WHAT TO WATCH 5-11 April
- Elliot Gonzalez
- Apr 4
- 6 min read
Updated: Apr 5
Which celebrities will be entering TV's most famous house?
This week's best telly includes the highly anticipated return of Celebrity Big Brother, as well as six brand new Black Mirror episodes from Charlie Brooker, a brand new series of Grace and the return of Hacks for its fourth season.
Elsewhere, Jon Hamm leads Apple TV+'s new drama Your Friends & Neighbours, Alan Carr returns with a brand new series of Interior Design Masters and BBC One launch their new revenge thriller, Reunion.
Here are 7 TV shows you can't miss this week...
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RETURNING DRAMA
GRACE
Sunday 6th April at 8pm on ITV1
John Simm returns as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace for another four feature-length episodes of Grace, which is based on the best-selling novels from Peter James with John Simm back as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, Richie Campbell returning as DI Glenn Branson.
In the first episode, Dead If You Don't, Major Crime are called to a Sussex beach when an unidentified male washes up dead in a barrel. Presence of bleach on the body initially suggests that someone may have tried to destroy evidence but who is this victim and where did he come from?
The same morning, Brighton football stadium receives a chilling anonymous call. Hundreds of fans are arriving for a match and their lives depend on an impossible demand: Pay £2,000,000 or an explosive device will detonate on the final whistle.
At the match, Roy Grace is taking a day off to bond with his and Sandy’s son, Bruno. A couple of months on since Sandy’s death, Bruno has come to the UK to live with his grandparents, while Grace and Cleo wrestle with the aftermath of a profound personal loss. Meanwhile, in the corporate box, wealthy businessman and club shareholder, Kipp Kavinda, is entertaining clients when his teenage son Frank storms off.
As Kipp learns about the bomb, he grows increasingly panicked when he can’t reach Frank. Grace’s team descends on the stadium to locate the device, while Roy finds himself in a frantic race to save hundreds of lives, culminating in huge personal risk. With a full-scale manhunt underway for the bomber, the day’s terrifying events are only just beginning when an eerie CCTV discovery outside the stadium comes to light, leading Grace to think that Kipp Kavinda’s family is being targeted - but why?
When forensic results on the body from the beach indicate chemicals used in bomb-making, Grace believes that all these events are somehow connected and the investigation soon points him to organised crime. To save an innocent life from imminent death, Roy must enter a cruel world of corruption, where normal rules don’t apply and human lives have no value.
4 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
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BRAND NEW DRAMA
REUNION
Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th April at 9pm on BBC One
This week sees the start of BBC One's new emotional bilingual thriller of revenge and redemption, Reunion.
Filmed in and around Sheffield, Reunion is a bilingual series featuring both British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English and follows the journey of Daniel Brennan, played by Matthew Gurney, a deaf man determined to right his wrongs while unravelling the truth behind the events that led him to prison.
Brennan embodies the struggle of a man caught between two worlds, unable to fully integrate into the hearing world and shunned by his closest friends and the wider deaf community following his heinous crime.
Amidst this isolation, Brennan's only meaningful relationship is with his estranged daughter Carly, played by Lara Peake, who he has not had any contact with since his arrest over a decade ago.
Anne-Marie Duff stars as Christine, desperate to find Brennan and get to the full truth behind what he did, alongside Eddie Marsan as Stephen Renworth, Christine’s protective boyfriend, while Rose Ayling-Ellis plays her daughter, Miri.
4 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
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RETURNING REALITY TV
CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER
Monday 7th - Friday 11th April at 9pm on ITV1
Celebrity Big Brother is BACK! This week. AJ Odudu and Will Best will welcome a new batch of VIPs to take on the original social experiment, as they take up residence in the Big Brother house, which has moved to a brand-new location.
Once again, Celebrity Big Brother will be followed each night on ITV2 by Celebrity Big Brother: Late & Live, giving viewers an additional hour of exclusive content. And it’ll remain the only place to watch the celebrity evictees first live interview alongside an array of unmissable exclusive features including access to the camera runs, special guest commentary and fiery debate.
