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WHAT TO WATCH 16-22 May

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What happens when a devoted nun falls in love with a Catholic priest?



This week's best telly includes Jack Thorne's romantic comedy Falling, for Channel 4, starring Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu, a new drama from the Duffer Brothers, who brought us Stranger Things, The Boroughs, and Kylie Minogue is the subject of a new three-part Netflix docuseries.


Elsewhere, Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson star in Sky's new espionage thriller Ponies, Tatiana Maslany leads Apple TV's new comedy thriller Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and Death Valley returns for its second series on BBC One.


Here are 6 TV shows you can't miss this week...

1

 RETURNING COMEDY DRAMA

DEATH VALLEY

Sunday 17th May

8.15pm | BBC One



This week sees the return of unlikely crime-solving duo, retired actor John Chapel and disarming Welsh detective sergeant Janie Mallowan, played by Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth, in a second series of Death Valley, which picks up a few months after the events of series one.


Janie has been promoted to Detective Inspector and is busier than ever, with paperwork stacking up quicker than she can clear it. To make matters worse, she’s been ignoring John since finding out he’s been dating her mum. Janie’s hand is forced after a murder in a Community Payback group when DCI Barry Clarke forces her to bring John Chapel in as the department's consultant.


As John reluctantly re-enters the world of acting, whilst on the set of an epic Welsh fantasy TV series, the pair are called to investigate a murder. Will this foray into his old thespian passion ignite something once forgotten in John? One thing is certain: whether investigating a murder in a coastal fishing village, a sustainable commune or the competitive world of rugby, John and Janie will continue to bring justice to mid-Wales.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


2

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

FALLING

Tuesday 19th May

9pm | Channel 4



Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu lead Jack Thorne's first-ever love story, Falling, this week on Channel 4, playing Anna, a devoted nun, and Paapa Essiedu as David, a Catholic priest.


Both are deeply committed to their work in the church and in their community. Neither are expected to fall in love. But when they do, both are forced to wrestle with what it means for them, their vows, and their relationship with God.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON CHANNEL 4  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


3

 BRAND NEW DOCUSERIES

KYLIE

Wednesday 20th May

Netflix



Launching this week on Netflix is KYLIE, a new three-part documentary series centred on pop sensation Kylie Minogue, celebrating the joy, connection, and euphoria that make Kylie unmistakably Kylie.


From her breakout role as Charlene in the ’80s Australian soap Neighbours to chart-topping success across five decades, Kylie Minogue has never stopped reinventing herself. Now, the new documentary KYLIE explores how she reshaped pop and became one of music’s most enduring icons, having sold over 80 million records.


In what's described as an intimate three-part documentary, Kylie Minogue will open her personal archives and reflect on a life that continues to captivate, inspire, and soundtrack multiple generations.


KYLIE will feature footage from home movies, personal photographs, and new interviews with Kylie herself, showing the woman behind the hits. It'll examine how she’s faced public scrutiny, personal loss, and illness with grit and grace, earning respect far beyond her own fandom.


It'll also feature insights from friends, family, and collaborators, including Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan, Nick Cave, and Pete Waterman.


 3 EPISODES

 STREAM ON NETFLIX  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


4

 BRAND NEW COMEDY DRAMA

MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED

Wednesday 20th May

Apple TV



Apple TV's new comedy thriller, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, follows newly divorced mum Paula, played by Tatiana Maslany, as she falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder and youth soccer.


Convinced she witnessed a crime, while simultaneously struggling through a custody battle and an identity crisis, Paula begins her own investigation, one that could unravel a greater conspiracy while also holding the keys to rebuilding her family and sense of self.


 10 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON APPLE TV  2 EPISODES AVAILABLE AT LAUNCH


5

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

THE BOROUGHS

Thursday 21st May

Netflix



Netflix's new drama from the executive producers of Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers, The Boroughs is set in the sun-drenched expanse of the New Mexico desert and stars Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Bill Pullman, Clarke Peters, and Denis O'Hare.


The Boroughs is a picturesque retirement community promising its residents the time of their lives. But for new arrival, Sam Cooper, played by Alfred Molina, paradise feels more like a prison. Everything changes when a terrifying nighttime encounter reveals that something monstrous is stalking the manicured cul-de-sacs.


Dismissed by the powers that be as just another confused old man, Sam finds unlikely allies in a band of neighbourhood misfits: a sharp-witted former journalist, a spiritual seeker, a cynical music manager, and a brilliant doctor running out of options. Overlooked and underestimated, these unlikely heroes must band together to unravel the dark truth at the heart of The Boroughs before their time runs out.


 8 EPISODES

 STREAM ON NETFLIX  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


6

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

PONIES

Friday 22nd May

pm | Sky Atlantic



Set in 1970s Russia, Sky Atlantic's new espionage thriller Ponies, starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, launches this week.


In Moscow, in 1977, two ‘PONIES’ (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is, until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives.


Bea, played by Emilia Clarke, is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, played by Haley Lu Richardson, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.


Ponies also stars Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, Nicholas Podany, Petro Ninovskyi, qne Vic Michaelis.


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON SKY AND NOW  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE



 
 
 

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