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WHAT TO WATCH 2-8 December

It's time for musicals week on Strictly!


This week's best telly includes the second of three 60th Anniversary specials of Doctor Who, the return of CBBC favourite Dodger for this year's Christmas special and Strictly Come Dancing is off to the musicals for its quarter finals.


Elsewhere, Jasmine Jobson is back on our screens, this time in new ITVX drama Platform 7 and Jon Pointing teams up with Danielle Vitalis for new Sky comedy Smothered.


Here are 5 TV shows you can't miss this week...


1. Doctor Who

Saturday 2nd December at 6.30pm on BBC One


After last week's sensational episode, Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary specials continue this week with Wild Blue Yonder as the Tardis takes the Doctor and Donna to the furthest edge of adventure.


To escape, they must face the most desperate fight of their lives, with the fate of the universe at stake.


2/3 Concludes next week




2. Strictly Come Dancing

Saturday 2nd at 7.25pm and Sunday 3rd December at 7.20pm on BBC One


As we reach this year's Strictly Come Dancing Quarter Finals, it's also Musicals Week, as the remaining couples take to the ballroom floor with more incredible routines inspired by the world of musical theatre.


Who will steal the limelight? Everyone wants to secure their place in next week’s semi-final, so expect show-stopping performances and a magical night of dance.


Saturday's show will open with a beautiful My Fair Lady group number from the show's professional dancers and during Sunday's results show, the professional dancers will perform a routine inspired by Chorus Line and Joss Stone will sing This Time, from the new musical The Time Traveller's Wife.


11/13 Continues weekly



3. Dodger

Sunday 3rd December at 4.50pm on CBBC


Dodger is back for a Christmas special featuring a star-studded cast including Nicola Coughlan, Paul Whitehouse, Simon Callow, Toby Stephens, and series regular Christopher Eccleston who reprises his role as Fagin.


Also returning are Billy Jenkins as Dodger, Ellie-May Sheridan as Polly, Connor Curren as Tom, Mila Lieu as Tang, Lenny Rush as Morgan, Javone Prince as PC Blathers, Tony Way as Jon The News, and Ed Kear as Neville. Other guest stars include Dan Renton Skinner and Alex Macqueen.


Written by Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery, the 55-minute special, titled Coronation, will see Fagin and the gang’s biggest heist yet, getting their hands on Queen Victoria’s crown from her Coronation ceremony. Written by Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery, the new special will also see the writers return to play PC Duff and Minnie Bilge.


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4. Platform 7

Thursday 7th December on ITVX


Jasmine Jobson leads ITVX's new four-part psychological thriller Platform 7 which has been adapted by Paula Milne from Louise Doughty's 2019 bestselling.


She plays Lisa who after witnessing a cataclysmic event on Platform 7, is forced to confront the mystery of her death.


Marooned in the train station where she died, Lisa has no memory of who she was. After witnessing a cataclysmic event on Platform 7, her fragmented memories return to reveal the mystery of her death.


1-4/4 All episodes available at launch



5. Smothered

Thursday 7th December at 10pm on Sky Comedy


Co-created by Monica Heisey, new Sky comedy Smothered is a tale of two worlds colliding, where romance blossoms but the pressures of modern dating linger.


Danielle Vitalis as Sammy, a fiercely independent young woman who is done with dating apps, sick of immature men, and here for a good time and Jon Pointing plays Tom, who has never been inclined to swipe left or right. He's a settled man with a warm heart but carries his fair share of baggage.


On a night out, the two strangers meet, and end up singing out their drunken souls in a karaoke booth. Then the inevitable happens. (They hook up).


What seems like a great idea at the time, the strangers agree to have a no-strings-attached affair for three weeks, but on the condition that they never speak again. Sounds simple, right?  However, what was supposed to be a few weeks of great sex, pasta in bed and first names only, the sparks flying around them cannot be ignored.


But Sammy soon makes a shocking discovery that there is another woman in Tom’s life... his six-year-old daughter Ellie.


1-2/6 Continues weekly. All episodes available at launch


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