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Inside Poundland: Secrets From The Shop Floor will take a look out how the company is transforming its stores and investing in new ranges while many competitors on the high street are going into administration.

With an aim to open up 45 new and relocated stores within the next 12 months, the discount store is trying to conquer the market in a time of recession.

From a “divorce celebration range” to trendy Scandinavian-style homeware, the Poundland colleagues will be trying their best to reinvigorate the store’s product selection and attract new customers.

The four-part series will see a group of celebrities pitted against each other and challenged to learn as much as possible about a new topic they know nothing about.

Their memory of this new topic will then be tested by Toksvig at Memory HQ, with experts offering the celebrities memory tips and tricks to help change the way they think and improve their memory.

Across the four episodes, the celebrities will be whittled down to just one, who will be crowned Memory Champion.

Written and led by Jamie Demetriou (Fleabag) as Stath, the RTS-Award nominated comedy follows the incompetent lettings agent as he struggles to conquer London’s competitive rental market.

Natasha Demetriou (What We Do In The Shadows) will be reprising her role as Stath’s sister Sophie, with Al Roberts (King Gary), Christos Stergioglou (Dogtooth), Katy Wix (Ghosts), Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Ghosts) and Ellie White (The Other One) also returning for series three.

The West Wing

Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) first became a household name through his fast-talking White House drama The West Wing, written with John Wells and Thomas Schlamme.

The series follows the lives of political movers and shakers in Washington D.C. Martin Sheen leads the cast as President Josiah Bartlet, with Rob Lowe (Parks and Recreation) starring as his Head of Communications Sam Seaborn.

Who Do You Think You Are?

Monday 12^th October

BBC One, 9pm

The genealogy documentary series returns, with Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) tracing her Yorkshire family tree in this opening episode.

Davina McCall will host the reboot with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen returning as the interior-designer-in-chief.

The renowned home-DIY series will see two sets of homeowners in the same neighbourhood attempt to renovate a room in each other’s house while battling against the clock.

While they may not share the same tastes for textures and colours, each opposing homeowner is completely in charge of creating a new design for the chosen room. What could possibly go wrong?

Produced by Eagle Eye Drama, the special is based on Blake’s book of the same name and follows a toy clown’s journey to find a new home for him and his friends after he is thrown out with a load of discarded toys.

Blake said: “Clown has always been one of my favourite characters, and it’s wonderful now to see him off the page and running about on his own.”

The special will be animated traditionally, with hand drawings in imitation of Blake’s unique style.

Each episode of the three-part series has been written and developed in a collaboration between Wright and Dominic Savage, with improvised dialogue offering a thought-provoking exploration of contemporary female experiences.

Letitia Wright leads I Am Danielle, which also features CJ Beckford (The Trial of Christine Keeler) and Sophia Brown (Giri/Haji).

Wright commented: “Collaborating with Dominic Savage has been an amazing experience. His unique and sensitive style of directing has stretched me as an artist.

For a show that feels so now, Adult Material has been a long time in the making. It is nearly a decade since writer Lucy Kirkwood first thought of penning a story that would pull back the curtain on the mysterious world of the British pornography industry. Now, her vision has been fully realised as a four-part drama series.

Adult Material has a lot riding on it, in every sense. Belief in Kirkwood’s work is such that the show has become the flagship programme of Channel 4’s highly anticipated 2020 autumn season, a gaudy gem in its crown.

They say that times of crisis often bring out the best in people and organisations. For an example of this, look no further than how Channel 4 has adapted to postponed productions and an alarming fall in advertising over the past six months.

“In a crisis, when you have to change really fast, Channel 4 is actually amazing,” the broadcaster’s CEO, Alex Mahon, told Tim Hincks, co-CEO of Expectation, at the RTS’s Digital Convention.