Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Derry Girls, season 3 (Fri 18th, Netflix), Mask Girl (Fri 18th, Netflix), Shelter (Fri 18th, Amazon Prime), the Fifa Women's World Cup Final (Sun 20th, 11am on BBC1 and ITV1) Top Guns: Inside the RAF (Mon 21st, Channel 4) and The Confessions of Franny Langton (Monday 21st, ITV1).
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00:00 Hi, I'm Stephen, National World's Digital Trends Writer, and welcome back to another
00:04 episode of Screenbabel Weekend Watch, where I run down everything coming to streaming
00:09 and TV this week, or at least the highlights, and tell you what to look out for.
00:14 So Friday the 18th of August, we have Derry Girls Season 3 coming to Netflix.
00:18 This is the Northern Ireland comedy series about a group of schoolgirls during the Troubles,
00:23 with the third season leading up to the historic Good Friday Agreement.
00:27 The series landed on Channel 4 last year, but it's finally coming to Netflix where you
00:31 can watch it ad-free.
00:34 Then also on Netflix is Masked Girl Season 1.
00:37 This is a South Korean comedy-drama.
00:41 There's seven episodes in the series.
00:42 They'll all land on Friday the 18th on Netflix.
00:45 It follows an office worker who is insecure about her looks and becomes a masked internet
00:51 personality by night as her personal life begins to spiral out of control.
00:59 Then also on Friday we have Shelter on Amazon Prime.
01:04 This is based on the Harland Coben novel.
01:06 It's one of several Coben adaptations that have been made in recent years.
01:11 It follows the story of Mickey Boletar, who is a student at a new school in New Jersey,
01:18 as he deals with a lot of personal issues.
01:21 His mother's in rehab, his father has died, and his aunt is incredibly annoying.
01:28 There's eight episodes in the series.
01:29 The first three will land on Prime on Friday the 18th, and then they'll be released one
01:34 episode weekly after that.
01:37 Then on Sunday, the big TV event for not just the UK, but internationally, obviously, is
01:45 the Women's World Cup Final, which will see Spain play either Australia or England, as
01:50 I'm recording this literally 20 minutes before the England versus Australia game starts.
01:55 Hopefully it's England, but we'll know by the time you hear this.
02:00 That will take place at 11am on BBC One and ITV One.
02:06 Both channels have rights to broadcast it.
02:09 Obviously on BBC One there'll be no adverts, on ITV there will be.
02:14 They'll also be playing on the online streaming equivalent.
02:17 The match will take place at the Stadium Australia in Sydney, where 83,500 fans will be watching,
02:26 and millions more on TV, of course.
02:29 Then on Monday the 21st, we have Top Guns Inside the RAF.
02:33 This is a Channel 4 documentary series.
02:37 It follows British defence pilots, specifically from the Louis Smith base in north-eastern
02:46 Scotland, where RAF Typhoon fighters have been armed and ready to scramble since the
02:53 Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
02:56 It basically explores the life of British fighter pilots.
03:02 There's six episodes in the series, they'll be landing on Mondays on Channel 4 at 9pm
03:08 for six weeks.
03:10 Then lastly in our highlights of this week, we have Confessions of Franny Langton, an
03:17 ITV One series, originally on ITVX but now airing on ITV One at 9pm weekly on Mondays.
03:25 There's four episodes in the series.
03:27 It's a 19th century set drama about a servant and former slave from the sugar plantations
03:32 of Jamaica, who are accused of murdering a plantation owner and his wife.
03:40 It tells the story of Franny Langton's travels from Jamaica to London's Mayfair and a lovely
03:49 mansion there where she ends up.
03:52 It's based on the Sarah Collins novel of the same name.
03:56 That's all from me with your weekend watch highlights.
03:58 Join me again next week for more Screenbabel recommendations.
04:01 Thanks very much.
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