TV Picks: 6th – 12th June
Love Island
Monday
ITV2, 9pm
It wouldn’t truly be summer without the return of a new cohort of buffed, tanned singletons looking for love (allegedly) in the Love Island villa.
My Name Is Leon
BBC releases first-look images of My Name Is Leon
Adapted into a screenplay by Shola Amoo (The Last Tree) and directed by Lynette Linton, the series will star Sir Lenny Henry CBE, Malachi Kirby (Small Axe), Monica Dolan (A Very English Scandal), Olivia Williams (Counterpart), Christopher Eccleston (The A Word), Poppy Lee Friar (In My Skin), Shobna Gulati (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) and Cole Martin, who will play the lead, Leon, in his first TV role.
Lenny Henry’s production company acquires rights to My Name is Leon
Sir Lenny Henry’s production company, Douglas Road Productions, has acquired the broadcast rights to the novel which follows the story of nine-year-old Leon discovering a new family where he leasts expects it.
Told from Leon's point of view, My Name is Leon is a story of love, identity and loss, seeing the process of foster care and adult decisions through the eyes of a child in 1980s Britain.