The TV Shows & Films You Need To Watch This Week
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The TV Shows & Films You Need To Watch This Week

Whether you’re after a new series to get stuck into or a reason to head to the cinema, these are the films and TV shows worth knowing about right now.

TUESDAY

UEFA Nations League Live, ITV 1

England take on Czechia in their next match as part of the UEFA Nations League. Following the Three Lions’ loss to Spain at the weekend, both sides will be looking to make their mark in the group. It promises to be a competitive night of international football, with England hoping to secure an important result on home soil.

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The Great British Bake Off, Channel 4

It's biscuit week and there's a trip Stateside for the bakers in the signature as they make American-style cookies. In the technical, it's a journey of a different kind as they travel back in time for a nostalgic classic. But nothing is quite as it seems and they must rely on their taste alone to recreate this beloved bake. And in the showstopper, a visually striking biscuit mosaic tests the bakers' artistic flair and also gives them the chance to create something that's close to their hearts.

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The Great British Bake Off

THURSDAY

East Of Eden, Netflix

John Steinbeck’s sweeping family saga gets a glossy new adaptation, with Florence Pugh taking on one of the novel’s most complicated characters, Cathy Ames. Created by Zoe Kazan, the seven-part series follows the Trask and Hamilton families across generations in California’s Salinas Valley, exploring love, rivalry, ambition and the darker side of the American dream. Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist play brothers Adam and Charles Trask, while Ciarán Hinds and Hoon Lee also star. There’s an added bit of Hollywood history here too: Kazan’s grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed the famous 1955 film adaptation starring James Dean.

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The Celebrity Traitors, BBC 1

Claudia Winkleman welcomes a brand-new group of celebrities as they arrive at a beautiful castle in the Highlands to play the ultimate reality game of detection, back-stabbing and trust in aid of their chosen charities. Star names taking part this time include Jerry Hall, Michael Sheen, Bella Ramsay and Miranda Hart.

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The Celebrity Traitors

FRIDAY

Verity, Cinemas Nationwide

The next Colleen Hoover adaptation is here. The author’s bestselling thriller arrives on the big screen with Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett leading the cast. Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson) is a struggling writer hired to finish the books of bestselling author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), who is unable to work following an accident. But after moving into the Crawford family home, Lowen discovers a disturbing manuscript that changes everything she thought she knew about Verity and her husband Jeremy.

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Doing Life, Netflix

Tyler Perry’s latest drama follows a single mother and a reformed ex-convict whose lives unexpectedly become intertwined. After connecting through a difficult past, the pair find hope, redemption and an unlikely chance at love, with Naomi Baker and Jay Reeves leading the cast. Written and directed by Perry, it’s a story about second chances, resilience and the connections we make in unexpected places.

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Doing Life

Schumacher ’94 – The Birth of a Legend, Netflix

This sports documentary looks back at Michael Schumacher’s breakthrough 1994 season, when the young German driver claimed his first Formula One World Championship title. Featuring archive footage and insight into the season that put Schumacher firmly on the map, it charts the early career of a driver who would go on to become one of the most successful and recognisable names in F1 history.

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Digger, Cinemas Nationwide

Tom Cruise takes on a very different kind of leading role in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s darkly comic new film. He plays Digger Rockwell, an immensely powerful oil tycoon who sets out to prove he can save humanity from an environmental catastrophe of his own making. Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Jesse Plemons and Emma D’Arcy join Cruise in a decidedly starry ensemble.

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Digger

Kill Jackie, Prime Video

Catherine Zeta-Jones gets her own stylish revenge thriller as Jackie Price, a wealthy art dealer who has spent two decades keeping a low profile after leaving her life as an international drug smuggler behind. Her quiet existence is interrupted when a group of elite assassins, known as the Seven Demons, are sent to kill her. Rather than disappear, Jackie decides to turn the tables and hunt them down herself. From the team behind Killing Eve and Gangs of London, all eight episodes land at once.

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