Bestselling novel A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder gets a TV adaption, a man with 1000 kids finds himself responsible for his actions and Wimbledon enters the championships – all culminating amidst the 2024 election results.
Wimbledon
Monday
BBC One, 12:15pm
(Credit: BBC/Helen Murray)
Get your strawberries and cream ready, the championships are beginning. In the wake of The Challengers putting tennis right at the front of public consciousness, anyone with a TikTok account will be imagining an electronica soundtrack as Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner (amongst others) fight it out for the trophy.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Monday
BBC iPlayer
Holly Jackson’s BookTok classic A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder gets a TV adaption, with Wednesday’s Emma Myers donning an English accent to lead as Pip Fitz-Amobi.
The murder mystery sees high-schooler Pip take on her small town’s five-year old murder case, after suspecting there was something amiss about the verdict. Soon, she partners up with Ravi (Zain Iqbal, All Crazy Random), a boy at her school, who happens to be the brother of the accused.
The Man with 1000 Kids
Wednesday
Netflix
A documentary which is exactly what it sounds like. Dutch musician Jonathan Meijer has fathered 1000 kids, with hundreds of different mothers. Some experts say he is addicted to having children – he sees himself as more of a charity, donating sperm to those struggling to conceive their own.
After parents had had their - oftentimes ‘miracle’ - baby, they discovered that he was a ‘serial donor’, with his children spanning across the globe. Now, the mothers, fertility experts and lawyers have banded together to try and take him down and stop his sperm spreading any further.
General Election 2024: The Results
Thursday
BBC One, ITV1, Channel 4, GB News, Sky News, 9.55pm
After months of campaigns and tens of politicians trying their hand at social media, it’s all coming to a head.
With the votes cast, another big decision to make is what coverage to watch: ITV will have guests from ex-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon to Strictly Come Dancing legend Ed Balls; Sky News has veteran Kay Burley presenting (her first election coverage was Margaret Thatcher’s win in 1979); Channel 4 has Krishnan Guru-Murthy; and BBC will be led by Clive Myrie and Laura Kuenssberg.
The Night Caller
Sunday
Channel 5, 9.00pm
Robert Glenister (Hustle) and Sean Pertwee (Dog Soldiers) star in the latest in a line of Channel 5’s psychological thrillers.
With his previous job as a teacher long gone, his wife up and left, leaving his confidence in shambles. Tony (Glenister) has nothing but his job as a black cab driver – and the late-night radio DJ (Pertwee) whose voice accompanies him on his drives.
One night, Tony finally plucks up the courage to call into the radio show, and soon becomes a ‘friend of the show.’ When Tony starts taking the DJ’s life advice as gospel, the parasocial relationship has disastrous real-life consequences.
