What To Watch This Week 15.07.24

The Jetty, BBC iPlayer

Available on BBC iPlayer from today, Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, Victoria, The Serpent) stars in this new BBC four-part detective drama. In a sleepy Lancashire town, DC Ember Manning is tasked with solving a crime tied to her romantic past – and soon unearths more than she bargained for.  

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Suspect, Channel 4 

Channel 4’s Psychological drama Suspect is back for a second season. Series one starred James Nesbitt, Joely Richardson, Ben Miller and Richard E. Grant, and season two continues the big-name casting with the likes of Tamsin Greig, Eddie Marsan and Gina McKee. This time, the drama centres around Anne-Marie Duff who stars as hypnotist Dr Susannah Newman whose new client (Dominic Cooper) reveals a secret while under hypnosis.

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Those About To Die, Amazon Prime

To gear you up for Gladiator 2, there’s a new Rome-based period drama landing on Amazon Prime this week. Set in the last days of Rome, Those About To Die is an epic drama starring Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vespasian and his two no-good sons, as well as sly bookmaker Tenax played by Iwan Rheon, plus numerous gladiators and slaves who are under their thumb.

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Skywalkers: A Love Story, Netflix

Netflix’s new vertigo-inducing documentary premiered at Sundance film festival and brings new meaning to the phrase ‘falling in love’. It follows a daring couple, Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, as they attempt to climb a 118-story skyscraper, Merdeka 118, in Kuala Lumpur. At the top, the two plan to perform a death-defying stunt on the spire, both to boost their careers and save their relationship.

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Lady In The Lake, Apple TV+

Based on the noir thriller novel of the same name, this limited series stars Natalie Portman as a housewife-turned-investigative reporter who ditches her picket-fence life to solve an unsolved murder. During the investigation, she collides with Cleo Sherwood (Emmy-nominated Moses Ingram), a mother navigating the political turbulence of 1960s Baltimore and struggling to put food on the table.

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Omnivore, Apple TV+

Chef René Redzepi, founder of Noma in Copenhagen – the multiple Michelin-starred, sustainably focused restaurant – is well-versed in the world of food. This new Apple TV doc, through René’s expert lens, looks at common foods and examines them from political, environmental and sociological perspectives. It also raises some concerning questions about the future of our food, and where it is going to come from.

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