PICKS OF THE WEEK: 05-11 MAY 2025, WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK

What to watch this week.

Silence Is Golden

Monday, U&Dave

Presented by Dermot O’Leary, the show where a studio audience is given £250,000 but there’s a green room of entertainers headed up by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri attempting to bring the prize pot down. Every single noise any audience member makes loses them all money. Each episode begins with the studio audience getting £250,000 to share between them. All they need to do to keep it...is not make a sound.

You Be The Judge: Crime & Punishment

Tuesday, 5

Exploring the British public’s view of sentencing in the UK – presented by Anne Robinson. Viewers will get to decide what sentence they think a convicted criminal offender should get – before revealing what sentence the Judge actually passed. They can also compare their judgements against four groups who will be judging along with them – retired judges, former inmates, retired police officers and relatives of crime victims.

VE Day: A Celebration To Remember

Thursday, BBC One

The finale of the VE Day 80 celebrations culminate in a live concert from Horse Guards Parade in London, presented by Zoe Ball. Alongside the stars of stage and screen who perform at the concert, veterans also tell their stories of love, loss and resilience as they share their unique experiences of VE Day, when they could finally smile again.

The Trial

Thursday, 5

Britain, 2035. When their teenage daughter Teah commits a grave crime, Dione and David Sinclair find themselves at the centre of a harrowing legal ordeal. In a public and humiliating arrest, they are thrown into the clutches of the Office of Judicial Inquisition, a powerful new branch of the Ministry of Justice. Their charge: violation of Milligan’s Law, a controversial statute that holds parents criminally responsible for the actions of their children.

Open House: The Great Sex Experiment

Friday, Channel 4

The boundary pushing social experiment returns with a new open relationships expert, a new luxury location and some exciting new format twists. Open House will continue to provoke conversations about whether monogamy is an outdated concept in modern relationships, following previously monogamous couples as they experiment in open sexual relationships for the very first time the unforgettable cast of sexually liberated Open House retreat residents.

BAFTA Television Awards

Sunday, BBC One

This year’s prestigious BAFTA Television Awards will be hosted by the multi-talented Alan Cumming. The small screen’s biggest annual event will see famous faces from series such as Rivals, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light and Mr Bates vs The Post Office, all hoping to win a coveted BAFTA mask. Plus, even more entertainment courtesy of some very special musical performances.

I Kissed A Boy

Sunday, BBC Three

Dannii Minogue is back playing cupid, and it’s the party you don’t want to miss!

Get ready for the return of the dating show, where the path to love is never straight. It’s loud, it’s proud… and it all starts with a kiss. Our single boys are matched up and meet for the first time…  But will it end in true love?