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WHAT TO WATCH 4-10 July

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Five unmissable shows, including the return of Trying!



This week's best telly includes the return of Trying for its fifth series on Apple TV, a reimagining of Little House on the Prairie on Netflix and Ed Gamble fronts new TLC panel show Unacceptable.


Elsewhere, Katie Price insists she has Nothing to Hide in a new four-part documentary from Louis Theroux's production company and Australian comedy Austin returns to BBC One.


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


1


 BRAND NEW PANEL SHOW

UNACCEPTABLE


Sunday 5th July at 9pm on TLC

Stream on Discovery+



Launching this week on TLC is Unacceptable, a brand new panel show hosted by Ed Gamble, alongside team captains Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally, in which comedians battle it out to convince the studio audience of some outrageous opinions. The sort of opinions you post on a WhatsApp group and hope never to see the light of day.


Each week, Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally will welcome a star-studded line-up of guest comedians onto the show to reveal wild, unwise or downright unacceptable opinions that the whole team must then defend.


Across the six-part series, Romesh Ranganathan tries to justify paying the Royal family more; Katherine Ryan believes all men should have vasectomies at birth, Ivo Graham attempts to convince us that private school kids need State support, and Maisie Adam thinks we should let AI run the world.


On Unacceptable, what matters is how much you can swing the audience’s opinion. Across the show, using a live swingometer, Ed tracks exactly how many audience members they win over with their razor-sharp wit and persuasive punchlines. The goal? Secure the biggest swing in support from the crowd.


Ed won’t make that easy though, alongside mini games and quick-fire opinion rounds, he drags the comics main opinions out into the open in a series of tests, forcing the teams to practice what they preach. Whichever team wins over the most audience in the room might, unacceptably, win.


2


 BRAND NEW DOCUSERIES

KATIE PRICE: NOTHING TO HIDE


Wednesday 8th July at 9pm on Sky Documentaries

Stream on Sky and NOW



Launching this week on Sky Documentaries is Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, a new four-part docuseries from Louis Theroux's production company, Mindhouse, which brings a documentary lens to Katie’s story, combining extraordinary unseen footage with first-time, candid testimony from those closest to Katie.


Across the archive-led four-part series, we will hear candid testimonies from those closest to Katie. Family, friends, professional and personal relationships, and those who have entered her orbit over the past three decades.


Since emerging as her alter ego ‘Jordan’ on Page 3 of The Sun in 1996, Katie Price has become one of the most photographed women of her generation. Her life has played out across newspapers, magazines, reality television and social media - from marriages, motherhood and multi-million-pound contracts to scandal, cosmetic surgery, bankruptcy and betrayal. 


With new and revealing perspectives providing raw and first-time context to a turbulent life lived in the public eye, the series promises to go beyond the headlines to deliver a revealing portrait of one of Britain’s most enduring celebrity figures.


3


 RETURNING COMEDY

TRYING


Wednesday 8th July on Apple TV



Trying returns to Apple TV this week for its fifth series, as Nikki and Jason, played by Esther Smith and Rafe Spall, must deal with the consequences of the events at the end of series four.


After Princess and Tyler's biological mother, Kat, played by Charlotte Riley, turned up at their doorstep, the new series deals with the whirlwind of chaos she brings into their settled family life.


The new eight-part series sees the return of Darren Boyd, Siân Brooke, Phil Davis, Marian McLoughlin and Oliver Chris, alongside new cast members Celia Imrie, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Colin Morgan, Danielle Vitalis and Leah Brotherhead.


4


 BRAND NEW DRAMA

LITTLE HOUSE OF THE PRAIRIE


Thursday 9th July on Netflix



Launching this week on Netflix is Little House on the Prairie, a new 10-part reimagining of the hit series from 1974, which is part hopeful family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West.


This fresh eight-part adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's iconic Little House books, inspired by her own childhood on the American frontier, offers a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier.


Based on the third book, Little House on the Prairie follows the Ingalls family as they establish their “new forever” outside the small but quickly developing town of Independence. The family, along with their dog Jack, faces the often harsh conditions of 1800s prairie life. It brings fever, wolves, and fire, obstacles that longtime fans will recognise from the original novels.


This new adaptation also expands the story beyond the Ingalls family’s perspective, as they attempt to make a life on land they were told was “free,” and they encounter Osage people who have long called the prairie home.


And if you enjoy this first season, the good news is that a second has already been confirmed!


5


 RETURNING COMEDY

AUSTIN


Friday 10th July at 10.40pm and 11.05pm on BBC One

Stream on BBC iPlayer



Austin returns to BBC One this week for its second series, as Michael Theo returns as the straight-talking Austin. alongside Julian and Ingrid, played by Ben Miller and Sally Phillips in the hit comedy.


The new eight-part series sees Austin’s publishing career take off when Game Of Scones: Doing Britain On The Spectrum is picked by an international publisher. But as his fame among the bespoke travelling readers grows, he falls under the professional spell of his new agent, and to the horror of his family, breaks bad, behaving in a manner unbefitting his true self.


Meanwhile, an Australian production company has optioned Big Bear to adapt it into a TV series. Julian and Ingrid, with Austin in tow, head to Canberra, Australia, but the joy is short-lived when they discover the production company wants to exclude Julian and reinvent the Big Bear brand.



 
 
 

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