WHAT TO WATCH 4-10 October
- Elliot Gonzalez
- 1 hour ago
- 6 min read
"This game doesn't care who you are"
This week's best telly includes the launch of one of this year's most highly anticipated programmes, The Celebrity Traitors, as well as Netflix's three-part documentary, Victoria Beckham. As well as the return of Adjani Salmon's Dreaming Whilst Black and a new series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Elsewhere, Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker team up for new ITV1 drama, Frauds, Aimee Lou Wood co-writes and stars in new BBC Three comedy, Film Club, and Matthew Lewis leads 5's adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles' Murder Before Evensong.
Here are 7 TV shows you can't miss this week...
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 BRAND NEW DRAMA
FRAUDS
Sunday 5th and Monday 6th October at 9pm on ITV1
Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker lead ITV1's new heist drama, Frauds, as two skilled confidence tricksters who’ve been separated by an arduous 10-year prison sentence.
Jodie plays Sam, who has been content to live a life of quiet anonymity in the hills of Southern Spain, whilst her grifting partner, Bert, played by Suranne has spent the last decade in a Spanish prison cell with a burning desire to pull off one final job that will prove her worth.
We pick up the story as Sam anxiously waits for Bert to be released from a maximum-security prison on grounds of compassionate discharge. Frail and facing her final days, following a cancer diagnosis, Bert’s mindset is as it’s always been, to take risks and live life on the edge.
Set in the picturesque mountainous region of Southern Spain, it’s apparent from the outset that Sam and Bert have unresolved issues of the thieving kind.
Locked into a pattern of fierce friendship coupled with deep mistrust that goes back many years, Bert apparently has no one else to turn to in the final weeks of her life. And we sense this isn’t going to be an easy ride for Sam, who is clearly burying feelings of guilt and a past she’d rather stay forgotten.
Pricked by those feelings, she reluctantly agrees to give her ailing former friend a bed in the idyllic smallholding she calls a home. Despite trying to keep Bert at a distance, she is immediately pulled back into their complex and addictive relationship.
On the pretext of one final, multi-million-pound art heist, Bert attempts to lure Sam out of retirement, but at what cost? Can Sam stay one step ahead of her former friend, who is clearly capable of treachery? Or will the push and pull of their toxic friendship see them both ruined before they are able to pull off the job and escape one another for good?
 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES TWICE WEEKLY
STREAM ON ITVX
2
 BRAND NEW DRAMA
MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG
Tuesday 7th October at 9pm on 5
5's new drama Murder Before Evensong is based on the first novel in Reverend Richard Coles' Canon Clement Mysteries. Set in 1980s England. Matthew Lewis stars as Canon Daniel Clement, the Rector of Champton, who finds himself unexpectedly entangled in a murder case when a dead body turns up in the church.
Daniel shares Champton rectory with his widowed mother Audrey, played by Amanda Redman, and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to modernise the church, the parish is suddenly divided. And then a body is found dead at the back of the church.
As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together… and catch a killer.
 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
 STREAM ON 5
3
 BRAND NEW COMEDY
FILM CLUB
Tuesday 7th October at 10pm and 10.30pm on BBC Three
BBC Three's new romantic comedy-drama Film Club, from Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis, launches this week with Aimee starring as Evie, who sees Film Club as her weekly escape.
It's a chance for her to create a world of wonder, deck her mum’s garage out in whatever the movie calls for, and spend a few uninterrupted hours with her best friend Noa, played by Nabhaan Rizwaan.
It’s Friday night. 7pm. Film Club Week 198. Evie hasn’t left the house in six months after a ‘wobble’, and tonight, things are different. Noa’s got big news. A dream job is taking him across the other side of the country, which means that all of this is ending.
That reality is hitting. That they’re going to be forced to consider for the first time they might be more than just friends. Neither of them are the best when it comes to emotions but this time those emotions might be impossible to ignore.
As if life weren’t challenging enough already, Evie is going to be navigating this amongst the eccentricity of her family home - living with her fiercely loving single mum Suz, sister Izzie, and handsome boyfriend/sometime man of the house Josh.
