Last week there was little to excite me on the tele it was dead with not much happening so I reverted to recommending upcoming films to fill the gap but low and behold this week it’s all changed, TV is back. There are a good number of new series on offer but not all are recommended here.
I still have not made my mind up about Netflix but I was thinking why not wait until Christmas using the free month to check it out. Then I could decide is it worth adding to my TV package. It would be a good compromise I believe their Christmas specials are really good on Netflix.
Saturday – BBC 4 – Black Lake 9pm **New Series** subtitled
Sinister events engulf young and ambitious Johan and his friends when they visit the abandoned Black Lake ski resort, the scene of a horrific crime. Remote and neglected, Black Lake has been closed for years. Johan invites his friends there on a test trip, with the idea of reopening the resort. They are soon gripped by a series of disturbing experiences.
On the very first night, Johan's girlfriend, Hanne, is woken by a sickening thudding noise coming from the cellar. The landlord refuses to let them investigate. It turns out the resort was closed after a family were found dead, strangled. One by one, members of the group wake with bloodshot eyes following nightmares of being strangled. With fear and danger spiralling, Hanne becomes convinced that supernatural forces wish them ill. Who can be trusted? Who will survive?
Sunday – Channel 4 – Electric Dreams 9pm **New Series**
The Hood Maker: Sometime in the future a meteor shower that fried communications, energy conversion and the internet. But it also created the Teeps a race with the power of telepathy that are feared and revered in equal measure.
Teeps are treated like second-class citizens, subjugated, and kept at arm’s length by the Normals. Nobody likes to know that their inner thoughts can be read and so civil unrest between Teeps and Normals is growing.
This combustible situation is exacerbated by the Anti-Immunity Bill, which gives government Clearance Agents the right to use Teeps to invade people’s thoughts without their consent and take away their sanctity of secrets.
Tensions escalate beyond resolve when a new weapon to be used in the fight against the Teeps is unveiled: the Hood. Each hood gives the wearer the ability to block the Teeps power and cripple the Teep network.
The very existence of this Hood will bring an all-out war between Teeps and Normals that neither race will survive. Humanities only hope is Clearance Agent Ross and a Teep called Honor who are forced to work together to hunt down the Hood Maker and ease tensions between Teeps and Normals before it is too late.
Never before have had a Teep and Normal worked together in such close proximity. Ross and Honor will have to put their own feelings aside, work together, trust each other and find the Hood Maker before the war between Teeps and Normals rips humanity apart.
Monday – BBC 2 – W1A 10pm **New Series**
The award-winning satire set in the BBC returns with a six-episode run. At a critical time for the broadcaster, the Renewal group, under Head of Values Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville) former Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission as the task of figuring out what the Beeb does best. Cameras follow Ian and his team during the Charter Renewal, reacting to the BBC’s new mission statement of doing more for less.
BBC Studios produce the comedy. Also starring Jessica Hynes, Sarah Parish, Jason Watkins, Monica Dolan, and Nina Sosanya this is likely to be another hit with the viewing public.
Tuesday – Discovery Channel – Gold Divers **New EP**
Sorry again for dragging up Gold Divers but I love the show and marvel at these divers going under the ice in search of gold.
The gold is at the Bluff and a war is in full swing with Mr Gold (Shawn Pomrenke) and the Kelly family who are creeping closer to Mr Gold’s operation having followed him to the Bluff. Shawn plans to kill off the Kelly’s operation with his financial muscle, buying the Kelly's rented equipment out from under them.
While Kris Kelly figures out how to keep the family operation running, Shawn dives and hits a paystreak. Over at Hastings Creek, the ice begins to break up, forcing Zeke to look for a new target and it is the Bluff, and soon his former gold partner Emily will join him with her operation after she asked Shawn's permission to move out to the Bluff.
Wednesday – Dave – Porters 10pm **New Series**
The BBC recently aired a drama called Trust Me about a nurse who pretends to be a doctor now Channel 4 has come up with comedy with a new porter mistaken for a doctor. When newbie hospital porter Simon arrives for work on his first day, he stands out like a sore thumb. Because to the great amusement of his mentors Frankie and Tillman, he thinks portering is just a stepping-stone to his true calling in life - being a doctor.
However, a mix-up with a dead Rabbi means Simon is forced to impersonate a real doctor and somehow escape the suspicious scrutiny of a visiting consultant neurologist. Starring Ed Easton, Rutger Hauer, and even starring guest Kelsey Grammer I am looking forward to it.
Thursday – Sky 1 – The Russell Howard Hour 10pm **New Series**
I am a big fan of Russell Howard and his former BBC2 show and now after jumping round channels he has landed on Sky 1. Fresh from his biggest-ever international stand-up tour, Russell promises his new series will be exciting and an open show for fresh new talent.
There will be celebrity Guests and leading experts while he mocks the week’s news and current affairs – in his own inimitable way over 14 episodes he'll be picking through offering a wise and wordly view on the globe's news.
Friday – BBC 1 – Celebrity MasterChef (Final) 8:30pm **Final EP**
So its final time having whittled the twenty celebrities down to the final three, and tonight one will be crowned champion. Only two challenges stand between them and the title. Probably the most daunting of the challenges is the – The Chef’s Table – where the three need to impress some of the top chef’s in the country.
Then it is back to the MasterChef Kitchen to cook a three-course meal for presenters John Torode and Gregg Wallace before they decide upon the winner.
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