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WHAT TO WATCH 4-10 April

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Ian Fletcher's back. So that's all good then.



This week's best telly includes the return of Hugh Bonneville as Ian Fletcher in new comedy Twenty Twenty Six, the return of Malcolm in the Middle and the return of some familiar faces to the I'm A Celebrity jungle.


Elsewhere, Taskmaster and The Assembly both return, Margaret Attwood's The Testaments arrives on Disney+, Daniel Levy's new comedy Big Mistakes arrives on Netflix and Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks lead Sky's new comedy drama The Miniature Wife.


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

1

 RETURNING REALITY TV

I'M A CELEBRITY... SOUTH AFRICA

Monday 4th to Friday 10th April

9pm | ITV1



I'm A Celebrity... South Africa returns this week with 12 celebrities returning for the second-ever all-star series, and this time, the public will have the power to decide who is crowned the ultimate legend 2026. After weeks of shocks, showdowns and survival, viewers will be able to have their say and cast the final vote in a live grand final broadcast direct from London.


Once again, the show will bring together some of the most memorable campmates from series gone by, as they return to test themselves in brand new trials and challenges in the South African wilderness.


Campmates have already proved that they can survive the Australian jungle (or for some, the Welsh castle), but this is I’m A Celebrity… on a whole new level, it’s where legends are made.


Ant & Dec are back as hosts, with the new series featuring a fresh group of returning campmates, spectacular locations within the South African landscape and some of the most epic and extreme trials in I’m A Celebrity… history.


The trials are tougher than ever, and the stakes couldn't be higher. With relentless twists and turns, the campmates will never know what’s coming next. They will face challenges at every turn, quickly learning that big decisions carry even bigger consequences.



CONTINUES NIGHTLY

STREAM ON ITVX

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 BRAND NEW DRAMA

THE TESTAMENTS

Wednesday 8th April

Disney+



Following the huge success of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood’s novel The Testaments is the subject of Disney+'s new coming-of-age story set in Gilead.


The Testaments follows young teens Agnes, dutiful and pious, and Daisy, a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead’s borders. As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives, a place where obedience is instilled brutally and always with divine justification, their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, their present, and their future.


It stars Ann Dowd, Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Rowan Blanchard, Mattea Conforti, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya and Kira Guloien.


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON DISNEY+  3 EPISODES AVAILABLE


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 BRAND NEW COMEDY

TWENTY TWENTY SIX

Wednesday 8th April

10pm | BBC Two



Hugh Bonneville returns this week as Ian Fletcher in Twenty Twelve and W1A sequel, Twenty Twenty Six, with Hugh Skinner also back as Will Humphries.


This year's football tournament will be the biggest ever. Hosted by the USA, Canada, and Mexico, with 48 countries taking part and 16 venues thousands of miles apart across the whole of North America; what could possibly go wrong?


Ian Fletcher is about to find out, as he joins the Twenty Twenty Six Oversight Team in Miami as its Director of Integrity.


New cast members include Nick Blood, Chelsey Crisp, Paulo Costanzo, Stephen Kunken, Jimena Larraguivel, Alexis Michalik, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Marli Siu, Nicole Sadie Sawyerr, Joe Hewetson and Erin Kellyman.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


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 RETURNING ENTERTAINMENT

THE ASSEMBLY

Wednesday 8th April

10.05pm | ITV1



Following the huge success of its first series, The Assembly returns to ITV1 this week for an extended second series, with national treasure Sir Stephen Fry and former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon the first to take to the hot seat for an interview like no other.


The Assembly are a remarkable group of inquisitive interviewers who are autistic, neurodivergent and/or learning disabled. And they're back to put their unique questions to this new batch of brave celebrities, where the rules remain the same: no question is off the table, and no topic is out of bounds.


Other guests to face a no-holds-barred range of questions that no chat show, press junket or even parliamentary grilling has ever dared to ask include comedy legend Sir Lenny Henry, actor Anna Maxwell Martin and rapper and I’m A Celebrity star Aitch.


 7 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON ITVX

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 BRAND NEW COMEDY

BIG MISTAKES

Thursday 9th April

Netflix



Dan Levy's new comedy thriller Big Mistakes, launches this week and follows Levy's character Nicky and Taylor Ortega's character, Morgan, who are two siblings in over their heads when a misguided theft for their dying grandmother accidentally pulls them into the world of organised crime.


Blackmailed into increasingly dangerous assignments, they clumsily fail upwards, sinking deeper into chaos they're ill-equipped to handle.


 8 EPISODES

 STREAM ON NETFLIX  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


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 RETURNING ENTERTAINMENT

TASKMASTER

Thursday 9th April

9pm | Channel 4



Taskmaster returns this week for its 21st series as Greg Davies and his loyal assistant Alex Horne return with a fresh set of comics, including Amy Gledhill, Armando Iannucci, Joanna Page, Joel Dommett and Kumail Nanjiani.


In this first episode, this new group go hunting for a small creature, serve Greg his fruit and veggies and attempt to catch a golden T-shirt. But who will find all the oranges?


 10 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON CHANNEL 4 


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 BRAND NEW COMEDY DRAMA

THE MINIATURE WIFE

Thursday 9th April

9pm | Sky Atlantic



Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks lead Sky's new comedy drama The Miniature Wife, which follows what happens when Elizabeth Banks is unexpectedly shrunk in a technological mishap, much to the surprise of her husband.


Domestic life takes a turn for the perfectly mismatched pair, as their day-to-day turns into a razor-sharp battle for power.


 10 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON SKY AND NOW  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


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 RETURNING COMEDY

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE:
LIFE'S STILL UNFAIR

Friday 10th April

Disney+



20 years since it ended, and 26 years after its launch, Malcolm in the Middle returns this week with four brand new episodes, reuniting Bryan Cranston as Hal, Frankie Muniz as Malcolm, Jane Kaczmarek as Lois, Christopher Kennedy Masterson as Francis, Justin Berfield as Reese, and Emy Coligado as Piama.


After shielding himself and his daughter from his family for over a decade, Malcolm is dragged back into their orbit when Hal and Lois demand his presence at their 40th anniversary party.


New cast members include Keeley Karsten as Malcolm's daughter Leah, Vaughan Murrae as Malcolm's youngest sibling Kelly, Kiana Madeira as Malcolm's girlfriend Tristan, and Caleb Ellsworth-Clark as Dewey.


 4 EPISODES

 STREAM ON DISNEY+  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE



 
 
 

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