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 Classic Movies: The Stories Of (Thurs 31st, Sky Arts), The Wheel of Time (Fri 1st Sept, Amazon Prime) Warrior (Fri 1st Sept, Sky Max), Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing (Sun 3rd, BBC2), Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero (Mon 4th, Channel 4) and The Little Mermaid (Wed 6th, Disney+).
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00:00 Hi and welcome to another episode of Screenbabel Weekend Watch. I'm your host Stephen Ross,
00:05 National Wales Digital Trends Writer and I'll be giving you the top tips for what to watch
00:09 this weekend and beyond. So for Thursday the 31st, as I was speaking about on the main
00:17 podcast Classic Movies the Story of, lands on Sky Arts at 8pm with a deconstruction of
00:23 Orson Welles' The Third Man. It'll be airing at the same time weekly with different films
00:29 as the subject. We have The Graduate, Ran, Brighton Rock, Terminator 2, among others.
00:36 Definitely worth a watch and you can listen to my full analysis of the show on the main podcast.
00:42 Then on Friday the 1st of September we have an Amazon Prime Original Series, The Wheel of Time,
00:49 returns for Season 2. This is based on the fantasy series by Robert Jordan, the 14-book epic.
00:59 The second season will be mostly adapted from Book 2 in the series and sees Rosamund Pike return as
01:07 well. The first three episodes will land on the 1st of September and then it's episodes
01:12 airing and being released weekly as eight episodes in total. Also on Friday we have Warrior Season 3,
01:21 the Asian-American series on Sky. It already aired on HBO Max but is now coming to the UK via Sky.
01:31 It follows the Tong Wars in the 1870s in San Francisco and in Season 3 we follow the aftermath
01:41 of the race riots that took place in the second season and we see Mai Ling use her connections
01:48 in the government to consolidate power while the supporting characters find new ways to survive
01:54 in the violent world in the West. There's 10 episodes in the series, they'll be coming to
02:00 Sky Max at 9pm on Fridays weekly. Then on Sunday Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing Season 6.
02:09 This is a very popular BBC series with the comedians Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse.
02:16 The sixth series will see them visit the UK's oldest pub and go camping on the shores of a
02:24 carp lake among other adventures. There are six episodes in the series, they air on BBC2 at 9pm
02:33 on Sundays and will be available to watch on iPlayer after they've first aired.
02:38 Then something a bit more serious, on Monday the 4th of September we have Ukraine Holocaust
02:45 Ground Zero on Channel 4. This is a documentary about the Nazi Holocaust during the Second World
02:50 War following the German invasion of Ukraine. One of the biggest atrocities within the Holocaust,
02:58 one of the biggest single events, was the shooting of around 34,000 Jews in Ukraine
03:03 at Bivin Yar near Kiev during the Second World War. This is explored among other atrocities in
03:12 Ukraine to the Jewish population with survivors of the Holocaust and historians participating in
03:18 the documentary as well. It's a special one-off and it will air at 10pm on Monday the 4th on
03:23 Channel 4 and then will be available to watch on Channel 4 online after it's first aired.
03:28 And then lastly for this week we have The Little Mermaid, the live-action Disney film,
03:36 and live-action remake I should say, coming to Disney+ following its cinematic release.
03:41 Despite various controversies surrounding the film it managed to gross about £560 million
03:45 at the box office, so fairly comfortable success, and it's now coming to Disney+ too.
03:51 So it stars Halle Berry as the titular mermaid who gains her legs, Melissa McCarthy as Esla,
04:00 and Javier Bardem as King Triton. Well that's all from me, thanks for listening,
04:05 and I'll be back next week with more weekend watch recommendations. Thanks very much.
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