A bit of a quiet week but there are a few gems in the TV schedule with Channel Four giving the most new content this coming week, but for Saturday (again) and surprisingly Friday with nothing new to shout about. The highlight of the week for me looking to be Tuesday night. I have been looking forward to the new offering on the History Channel, Knightfall 9pm. I have seen the trailers and they have watered my mouth in anticipation I just hope I am not disappointed.
Sunday – ITV – Unforgotten 9pm ***New series***
Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar return as detectives Cassie and Sunny, investigating another emotionally charged cold case. When the body of a teenage girl who went missing at the turn of the millennium is found at a building site off the M1, four old school friends are placed under the spotlight and their relationships are tested to the limit. With Alex Jennings, Kevin R McNally, Neil Morrissey and James Fleet a star line-up.
Monday – BBC2 – University Challenge 8:30pm ***New Series***
I don’t know why I like this show in the years of watching I have answered a hand full of questions but still watch. Jeremy Paxman presides over proceedings as the academic quiz that returns for its 25th series since the revival of the show in 1995.
Competitors from 28 universities around the UK answering questions on all manner of subjects. The opening match of the first round sees four students from the University of Warwick take on a quartet from Exeter University, battling it out for a place in the second stage of the contest as they seek to succeed 2018 winners St John's College, Cambridge and lift the trophy.
Monday – Channel 4 – Our Guy in Russia 9pm ***New Series***
Truck mechanic and motorcycle racer Guy Martin sets off to explore the biggest country in the world in his own unorthodox fashion by going on some unusual adventures. Beginning in Moscow, he gets a lesson in Russian politics when he rides with biker gang the Night Wolves, and finds out about law and order when he interviews two young daredevils who evade the police while trespassing on skyscrapers. Guy also learns how British engineers helped to create the city's underground railway system and goes for a ride in an old Soviet air force jet.
Tuesday – History Chanel – Knightfall 9pm ***New Channel***
Part-fictionalised drama recounting the fall, persecution and burning at the stake of the Knights Templar, as ordered by King Philip IV of France.
“Today we fight for the Grail,” shouts a bearded Templar Knight before the annoying Saracens overrun the Crusader stronghold of Acre. The CGI battle sets us up very nicely for this thunderously silly but not unenjoyable fiction centred on the secretive martial order and their search for Christ’s fabled cup.
Our hero is Landry du Lauzon (Tom Cullen) who seems to combine 21st-century virtues of decency, good teeth, and a progressive attitude to other races, which allows this epic clash with the Muslim world to just about pass PC muster. At best, the blood, sex, and intrigue are reminiscent of Game of Thrones and The Tudors. At worst, you may be thinking, “Monty Python” you decided.
Tuesday – Alibi – Harrow 9pm ***New Series***
In this melodramatic Australian procedural Ioan Gruffudd hams it up as brilliant, maverick pathologist Daniel Harrow – who wants to know why the person on his slab died, not just how, and he’ll bend the rules to find out. And of course he ignores his strait-laced colleague who tells him, “That’s the police’s job, that’s the court’s job, that’s not our job.”
Today that leads him to reopen the cold case of a woman’s suicide. It all follows tried and tested lines, but there’s a hint at the end that the series could get darker and more interesting according to spoilers.
Tuesday – Discovery Channel - Cooper’s Treasure 10pm ***New Series***
Darrell Miklos searches for another shipwreck, and with just eight weeks of funds left, he needs to find a different shipwreck that he can salvage. This is the second series of this interesting show where Miklos sets out to find shipwrecks originally located by astronaut Gordon Cooper from space in 1963. We have yet to see him find anything of major interest let alone any riches.
Wednesday – BBC1 - The Island That Saved My Life 7:30pm ***New Series***
At the age of 23 and suffering from depression and shyness, Sarah Moore moved from her family home near Edinburgh to the beautiful but remote Scottish island of North Ronaldsay, a place with a population of fewer than fifty people.
As part of BBC One's Our Lives, this documentary follows Sarah's life on the island and the people she meets there. Like many remote communities, North Ronaldsay has its fair share of struggles whether it's the cancellation of air services, which bring vital supplies, extreme weather conditions, or the need to hold down multiple jobs to make ends meet. Sarah has had to adapt to an entirely new way of living and thinking to survive. This character-driven documentary looks at a unique way of life in incredible place that may not be around for much longer.
Thursday – Channel 4 – George Clark’s … Old House, New Home 8pm ***New Series***
Architect George Clarke returns to unlock the potential of old houses. He meets teachers Simon and Sofie, whose 1930s Liverpool semi has lost its way thanks to a small kitchen squeezed into what would have been the washhouse and some dodgy interior design choices made by the previous owner. Can he come up with a structural redesign and interior scheme with just £15,000? He also visits a medieval farmhouse in Kent that's like a perfectly preserved time capsule and needs an upgrade suitable for a young and rapidly growing family.
Thursday – Channel 4 – Ramsay’s 24 Hours, To Hell And Back 10pm ***New Series***
Gordon Ramsay travels across the United States in search of restaurants in dire need of renovation - and after analysing their situation, he has just 24 hours to bring them back from the brink of disaster.
His first stop is the New York community of Congers, where he hopes to save family-run Italian restaurant Bella Gianna's. Gordon and his team work round the clock to clean the premises, remodel the interior and revamp the menu, while also teaching the staff to prepare new dishes and work together as an efficient unit. What will the customers think of the new-look restaurant?
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