What can be seen on television this week: May 3 – 9 May

The new series that arrive this week includes the Australian psychological drama fake, Ewan McGregor Travelogue Long Way Home and New Comedy Reality Format Silence is golden.

Thursday of this week is also the 80th anniversary of the VE Day, with several programs planned for the occasion, including one on BBC One called Ve Day 80: The Nation.

Here you will find our top tips for this week – read on to make our full selection of what to see.

Doctor Who: Lucky Day

Publication date: Saturday, May 3, 7:10 p.m., BBC One

It does not often happen that the ex-compensation that tries to put together in civilian life after their travels with a certain period of time. But here we experience how Ruby (Millie Gibson) spent in her own words to fight Gods in her own words, to be kidnapped by Goblins and to be “eaten by a double bass”. Only in this show could this ever happen, right?

As it turns out, Ruby has a new man in her life, Podcast moderator Conrad (Jonah Hauer-King), who is as debonair as the doctor. But an alien threat is about to feel its presence again: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and the rest of the unit with urgently needed support for MS Sunday.

David Brown

The history of Handmaids 6th season 6

Publication date: Saturday, May 3, 9 p.m., channel 4

Praise: Elisabeth Moss returns to fight the monstrosities in Gilead in this drama, which is now very loose – ok, and no similarity to Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel. The former handmaid June Osborne (with her young daughter Nichole) is injured, beaten, but not completely broken, is on a train full of desperate female refugees who try to achieve a place of security. The Gilead architect Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski), who may have rebelled against the regime, is also escaping, but does not know when to keep her blessed mouth.

A large part of this claustrophobic first episode focuses on the dynamics between the two mothers, with Serena determined to consolidate their connection and reject it violently. It is not surprising that it is not the happiest trips.

We also briefly catch up with the emergency position of several other characters who were left in a refugee camp in front of the last scenes – all high -flying camera and a curved emotional score. But after five series of brutality, suffering and misery, it may be time for a little joy. Maybe not Serena Joy.

Jane Rackham

Fake

Publication date: Saturday, May 3, 10:05 p.m., ITV1

This Australian psychological drama, inspired by Stephanie Woods 2019, is a real puzzle. While we immediately suspected that Joe (David Wenham), the wealthy ranch and real estate developer of this magazine journalist Birdie (Asher Keddie) meet on a dating app, is not everything he seems, there is no indication of his agenda. Sure, he is a smooth operator who decreases her with his attention, although he often cares for appointments at the last minute and occasionally behaves very strange. But what?

This slow burner builds up unbearable tensions and gives you no concrete evidence that it does not have anything good-it makes you feel terribly restless.

Jane Rackham

Misconduct season 2

Publication date: Sunday, May 4th, 9pm, ITV1

The worrying and too harmful medical thriller returns with a further case of possible negligence, this time with Tom Hughes, who plays the doctor under fire. He is Dr. James Ford, a psychiatric registrar who is overloaded and goes in the direction of the danger zone, while rushing between a hardened mother who needs a postnatal examination, and a patient with psychoses who is excited.

The events then give themselves towards an inevitable tragedy, whose examination of the doctors Norma Callahan (Helen Behan) and George Adjei (Jordan Kouamé), who arrive a lot, much as in the first series, only here is their job to examine Fords ethics.

At this point in the procedure, the writer Grace Operi-Ath will keep to us whether the doctor is an innocent man in the center of the drama who is wrongly suspected, or an arrogant one and so with an inflated self-feeling. In both cases, Ford definitely holds secrets, and this verbality is examined in episode two morning at 9:00 p.m.

David Brown

Silence is golden

Publication date: Monday, May 5th, 9pm, U & Dave

Taskmaster has produced a variety of imitative comedy entertainment shows in recent years, and now the last laugh from Amazon Prime seems to do the same.

This incarnation is based on the nugget of an idea that there is laughter to observe people how they cannot laugh, and see dermot O'Leary host as comedians Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha el-Ghorri-sowie a bond with an alternative attempt to change an audience. Every sound that makes the crowd disappears a price of £ 250,000.

It is an entertaining premise on paper, but the entertainers in the Great Britain-Got Talent style let it down, and at the end of the episode I realized that I had remained decided. Hopefully my quarter of a million pounds are in the post office.

Frances Taylor

PU Day 80: The nation remembers

Publication date: Thursday, May 8th10:45 a.m., BBC one

We have achieved the end of the VE -Day celebrations. Today the BBC programs with the 80th anniversary with two contrasting events are in the head.

The first is a service from the Westminster Abbey, which the Dean of Westminster promises, “a celebration of a nation that jumps into peace from the deadly struggle”. Petroc Trelawny offers comment as 1,800 guests – veterans, royals, politicians and charity employees – in the abbey.

Later Zoë Ball organizes a live concert, Ve Day 80: A celebration that you should remember from the Horse Guards Parade in the center of London. Pop stars, actors, strict dancers and military musicians will appear in front of more than 12,000 people. Classic songs of the time (you can expect the white cliffs from Dover and we will meet again) and selected readings will cause the day of the war.

In the meantime there is a more personal perspective with another chance to see Vicky McClure: My Grand's, who did a ship signal in the Royal Navy with her 97-year-old grandfather Ralph, who was a ship signal on D-Day. His memories are moving and their relationship is a joy to see.

David Butcher

Poker facial season 2

Publication date: Thursday, May 8th, 9pm, Sky Max

It is only used half a century, but 50 years from Columbo, Kojak and Rockford, which resign, we live in a television landscape in which the best American crime -dramas -Framen -Frauen -women. Matlock, Elsbeth and high potential have already done great business this year and now comes the return of someone who is probably the Nobeliest of everyone's Detective Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), who is with the Raspy-Voed Detective Drefter.

The three cases that are broadcast this evening keep the established “reverse mystery” format intact, since the murderer committed the crime in the opening law, with Charlie then using her skills to lyse lie detectors to uncover her assets. And among the guests as a murderer, the victims and allied Katie Holmes, Rhea Perlman and – to open this second series – the excellent Cynthia Erivo.

David Brown

Long way home

Publication date: Friday, May 9th, Apple TV+

Ewan McGregor and the best buddy Charley Boorman previously drove motorcycles from London to New York (in a long time), from John O 'Groats to Cape Town (in the long way down) and from Ushaia in Argentina to Los Angeles (on long up).

Now they are back together and travel from McGregor's house in Perthshire to Booran's place in Surrey – via Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, the Baltic States and a large part of the continental. In the first episode, she ends with making a ferry to Amsterdam, so that a lot of preamble has chosen the right vintage bike, remembered old trips and, more than the health of Boorman after his two serious motorcycle accidents in 2016 and 2018.

The main thing is to re -turn with old buddies because they connect with each other again – because if they are not on board with the loving, loving, gentle relationship between the two men, they will have difficulty ending the course. But there is every chance that they will be: they are funny, adventurous and very easy to watch.

Jack Seal

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