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WHAT TO WATCH 21-27 March

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Martin Clunes takes on the role of Huw Edwards.



This week's best telly includes 5's dramatisation of Huw Edwards' downfall, ITV1's new Saturday night prank show Celebrity Sabotage, and the highly anticipated launch of Saturday Night Live UK.


Elsewhere, new Duffer Brothers drama Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen launches on Netflix, and Riz Ahmed launches his new comedy Bait on Prime Video.


Plus, The Comeback returns for its third and final season, The Great Celebrity Bake Off returns with a returning comedians special, and The Pitt is finally available as HBO Max launches in the UK.


Here are 8 TV shows you can't miss this week...

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 BRAND NEW ENTERTAINMENT

CELEBRITY SABOTAGE

Saturday 21st March

8pm | ITV1



ITV1's new prank show Celebrity Sabotage launches this week and sees celebrity saboteurs Joel Dommett, Judi Love, Sam Thompson and GK Barry, as well as a whole host of celebrities, cause mischief and mayhem.


In each episode, a fresh set of unsuspecting contestants will arrive, believing they're participating in a brand-new ITV show, but what they don’t know is that hidden away in their very own high-tech Mission HQ, the celebrity saboteurs are secretly watching the contestants’ every move and are being set their own sabotage missions.


And the stakes are high, because the only rule for the celebrity saboteurs is not to get caught, because for every successfully executed sabotage mission, they will add money to a secret prize pot of up to £30,000. At the end of each episode, this pot will be revealed and shared equally amongst all the contestants.


In the first episode, Sara Davies teams up with the Celebrity Saboteurs as the host of The Applicant, a fake business competition show in which a group of business enthusiasts will embark on a set of challenges under the watchful eye of entrepreneur Sara Davies.


Unbeknownst to them, this is all ‘fake’, and Sara is also helping our celebrity saboteurs complete their missions.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON ITVX

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 BRAND NEW ENTERTAINMENT

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE UK

Saturday 21st March

10pm | Sky One



“Live from London, it’s Saturday Night!” That's right, after 50 years in America, Saturday Night Live is coming to the UK, bringing the same high-wire, anything-can-happen energy that makes SNL a cultural force, now reimagined through a distinctly British lens.


A new guest host will take the helm each week, putting their distinctive stamp on the SNL formula alongside a chart-topping musical guest. This week, it's Saturday Night Live legend Tina Fey who'll be hosting and Wet Leg will be the musical guest.


Written, rehearsed and performed in the week of each show, every episode is staged in front of a live studio audience and features an opening monologue, topical sketches, live music, and a UK take on SNL’s iconic news satire, Weekend Update.


The cast for Saturday Night Live UK are Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi and Paddy Young.


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON SKY AND NOW


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 RETURNING COMPETITION SHOW

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF

Sunday 22nd March

7.40pm | Channel 4



The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer, returns to Channel 4 this week as Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding return as hosts, and Cherish Finden joins Paul Hollywood for the first time to judge their efforts.


This week, in a returning comedians special, reigning star baker Joe Wilkinson, Roisin Conaty, Rose Matafeo, Judi Love, Tom Davis and Jon Richardson enter the tent.


For their first challenge, they attempt Signature breakfast pastries, followed by matcha and yuzu biscuits in the Technical. And for their Showstopper, they recreate the weirdest places that they've ever slept, in cake form!


Whose biscuits have the perfect snap, and whose sleepy sponges leave the judges needing a nap?


Also taking part later on in the series are JoJo Siwa, Molly-Mae Hague, Vicky Pattison, Scott Mills, Rag’n’Bone Man AKA Rory Graham, Emmett J Scanlan, Aston Merrygold, Edith Bowman, Ralf Little, Richard Herring, Babatunde Aléshé, Mark Wright, Nella Rose, Mutya Buena, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Sam Thompson, Alex Brooker and Ambika Mod.


 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON CHANNEL 4 

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 BRAND NEW DRAMA

POWER: THE DOWNFALL
OF HUW EDWARDS

Tuesday 24th March

9pm | 5



Martin Clunes leads 5's new two-hour drama, Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, which explores the story of how a vulnerable 17-year-old was groomed by one of the most powerful figures in television, Huw Edwards.


It explores the newsreader’s double life as it spirals out of control, leading him to make the greatest announcement of his career, his total exit from public life following his conviction for serious child sexual offences.


In September 2022, Huw Edwards was one of Britain’s most-trusted newsreaders, chosen to deliver the most important news to the British public. To an audience of millions across the country, he made the historic declaration that Queen Elizabeth II had died.


But Edwards had a secret. Online, he was repeatedly soliciting explicit sexual photos from young men, and in particular grooming a vulnerable 17-year-old. He had also struck up a separate online friendship with a man who, from December 2020 to August 2021, repeatedly sent him messages containing child abuse imagery which he accessed, including so-called ‘Category A’ images - the most extreme.


In July 2023, Edward’s secrets started to unravel rapidly after a national newspaper reported that “a top BBC star” had paid a “teenager for sexual pictures”. Separately, the police started to investigate Edwards’ online activity, leading him to plead guilty to making indecent images of children at Westminster Magistrates Court.


 STREAM ON 5

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 BRAND NEW COMEDY

BAIT

Wednesday 25th March

Prime Video



This week sees Riz Ahmed launch his new series, Bait, a comedy about struggling actor Shah Latif, whose last chance to hit it big comes in the form of an audition of a lifetime.


We follow him over the course of four wild days as his life spirals out of control and his family, ex-lover and the entire world weigh in on whether he is the right man for the job.


Bait also stars Guz Khan as Zulfi, Sheeba Chaddha as Tahira, Sajid Hasan as Parvez, Aasiya Shah as Q, Weruche Opia as Felicia, and Ritu Arya as Yasmin.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON PRIME VIDEO  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


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 RETURNING COMEDY   FINAL SEASON

THE COMEBACK

Wednesday 25th March

9pm | Sky Comedy



Lisa Kudrow returns this week as actress Valerie Cherish in the third and final season of The Comeback, 20 years after its debut!


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON SKY AND NOW


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 BRAND NEW DRAMA

THE PITT

Thursday 25th March

HBO Max



Since launching in the US in January 2025, medical drama The Pitt has won five Emmys, two Golden Globes and most recently, two Actor Awards, and this week we finally get to see it as HBO Max launches in the UK. With all of season one available alongside episodes of season two, which will continue to be available weekly.


The Pitt, starring Noah Wyle, is a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Each episode in a season follows an hour of Dr. Robby’s 15-hour shift as the chief attendant in Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency room.


SEASON TWO CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON HBO MAX  ALL OF SEASON ONE AVAILABLE


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 BRAND NEW DRAMA

SOMETHING VERY BAD
IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Thursday 25th March

Netflix



Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen is an atmospheric horror series, executive produced by The Duffer Brothers, set at a wedding, following a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated nuptials. That’s not a spoiler, just read the title.


Camila Morrone plays Rachel, who's getting married in five days and together with her fiancé, Nicky, played by Adam DiMarco, she embarks on a road trip to his family's vacation home, secluded in a snowy forest, for the intimate wedding ceremony of their dreams.


Which really would be so lovely, except ... prone to superstition and paranoia, Rachel can't shake the relentless feeling that something bad is going to happen. Her foreboding doubts, coupled with a series of eerie coincidences and dreadful surprises, force her to ask the question: What makes two people soulmates? And worse — what could be scarier than a lifelong commitment to the wrong person?


 8 EPISODES

 STREAM ON NETFLIX  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE



 
 
 

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