What to Watch on TV This Week: 27th January-2nd February
Marvel
How Disney gave new lives to Loki
Tom Hiddleston joined co-star Sophia Di Martino, series writer and executive producer Michael Waldron and director Kate Herron at a sold-out RTS event to share insights into their big-ticket Disney+ show Loki.
They discussed, among other things, the pressures of conjuring high-end TV for a streaming behemoth, pushing the envelope on content based on a character drawn from a blockbuster film franchise – and keeping legions of loyal fans happy.
Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Kate Herron and Michael Waldron discuss Loki
Hiddleston left the sell out crowd at a panel discussion hosted by the Royal Television Society Wednesday evening (March 2) hungry for more details but the star of the Marvel show about the god of mischief and chaos, couldn't and wouldn't be drawn. "There is going to be a series two," Hiddleston smiled mischievously. "That's a complete sentence I think. I'll get into real trouble if I say more."
The best Marvel TV shows to put on your watch list
Loki
Disney +
Known as the God of Mischief, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) finds himself in front of the Time Variance Authority, an organisation outside of time and space, after stealing the tesseract, a cube which contains one of six Infinity Stones that possess unlimited energy.
TV Picks: 9th – 15th August
Ghosts
Monday
BBC One, 8:30pm
Beloved family comedy Ghosts returns for a third series with Charlotte Ritchie (Feel Good) and Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Stath Lets Flats) reprising their roles as the married couple Alison and Mike, who live in a manor house teeming with spirits.
Disney+ releases trailer for WandaVision starring Elizabeth Olsen
Set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, WandaVision will follow on from Avengers: Endgame with Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany reprising their titular roles, living in the suburbs having just gotten married.
The time-bending trailer sees Wanda and Vision reunited in a black and white 50s-esque domestic dinner party, unable to remember how they met, before reality warps into more seemingly the modern day.
The series has been created by Jac Shaeffer, the mind behind the upcoming Black Widow film.
TV Picks: Disney+
The Mandalorian
Jon Favreau’s Star Wars spaghetti western sees Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones) star as the faceless Mandalorian bounty hunter, Din Djarin.
The first live action series of the franchise, it follows the Mandalorian’s gunslinging exploits beyond the reaches of the New Republic authorities.