Sunday 31 July 2022
Olivia Attwood’s Perfect Coming to ITV
Thursday 28 July 2022
Our Little Farm on the Prairie - Channel 5
Tuesday 26 July 2022
Ramy returns to Channel 4
Wednesday 20 July 2022
Sanditon - Series 2
Fri 22 Jul 2022
9.00pm - 10.00pm
Sanditon, the acclaimed drama based on Jane Austen’s final, unfinished novel left fans in suspense and clamouring for more with the first series’ heart-breaking finale. The new series will pick up the action nine months later, as the town is growing in popularity, featuring characters familiar and new. Series two picks up with heroine Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) returning to the picturesque coastal resort, determined as ever to live a life less ordinary, as she takes up the role of governess to the wards of Alexander Colbourne (Ben Lloyd-Hughes). Charlotte is joined by her spirited younger sister, Alison Heywood (Rosie Graham) who comes to Sanditon to pursue her own romantic dream.
Georgiana Lambe (Crystal Clarke), in her final summer before turning 21, is eager to establish her own identity and causes trouble in the name of love. But will she take the chance of being even more alone? The dysfunctional Denham family's secrets and deceit continue to shake the foundations of the bright coastal town as Tom Parker (Kris Marshall) works to rebuild Sanditon but faces many unexpected challenges. Additionally, as the Army establishes Sanditon as their new post under the command of the endearing Colonel Lennox, the second season promises fresh relationships, friendships, and difficulties for the locals (Tom Weston-Jones).
COMPETITION: Win The Secret Service OST
Tuesday 19 July 2022
COMPETITION: Win Witness Number 3' on DVD
1. Closing date 01-08-22
2. No alternative prize is available
3. When the competition ends as indicated on this page, any and all entries received after this point will not count and emails blacklisted due to not checking this page first.
4. Winners will be chosen randomly and will be informed via email.
Friday 15 July 2022
Radio 4’s Summer of Arts - Simon Armitage, Jamelia and Ian Hislop
Simon Armitage revisits Philip Larkin for his centenary year, Gus Casely-Hayford presents a new history of fashion, Jamelia explores music made in the West Midlands, DJ Ash Lauryn traces the radical spirit of techno, and Ian Hislop explores the art made in the suburbs – all on Radio 4
From poetry and music to fashion and the art of the suburbs, Radio 4 presents a broad and eclectic line-up of arts programmes over the summer of 2022.
Jamelia, a musician who was born and bred in Birmingham, will start an investigation into the history of the music produced in her native West Midlands on July 13. Despite the significant contributions made to music by musicians from Birmingham and the surrounding area, this series tries to change the misconception that Birmingham's history is less well-known than those of other cities like Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, or London.
Over two parts, Jamelia uncovers a rich musical history. She hears from experts about Birmingham's musical contribution as far back as the Midlands Enlightenment in the 18th Century, as well as the work of composers such as Edward Elgar in the late 19th and 20th Centuries. She talks to musicians working now, including ELO drummer Bev Bevan, Reggae singer Pato Banton, Duran Duran original Stephen Duffy and Apache Indian, and asks whether there is a collective Birmingham sound - or at least a special Birmingham approach to making music.
From 19 July, Techno: A Social History traces the origins of techno music to its birth in a suburb of post-industrial Detroit in the early 1980s – a full decade after Motown records had abandoned the city for Hollywood – and explores its impact across the world, from the Love Parade in Berlin to hotbeds of resistance in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Presented by DJ, producer, and Detroit native Ash Lauryn, the programme features stories from techno’s architects, champions, and disciples: Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Ellen Allien, Richie Hawtin, and many more.
Ash learns how the cathedral-like nightclubs of Berlin were born, after the Cold War, in the city’s abandoned infrastructure – paving the way for the world’s most closely guarded dancefloor, Berghain, celebrated here by resident DJ Marcel Dettmann and house music legend, Honey Dijon. From speaking with Ukrainian DJ Nastia, she also discovers the resilience of Kyiv’s club scene. Born out of the turmoil of the 2013 revolution it lies dormant, for now. Meanwhile, in the capital of Georgia, Giorgi Kikonishvili speaks of Bassiani, the club that became a headquarters for queer politics and community organising – until armed police raids threatened the scene’s very existence. Over the series, Ash explores techno’s ongoing association with counterculture and asks why, to many, it offers the perfect soundtrack to political defiance and radical spirit.
Marking the poet Philip Larkin’s centenary, Larkin Revisited sees Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, examine the power of Larkin’s poems to console and provoke. From 8 August - across ten fifteen minute programmes, and ten iconic Phillip Larkin poems - Simon unpicks both the poetry and the riddle of the man behind them. Larkin's poems still divide opinion: at times agitational, facing the reality of time and its passing, whilst offering moments of astonishing beauty and transcendence. Simon has lived with Larkin's work ever since he was told as a teenager that there was a real poet working in Yorkshire. He is fascinated by the way Larkin’s poems are constructed; the way they often seem to tear things down, exposing the truth of something difficult, and yet can also be freeing – the opposite of platitudes.
