Guests are welcomed for their third stay at The White Lotus hotel, Dope Girls and A Thousand Blows delve into London’s criminal history, and EastEnders turns 40.
The White Lotus
Monday
Sky Atlantic, 9.00pm
The White Lotus is back, and this time we’re visiting its Thailand location. As with all of its other locations, there’s something in the air; in the grounds of this hotel, its guests engage in sex, drugs, and murder.
Although the plot has stayed under wraps, the trailer introduces series three’s guests, among them Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood, Harry Potter’s Jason Isaacs and… a balaclava clad man, carrying a gun.
If you want to know more about what to expect from series three, read more here.
Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power and Profit
Tuesday
ITV2, 9.00pm
Georgia Harrison is possibly best known for her two visits to the Love Island villa, but she has since become an award-winning activist. After her public three-and-a-half-year revenge porn trial, she has spoken in parliament about non-consensual intimate image abuse and uses her social platforms to campaign for change.
In this new two-part documentary, she will tackle the rising issue of deep-fake porn, speaking to victims and visiting a revenge porn hotline.
EastEnders: Live
Thursday
BBC One, 7.30pm
EastEnders is turning 40 and they’ve planned a full week of celebrations.
Denise Fox (Diane Parish) has been torn between her two love interests: her ex-husband Jack Branning (Scott Maslen), and her lover Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) who caused their separation.
Since Denise can’t make the decision herself, the EastEnders bosses have called in the audiences to help. After Wednesday’s episode the UK will have the chance to vote for her new partner. On Thursday’s live episode, she will knock at the door of the man with the most votes.
A Thousand Blows
Friday
Disney+
Every character of Steven Knight’s A Thousand Blows draws inspiration from real figures who have been largely left out of the history books. In the criminal underworld of 1880s London, Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham, Boiling Point) runs the boxing scene.
Roots’ Malachi Kirby plays Hezekiah Moscow, a Jamaican trying to make a new life in Victorian England. Strapped for cash, he enters Sugar’s world and starts an intense rivalry. Erin Doherty (The Crown) stars alongside them as Mary Carr, the leader of all-female crime syndicate The Forty Elephants who use their gender to aid their pickpocketing enterprise.
Dope Girls
Saturday
BBC, 9.15pm
Similarly to A Thousand Blows, Dope Girls explores London’s underbelly, this time focusing on the female gangs who thrived after WW1, using the after-war turmoil to take over Soho’s nightclub scene.
Unsurprisingly there are several groups who want to see the end of unlicensed nightclubs, for very different reasons: Policewoman Violet Davies (Eliza Scanlen, Little Women), who has been set on their case as an undercover cop; and the Salucci crime family, ran by matriarch Isabella (Geraldine James, Downton Abbey).