WHAT TO WATCH 11-17 October
- Elliot Gonzalez
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Sally Wainwright is BACK with a riotous new drama!
This week's best telly includes Sally Wainwright's new BBC One drama, Riot Women, Sky Atlantic's new drama The Iris Affair and the BBC's new comedy, Leonard And Hungry Paul.
Elsewhere, Pete Wicks: For Dogs' Sake returns for a second series and Maya Rudolph returns in the third season of Apple TV+'s hit comedy Loot.
Here are 5 TV shows you can't miss this week...
1
BRAND NEW DRAMA
RIOT WOMEN
Sunday 12th October at 9pm on BBC One
From the creator of Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, comes BBC One's new Sunday night drama Riot Women, which follows five women, played by Joanna Scanlan, Rosalie Craig, Tamsin Greig, Lorraine Ashbourne, and Amelia Bullmore, who come together to create a makeshift punk-rock band and discover they have a lot to say.
Riot Women dives 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.
However, in writing their first original song, soon discover that they have a lot to say and this is their way to say it and 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 promises to be a testament to the power of friendship, music, and the resilience of women who refuse to be silenced by age or expectation.
6 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
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RETURNING FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
PETE WICKS: FOR DOGS' SAKE
Monday 13th October at 9pm on U&W
Following a successful first series at the start of the year, Pete Wicks is back with a second series of For Dogs' Sake, and this time he’s spending months alongside the teams at rehoming centres across the UK, doing whatever he can to help more dogs find their forever homes.
Pete will experience the highs and lows of life at Dogs Trust, from helping traumatised strays learn to trust again, to caring for endless litters of puppies in need and supporting the recovery of sick and injured dogs. And at the heart of it are the uplifting moments when these dogs finally find the loving homes they so deserve.
In the first episode, Pete returns to Dogs Trust,a nd faces a suitcase of abandoned pups on day one, whilst falling hard for Theo, a gentle Italian Mastiff with a serious heart condition.
5 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON U ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
3
RETURNING COMEDY
LOOT
Wednesday 16th October on Apple TV+
Maya Rudolph returns as Molly Wells in a third season of Loot, who after getting an $87 billion divorce settlement from her wealthy tech billionaire husband John Novak of 20 years, we find her thriving in her role as the head of her philanthropic organization, the Wells Foundation.
Molly has landed the jet for season three, with viewers left on the edge of their seats following the season two finale that saw Wells and her trusted assistant Nicholas board Molly's private jet with her orders to take her as far away as possible after blowback from her fellow billionaires about stepping up philanthropy and her awkward exchange with her will-they, won't-they colleague Arthur.
The upcoming season will continue to follow the antics of the beloved group of misfits at the Wells Foundation as they work together so Molly can live up to her promise of giving away all of her vast fortune.
Alongside Rudolph, the returning ensemble cast includes Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Faxon, Ron Funches and Kim Booster.
10 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON APPLE TV+
4
BRAND NEW DRAMA
THE IRIS AFFAIR
Thursday 16th at 9pm and Friday 17th October at 9pm, 10pm and 11pm on Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic's new drama The Iris Affair, pits two brilliant minds against each other in a deadly game of hide and seek across Italy, and stars Niamh Algar as enigmatic genius Iris Nixon, who cracks a string of complex online puzzles, and is led to a piazza in Florence, where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck, played by Tom Hollander.
He invites her to work with him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device’s activation sequence, and vanishes.
What follows is a relentless pursuit, from a remote cabin in Sardinia to the bustling streets of Rome, as Cameron races to find Iris in a high-stakes game where trust is dangerous and failure could be catastrophic.
8 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON SKY AND NOW ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
5
BRAND NEW COMEDY
LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL
Friday 17th October on BBC iPlayer (9pm on BBC One NI)
And on BBC Two from next week
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Rónán Hession, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Alex Lawther and Laurie Kynaston star in new BBC comedy, Leonard And Hungry Paul, which is narrated by Julia Roberts.
the feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties; Leonard, a ghost writer of children’s encyclopaedias, and Hungry Paul, a part-time postal worker who still lives at home, who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines.
The unexpected death of Leonard’s mother, the approaching wedding of Hungry Paul’s sister and a tentative new romance for Leonard, prompts both men to meet a world that is suddenly wider and full of unfamiliar possibilities.
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