What’s On TV This Week: 3rd June – 9th June
Love Island
Monday
ITV1 and ITV2, 9.00pm
It’s that time of the year again. 12 more singletons are entering the Majorcan love nest looking for a relationship, a brand deal or both.
Queenie
Date set and extended trailer released for Candice Carty-Williams' new Black British musical drama Champion
The new trailer shows rapper Bosco Champion (Top Boy's Malcolm Kamulete) return from prison and go back to his music career. Supporting him as he builds back his reputation is his sister Vita (Déja J Bowens in her television debut), whose dedication and lyrics are secretly behind her industry dominating brother’s success.
Candice Carty-Williams talks Queenie, making history and believing in your unique voice
Calling it 'the black Bridget Jones', Carty-Williams knew Queenie wasn't going to be a small book. “I [expected] it to be at the scale of Bridget Jones, that was my expectation and my statement of intent."
The novel tells the raw and unflinching story of 25-year-old British Jamaican Queenie, who is trying to get through a difficult year. Carty-Williams calls it a “modern messy story for black women.”