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WHAT TO WATCH 7-13 March

  • Mar 7
  • 5 min read

It's a HUGE week for new telly, with returning favourites alongside brand new shows!



This week's best telly includes the return of some of TV's biggest dramas, including The Capture and Ellis, a new adaptation of A Woman of Substance and new comedy Rooster starring Steve Carell.


Elsewhere, Claudia Winkleman is back on our screens and giving Graham Norton a run for his money with her brand new chat show, The Claudia Winkleman Show, Stacey Solomon is back with a sixth series of her huge hit Sort Your Life Out and Eve Myles and David Morrissey lead ITV1's new psychological drama, Gone.


Here are 7 TV shows you can't miss this week...

1

 RETURNING DRAMA

THE CAPTURE

Sunday 8th March

9pm | BBC One



Holliday Grainger and Paapa Essiedu return to BBC One this week for the third series of hit drama The Capture. Paapa who returns as Isaac Turner, after helping to expose Correction in the previous series, and Holliday, who leads the cast as Rachel Carey.


How do you protect the truth in a world where lies are daily currency? And with the proliferation of deepfakes, how can we trust what we see?


It’s been 12 months since Rachel Carey broadcast a live deepfake of a government minister to the nation, exposing the UK intelligence service’s clandestine video manipulation programme known as Correction.


Amidst an inquiry into the unlawful use of Correction, Carey has become Acting Commander of Counter Terrorism Command, determined to regain the public’s trust in surveillance technology through the new Operation Veritas camera system.


And then it happens: a brutal and exceptionally well-coordinated act of terror aimed right at the heart of the British establishment that leaves behind just one witness.


The more Carey investigates, the deeper she is drawn into an unfolding geopolitical crisis that infects the British political establishment, the security services, and the media. The conspiracy reaches deep into the State, but just who is pulling the strings?


Caught in an increasingly violent situation and with few allies left to trust, what sacrifices will Carey be willing to make?


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 


2

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

GONE

Sunday 8th and Monday 9th March

9pm | ITV1



ITV1's gripping new psychological drama, Gone, from George Kay, starring Eve Myles and David Morrissey, launches this week and is set against the backdrop of a prestigious private school, a foreboding forest and the quiet sprawl of Bristol.


Gone is a chilling mystery focusing on local Headmaster Michael Polly, played by David Morrissey, who becomes the prime suspect in his wife Sarah’s disappearance.


An upstanding member of the community, Michael Polly is inscrutable and likes order and precision in his working life. Until, that is, he encounters super bright, gutsy Detective Annie Cassidy, played by Eve Myles, and a compulsive game of cat and mouse begins as she chips away at his veneer in search of the truth.


With tension in the air, yet Polly not displaying any emotion, Annie’s suspicions are heightened the more she investigates. Something in her gut tells her all is not what it seems. Could he be capable of murder? And if so, why?


Sarah and Michael’s daughter, Alana, played by Emma Appleton, is a teacher at the school, making their involvement a real family affair. Beneath the surface of the mystery lies a deeper exploration of trauma, trust and the legacy of elite institutions.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS

STREAM ON ITVX  ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE


3

 RETURNING DRAMA

ELLIS

Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th March

9pm | 5



Fresh from her victories in series one, DCI Ellis is once again parachuted into failing cases across the north of England. With Harper at her side, she faces a new wave of fractured communities and suspicious deaths that test not only her forensic brilliance but her resilience.


The series takes them from a rural village, where the suspicious death of a beloved community leader exposes long-nursed resentments, to the industrial shadow of a stone works, where the death of a young woman reveals a hidden network of coercion and exploitation.


Every case peels back layers of silence, ambition, and betrayal.


 4 EPISODES  CONTINUES TUESDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS

 STREAM ON 5


4

 BRAND NEW COMEDY

ROOSTER

Tuesday 10th March

10pm | Sky One



This week sees the launch of Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses' brand new comedy Rooster. Set on a college campus, Steve Carell stars as an author whose complicated relationship with his daughter, played by Charly Clive, is at the centre of the show.


 10 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON SKY AND NOW


5

 RETURNING FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT

SORT YOUR LIFE OUT

Wednesday 11th March

8pm | BBC One



Stacey Solomon and her crack team, organiser Dilly, carpenter Rob and cleaning expert Iwan, are BACK to help families transform their homes as Sort Your Life Out returns for its sixth series.


Once again they'll be they helping families transform their homes and lives, as each week, a family will undertake a life-changing declutter, while the team delivers a budget-friendly makeover and a supersized spring clean, all within just seven days.


In the first episode, Stacey and the team are tackling the Kings’ home, where retired architectural technician Gerry and care worker Trish live with two of their three grown-up kids.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 


6

 BRAND NEW DRAMA

A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE

Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th March

9pm | Channel 4



This week, Channel 4 are bringing us a new adaptation of A Woman of Substance, 40 years after the original became Channel 4's most-watched drama ever. Brenda Blethyn leads as Emma Harte, with Jessica Reynolds playing a younger version of the iconic character. Emma was a housemaid-turned-mogul, daughter, mother, lover, fighter and a 20th century feminist icon who refused to know her ‘place’.


1911. Emma Harte, an impoverished, ambitious maid in Yorkshire, England, goes on a dizzying journey to become the world’s richest woman, gazing down from a sprawling luxury New York penthouse.


A rags-to-riches tale of women through the 20th century, Emma defies the expectations of her society, fearlessly challenging the roles she's given, smashing glass ceilings, and never, ever deviating from her masterplan: Get to the top. Whatever it takes.


A Woman of Substance also stars Emmett J Scanlan as Adam Fairley, Lydia Leonard as Olivia Wainwright, Leanne Best as Adele Fairley, Ewan Horrocks as Edwin Fairley, Harry Cadby as Gerald Fairley, Will Mellor as Jack Harte, Lenny Rush as Frank Harte, Niall Wright as Mac, Robert Wilfort as Murgatroyd, Toby Regbo as Jim Fairley, Hiftu Quasem as Priya Chandra, Sophie Bould as Elizabeth Harte and Georgina Sadler as Polly.


 8 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEDNESDAYS & THURSDAYS

 STREAM ON CHANNEL 4 


7

 BRAND NEW ENTERTAINMENT

THE CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN SHOW

Friday 13th March

10.40pm | BBC One


Move over Graham Norton, as Claudia Winkleman takes over Friday nights on BBC One with The Claudia Winkleman Show, promising a talk show that showcases her trademark warmth, charm and humour.


Each episode will feature an eclectic mix of guests, including Hollywood stars, the best of British, and laugh-out-loud comedians. And it's not just celebrities who are invited to join Claudia on this show because for her, the audience in the studio and at home are just as important as someone who has won an Oscar.


Amongst the guests this week, Claudia is joined by Jeff Goldblum, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Saunders and comedian Tom Allen.


 6 EPISODES  CONTINUES WEEKLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 

 
 
 

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