WHAT TO WATCH 26 April - 2 May
- Elliot Gonzalez
- 19 hours ago
- 6 min read
It's a bumper week of new telly!
This week's best telly includes new Disney+ drama, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, new Netflix comedy from Tina Fey, The Four Seasons and new new Netflix reality series Cheat: Unfinished Business, fronted by Amanda Holden alongside expert Paul C Brunson.
Elsewhere, ITV1's new interview series The Assembly kicks off with Danny Dyer and David Tennant and speaking of David Tennant, he's back later on in the week with his new reality gameshow, Genius Game.
Plus Katie Piper is back with a brand new documentary, Locked up in Louisiana, Taskmaster returns for a brand new series and Man Like Mobeen returns for its fifth and final series.
Here are 8 TV shows you can't miss this week...
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 RETURNING FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
THE ASSEMBLY
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th April at 10pm on ITV1
Following a pilot episode on BBC One, in which Michael Sheen faced the interview of a lifetime, The Assembly has been picked up by ITV1 for a brand new 4-part series.
The first celebrities facing an interview like no other, will be Danny Dyer and David Tennant, with Jade Thirlwall and Gary Lineker being interviewed later in the series, by a remarkable group of inquisitive interviewers who are autistic, neurodivergent and/or learning disabled.
Each episode of The Assembly sees a different celebrity forced to cast aside everything they were ever taught by their media trainers as they each face their most honest, funny, chaotic and heartwarming interview to date.
Carefully considered PR fluff won’t cut it on this show, and the celebrities can expect plenty of mischief and surprises once they get in the hotseat.
 4 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
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2
 BRAND NEW DOCUMENTARY
KATIE PIPER:
LOCKED UP IN LOUISIANA
Sunday 27th April at 9pm on U&W
After being attacked 15 years ago Katie Piper has been trying to understand why women commit violent acts, so she’s travelling to New Orleans, Louisiana to spend a month in Orleans Parish Prison, one of the most notorious jails in the US.
In Locked Up in Louisiana, Katie spends time with women accused of the most shocking crimes to find out what drove them to kill, asking if violence is ever justified?
In the first episode, she meets Tonica who is accused of killing her husband. Katie learns that Tonica has suffered a lifetime of abuse, as a child and then at the hands of her husband.
During a particularly violent attack, Tonica shot her husband in an act of self-defence. Tonica is charged with second degree murder, which in Louisiana carries a mandatory life sentence.
Tonica’s story of domestic abuse leads Katie to ask if she had fought back during her own attack, could she have found herself facing her own prison sentence? Katie weighs up what choice Tonica had – was it either her or him? And should anyone be locked up for life for saving themself?
Katie also spends time with Jodi who has had a lifetime of drug abuse, through which she lost touch with her children. She’s facing a charge of second-degree murder but insists she’s innocent. Jodi doesn’t have time on her side after being diagnosed with terminal cancer and must come to terms with spending her last months locked up.
 5 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
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 BRAND NEW REALITY TV
CHEAT: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Wednesday 30th April on Netflix
Netflix's new reality TV show, Cheat: Unfinished Business, is hosted by Amanda Holden and sees 8 ex-couples whose relationships have been torn apart due to cheating, reunite at a retreat.
Each pair will be guided through their issues by relationship expert, Paul C. Brunson, in the hopes that they can face up to their past mistakes, rebuild trust and move forward. Either together or apart.
Will the cheaters be able to fight for forgiveness and win back the hearts of those they betrayed? Or will they have to say goodbye to their relationship for good?
 9 EPISODES
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 BRAND NEW DRAMA
SUSPECT: THE SHOOTING OF JEAN CHARLES DE MENEZES
Wednesday 30th April on Disney+
Jeff Pope's new Disney+ drama Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, focuses on the events surrounding the tragic killing of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, after he is mistaken for a terrorist.
Told from multiple perspectives of those involved, it examines how memory - both accurate and distorted - can be turned into fact and shape our understanding of the truth.
