Saturday – BBC1 – Strictly Come Dancing 6:15pm (New Series)
The pro-celebrity dance contest makes its return to our TV two weeks after a special introductory programme announced this year's partnerships. Now though, the competition is ready to get under way, with the judges getting their first taste of what the dancing duos are capable of achieving. None of the 15 stars taking to the dance floor this weekend will be exiting this week, though. Instead, their scores will carry over to next weekend, when viewers get a chance to vote for their favourite couples.
Saturday – BBC4 – Mystery Road 9pm (New Series)
A beat-up pick-up truck sits abandoned in the desolate Australian outback, the two occupants, farmhands from a sprawling cattle station, nowhere to be seen. A missing persons investigation brings laconic, big-city detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) to the remote territory to assist local police Chief Emma James (Judy Davis). Swan’s single-minded approach is set to ruffle feathers in a community where the fact he’s aboriginal makes him stand out further.
This simmering cop drama moves slowly, steadily peeling back layers to get at the nasty underside of the local town. Pedersen and Davis spark off each other nicely, and the expansive skies and wide-open landscapes are stunning.
Monday – BBC2 – Sam & Shauna’s Big Cook Out 7pm (New Series)
Barbecue chefs Samantha Evans and Shauna Guinn travel around Wales to create huge outdoor feasts to reward the work of a variety of organisations and individuals. They begin by celebrating football club Barry Town United's promotion to the Welsh Premier League, including cooking a whole pig, Hawaiian-style, in a huge brick fire pit, to be served with pit beans, cornbread and an apple and fennel slaw, with fruit-filled toffee apples.
Tuesday – Channel 5 – Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9:15pm (New Series)
Ben journeys to the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas, to live with master craftsman Robert, learning why this 70-year-old former medical student ditched his education for America's counterculture 20 years ago, bought 200 acres of land deep in the woods, and raised a family of six children. Ben sees how far-reaching Robert's skills are, including cabin-making techniques dating back to the 13th century, and how his family have supported him in his dream.
Tuesday – ITV – Queen of the World 9:15 (New Series)
Part one of two. A documentary examining the Queen's role on the global stage and the baton she is passing to the younger members of the Royal Family as they continue to build the Commonwealth connection. Featuring cine footage from the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's private film archives and treasures of the Royal Collection, cameras focus on her early years as Head of the Commonwealth.
Cameras spent more than year shadowing royals up to and including the Queen herself.
Tuesday – ITV4 – Football Genius 10pm (New Series)
I like sport game shows and still watch ‘Question of Sport’. Here we have funny man Tim Vine hosting this comedy football quiz, as two teams of football supporters captained by Paul Sinha and Sam Quek answer questions. In the first episode, Paul and Sam lead fans of AFC Wimbledon and West Bromwich Albion respectively into battle.
Wednesday – Sky One – The Last Ship 9pm (New Series)
The Last Ship is an American action-drama television series that saw 80% of the population has been obliterated by a deadly airborne virus. Captain now Admiral Tom Chandler and his ship the USS Nathan James seen many battles to rescue the world from many dangers.
Three years after the Red Rust epidemic, the United States is about to unveil its new Navy to the world but nothing is that easy. Now heroes set sail for one last voyage when a crisis sparks a global war. Final series of the hit military thriller.
Thursday – Comedy Central – South Park 10pm (New Series)
The return of the satirical animation following the adventures of Stan, Cartman, Kenny and Kyle, who live in a town famed for its weird and inexplicable happenings. Cartman has to be my favourite character he is such shit and asshole you have to love him. They live in the dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado where just about anything could happen.
One of my favourite episodes was 'The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers' where the boys and their friends set off on a mythical quest to return a copy of 'Lord of the Rings' movie to their local video store, while defending it from a group of sixth graders.
Thursday – Fox – American Horror Story: Apocalypse 10pm (New Series)
I have enjoyed most of this series from the beginning in this reported final series. In the near future of April 2020, nuclear missiles destroy the world and starts a nuclear winter. The world as it is currently known ends and a new world begins with an organisation known as The Cooperative selecting young adults to save from the apocalypse, based on their genetic make-up.
Friday – BBC1 – The Graham Norton Show 10:35pm (New Series)
Multi-Oscar-nominated Bradley Cooper and pop superstar Lady Gaga, both featuring in the hotly anticipated musical romance A Star Is Born, will join Norton. Broadchurch and new Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker, shortly to begin her new incarnation as Doctor Who, enjoys a chat alongside double-Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling, who is playing astronaut Neil Armstrong in biopic First Man.
Legendary pop star Rod Stewart also shares a word or two prior to performing his single Didn't I, and an another bunch of intrepid audience members attempt to recount an anecdote from the dreaded red chair.
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