WHAT TO WATCH 27 September - 3 October

A-ha! Alan Partridge is back!

This week's best telly includes the return of Alan Partridge with a brand new series, the first Strictly live show of the year and the return of Big Brother in its 25th year.

Elsewhere, Blue Lights is back for a third series and Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home finally airs on BBC One, having been pulled from the schedules last minute in August.

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

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1

 FIRST LIVE SHOW

STRICTLY COME DANCING

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Saturday 27th September at 6.55pm on BBC One

With the launch show now out of the way, it's time for this year's Strictly Come Dancing to really get going with the first live show of the series.

Kicking things off with what promises to be an incredible opening number, judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke will be dancing through the decades.

Fresh from the training room, our 15 couples join Tess and Claud in the ballroom, ready to perform their first routines of the competition.

Whilst they may not have to face the public vote this week, they do have to face the judges, who will be handing out the first scores of the series, which will be carried over to next weekend, when we will have our first chance to vote for their favourites.

CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 

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2

 RETURNING REALITY TV

BIG BROTHER

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Sunday 28th September to Friday 3rd October at 9pm on ITV2

Big Brother is back, celebrating 25 years on our screens, with a brand new series on ITV2, which this time has been extended to a seven-week run.

Sunday's live launch will see hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best return to once again welcome an eclectic mix of strangers from across the UK, who will all become Housemates living under one roof.

The nation’s most renowned residence, the Big Brother House, will yet again play host to all the mischief and mayhem and has undergone a makeover that’s easy on the eye.

Viewers can expect more new twists and turns, elaborate tasks, intense nominations and live evictions as the cast of Housemates go up against one another in a bid to be crowned the winner, and walk away with a life-changing cash prize.

Big Brother: Late & Live returns after each episode, offering an extra slice of exclusive Big Brother content with fiery debate and hot takes from a celebrity guest panel. And the iconic Big Brother: Live Stream also returns, seven nights a week on ITVX.

CONTINUES NIGHTLY

STREAM ON ITVX

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3

 RETURNING DRAMA

BLUE LIGHTS

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Monday 29th September at 9pm on BBC One

Belfast-based BBC One drama Blue Lights is back this week for a third series, and two years into their jobs as response officers, Grace, Annie and Tommy are accustomed to life under the blue lights.

However, their work will take them into a sinister world hidden behind the veneer of middle-class life, the world of the accountants and lawyers who facilitate organised crime.

The old political and criminal order has gone, and a new global gang rule Belfast, bringing danger closer to home for our officers than ever before.

 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE

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4

 BRAND NEW DOCUMENTARY

OZZY OSBOURNE: COMING HOME

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Thursday 2nd October at 9pm on BBC One

Originally scheduled for 18th August

On Saturday 5th July, against all the odds, Ozzy Osbourne made it onto the stage one last time to perform a homecoming gig: a set with his own band and then a finale with Black Sabbath in Birmingham. The performance was classic Ozzy: defiant, mischievous, giving the fans what they want. Just over two weeks later, surrounded by his family, Ozzy sadly died at home.

Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home is the moving and inspirational account of the last chapter of Ozzy’s life, told through unique and intimate access to the whole Osbourne family, including Sharon, Jack and Kelly.

Filmed over three years, it captures the extraordinary roller-coaster of their lives as Sharon and Ozzy attempt to complete their long-held dream of moving back to the UK, Ozzy heroically battles to get fit enough to perform, and the family deal with the dramatic consequences of his ill-health.

The film promises to be full of love, laughter and tears and the kind of unforgettable family moments that we’ve come to expect from the Osbournes. A remarkably candid and uplifting tribute to one of the world’s true icons, and documents the first family of rock as they are forced to accept, that, as Kelly says in the film, “Iron man wasn’t really made of iron”.

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 

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5

 BRAND NEW COMEDY

HOW ARE YOU?

I'M ALAN (PARTRIDGE)

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Friday 3rd October at 9.30pm on BBC One

Alan Partridge, the beloved and, to be fair, revered broadcaster, returns to Britain after a year in Saudi Arabia to ask some important questions in How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge).

Leaving behind a lucrative career voicing radio commercials, Alan Partridge makes a bravely personal and personally brave return to television, to make Britain’s first ever documentary about mental health.

 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE