Telly picks for the coming week…
Britain, 2035. When their teenage daughter Teah commits a grave crime, Dione and David Sinclair find themselves at the centre of a harrowing legal ordeal. In a public and humiliating arrest, they are thrown into the clutches of the Office of Judicial Inquisition, a powerful new branch of the Ministry of Justice.
Their charge: violation of Milligan’s Law, a controversial statute that holds parents criminally responsible for the actions of their children.
The Sinclairs are brought to a repurposed magistrates’ court which is now a tribunal exclusively used to prosecute guardians as accessories to juvenile crimes. There, they come face to face with Judicial Inquisitor Sarah Willis, a relentless enforcer of the law who is determined to uncover every flaw in their parenting. No detail of their past is off-limits.
With no legal counsel, no jury, and no margin for error, Dione and David must defend their integrity before a single, unwavering authority. As the trial unfolds, the line between justice and persecution blurs. If found guilty, the consequences are devastating: a life sentence for crimes they didn’t commit but may still be deemed responsible for.
5, Thursday, May 8th at 9 pm
Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour
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Celebrity chef Anna Haugh returns home for a culinary journey, exploring Irish culture and cuisine with celebrity guests.
This week, with episodes each evening, on Monday Katherine Ryan joins Anna in the city of Cork – the ‘foodie capital of Ireland’ – where memories of her grandmother’s ‘over-boiled and under-seasoned’ dinners have left the comedian with a bad impression of Irish food. Anna is on a mission to change that and brings Katherine to the English Market – one of the oldest in Europe – to sample the Cork speciality, Spiced Beef. Anna also visits a world-renowned cookery school, established by her culinary inspiration and the first Irish Michelin Star chef, Myrtle
On Tuesday snooker legend Dennis Taylor returns to the snooker hall in County Tyrone where it all began and teaches Anna a few trick shots of his own. Dennis can still remember the soda bread his grandmother used to make over an open fire and Anna attempts to recreate this childhood memory with her own version, baked using traditional methods at a local history park. The pair then join fishermen on the UK’s largest lake before Anna and Dennis do some outdoor cooking with one of the area’s most unique delicacies – the Lough Neagh eel.
Mid-week Mrs Brown’s Boys actor Eilish O’Carroll in her native Dublin, in an area of the city where traditional markets mix with global street food. Later they create a dish inspired by these diverse flavours. Anna also visits the family home for a spot of cooking with her mum. Together they make Coddle – a stewed dish popular in Dublin – and this is served with Anna’s homemade soda bread with stout which she bakes in a tin can.
Comedian Ed Byrne is Thursday’s star guest. When he’s not touring the world, Ed loves nothing more than to escape the bright lights for the splendour of the Wicklow Mountains, which is Ireland’s largest National Park. The pair search for sika deer with a local park ranger and after a hike to Sally Gap, Ed surprises Anna with a mountainside picnic he has prepared himself. Will she be impressed with his dehydrated Bolognese and spaghetti?
Friday sees garden designer Diarmuid Gavin sends Anna to Ballycastle where he has fond memories of childhood holidays on the Antrim coast. The pair are put to work during potato planting season, and Anna later creates a goat hotpot for Diarmuid using these local spuds. Further up the Glen, Anna also visits a farm where there is a high quality of life for goats and calves who are otherwise discarded by the dairy industry. Diarmuid shows Anna one of his latest creations, a quirky garden in Newtownabbey to celebrate King Charles’ Coronation.
BBC Two, from May 5th at 6.30 pm
The series returns for a second run.
From creative mastermind Rian Johnson and starring Emmy® Nominee Natasha Lyonne alongside a host of established guest stars, Charlie Cale is back on the run and making her way across the country one mystery at a time.
From minor league baseball to big box retail, from funeral homes to alligator farms and even a grade school talent show, Charlie navigates her crime solving existential road-trip with deadpan wit, human empathy, and her signature uncanny lie-detecting ability.
This time, you can look forward her to cross paths with special guest stars Cynthia Erivo, Katie Holmes, John Mulaney, Awkwafina and many more over twelve new episodes. No bullsh*t!
Sky Max, returns on May 8th
The series that meets the vibrant community who call the UK’s canal network home returns.
Retired couple Debs and Mick swapped life working on the Underground for a new life cruising on their boat Rosé and Gin. As they travel through Maghull, en-route to Liverpool, they get a reminder of their time on the rails, at the Frank Hornby Heritage Centre, and they tick another Wetherspoons pub off their list.
We return to Doncaster to see how newbie boaters Carrie and her mum Della, from series one, are getting on a year later; are they still afloat? And on the Grand Union Canal near Market Harborough, we meet ‘bougie hippies’ Adam and Lauren and their dog Shanti, as Lauren harvests a crop from their roof garden for lunch, and Adam welcomes guest Louise to the boat, who is contributing to his new book about life on the water.
Meanwhile, The Canal and River Trust implement winter stoppages, so that they can see to essential maintenance and repairs on the 200-year-old network.
Channel 4, May 5th at 4 pm
Presented by Dermot O’Leary the show where a studio audience is given £250,000 but there’s a green room of entertainers headed up by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri attempting to bring the prize pot down. Every single noise any audience member makes loses them all money.
With every audience member mic’ed up, all hell breaks loose as a green room of 30 acts, led by three returning comedian captains, headed up by Katherine Ryan, wage war on the audience, with every sound forced out of them bringing the total prize money down.
In the first episode, this coming Bank Holiday Monday, a studio audience are given £250,000 but can they survive an onslaught of stunts, pranks and entertainers trying to take the money back?
U&Dave, May 5th at 9 pm
