What To Watch This Weekend: 27th – 30th May

It’s Bank Holiday weekend – so there’s an extra day to watch some great stuff on TV this weekend

Britain's Got Talent 2016 Dec under fire over Zyrah Rose comment

by Francesca Battson and Hannah Wright |
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It's another series over for Britain's Got Talent, as the final airs on Saturday - but who will win this year?

There's a few new series of fan favourites starting up again this weekend including: Top Gear, The Musketeers and Love Island.

And if that wasn't enough for you, the British Soap Awards and Channel 4'd Comedy Gala are back, along with a few other specials on this Bank Holiday...

Friday 27th May

Entertainment Presenter - Ant and Dec

The World’s Biggest Flower Market - 9pm on BBC2

This genuinely interesting show is all about where the flowers we buy in the UK actually come from. Cherry Healey is in Holland at the world’s biggest flower market – beautifully mastering the “riding-a-bike-while-doing-a piece-to-camera” thing. From the secrets behind how blooms are kept looking perfect post-picking, to the stressed out traders doing battle in the “Wall Street of Flowers”, it will certainly make us think twice about the next bouquet we plonk on our dining room table.

The Graham Norton Show - 10.35pm on BBC1

Matt Le Blanc giving some sneak peeks on what to expect from the new Top Gear, plus Game Of Thrones lovely Emilia Clarke. Not to mention Kate Beckinsale, Dominic Cooper and Corinne Bailey Rae – it’s another action-packed Graham show!

Hoff The Record - 10pm on Dave

With The Hoff celebrating his recent engagement to soon-to-be Mrs Hoff Hayley Roberts, this week’s episode of this entertaining spoof could be a glimpse of what’s to come. He’s booked to perform at the wedding of a superfan (Sarah Hadland from Miranda); cue run-ins with the locals and drama in Yorkshire.

Ant & Dec: Their Story - 9pm on Channel 5

Friends, fans – and some of the celeb pals who’ve fallen foul to their trademark trickery – chat about the greatness of Ant ‘n’ Dec in this 90-minute special celebrating a pretty impressive career spanning 25 years.

Saturday 28th May

Britain's Got Talent 2016 Dec under fire over Zyrah Rose comment
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Britain’s Got Talent - 7.30pm on ITV (Live Final)

It’s almost all over for another year as tonight is the night this year’s winner is crowned. Who’s going to perform at the Royal Variety Show, then?

Red 2 - 9pm on Channel 4

A follow-up to the 2010 flick, retired CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his ageing pals (Helen Mirren – looking foxy – and co); this time to track down a missing portable nuclear device. Trouble is, lots of other folk want to get their hands on the snazzy weapon as well. Anthony Hopkins is in this too, as a chap holed up in a unit for the criminally insane.

The Musketeers - 9.30pm on BBC1 (New and Final Series)

This swashbuckling historical drama dotted with handsome chaps will be bowing out after this series as D’Artagnan and chums are hanging up their swords. Rupert Everett joins this series, what a treat.

Sunday 29th May

Top Gear Chris Evans

Top Gear - 8pm on BBC2 (New Series)

Only cave dwellers living in Outer Mongolia could have escaped the hoo-hah over the all-new Top Gear, fronted by Chris Evans, with Joey Tribbiani / aka Matt LeBlanc as his sidekick. Well, the all-singing, all-dancing rebooted new series is here – and even those not into the car thing can tune in if only to see what all the fuss is about. Celeb guests to kick things off are Jessie Eisenberg and Gordon Ramsay.

The British Soap Awards 2016 - 8pm on ITV

Emmerdale’s Danny Miller vs EastEnders’s Danny Dyer in the Best Actor category, while surely Lacey Turner is quids in to pick up the Best Actress gong for Albert Square? Yes – it’s that time of year again where our fave soaps stars get all glammed up and Phillip Schofield does his doling out of gongs thing. May the best soap person win!

Rio - 3.30pm on E4

Here’s one for the kiddywinks. From Ice Age folk, Rio tells the story of Blu, a baby macaw who’s captured by smugglers in Brazil and shipped off to the US. There, he escapes and a little girl called Lisa raises him as a pet. After 15 joyful years, a Brazilian bird enthusiast wants Lisa to take him back to Rio because he’s the last male of his species. That’s when the trouble really begins…

Hope Springs - 9pm on More 4

Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones are Kay and Arnold – a devoted couple keen to spice things up after decades of being hitched. Marriage therapy beckons, along with all sorts of capers involving Kay getting her routine-loving hubby to actually get on a plane and sort things out.

Channel 4’s Comedy Gala 2016 - 9pm on Channel 4

Raising cash for a marvelous cause (Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity), this mammoth star-studded stand-up event sees the likes of Alan Carr, Warwick Davis, Russell Kane and Rob Beckett all cracking jokes on stage.

Where Are They Now? The Reunions - 7pm on ITV

What’s happened to the young girl from the Oxo ads (erm she became a Viking re-enactor), and indeed the rest of the family? This reunion show is great (though the Oxo catch up is sad without Lynda Bellingham), and we also get an update on the likes of the Baywatch folk, the Milkybar kid and East 17. Brill.

Wallander - 9pm on BBC1

Wallander must act fast when a woman’s dead body is discovered in a forest. Unfortunately it seems he is being followed by some ruffians and end up in trouble. But not before some sweet scenes with his granddaughter.

Bank Holiday Monday 30th May

Love Island - 9pm on ITV2 (New Series)

We thoroughly enjoyed last year’s Love Island. Cute couple Jon and Hannah ended up getting engaged, though sadly they called it a day three months later over Jon’s “jealousy” issues, uh-oh. The surprise win (plus £50,000 prize fund) went to Jessica and Max – but they broke up as well and Max was spotted sniffing around Geordie Shore’s Charlotte. Hey ho, even if it’s not forever, it’s still pretty entertaining – and Caroline Flack is here with another batch of young love birds.

Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport - 9pm on ITV (New Series)

We’re not sure the airport staff are this jolly when we go on holiday (i.e. when they don’t have a camera shoved in their faces), but here we are again behind the scenes at Heathrow – where passengers get ticked off for luggage being too heavy and being late for the plane and stuff.

Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle - 10pm on Sky Atlantic

The great third-person speaking Alan Partridge is back, bringing us footage from bits of Mid Morning Matters where he offends some people. He feels “pretty crumby” for calling people ‘chavs’, mocking council houses and various other matters which caused a “s--- storm”. Alan tries to make people like him again in this entertaining one-off docu.

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