WHAT TO WATCH 14-20 November
Brydon, Rooney, Coughlan and more!
This week's best telly includes brand new BBC One comedy Bill's Included starring Rob Brydon, new Channel 4 drama I Am Helen starring Nicola Coughlan and the return of I'm A Celebrity, which this year includes Wayne Rooney as a campmate!
Elsewhere, Michael McIntyre's The Wheel is back for a seventh series, and BBC One launches its new darkly comedic Cold War thriller, Honey.
Here are 5 TV shows you can't miss this week...
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RETURNING GAME SHOW
MICHAEL MCINTYRE'S THE WHEEL
Saturday 14th November at 8pm on BBC One
Stream on BBC iPlayer
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel returns this week to BBC One for its seventh series, promising another series packed with huge stars, big laughs and a giant spinning wheel.
The celebrity experts in the first episode are Michael Ball, Kate Garraway, Isa Guha, Harriet Kemsley, Matt Morsia, Katherine Ryan, Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely.
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BRAND NEW DRAMA
HONEY
Saturday 14th November at 9pm and 9.50pm on BBC One
Stream on BBC iPlayer
Launching this week on BBC One is Honey, a new darkly comedic Cold War thriller from Emma Moran, set in East Berlin in 1982, starring Ann Skelly as Martha, a deep-cover agent for MI6.
Surrounded by enemies and constantly under threat of her cover being blown, she tries her hardest to avoid detection by Friedrich, the new Stasi Head of Counterespionage against British Targets, Berlin Office. Finding herself caught between Friedrich and the reckless, arrogant (and incredibly attractive…) CIA operative Aaron Neeland (posing as Kurt Fischer), she is blindsided by desire in this Cold War ménage à trois.
The risk of being garroted or incarcerated is nothing compared to the horrifying ordeal of falling in love. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable and bearing your heart and soul? She'd rather have her fingernails pulled out.
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RETURNING REALITY TV
I'M A CELEBRITY...GET ME OUT OF HERE!
Monday 16th November at 9pm on ITV1
Stream on ITVX
I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returns this week to ITV1 for its 26th series, as Ant & Dec welcome 11 brand new celebrities into the I'm A Celeb jungle.
This year's 11 campmates are Paralympian and TV presenter Ade Adepitan MBE, TV presenter AJ Odudu, TV personality and radio DJ Chloe Burrows, soap icon Claire Sweeney, comedian Jack Skipper, actor Joanna Page, supermodel Leomie Anderson, broadcaster and journalist Mariella Frostrup, Kaiser Chiefs star Ricky Wilson, content creator Sharky and football legend Wayne Rooney, with Leigh Francis rumoured as a late arrival.
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RETURNING ANTHOLOGY DRAMA
I AM HELEN
Monday 16th November at 9pm then 9.15pm on Channel 4
Stream on Channel 4
Dominic Savage's anthology drama I Am returns this week to Channel 4 with a new story, I Am Helen, which continues the tradition of exploring the personal experiences of women through provocative, emotionally raw storytelling, told through a female lens.
Nicola Coughlan and Joe Cole star in I Am Helen, as Helen and Steve, who appear to have a loving relationship. But as Steve begins consuming misogynistic online porn and the rhetoric of the manosphere, their sexual dynamic shifts from mutual desire to coercive aggression. Sexual frustration bleeds into every aspect of Steve's life.
He watches porn at work, parrots toxic ideas fed to him by a colleague, and pressures Helen into marriage. When Helen asserts her independence, Steve spirals - unable to reconcile his fantasy of dominance with a partner who refuses to submit. Seeking clarity, Helen escapes to the coast with a friend. Alone in a hotel room, she then discovers she's pregnant.
It's a terrifying unravelling. When Helen tries to leave, Steve turns violent. Forced to make an impossible choice, Helen terminates the pregnancy and moves out while Steve is at work. When he returns to an empty flat, his rage erupts in voice messages and a final confrontation at her workplace. But Helen has already disappeared.
The drama concludes not with revenge, but with survival. Helen builds a life of deliberate and calm autonomy-a hard-won peace that stands in contrast to the chaos she leaves behind.
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BRAND NEW COMEDY
BILL'S INCLUDED
Friday 20th November at 9.30pm on BBC One
Stream on BBC iPlayer
Launching this week on BBC One is Bill's Included, a new comedy from Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen, starring Rob Brydon as Bill Beam, a well-meaning but over enthusiastic divorcee who rents his spare rooms to four students to stay financially afloat.
As Bill tries, and often fails, to be both responsible landlord and honorary housemate, he and his mismatched lodgers muddle through chaos, growing pains and unexpected friendships. Can they overcome their differences, embrace their found family, and help each other muddle along?
Can Bill learn to be both landlord and land...friend? Probably not, because he’ll get too excited and screw everything up, but let’s see.
