Take a look at what to look at this week …
From the extremely anticipated third season of The Diplomat to newest Contemporary Lower, Say Much less! and the comedy of Maya Rudolph Loot, there’s one thing for everybody.
Say Much less! – Monday thirteenth October | ITVX & ITV1 @ 11:40pm
A quick-paced mixture of viral parodies, absurd characters and internet-inspired humour, it channels the brilliance of Black Twitter and Gen Z power. Fronted by rising Black British comedy stars, with its meme-worthy, fearless and laugh-out-loud humorous.
With Say Much less!, we’re seeing motion in fashionable British comedy, a brand new customary for what the way forward for Black British humour seems and appears like.
Created and exec-produced by Kevin Muyolo, Visitor embody Jesse Chuku and Dave Benson Phillips.
Harriet – Monday thirteenth October @ 11:00pm | BBC Two
Tells the extraordinary story of Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery and transformation into one among America’s best heroes. Her braveness, ingenuity, and tenacity freed lots of of slaves and altered the course of historical past.
Starring Cynthia Erivo, Zackary Momoh, Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monáe, Henry Hunter Corridor, Deborah Ayorinde, Vondie Curtis-Corridor, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Omar Dorsey, Tory Kittles, Clarke Peters and Antonio J Bell.
Directed and written by by Kasi Lemmons.
The Diplomat: Season 3 – Thursday sixteenth October | Netflix
Ambassador Kate Wyler lives the actual nightmare that’s getting what you need. She simply accused Vice President Grace Penn of hatching a terrorist plot and admitted she’s after the VP’s job. However now the President is useless, Kate’s husband Hal (Rufus Sewell) might have inadvertently killed him, and Grace Penn is chief of the free world. None of this slows Hal’s marketing campaign to land Kate the vice presidency. Kate steps into a task she by no means needed, with a freedom she by no means anticipated, an more and more difficult friendship with International Secretary Austin Dennison , and an unnerving bond with First Gentleman Todd Penn.
Starring David Gyasi, Ato Essandoh and Nana Mensah.
Loot: Season 3 – Wednesday fifteenth October | Apple TV+
Molly Wells embarks on a journey of self-discovery after getting an $87 billion divorce settlement from her rich tech billionaire husband John Novak of 20 years, and we discover her thriving in her function as the top of her philanthropic organisation, the Wells Basis.
Molly has landed the jet for season three, with viewers left on the sting of their seats following the season two finale that noticed Wells and her trusted and considerably assistant Nicholas board Molly’s non-public jet together with her orders to take her as distant as doable after blowback from her fellow billionaires about stepping up philanthropy and her awkward trade together with her will-they, received’t-they colleague Arthur.
Starring Maya Rudolph, Ron Funches and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez.
Beginning 5 – Thursday sixteenth October | Netflix
This riveting sequence follows Jaylen Brown, Kevin Durant, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Tyrese Haliburton and James Harden throughtout the 2024-2025 NBA season.
The Iris Affair – Thursday sixteenth October | Sky Showcase
When Iris Nixon, an excellent codebreaker, solves a string of puzzles in Florence, she uncovers a secret machine with the facility to vary actuality. Pursued throughout Italy by Cameron Beck, a charismatic entrepreneur decided to regulate the system, Iris is pressured right into a lethal recreation of belief and betrayal.
With Meréana Tomlinson and Angela Bruce.
The Excellent Neighbor – Friday seventeenth October | Netflix
Police bodycam footage reveals how long-running neighborhood dispute turned deadly on this documentary about worry, prejudice and Stan Your Floor legal guidelines.