The ten poems Simon has chosen to explore (including Aubade and The Whitsun Weddings) show Larkin's range and achievement; they are poems that face the truth of relationships, of death, as well as poems of place and civic life like, Bridge for the Living (an unusual commission for Larkin which celebrates Hull as an 'Isolate city'). In this series Simon takes us to the places Larkin’s poems understood intimately – Coventry, and Hull – as he ‘road-tests’ different poems, to see what survives of them in 2022, especially when we know so much more about the uglier attitudes of this complex and contradictory poet.
From 22 August, Gus Casely-Hayford presents Torn: A Narrative History of Fashion. Over this ten-part series, the Director of V&A East reveals the intellectual and historical weight we carry on our backs, and the statements we make just by getting dressed in the morning.
Gus unpicks the histories that underpin ten garments – and the lives that created them - spanning the world and five centuries. By deepening our understanding of what we wear and why we wear it, he will show how fashion has shaped our history, and equip us with the knowledge to make informed statements about what we choose to throw on and what we cast off.
Also in August on Radio 4, In Suburbia, presented by Ian Hislop, takes a fresh look over three parts at the place where so many have spent more time over the past three years of lockdowns and home working. In fiction, TV and film and in art, suburbia has long stood as shorthand for repression - a place of "wide lawns and narrow minds," as Ernest Hemingway put it. But Hislop has an inkling that the suburbs, far from being the home of Stepford Wives and Margot and Jerry, have been a force for change and inspiration in the artists who have tried to encapsulate - and in some cases - escape the gravity of its clutches.
He speaks to JC Carroll of The Members, whose song ’the sound of the suburbs' still provides a backing track to suburbs across the nation, and to performer and writer Lee Mack who counters the trend away from Suburban sitcom with his perennially popular ‘Not Going Out’. And Ian also treads leafy suburban streets in Manchester, Ealing, Woodford and, of course, Surbiton, and finds new suburban voices but with variations on established suburban truths, not least that one generations ideal living is another’s youthful tedium.
Darby and Joan - Coming to Acorn TV
Tuesday 12 July 2022
Good Grief coming to Sundance Now on August 4th
Monday 11 July 2022
Shane Richie returning as Alfie Moon on Eastenders this autumn
The Andrew Neil Show - Re-Commissioned
Saturday 9 July 2022
Super Surgeons: A Chance at Life - Coming to Channel 4
One of the top cancer hospitals in the world, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, features in Super Surgeons: A Chance at Life. Here, cutting-edge surgeons perform risky procedures on extremely uncommon tumours, frequently at the cutting edge of what is medically possible. The show chronicles the experiences of the patients who trust the surgeons with their life. The Royal Marsden is a pioneer in cutting-edge surgical technology, giving hope to patients with cancers that are challenging to treat while other institutions might have few surgical alternatives. The series shows how cancer affects people from the moment they receive a full diagnosis to the difficult decisions they must make, their recovery from surgery, and their adjustment to a new existence.
The series also highlights the incredible work of the NHS as it works at extra capacity to recover from the pandemic. Clinical staff have worked tirelessly to support patients through their cancer treatment and doubled as companions during their treatment and consultation appointments when visitor restrictions were in place to protect the most vulnerable patients.
Dame Cally Palmer, Chief Executive of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are delighted the Super Surgeons series will showcase the innovative work The Royal Marsden’s surgical team perform every day to achieve the best results for our cancer patients. Our surgical team build strong relationships with patients while planning for complex operations that are often UK firsts. The desire to offer the most advanced procedures is always driven by what is best for our patients and their quality of life.”
Thursday 7 July 2022
Love Island gets its biggest audience so far this year
Monday evening's episode had its biggest audience so far this series beating the launch, with a total of 3.0m viewers tuning in to see the latest Casa Amor episode across all devices.
It had its joint highest 16-34 audience this series with 1.1m viewers and a 63% share.
ITV Hub had its biggest day of the year yesterday with over 10m streams. As a series Love Island has now been streamed 130m times.
Monday 4 July 2022
South Park The Streaming Wars Part 2
The second "South Park" made-for-streaming film for Paramount+'s service, SOUTH PARK THE STREAMING WARS PART 2, will debut on Wednesday, July 13, in the United States before expanding internationally in all territories where the service is offered. Exclusively on Paramount+, you can stream the first three "South Park" events: SOUTH PARK: POST COVID, SOUTH PARK: POST COVID: THE RETURN OF COVID, and SOUTH PARK THE STREAMING WARS.
In SOUTH PARK THE STREAMING WARS PART 2, a drought has brought the town of South Park to the brink of disaster.
COMPETITION: Win DI Ray on DVD
1. Closing date 18-07-22
2. No alternative prize is available
3. When the competition ends as indicated on this page, any and all entries received after this point will not count and emails blacklisted due to not checking this page first.
4. Winners will be chosen randomly and will be informed via email.