Set twenty years ago, as London reels from the devastating suicide bomb attacks of 7 July 2005, the Metropolitan Police launches a large-scale counter terrorism operation to prevent further attacks. Unbeknownst to them, another terrorist cell plots an assault that could equal the devastation of 7/7.
This second set of planned attacks fails, setting off one of the UK’s largest-ever manhunts and sparking a covert surveillance operation.
As tension and uncertainty rises across the nation, a series of extraordinary events unfolds, leading to a critical misidentification. Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent young Brazilian electrician on his way to work, is mistaken for a terrorist and shot dead at Stockwell station.
What follows is a family’s fight for justice and answers, and the long-fought struggle to bring clarity to a situation that is clouded by confusion, and silence.
Cast includes Edison Alcaide, Conleth Hill, Russell Tovey, Max Beesley, Emily Mortimer, Daniel Mays, Laura Aikman and Alex Jennings.
 4 EPISODES
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 BRAND NEW REALITY GAME SHOW
GENIUS GAME
Wednesday 30th April and Thursday 1st May at 9pm on ITV1
This week, David Tennant is inviting the country's most brilliant minds to take part in Genius Game, ITV1's new reality game show in which strategically minded players, chosen not just for their high intellectual prowess but also their social IQ, face the ultimate battle of survival.
To win, contestants will participate in a host of never before seen games all designed to not only test their intellectual acumen, but encourage them to carefully and creatively use the art of manipulation to outfox their opponents and win a cash prize.
David Tennant takes on the role of The Creator who'll guide players as they attempt to navigate each uniquely crafted challenge. But who has what it takes to deceive, collude and outsmart their opponents to become the first UK winner of Genius Game?
 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
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6
 BRAND NEW COMEDY
THE FOUR SEASONS
Thursday 1st May on Netflix
Netflix's new comedy, The Four Seasons, is an adaptation of Alan Alda’s 1981 big-screen romantic comedy of the same name which followed three couples who vacation together every season, but whose worlds are upended when one of them gets divorced.
The eight-part series will follow six old friends as they head for a relaxing weekend away only to learn that one couple in the group is about to split up.
The three couples, Kate and Jack, played by writer Tina Fey and Will Forte, Nick and Anne, played by Steve Carell and Kerri Kenney and Danny and Claude, played by Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani, are completely upended by the news.
Over the course of a year, we follow the friends on four vacations, and watch how this shake-up affects everyone’s dynamic, sending old issues and new bubbling to the surface. The Four Seasons promises to be a hilarious and heartfelt love letter to long marriages and old friendships.
 8 EPISODES
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 RETURNING ENTERTAINMENT
TASKMASTER
Thursday 1st May at 9pm on Channel 4
Taskmaster returns this week for its 19th series, as five valiant comedy minds step up to the task in search of glory, hoping to win Greg Davies’ regal head cast in pure gold.
Taking part this series are comedian and writer Fatiha El-Ghorri, American comedian, actor and podcaster Jason Mantzoukas, actor and writer Mathew Baynton, podcaster and broadcaster Rosie Ramsey and comedian, actor and podcaster Stevie Martin.
All of them will approach the series with hope in their hearts, while one will dance away pretending to be humble in the face of their truly incredible victory. As once again, Greg Davies will be at the centre of it all, administering points and astute feedback as he welcomes five new comics into his world of misrule.
 10 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
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 RETURNING COMEDY
MAN LIKE MOBEEN
Thursday 1st May at 9pm and 9.25pm on BBC Three
Co-created by Guz Khan and Andy Milligan, Man Like Mobeen returns to BBC Three this week for its fifth and final series and after THAT cliffhanger endind to series four, we'll finally discover Mobeen's fate after he was attacked in prison.
With Mobeen back on the outside, he's reunited with the gang in Small Heath, before embarking on an epic adventure overseas. Desperate to save Aqsa from Uncle Khan, can he even get hold of a passport or a plane ticket to the UAE?
Before long, a familiar face forces him into a series of bad decisions involving an Irish gangster and the Turkish mafia. Eventually, he teams up with Uncle Shady, but will he persuade the rest of his friends to join him? And can he save Aqsa and secure a future for them all?