WHAT TO WATCH 29 November - 5 December

Gillian Anderson stars in a brand new Western!

This week's best telly includes brand new Netflix Western, The Abandons, a special episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction and the return of his BBC Two comedy Mammoth.

Elsewhere, Alan Davies and Nikki Amuka-Bird lead 5's latest Play For Today and three Corrie faves head to Malta for The Great Escapers.

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

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 CONTINUING FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT

THE GREAT ESCAPERS

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Sunday 30th November

7pm | ITV1

ITV's latest travelogue series, The Great Escapers, takes some of the nation’s best-known faces and pits them against each other as they compete to give the best European holiday experience.

With a different set of travellers each week, three stars must compete to give their colleagues the best holiday experience they can. But will one star’s dream day out prove to be another’s worst nightmare?

This week it's the turn of Corrie favourites Tanisha Gorey, Andy Whyment and Maureen Lipman. And at the end of their trip to Malta, they must vote for who put together the most memorable day, and one of them will be crowned The Greatest Escaper.

 4 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

STREAM ON ITVX  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE

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 BRAND NEW SPECIAL

MY NEXT GUEST WITH

DAVID LETTERMAN AND

ADAM SANDLER

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Monday 1st December

Netflix

In a special standalone episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, David Letterman interviews actor, comedian and musician Adam Sandler.

Sandler is currently receiving universal acclaim for his performance opposite George Clooney in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly, and earlier this year broke an opening weekend record with the hit sequel Happy Gilmore 2.

 STREAM ON NETFLIX

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 RETURNING COMEDY

MAMMOTH

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Monday 1st December

10pm | BBC Two

BBC Two's hit comedy Mammoth returns this week for its second series. Created by and starring Mike Bubbins, it follows PE teacher Tony Mammoth's second chance at life in the seventies.

Mike Bubbins plays Tony Mammoth, who is believed to have died in an avalanche during a school trip in 1979, attempting to restart his life after miraculously returning from the dead when his body is discovered frozen in time.

Series two also sees the return of Sian Gibson as Tony’s daughter Mel, who is thinking about a career change. Joel Davison as Mel’s son Theo, who celebrates a milestone birthday and Joseph Marcell as Mammoth’s long-suffering best friend Roger who takes on a new role as Tony’s fitness trainer, and John Weldon as Headteacher Mr Cowley.

Joining the cast for series two are Al Roberts as Mel’s new love interest, Michael and Dylan Malyn as Nathan, Mel’s nephew, and new boss!

 3 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE

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 BRAND NEW DRAMA

THE ABANDONS

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Thursday 4th December

Netflix

Netflix's brand new Western, The Abandons tells a classic American story, the frontier, two families both at war and in love with each other, a battle over who owns the land and who makes the rules.

It follows the matriarchs of two very different families. One of wealth and privilege bound by blood, the other a found family of orphans and outcasts bound by love and necessity.

They both find their fates linked by two crimes, an awful secret, a star-crossed love, and a piece of land with silver underneath.

The series also explores all of the questions we never seem to get away from: What makes a family? How do you stay good in a bad world? And, would you change who you are and what you believe in to protect what you love?

But, in this case, we do it all through the eyes of Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson, as two widowed matriarchs battling to survive.

 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY | ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE

 STREAM ON NETFLIX

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5

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

PLAY FOR TODAY:

A KNOCK AT THE DOOR

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Thursday 4th December

9pm | 5

5's latest Play For Today, A Knock at the Door, is set on an affluent Hampstead street, where Lenny Bray, a once-beloved comedian, played by Alan Davies, and his wife Maggie, played by Nikki Amuka-Bird, are drawn into a nightmare when Ben, a bloodied and frantic young man, collapses at their doorstep.

Against Maggie’s instincts, Lenny invites him inside. What begins as an act of compassion twists into psychological terror as Ben’s story unravels.

Trapped in their own home, Lenny and Maggie endure a tense standoff of manipulation, confessions, and shifting power. The intruder may have brought the terror, but it’s Maggie who decides how the story ends.

 STREAM ON 5