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TVWEEK
What you’ll be watching in
the weeks ahead...
Bonkers game show
Supermarket Sweep
returns to ITV2, this time
with Rylan Clark-Neal at
the helm. The show will
be given a reboot, but will
still culminate in the teams
taking on the iconic trolley
dash to win a cash prize.Coming
soon...
Satirical comedy The
Windsors returns to C
with Wills (Hugh Skinner)
and Harry (Richard Goulding)
having a full-on feud. But it’s
Prince Charles (Harry Enfield)
and his dalliance with the
Highgrove gift shop’s manager
that gets everyone talking...Friends star Lisa Kudrow
guest stars in E4’s
six-part comedy drama
Mae and George about
one young woman’s
complicated love life and
battles with addiction.
Lisa plays troubled Mae’s
unlikeable mum, Linda.After a previous pilot
episode, BBC1’s King
Gary returns for a series.
Murder in Successville’s Tom
Davis stars as builder Gary,
who’s desperate to impress
his suburban neighbours
and live up to his dad’s
extremely high expectations.EXTRA
What’s on
TV
+
When Our Girl returns
for a fourth series on
BBC1 the two new recruits
turning up for duty are
Ackley Bridge’s Amy-Leigh
Hickman and Rillington
Place’s Nico Mirallegro.
It’s set in Afghanistan.Pitching in...
DS Winter and
DCI BarnabyMIDSOMER MURDERS
Monday, 8.30pm ITV DramaCan you imagine taking a 4,000km road
trip across the Australian outback with
a battered upright piano in tow? This journey
is in moving comedy drama Upright on Sky
Atlantic, with Tim Minchin as a gifted pianist
who sets off to say goodbye to his dying mum,
taking his only worldly possession with him...Tackling a
new case!
Barnaby and Winter investigate strange
deaths involving a local rugby team
D
CI John Barnaby and DS
Jamie Winter are embroiled
in the darker side of sport in
a new episode of ITV’s Midsomer
Murders this week, as death stalks
a high-flying rugby team.
Businessman and ex-rugby
player Mark Adler (Nicholas Goh),
owner of the Causton Lions rugby
team, is found frozen to death in
a cryotherapy chamber used by
the players to help with injuries.Enemies
The dead man feared that his wife,
chocolate-shop owner Samantha
(EastEnders’ Tamzin Outhwaite),
was cheating on him, while star
player Danny Wickham
(Trust Me’s Richard Rankin)
is another suspect. Only
troubled gay team coach
Bill Viner (Don Gilet)
appears to have any loyalty
to best friend Mark.
‘Bill was a top player but
his career came to an end
after a horrific tackle,’ says
former Holby City star Don.
‘That led to depression andhitting the bottle until Mark gave
him the post of coach.’
When another victim is drowned
in Samantha’s shop kitchen, the
case takes a fresh turn as Barnaby
(Neil Dudgeon) and Winter (Nick
Hendrix) try to connect the deaths...
Don says working on such a
much-loved show has turned him
into a huge Midsomer fan. ‘I had so
much fun – it’s one of my top guilty
pleasures now. I loved working
with Nick and Neil, and I was even
involved in a stunt explosion!’
Another scene reveals Neil’s
own surprising
talent for rugby,
in a shot where
Barnaby kicks a
ball over the posts.
‘I’ve hardly
kicked a rugby
ball in my life,
but it sailed over
marvellously,’ Neil
says. ‘Everyone
cheered!’ Q
Troubled...
Coach Billnew