PICKS OF THE WEEK: 06-12 OCTOBER 2025, WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK

Our picks of what to watch during the week ahead.

The Inner Circle

Weekdays, BBC One

Amanda Holden hosts this exciting quiz show, packed with strategy, high stakes and surprises. Six players are each randomly assigned a secret stash of cash, anything between zero and a whopping £4,000. The twist? Each player only knows their own value before being thrown into a battle of wits, nerve and strategic gameplay across a series of challenging rounds.

Worlds Apart

Tuesday, Channel 4

In the ultimate treasure hunt across Japan, six young brits who have never travelled alone have been paired with pensioners who thought they’d never travel again. Chasing clues and trying to overcome the generation gap to win a life changing cash prize. Can they stay in the game… or will they be Worlds Apart?

Murder Before Evensong

Tuesday, 5

Canon Daniel Clement, introverted Rector of Champton, has his life turned upside-down when his difficult mother Audrey arrives unannounced. And Daniel upsets the applecart himself by proposing the installation of a lavatory in the church, to widespread consternation.

But a more serious challenge lies in wait for Daniel when he stumbles upon the body of his parishioner, Anthony Bowness, cousin of Lord de Floures, who was researching Champton’s history during the war. Daniel is forced to delve under the veneer of village life, questioning who he can trust, and, when threats are made against him, whether he himself was the intended murder victim.

Film Club

Tuesday, BBC Three

For Evie (Aimee Lou Wood), film club is her weekly escape – a chance to create a world of wonder, deck her mum’s garage out in whatever the movie calls for, and spend a few uninterrupted hours with her best friend Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan).

It’s Friday night. 7pm. Film club Week 198. Evie hasn’t left the house in six months after a ‘wobble’, and tonight, things are different. Noa’s got big news.

Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Tuesday, Sky Max

Host Greg Davies returns as the ringmaster of rock n’ roll, joined by team captains Noel Fielding and Sophie Willan, regular panellist Jamali Maddix, and, back by popular demand, special themed episodes featuring guest captains. On the playlist this time are episodes devoted to the 1980s, 90’s Pop and fresh from the summer of Oasis, a battle between Britpop and Madchester.

The Celebrity Traitors

Wednesday, BBC One

Claudia Winkleman greets a group of celebrities as they arrive at a beautiful castle in the Scottish Highlands to play the ultimate reality game of detection, back-stabbing and trust. It’s not long before the famous faces are questioning everything and everyone as Claudia secretly assigns the Traitors.

Dreaming Whilst Black

Thursday, BBC Three

The new season of Dreaming Whilst Black finds Kwabena at the start of his professional career in a new era: the age of diversity, equity and inclusion, where empowering marginalised voices are seemingly at the top of everyone's agenda.

Whilst the entertainment industry might look progressive from the outside, it doesn't feel that way to Kwabs. Desperate to work on a project that aligns with his values, he manages to secure a directing job for major TV series Sin and Subterfuge – a genre-busting period drama, helmed by the iconic black producer Bridgette Julienne.

The 1% Club

Saturday, ITV1

Imagine a game show where an eight-year-old has as much chance of winning as an 80-year-old or where intelligence isn’t based on how many exams you passed, but is all about how your brain works - The 1% Club is a unique, compelling and funny gameshow that tests the nation’s intelligence, based on a scientific survey.

Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening

Saturday, ITV

The primetime celebrity game show which tests parents’ knowledge of their kids’ general knowledge will see Romesh team up once more with his hilarious score-keeping mum Shanthi. It’s the show where it doesn’t matter what you know, it’s what your mum or dad think you know - this series will see three celebrity pairings compete each week to win money for their chosen charity

Riot Women

Sunday, BBC One

We dive headfirst into the world of five women who, along with two riotous backing singers, come together to create a makeshift punk-rock band in order to enter a local talent contest, but in writing their first original song, soon discover that they have a lot to say - and this is their way to say it.

As they juggle demanding jobs, grown-up children, complicated parents, husbands who’ve buggered off, and disastrous dates and relationships, the band becomes a catalyst for change in their lives, and it’s going to make them question everything.

The six-part series is a testament to the power of friendship, music, and the resilience of women who refuse to be silenced by age or expectation. As the story (set in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire) progresses, it’s more than music that binds them; a deeply potent, long-buried secret begins to surface – one that unexpectedly entangles Kitty and Beth, the two unlikely creative masterminds behind the band, in a complex triangle - and threatens to tear everything apart.