What to Watch on TV This Week: 10th - 16th March
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Channel 4 releases trailer and first-look images for series two of gripping drama Suspect
Dr Susannah Newman (Anne-Marie Duff, Bad Education) is having a session with Jon (Dominic Cooper, Preacher). Under hypnosis, Jon admits to being a murderer. It falls to Susannah to convince a sceptical police force that a young girl’s life is now in danger.
What's On TV This Week: 4th September - 10th September
You & Me
Monday
ITV2, 9.00pm
Industry's Harry Lawtey stars in this romantic comedy drama — emphasis on the drama —that aired on ITVX earlier in 2023.
Top Boy's cast and crew on its legacy
It’s no easy task to think of a programme that’s done more for cutting-edge British drama than Top Boy. Having made its debut on Channel 4 in 2011 and running for two series before Netflix revived it for a further three, the gritty drama follows the drug gangs of London’s fictional Summerhouse estate in Hackney with exemplary authenticity.
Netflix drops ominous trailer and release date for Top Boy: The Final Chapter
It will be the third series in Netflix's reboot, but technically series five, after the streamer re-branded the first two Channel 4 series as Top Boy: Summerhouse.
A reminder—and spoiler—that the end of the fourth series saw Sully (Kane Robinson) ruin Dushane's (Ashley Walters) retirement plans by assassinating his successor Jamie (Michael Ward).
The rousing trailer opens with a melancholic montage of Top Boy's main players, Sully and Dushane among them, before scenes of weapons being loaded bleed into public protests erupting.
BBC unveils first images of new south London musical drama Champion
Carty-Williams, the bestselling author of Queenie and People Person, has penned an eight-part love letter to Black British music set in south London, and the BBC has released some first look images of the stars.
Top Boys' Malcolm Kamulete will lead as Bosco Champion, a rap sensation who comes home from prison ready to dominate the music industry.
Top Boy's Jasmine Jobson to lead new ITVX thriller Platform 7
Based on the novel of the same name by Louise Doughty, the "haunting" and "nail-biting" series follows Lisa (Jobson) after she witnesses a catastrophic event on platform 7 of a railway station. The trauma somehow jogs her memory and reveals a connection between her own life and the event.
Toby Regbo (A Discovery of Witches), Yaamin Chowdhury (The Lazardus Project), Phil Davis (Trying) and Reece Ritchie (The Outpost) will also star.
TV Picks: 14th March - 20th March
Holding
Monday
ITV, 9.00pm
A very Irish comedy crime drama adapted from Graham Norton’s novel of the same name, with comedian Kathy Burke directing all four parts.
Return date set for Top Boy’s fourth series
Announced via a huge billboard at London’s BFI IMAX, and confirmed on the series’ official Twitter page, Top Boy is set to return on 18 March. Ashley Walters and Kano will reprise their roles as Dushane and Sully, with Michael Ward and Simbi Ajikawo (Little Simz) also returning as Jamie and Shelley.
Micheal Ward on Top Boy, going global and working with Steve McQueen
“[Top Boy] came out in September. Before that, no one knew who I was,” says Ward.
Flashforward a mere six months and Ward, the breakout star of Netflix’s London crime drama, is nominated alongside the illustrious actors Stephen Graham (The Virtues) and Jared Harris (Chernobyl) for an RTS Programme Award.