotels, restaurants and small businesses who will battle it out for their place in the competition. Once again, judges Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin set a pair of exceedingly tricky challenges.

Celebrity Gogglebox

Channel 4

Featuring a rolling cast of famous faces, some of Britain’s best loved personalities turn their hand to being the country’s most opinionated viewers for a brand new six-part series of Celebrity Gogglebox. From Saturday night entertainment juggernauts to the week's biggest news stories, from hard-hitting documentary series to gritty drama,

I Literally Just Told You

Channel 4

In each episode four contestants have the opportunity to compete for a cash prize of up to £25,000 by answering questions that have been written live as the show is being filmed. The questions can be about absolutely anything that happens during the show, from a celebrity cameo to an off the cuff joke or even something one of the contestants has shared about themselves. 

House Of The Dragon

Sky Atlantic

Returning cast includes Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, and Rhys Ifans. Additional returning cast includes Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall, and Matthew Needham.