What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Friday

November 22, 2024
What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Friday

There's more star-studded chat on The Late Late Show and Graham Norton Show, Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem tells the story of the 1990s’ magazine, Joy tells the story of IVF, and Saoirse Ronan stars in Blitz . . .

Pick of the Day

Sharon Horgan will sit down with Patrick Kielty to chat about the return of black comedy series Bad Sisters, the reaction to the first season and what we can expect from the Garvey sisters this time around.

Television host Piers Morgan (below) will be discussing his turbulent relationship with US President-elect Donald Trump and what he thinks the next four years have in store for America and the World.

Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis will chat about her infamous interview with Andrew Windsor in 2019 which made headlines around the world.

Comedian and writer Russell Kane will chat about new children's book and his Hyperactive tour, which he brings to Ireland next year.

Cork singer songwriter Allie Sherlock will perform a new song and chat about her rising music career - and someone at home will be surprised with the first pair of audience tickets to The Late Late Toy Show!

New or Returning Shows

Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem, 9.00pm, BBC Two

Here’s the rise and fall of the men's lifestyle magazine Loaded, which was launched in 1994 and went on to define the lad culture of the 1990s as it quickly became a cultural phenomenon.

It tapped into the aspirations, interests and rebellious attitudes of young men, capturing a hedonistic lifestyle characterised by excess, humour and indulgence.

With rival publications coming into the lag mag market to drive the pressure to compete, the women who had felt empowered were now being asked to strip off for the magazines.

Featuring interviews from those in the engine room of Loaded, as well as those who were watching on from the outside, including Irvine Welsh, Gail Porter (above), David Baddiel, Katie Puckrick, Miranda Sawyer and Miki Berenyi.

Return to Paradise, 8.00pm, BBC One

The latest Death in Paradise spin-off, starring Anna Samson and Lloyd Griffith, heads Down Under.

Metropolitan Police officer Mackenzie Clarke is deployed to her Australian home town of Dolphin Cove after being accused of falsifying evidence.

Once there, she faces scorn from her old acquaintances due to her earlier abandoning her fiancé at the altar.

When a real estate salesman is found stabbed to death on a beach during a surfing competition, Mackenzie has to swallow her pride and work with her jilted former love, a forensic pathologist, and her other old colleagues to solve this perplexing crime.

Only Child, 9.30pm, BBC One

This brand-new comedy series stars Gregor Fisher – remember Rab C Nesbitt? - and Greg McHugh.

Bit-part actor and only child Richard travels back from London to his family home in the Highlands to visit his elderly father Ken a year on from the passing of his mother.

However, he soon realises that his dad might be in need of a bit more full-time help - not that eccentric, strong-willed technophobe Ken would agree.

The Blame Game, 10.40pm, BBC One

Tim McGarry, Colin Murphy, Diona Doherty and Neil Delamere are joined by guest comedian Scott Capurro for the return of the panel show taking a comic look at the week's news.

Fielding questions from the studio audience, the comedians give all the wrong answers to all of the right questions.

Don’t Miss

The Graham Norton Show, 11.10pm, BBC One

This week, Graham is joined by Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman (below), who discusses starring in erotic thriller Babygirl.

Actress and singer Cynthia Erivo chats about playing the Wicked Witch of the West in Wicked, while Happy Valley star James Norton promotes his new film Joy, which tells the story of the inception of IVF.

Comedian and Strictly star Chris McCausland talks about his stand-up show Yonks!, while American singer-songwriter Benson Boone performs Beautiful Things from his album Fireworks & Rollerblades.

New to Stream

Blitz, Apple TV+

Steve McQueen's period drama follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside.

George, defiant and determined to return home to his mother and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.

Joy, Netflix

This drama stars Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy, and tells the remarkable story of how three scientists made the scientific breakthrough of IVF.

Every birth is extraordinary in its own way. But that was never truer than in the case of Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby.

Born in 1978, Louise’s extraordinary birth was the result of a decade of work by surgeons, scientists, and embryologists.

If, Sky Cinema Premiere & NOW

Not to be confused with the Lindsay Anderson classic from 1968 and starring Malcolm McDowell.

From writer and director John Krasinski, this semi-animated film follows a girl who discovers that she can see everyone's imaginary friends - and what she does with that superpower - as she embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids.

Featuring an all-star cast including Ryan Reynolds, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Steve Carrell, Fiona Shaw and more.

Bread & Roses, Apple TV+

This drama offers a powerful window into the seismic impact that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021 had on women’s rights and livelihoods.

The film follows three women in real time as they fight to recover their autonomy. Sahra Mani captures the spirit and resilience of Afghan women through a raw depiction of their harrowing plight.

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