PICKS OF THE WEEK: 13-19 JANUARY 2025, WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK

What to watch this week.

Love Island All Stars

Monday, ITV2

Hosted by Maya Jama and back in scorching South Africa, group chats will go wild as iconic Islanders from across the last 10 years make an epic return to find love - comedian Iain Stirling voices as Islanders get their graft on in the UK’s biggest dating show.

Beat The Chasers

Thursday, ITV1

To build a cash pot, the contestants have to answer multiple choice questions - get the first one wrong, and they are out, but answer one or more correctly and they get to face the Chasers, who offer time and money in order to take them on. If the contestants get all Cash Builder questions right, they are given a super offer to face all the Chasers for up to £600,000 - the endgame is a nail-biting head-to-head race against the clock.

The Crow Girl

Thursday, Paramount+

The Crow Girl opens with the discovery of a teenage boy’s body discarded in plain sight. DCI Jeanette Kilburn (Eve Myles) joins forces with psychotherapist Sophia Craven (Katherine Kelly) to hunt the killer despite opposition from her superiors including confidant DI Lou Stanley (Dougray Scott).

Severance

Friday, Apple TV+

Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself.

Gladiators

Saturday, BBC One

The wait is over. Gladiators is back, and tougher than ever. Bradley and Barney Walsh kick off a new series of the iconic competition, which sees a fresh crop of gritty Contenders take on the superhuman Gladiators in five brutal events before going head-to-head in the gruelling Eliminator.

Michael McIntyre's Big Show

Saturday, BBC One

BAFTA award-winning comedian Michael McIntyre returns with a new series of his Big Show, an unmissable night of family entertainment broadcast from London's prestigious Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Out There

Sunday, ITV1 The drama will depict the stealthy and surreptitious invasion of the land our farmer cherishes with devastating consequences as his livelihood, homestead and family life are threatened by local county lines drugs dealers who are essentially urban gangs using the British countryside as a field of operations and moving drugs and money between their inner-city hubs and provincial areas.