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WHAT TO WATCH 18-24 April

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Richard Gadd is back in a brand new drama!



This week's best telly includes four big dramas, including Richard Gadd's Half Man, Charlotte Regan's Mint, Julie Gearey's Unchosen, and the return of Apple TV's Criminal Record.


Elsewhere, Graham Norton hosts ITV1's new reality series The Neighbourhood, Kevin Hart is on the search for Netflix's next big comedy star, and Alan Carr returns to host Interior Design Masters.


Here are 7 TV shows you can't miss this week...

1

 BRAND NEW COMPETITION SHOW

FUNNY AF WITH KEVIN HART

Monday 20th April

Netflix



Kevin Hart knows what it takes to turn a mic and a dream into comedy superstardom. In Funny AF, he’s searching for the next comedian ready to follow that path.


In this uncensored comedy competition, 44 rising stand-ups from across the country step into the spotlight, hoping to make the same leap Kevin once did from grinding it out in small clubs to headlining their own specials.


Along the way, Kevin and a circle of comedy heavyweights, Keegan-Michael Key, Chelsea Handler, Kumail Nanjiani, and Tom Segura, will decide who progresses in the competition, offering a behind-the-curtain look at the pressure, triumphs and occasional bombs that shape a career in stand-up.


The mission is simple. To find the next great voice in comedy with the guts, perspective, and punchlines to become the next household name. The competition builds to two live final rounds, the semi-final on 4th May and the final on 5th May, where a global vote will determine the ultimate winner.


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON NETFLIX  4 EPISODES AT LAUNCH


2

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

MINT

Monday 20th April

9pm and 9.30pm | BBC One



Emma Laird and Ben Coyle-Larner, in their acting debut, star as Shannon and Arran, who star in Charlotte Regan’s debut TV series Mint, which is a story about soaring romance, crushing heartbreak and what love might feel like when everyone outside of your family is terrified of you.


In the first episode, Shannon is obsessed with the love story of how her parents met. All she wants is her own romance to sweep her off her feet. But finding love is tough when you’re the only daughter of a notorious crime family.


When Shannon meets Arran, she thinks her luck has finally changed. She feels the spark. But will her family allow it when they realise who he is?


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY | ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 


3

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

UNCHOSEN

Tuesday 21st April

Netflix



Julie Gearey's new Netflix drama Unchosen centres around Rosie, who lives with her husband Adam and daughter in a cloistered Christian community.


The fateful arrival of escaped prisoner Sam into her life reveals the reality and restraints of her world; perhaps this hidden religious community doesn't have her best interests at heart.


And, as the cracks begin to appear in her marriage, Sam presents as her saviour. But with his dark criminal past, where does the greatest danger lie, with the cult or with Sam?


It stars Molly Windsor, Asa Butterfield, Fra Fee, Christopher Eccleston, and Siobhan Finneran.


 6 EPISODES

 STREAM ON NETFLIX  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


4

 RETURNING COMPETITION SHOW

INTERIOR DESIGN MASTERS
WITH ALAN CARR

Tuesday 21st April

8pm | BBC One



Interior Design Masters returns this week for its seventh series, and Alan Carr kicks off the competition by tasking ten interior designers to show off their signature styles by transforming a beach hut on the Dorset coast.


They must also demonstrate their ability to reuse and repurpose where they can. Michelle Ogundehin and guest judge Jonathan Adler must decide who has created the Stand Out Space and which designer will be the first to go home.


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 


5

 RETURNING DRAMA

CRIMINAL RECORD

Wednesday 22nd April

Apple TV



Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo return this week in the second series of Apple TV's Criminal Record as Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty and Detective Sergeant June Lenker.


Set in the heart of contemporary London, the powerful, character-driven drama explores the impossibility of policing when the truth is up for grabs.


When a young man is stabbed to death at a political rally, rival police officers June Lenker and Daniel Hegarty are forced into an uneasy alliance. But what starts as a hunt for a murderer escalates into an undercover operation to foil a far-right bomb plot in the heart of London.


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON APPLE TV


6

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

HALF MAN

Friday 24th April

BBC iPlayer



Following the huge success of Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd returns this week with a new drama, Half Man, in which he also stars alongside Jamie Bell. They play estranged ‘brothers’ Niall and Ruben.


They're not related in blood, but the closest you can get. One, fierce and loyal. The other, meek and mild-mannered. Inseparable youth. Brought into each other’s lives through death and circumstance, all they have is each other…


But when Ruben turns up at Niall’s wedding three decades later, everything seems different. He is on edge. Shifty. Not acting like himself. And soon, an explosion of violence takes place, which catapults us back through their lives, from the eighties to the present day.


Capturing 30 years in the lives of these broken men, Half Man explores brotherhood, violence, and the intense fragility of male relationships. After all, when things fall apart… it is sometimes the closest relationships which break the hardest.


Half Man also stars Charlie De Melo, Bilal Hasna, Julie Cullen, Amy Manson, Anjli Mohindra, Tim Downie, Tom Andrews, Philippine Velge, Stuart McQuarrie, Sandy Batchelor, Piers Ewart, Scot Greenan, and newcomers Charlotte Blackwood, Calum Manchip and Kate Robson-Stuart.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 


7

 BRAND NEW REALITY TV

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Friday 24th April

9pm | ITV1



ITV's brand new reality entertainment format, The Neighbourhood, hosted by Graham Norton, launches this week and sees families and households compete in a street-sized popularity contest, battling it out for the chance to take home a life-changing £250,000 cash prize.


The Neighbourhood promises to be a gameshow as you’ve never seen it before, marrying high-stakes competition, neighbourhood challenges, and relatable domestic drama to offer a different flavour of reality. It sees real-life households from all walks of life move in and live side by side, finding themselves not only neighbours, but also fierce competitors in the ultimate reality showdown.


This is a game the households will live as well as play, as they’ll be with each other 24/7, sleeping and eating in their houses, socialising together and then voting each other out. The challenges they face in public will change the dynamics behind closed doors, and they’ll need to beat their neighbours while still staying popular on the street to win.



 11 EPISODES  CONTINUES NIGHTLY

 STREAM ON ITVX



 
 
 

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