TV Picks: 3rd May - 10th May
Monday
RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under
BBC One, 11.20pm
RuPaul’s Drag Race airs from Australia and New Zealand for the first time to find the queen of the Land Down Under.
RuPaul’s Drag Race airs from Australia and New Zealand for the first time to find the queen of the Land Down Under.
Lucy Bristowe, Sky Media’s Director of Insight and Research, Wayne Garvie, President, International Production, Sony Pictures Television, Sarah Rose, Chief Operating and Commercial Officer, ViacomCBS, UK, and Justin Sampson, CEO, BARB, discuss why the TV sector needs to measure on-demand audiences and how BARB is rising to the challenge with its reporting of audiences for these services. Plus, some previously unreported figures on series four of The Crown are revealed by BARB.
This series love is in the air at Ackley Bridge academy, as best friends Kayla (Robyn Cara) and Fizza (Yasmin Al Khudhairi) both fall for new boy Johnny (Ryan Dean), a cocky heartthrob from the traveller community.
“We think we all know Diana’s story, but I always ask the question: what must it have been like for any person going through that experience – what she was thrown into at such a young age?” said Benjamin Caron, the director of the Fairytale episode of The Crown.
David Tennant (Des), Dolly Wells (Dracula), and Lydia West (It’s A Sin) will all star in the four-part series, alongside leading man Stanley Tucci (Spotlight) in the titular role.
Directed by Paul McGuigan (Sherlock), the gripping miniseries will follow the unexpectedly interconnected lives of a prisoner on death row in the States, a Vicar in a quiet English town and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar.
Netflix's Anne Mensah accepts her Judges' Award at the RTS Programme Awards 2021, in partnership with Audio Network.
Mae Martin and Joe Hampson accept their Writer - Comedy award for Feel Good at the RTS Programme Awards 2021, in partnership with Audio Network.
Famous faces don their aprons for another celebrity special of The Great British Bake Off in aid of Stand Up to Cancer.
The live-action series will chart Wednesday’s time at the eccentric Nevermore Academy as she comes of age.
Alongside dealing with all the small horrors of adolescence, Wednesday begins to master her burgeoning psychic powers. As a series of supernatural mysteries threaten the local town, Wednesday must put on her sleuthing hat to solve them, including one which also embroiled her parents 25 years ago.
The series will be written by the screenwriting duo Al Gough and Miles Millar (Into the Badlands).
Quizmaster Warwick Davis returns to host another series of Tenable, joined by new co-host and former Coronation Street star, Sally Lindsay.