WHAT TO WATCH 3-9 May
- Elliot Gonzalez
- 11 hours ago
- 4 min read
Time for the final season of The Handmaid's Tale.
This week's best telly includes the highly anticipated return of The Handmaid's Tale for its sixth and final series, as well as new series of hit series Poker Face and Malpractice.
Elsewhere, Dermot O'Leary fronts new entertainent show Silence Is Golden and 5 air a powerful new one-off drama The Trial.
Here are 5 TV shows you can't miss this week...
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 RETURNING DRAMA
THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Saturday 3rd May at 9pm on Channel 4
This week sees the return of The Handmaid's Tale to Channel 4 for its sixth and final series as June and Serena's journey takes an unexpected turn.
In the final season, June’s unyielding spirit and determination pull her back into the fight to take down Gilead. Luke and Moira join the resistance. Serena tries to reform Gilead while Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia reckon with what they have wrought, and Nick faces challenging tests of character.
This final chapter of June’s journey highlights the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom.
 10 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
 STREAM ON CHANNEL 4Â
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 RETURNING DRAMA
MALPRACTICE
Sunday 4th to Tuesday 6th May at 9pm on ITV1
ITV1's hit drama Malpractice, returns this week as the Medical Investigation Unit (MIU), Dr Norma Callahan and Dr George Adjei, once again played by Helen Behan and Jordan Kouamé, are called in to investigate a doctor under fire.
When on-call Psychiatric Registrar Dr James Ford, played by Tom Hughes, is caught between an anxious new mother’s postnatal check-up and the sectioning of a psychotic patient, no one could predict the devastating outcome.
His personal life is messy, and his colleagues may find him arrogant, but Dr Ford appears committed to his vulnerable patients. As the team dig further into the events of that night, what appears to be a series of poor choices by one doctor spreads beyond the psychiatric unit to a hospital seemingly at war with itself.
With the MIU investigation closing in, can Dr Ford save his already fragile career from a string of apparently damning mistakes? Is Dr Ford a doctor with a God complex, or a victim of the institution? And can the MIU uncover the truth of what happened, despite hostility from all sides?
 5 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY | ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
STREAM ON ITVX
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 BRAND NEW ENTERTAINMENT
SILENCE IS GOLDEN
Monday 5th May at 9 on U&Dave
This week sees Dermot O'Leary front a brand new entertainment for show for U&Dave, called Silence is Golden, in which the studio audience are given £250,000, and all they need to do to win their share of it, is stay completely silent.
However, there's a green room of entertainers headed up by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri attempting to bring the prize pot down as every single noise any audience member makes, will lose them money.
With every audience member mic'ed up, all hell breaks loose as a green room of 30 acts wage war on the audience, with every sound forced out of them bringing the total prize money down.
It's entertainers vs audience - they're not on the same side. If the entertainers get the prize pot to zero, they get to give money to charity.
In the first episode, efforts to bring the money down include a kidnapped dog, hundreds of fake spiders, a man who puts his hand in a bear trap, knife throwers, a naked lady, a very naughty santa, a very scary clown and the brilliant stand-up comedians Reuben Kaye, Laura Smyth and Emmanuel Sonubi.
 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
 STREAM ON U  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
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 BRAND NEWDRAMA
THE TRIAL
Thursday 8th May at 9pm on 5
5's powerful new one-off drama The Trial, explores a chillingly plausible near-future in which parents are held legally responsible for the crimes of their children, raising unsettling questions about justice, culpability, and the limits of state control.
Set in the United Kingdom in the not too near future, The Trial follows Dione and David Sinclair, a couple thrust into a nightmarish legal battle when their teenage daughter, Teah, commits a serious crime. Under a radical new law, parents are no longer just bystanders in their children’s actions they are directly accountable.
They now face relentless interrogation as every aspect of their parenting, lifestyle, and past decisions are scrutinised. If found guilty, they could face life behind bars.
Claire Skinner and Ben Miles lead as the embattled parents, struggling to defend themselves against a system that sees them as perpetrators rather than victims. Their interrogator, the relentless and unyielding Sarah Willis, is played by Saoirse-Monica Jackson
 STREAM ON 5
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 RETURNING COMEDY DRAMA
POKER FACE
Thursday 8th May at 9pm, 10pm & 11pm on Sky Max
Rian Johnson's brilliant mystery-of-the-week comedy drama, Poker Face, is back this week with the first three episodes of its highly anticipated second season.
Natasha Lyonne returns as Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.