Squid Game: The Challenge kicks off on Netflix, Oppenheimer comes to Sky, there's a new BBC sitcom called Such Brave Girls, Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham is Home for Christmas, and there's the season finale of addictive drama Dark Winds . . .
Pick of the Day
Squid Game: The Challenge, Netflix
As inevitable as rain on Halloween, here’s the real-life version of the hugely successful drama.
456 real players will enter the competition show in pursuit of a life-changing reward of US$4.56 million. That’s well over €4 million. Enough to buy a semi-d in South County Dublin!
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As they compete through a series of games inspired by the original show - plus surprising new additions - their strategies, alliances, and character will be put to the test while competitors are eliminated around them.
The episode rollout sees five episodes available from today, followed by four on November 29th, with the final due on December 6th.
Don’t Miss
Shetland, 9.00pm, BBC One
With the main suspect for the murder of Ellen Quinn in custody, Tosh orders the team to find enough evidence to charge them.
Calder struggles with Jean's revelation about her father. The team find the culprit for the recent animal killings.
Amol Rajan Interviews, 7.00pm, BBC Two
Regarded by many as the greatest snooker player in the game’s history, Ronnie O’Sullivan (below) is unmatched in his achievements on the table and equally famous for his life away from it.
Ahead of Prime’s documentary (which lands tomorrow) Amol Rajan sits down with 'the Rocket' for an in-depth conversation about his record-breaking career and the incredible challenges he has overcome to reach the pinnacle of the sport.
They range from a father sent to prison for murder and battles with drink and drug addiction to the mental health issues that have haunted the 47-year-old for most of his life.
Snooker, clearly, offered him an escape.
The Secret Genius of Modern Life, 8.00pm, BBC Two
This week Hannah Fry takes a look at the vacuum cleaner, going behind the scenes with Dyson and discovering how the motor in their latest vacuum spins nine times faster than that of a Formula One race car.
She finds out why a wheezy janitor in the 1900s took inspiration from a sewing machine to create the first popular portable vacuum.
And she comes face to face with a colony of creepy crawlies whose job is to help us fight the filth.
New or Returning Shows
Such Brave Girls, 10.00pm, BBC Three
Here’s a brand-new dysfunctional family sitcom following sisters Josie (Kat Sadler) and Billie (played by Kat’s real-life sister, Lizzie Davidson) and their single mother Deb (Louise Brealey).
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They’re navigating life armed with nothing but poor judgement and self-esteem exclusively tied to people who couldn't care less about them.
They're vain, selfish, heavily in debt, pathologically desperate for affection and bursting with misplaced, terrifying love.
In the opening episode, Deb invites new boyfriend Dev home to meet her daughters Billie and Josie whilst desperately trying to suppress how troubled they are.
Then Billie spots the love of her life, Nicky, with a new girl, so decides to win him back with a significant change to her appearance and discovers just how much love hurts.
New to Stream
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas, Apple TV+
Here’s a musical holiday special starring Emmy Award-winning Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham.
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It’s produced by the same team behind Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special, so you don’t need a crystal ball to figure out what this is going to be like. Tinsel-tastic!
It features performances and musical numbers from Hannah Waddingham, as well as special surprise guests, and the show was recorded live in front of an audience at the London Coliseum.
Oppenheimer, Sky Store
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Reboert Downey Jr, Matt Damon, Rami Malek and Florence Pugh star in Christopher Nolan’s biopic, which is available to home-screen from today. At a price, of course.
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During World War II, Lt Gen Leslie Groves Jr appoints physicist J Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project.
Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion.
Love in Fairhope, Disney+
Here’s a new reality series that offers contestants the chance to bring their fantasy love story to life on TV.
This unscripted romantic series follows five women at different stages in their lives as they experience reimagined romance in the picturesque small town of Fairhope, Alabama.
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It’s a tightly knit community where everyone knows everyone else’s business and matters of the heart matter most.
In Chapter One: New Beginnings, five women from four different generations are looking for love in Fairhope.
For example, Abby returns home and re-connects with an old flame, Mya Jo discovers that a close friend has a new love interest, while LaShoundra faces issues in her marriage.
The Velveteen Rabbit, Apple TV+
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Helena Bonham Carter's amongst the cast in this adaptation of the children’s book of the same name by Margery Williams, which celebrates the magic of unconditional love.
When 7-year-old William receives a new favourite toy for Christmas, he discovers a lifelong friend and unlocks a world of magic.
Ending Today
Dark Winds, 9.00pm, Alibi
It’s the season one finale of this engrossing cop drama set in a Navajo reservation in 1970s’ America.
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito descend on the hiding place of the Buffalo Society, only to be confronted with hard decisions that could change the rest of their lives.
There are (at least) two more seasons to look forward to, so don’t despair!
