PICKS OF THE WEEK: 22-28 SEPTEMBER 2025, WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK

Our picks of what to watch during the week ahead.

Waterloo Road

Tuesday, BBC One

Series 16 marks the arrival of Jon Richardson as the school’s new media studies teacher, Darius Donovan. With tons of charm, this new teacher knows how to put on a good show, and viewers can expect his arrival to stir things up. The series will also introduce students, newcomer Fintan Buckard and Savannah Kunyo as Ben and Hope Drake.

The Hack

Wednesday, ITV1

Set between 2002 and 2012, the drama deftly interweaves two real life stories, the work of investigative journalist Nick Davies, played by David Tennant, who uncovered evidence of phone hacking at the News of the World, and running parallel, the story of the investigation into the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan, led by former Met Police Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook, played by Robert Carlyle.  Toby Jones plays former Editor-in Chief of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger.  

Slow Horses

Wednesday, Apple TV+

This darkly funny espionage drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. Led by their brilliant but irascible leader, the notorious Jackson Lamb (Academy Award winner Gary Oldman), they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

Thursday, BBC Three

In this premiere episode, the nervous energy is palpable as 12 brand new queens enter the werk room to meet their fellow competitors and judge supremo, RuPaul, for the very first time. In this race, nothing is predictable, and in their very first challenge, Ru has an extra-special challenge in store for the queens. In a Drag Race UK first, the queens display show-stopping looks as they attend the biggest night in fashion - the star-studded Brit Gala!

All Creatures Great & Small

Thursday, 5

We return to Darrowby in May 1945 to find Skeldale House at sixes and sevens. As victory in Europe is declared, there is the promise of peace at last, but James is wishing for a greater sense of peace at the surgery as he juggles vet work with a busy family life and an exceptionally challenging Siegfried. Helen’s enjoying time with young Jimmy and Rosie but has big changes afoot at Heston to contend with.

Brassic

Thursday, Sky Max

After their near-death experience at the end of Series 6, the gang have a new lease of life. Confronted with the fragility of it all, they’re grabbing each day by the horns - and with that kind of mindset, there’s no telling what trouble they’ll land in…

Series 7 is a full-throttle farewell packed with everything fans love: lederhosen-fuelled escapades, school reunions gone wildly off the rails, and gangsters more unhinged than ever. But amid the madness, old wounds resurface, friendships are tested, and the gang must face what their future and their past really mean.

House Of Guinness

Thursday, Netflix

From acclaimed writer Steven Knight, House Of Guinness will tell the epic story of one of Europe's most famous and enduring dynasties - The Guinness Family. Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, will focus on the consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery.

And the far-reaching impact of his cunning will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the growing juggernaut that is Guinness.

Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue

Saturday, BBC One

In the six-part series, a plane carrying a small group of passengers, crew and pilot, crashes in the Mexican jungle. All the bodies are recovered and placed in a morgue…but it turns out that only one of them died in the crash. The other passengers were murdered afterwards, each one in a unique way. But by whom? And why?

As the story unfolds in flashback, we meet the survivors as they fight against the heat, a shortage of supplies, the many dangers of the jungle…and each other. The setting becomes increasingly tense and claustrophobic as, one by one, they are dispatched with a series of shocks that bring us ever closer to the truth and – at the very end – a jaw-dropping reveal.

Big Brother

Sunday, ITV2

Hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best once again welcome an eclectic mix of strangers from across the UK who will all become housemates living under one roof. The nation’s most renowned residence, the Big Brother house, will yet again play host to all the mischief and mayhem and has undergone a makeover that’s easy on the eye.