The Celebrity Big Brother: Live Stream will also return to screens, airing seven nights a week on ITVX and STV Player, giving fans the opportunity to watch live footage into the small hours after Celebrity Big Brother: Late & Live.
With rumoured housemates such as Hollywood legend Mickey Rourke, Angellica Bell, JoJo Siwa, Chesney Hawkes, Danny Beard, Jack P Shepherd, Patsy Palmer and others, it's set to be another unmissable series of the greatest reality TV format returns with tense tasks, nail-biting nominations and gripping gossip.
17 EPISODES CONTINUES NIGHTLY
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RETURNING DRAMA
BLACK MIRROR
Thursday 10th April on Netflix
Charlie Brooker's hit anthology series Black Mirror returns this week for its seventh season, with six brand new episodes including a a sequel to the sci-fi adventure USS Callister and a new adventure featuring characters from Bandersnatch.
In Common People, when a medical emergency leaves schoolteacher Amanda fighting for her life, her desperate husband Mike signs her up for Rivermind, a high-tech system that will keep her alive. But at a cost. It stars Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd and Tracee Ellis Ross.
In Bête Noire, confectionary whizz kid Maria is unnerved when her former schoolmate Verity joins the company she works at, because there’s something altogether odd about Verity, something only Maria seems to notice. It stars Siena Kelly, Rosy McEwen, Michael Workéyè, Ben Bailey Smith, Amber Grappy, Ravi Aujla, Elena Sanz and Hanna Griffiths.
In Hotel Reverie, a high-tech, unusually immersive remake of a vintage British film sends Hollywood A-list star Brandy Friday into another dimension, where she must stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home. It stars Issa Rae, Emma Corrin, Awkwafina and Harriet Walter.
In Plaything, in a near-future London, an eccentric murder suspect is linked to an unusual video game from the 1990s, a game populated by cute, evolving artificial lifeforms. It stars Peter Capaldi, Lewis Gribben, James Nelson Joyce, Michele Austin, Will Poulter and Asim Chaudhry.
In Eulogy, an isolated man is introduced to a groundbreaking system that allows its users to literally step inside old photographs, stirring powerful emotions in the process. It stars Paul Giamatti and Patsy Ferran.
In USS Callister: Into Infinity, Robert Daly is dead, but now the crew of the USS Callister, led by Captain Nanette Cole, are stranded in an infinite virtual universe, fighting for survival against 30 million players. It stars Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, Billy Magnussen, Osy Ikhile, Milanka Brooks and Paul G. Raymond.
6 EPISODES
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RETURNING TALENT SHOW
INTERIOR DESIGN MASTERS
WITH ALAN CARR
Thursday 10th April at 8pm on BBC One
Interior Design Masters is back on BBC One for a sixth series, with Alan Carr returning as host, introducing us to a brand new cohort of interior designers, as they transform vastly different spaces across the next eight weeks.
Their first challenge is to demonstrate their signature style on YHA bunk rooms in the Lake District. Judges Michelle Ogundehin and Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen must then decide who will win Stand Out Space and which designer will be the first to go home.
8 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
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BRAND NEW DRAMA
YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS
Friday 11th April on Apple TV+
Apple TV+'s new drama, Your Friends & Neighbours, stars Jon Hamm as Andrew "Coop" Cooper, a hedge fund manager who after being fired in disgrace and still grappling with his recent divorce, resorts to stealing from his neighbors' homes in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village.
Only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.
This captivating drama also stars Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Marie Gravitt and Donovan Colan and with a second season already announced, it's set to be one not to miss!
9 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
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RETURNING COMEDY
HACKS
Friday 11th April at 8pm on Sky Max
Tensions rise this week as Hacks returns for its fourth season as Deborah and Ava endeavour to get their late night show off the ground and make history doing it.
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