It’s shaping up to be an entertaining week on the small screen, and we’re here to bring you our usual round-up of TV recommendations – including a classic Agatha Christie, following last week’s release of Seven Dials, being added to Netflix. Perfect for fans of the whodunnit.
The best of this week’s telly is also set to include a “high-octane” drama starring Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner, and fans of that universe also have another reason to be excited – there’s a new Thrones tale on the way, this time centred around the brave but dangerously naive hedge knight Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey). Here’s what you need to know about this week:
ITV
After the Flood, season 2
Sophie Rundle returns this week for another series of ITV’s After the Flood. Newly promoted detective Joanna “Jo” Marshall (Rundle) is set to sink her teeth into a new murder investigation when yet another body is discovered.
“Jo’s race to stop the killer brings her into direct conflict with powerful and influential forces within the town, ultimately drawing her into an investigation that becomes deeply personal”, (via the synopsis).
After the Flood season 2 is available to watch from Sunday 18 January on ITV1 and ITVX at 9pm.
Prime Video
Steal
Sophie Turner’s new drama Steal, which has been described as “high-octane”, makes its way to Prime Video this week.
Here Turner takes on the role of office worker Zara, whose ordinary life collapses when a violent gang enter the pension fund investment company where she works, making demands.
She and best friend Luke (Archie Madekwe) are thrown into the chaos, but who is behind the heist and will DCI Rhys (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) be able to fight off his demons long enough to solve the case?
Steal is available to watch from Wednesday 21 January on Prime Video.
HBO//Sky
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
There’s a new spinoff from the world of Game and Thrones, and all eyes are on the hedge Knight Ser Duncan the Tall (Claffey).
Set 100 years before the parent show, the synopsis reveals that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms follows the “naïve but courageous” ‘Dunc’ and his young squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell).
The six part series promises “great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits”, lying in wait for these “improbable and incomparable friends”. Of course, this is Westeros after all. Blood is bound to spill, but will these unlikely heroes make it out unscathed? We shall soon find out.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is available from Monday 19 January on Sky and streaming service NOW and will air weekly on Mondays.
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Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple
If you couldn’t get enough of Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, which dropped on Netflix last week, then now’s your chance to delve further into the crime novelist’s work with this series, as it finds a new streaming home in the UK.
Fans have branded it “impeccable”, “enjoyable” and “one of the best TV adaptations” over on IMDb. The series follows sleuth Jane Marple, who sets about solving several befuddling crimes in the quiet village of St Mary Mead.
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple is available to watch from Saturday 24 January on Netflix.
Channel 4
The Secret of Me
Directed by Grace Hughes-Hallett (producer of the award-winning Three Identical Strangers), this feature-length documentary, which will air on Channel 4 this week, centres on Jim, an intersex advocate, who tells his own story – which is also the story of many others.
The Secret of Me has been described as an “eye-opening film” that “raises profound questions”.
The Secret of Me is available to watch from Tuesday 20 January on Channel 4 at 10pm
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