Film Club promises to be a witty and emotional show about love and family, about whether we should follow our hearts or heads, and being in love with a friend and also stars Suranne Jones as Suz, Evie’s eccentric and unconventional mother, Liv Hill as Evie’s sister, Izzie, Adam Long as Evie’s boyfriend Josh, Arian Nik and Fola Evans Akingbola as Film Club members Kam and Samantha and Owen Cooper as Evie’s annoying neighbour Callum.
 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
4
 RETURNING ENTERTAINMENT
NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS
Tuesday 7th October at 9pm on Sky Max
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is back this week for its fifth series on Sky Max, with Greg Davies back as the ringmaster of rock n’ roll, and team captains Noel Fielding and Sophie Willan and regular panellist Jamali Maddix joining him.
This series will see more themed episodes, including episodes devoted to the 1980s, 90s Pop and fresh from the summer of Oasis, a battle between Britpop and Madchester, featuring guest captains Pepsi & Shirlie, Melanie Blatt, and the forever chaotic Bez.
Among the other guests providing back-up vocals, this series will be Matt Goss, PinkPantheress, Boyzone, Jamie Demetriou, Tom Grennan, Jessie J, Sam Ryder, Tinie Tempah, Debbie Gibson and every member of 5ive acting as a single entity.
 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY
 STREAM ON SKY AND NOW
5
 BRAND NEW REALITY TV
THE CELEBRITY TRAITORS
Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th September at 9pm on BBC One
It's one of the most highly-anticipated series of the year, and the wait is finally over as The Celebrity Traitors launches this week as Claudia Winkleman is inviting a group of celebrities to the beautiful castle in the Scottish Highlands to play this ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning up to £100,000 for their chosen charities.
Hidden amongst the group are The Traitors whose job is to secretly murder their fellow players, without getting caught. It’s up to the others, the Faithful, to try to detect the Traitors and banish them from the game before they become their next victim.
The lucky players who survive to the end have the chance of winning the money. If a Traitor remains undetected, however, they’ll take it all. New series, whole new game.
Taking part are comedian Alan Carr, singer/songwriter Cat Burns, actor Celia Imrie, singer/activist Charlotte Church, broadcaster and author Clare Balding, historian and filmmaker David Olusoga, former England Rugby plater and podcaster Joe Marler, comedian Joe Wilkinson, presenter Jonathan Ross, broadcaster Kate Garraway, comedian Lucy Beaumont, actor Mark Bonnar, actor and comedian Nick Mohammed, content creator Niko Omilana, singer/songwriter and actor Paloma Faith, actor Ruth Codd, actor, writer and presenter Stephen Fry, actor and comedian Tameka Empson and olympian, author, broadcaster and entrepreneur Tom Daley.
 9 EPISODES  CONTINUES TWICE WEEKLY
 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYERÂ
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 BRAND NEW DOCUMENTARY
VICTORIA BECKHAM
Thursday 9th October on Netflix
In Victoria Beckham, a new three-part documentary for Netflix, we're given a front row seat as Victoria prepares for the fashion show of her life.
From the teenager who restyled her school uniform, to the Spice Girl who fought to be accepted by a notoriously demanding fashion industry, Victoria Beckham is the story of resilience, reinvention and self-discovery.
 3 EPISODES
 STREAM ON NETFLIX  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
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 RETURNING COMEDY
DREAMING WHILST BLACK
Thursday 9th October at 10.10pm, 10.40pm and 11.10pm on BBC Three
Adjani Salmon's hit comedy Dreaming Whilst Black, returns to BBC Three this week as Kwabena finds himself at the start of his professional career in a new era: the age of diversity, equity and inclusion, where empowering marginalised voices are seemingly at the top of everyone's agenda.
Whilst the entertainment industry might look progressive from the outside, it doesn't feel that way to Kwabs. Desperate to work on a project that aligns with his values, he manages to secure a directing job for major TV series Sin and Subterfuge, a genre-busting period drama, helmed by the iconic black producer Bridgette Julienne.
But over the course of the series, the show’s progressive agenda morphs into an increasingly problematic production, and he begins to wonder, has he been set up to fail from the start?
Returning cast members alongside Adjani Salmon, include Dani Moseley as Amy, Demmy Ladipo as Maurice, Rachel Adedeji as Funmi and babirye bukilwa as Vanessa.