Join Steven as he gives you tips on what to watch this weekend and beyond including the Dr Who 60th Anniversary Special and Slow Horses.
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00:00 Hi and welcome back to another episode of Screen Babble Weekend Watch.
00:03 I'm Stephen, National Wales Digital Trends Writer,
00:05 and I'll be toying through what's on TV and streaming
00:08 and in cinemas this weekend and beyond.
00:11 So to kick things off, on Friday the 24th of November,
00:15 we have a huge film coming out, Ridley Scott's Napoleon.
00:19 It's an epic historical drama that follows the rise and tragic fall
00:25 of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
00:29 A very controversial historical figure played in this film by Joaquin Phoenix,
00:35 who previously worked with Ridley Scott in another historical drama, Gladiator.
00:41 Napoleon will follow the emperor's journey to power
00:45 and his relationship with his wife Josephine,
00:50 which was also quite complicated.
00:54 Also on Friday, we have Netflix Swedish language drama series
00:58 A Nearly Normal Family, which follows Adam and Ulrika Sandal,
01:02 who live a seemingly perfect life with their daughter Stella
01:05 in a residential suburban idyll. But when Stella ends up in police custody
01:12 and is accused of murder, everything sort of goes to pot.
01:15 There's six episodes in the drama series and they'll all be released on Friday.
01:21 Then this weekend, Saturday the 25th, a big TV event,
01:25 the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special sees David Tennant and Catherine Tate
01:31 return as the Doctor and Donna Noble.
01:35 The episode, very little has been released plot-wise, but we do know that
01:39 the Doctor is once again caught in a fight to the death
01:43 when a spaceship crash lands in London
01:47 and he finds himself once again in the company of his old friend
01:52 Donna Noble. The special will air on BBC1 at 6.30pm
01:57 on Saturday. Then also on Saturday, we have Lockerbie, a Sky Documentaries
02:03 four-part documentary series. It follows the shocking true story of the
02:09 deadliest terror attack in British history when 270 people
02:13 travelling in a commercial flight
02:17 died when the the plane was bombed and crashed
02:20 into Lockerbie in Scotland, killing civilians on the ground as
02:27 well as the entire passengers on the flight.
02:33 That premieres at 9pm on Saturday on Sky Documentaries.
02:38 Then on Sunday, we have Far Away Downs, a Disney+
02:42 drama series starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It follows an English
02:46 aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch and a woman who is
02:52 intent on protecting her new property from a takeover plot. There's six episodes
02:58 in the series and they'll all land at the same time on Sunday.
03:04 On Tuesday the 28th, it's the Great British Bake Off finale that takes place at 8pm.
03:10 We'll find the latest winner, latest
03:13 champion of the baking competition on Channel 4.
03:18 Previous episodes are available to watch online on all four to catch up.
03:22 Then Wednesday the 29th, another big series returns, Slow Horses
03:26 comes back for season three. It's based on the
03:30 third novel in Mick Herron's Slough House series.
03:33 It follows Jackson Lamb and his team of misfits who are once again dragged into
03:37 a fight and find themselves caught in a
03:39 conspiracy that threatens the future of Slough House as well as the
03:43 entire MI6 operation itself. There's six episodes
03:47 in the third season. Two will be released on Wednesday the 29th
03:52 and then later episodes will be released weekly and that's on Apple TV.
03:58 Thanks very much for listening. Join me again next week for more
04:01 weekend watch recommendations.