What To Watch This Week 19.08.24
TUESDAY
The Walking Dead: Dead City, NOW TV & SKY
Fans of The Walking Dead universe will be happy to know another spin-off lands in the UK this week. Expanding across the hilltop colony, the gang – including Negan and Maggie – are hitting New York. Expect more survivors fighting for resources and against plenty of zombies.
WEDNESDAY
Widow Clicquot
Widow Clicquot tells the true story of Madame Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman behind the legendary champagne label. Known as the Grande Dame of Champagne, she navigated the company through numerous political and financial challenges to become one of the first great businesswomen in history – and one of the wealthiest women of her era.
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THURSDAY
Secret Lives Of Orangutans, Netflix
It's been nearly a year since the last instalment of everyone’s favourite animal documentary, Planet Earth. While we wait, David Attenborough has narrated a special one-off documentary about orangutans. Following a group of them in the jungles of Sumatra – one of the species’ last outposts in the wild – it focuses on eight-year-old Ellie, mum to Emen and Eden. A touching and, at times, all too familiar portrayal of interpersonal relationships between a family.
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FRIDAY
Dating Naked UK, Paramount +
We can’t get enough of dating shows and this new series is even more scandalous. Ten singles looking for love bare all on a tropical island with a – fully-clothed – Rylan Clark hosting. Expect plenty of toe-curling moments.
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Pachinko, Apple TV
Epic historical drama Pachinko is back for a second season. In the same time-line jumping narrative as the first, we rejoin multiple generations of the same family. Young Sunja is struggling in wartime Osaka as the Americans dig their claws in, while in Tokyo in 1989, Solomon scrambles to find investors for his new enterprise and grapples with taking up a dubious offer. The familiar cast returns, including Kim Ha-min, Lee Min-ho, Youn Yuh-jung, as well as Anna Sawai, who recently won an Emmy for the hit series Shōgun.
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Blink Twice
If you’re into psychological thrillers, Blink Twice is this summer’s sharpest release. A tech billionaire, played by Channing Tatum, invites a cocktail waitress called Frida (Naomi Ackie) to his private island. On the surface it is raucous, hedonistic and all about excess and fun, but Frida becomes unsettled when strange goings-on start to occur – will she make it off the island?
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