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Barbie stars, documentarians, and Messy Mitch: meet the 12 stars re-entering the Love Island villa
Ex-partners, best friends, and those jilted at Casa Amor; this new batch of islanders have a rich interpersonal history – all of which is detailed over 10 series of Love Island on ITVX.
Taking the place of the winter series, Love Island: All Stars hopes past islanders can forge new connections with each other - their shared experience perhaps leading to a stronger foundation.
Let’s catch up with some old favourites and see what brings them back to old faithful – the Love Island villa…
What’s On TV This Week: 8th January – 14th January
Criminal Record
Wednesday
Apple TV+
From the mind of Vera creator Paul Rutman comes Criminal Record, a stern detective drama focusing on the effects of institutional errors, centring around an old ‘solved’ murder case.
What's on TV: New Year’s Day
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
ITV1, 9.00pm
The Detectorist’s Toby Jones stars as the Erin Brockovich of the British Post Office Scandal, Mr Bates.
Working Lives: Drama Commissioner
What does the job involve?
Working with the brilliant producers and writers we have in this country, we look for dramas that we think people will watch and love on ITV – and then we facilitate the producers to make them. We’re out there telling people what we think might work for ITV, and the producers also come to us with great ideas.
We want ideas that will surprise and challenge us, so we’re not simply doing the same thing over and over again.
What was your route into TV?
Winners announced for the RTS Craft & Design Awards 2023
The awards ceremony was hosted this evening by comedian and presenter Eddie Kadi at the London Hilton on Park Lane, commending the exceptional skills and processes that are involved in programme making.
Across the 28 competitive categories, the BBC had a victorious night receiving 14 awards, with The English winning both Costume Design – Scripted and Design Titles, and The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II for both Director – Multicamera and Multicamera Work categories.
Lenny Henry on going back to his roots with Three Little Birds
Sir Lenny Henry admitted he was unusually nervous before the Midlands premiere of his latest TV drama, because his family was in the audience.
Jason Isaacs, Jeff Pope and Laura Aikman on Archie and Cary Grant, the man who "didn’t exist"
Cary Grant was the ultimate Hollywood star, the suavest man on the silver screen during cinema’s golden age.
Whatever the role – from the unscrupulous newspaper editor of His Girl Friday to ordinary-man-on-the-run in North by Northwest – he was always Grant: charming, urbane, the epitome of cool.
Surely, then, only the vainest of actors would sign up to play him in Archie, ITV’s new four-part drama about Grant, written by Jeff Pope?
From Nigel Farage to Jamie Lynn Spears: Who’s in I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here 2023?
The series will show the stars put their lives as food critics, YouTubers, presenters, and actors on pause to live in the Australian Hinterlands, alongside their hosts Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
Following the format the show has kept since its debut in 2002, the celebrities will camp outside in hammocks (if they’re lucky) and on the ground (if they are not), participating in regular ‘Bushtucker challenges’ at Ant and Dec’s behest.
What’s On TV This Week: 30th October – 5th November
Rhod Gilbert: A Pain in The Neck
Monday
Channel 4, 9.00pm
In 2022, comedian Rhod Gilbert was diagnosed with stage four head and neck cancer. Now, in a one-off documentary for Stand Up to Cancer, Gilbert will be revealing his journey from diagnosis to recovery through a series of personal video diaries.