What To Watch W/C Monday 8th June
This week’s TV and streaming picks include emotional drama, high-stakes revelations and long-awaited returns. The Polygamist unravels a glamorous matriarch’s crumbling world as hidden secrets come to light, while Sweet Magnolias returns with weddings, shifting dreams and friendship at its core. Power Book III: Raising Kanan reaches its final series, bringing Kanan’s story to a […]
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This week’s TV and streaming picks include emotional drama, high-stakes revelations and long-awaited returns.
The Polygamist unravels a glamorous matriarch’s crumbling world as hidden secrets come to light, while Sweet Magnolias returns with weddings, shifting dreams and friendship at its core. Power Book III: Raising Kanan reaches its final series, bringing Kanan’s story to a close as family truths, moral lines and identity crises collide.
Make sure to check out the rest of this week’s line-up and let us know what you’ll be watching.
Alice and Steve – Monday 8th June | Disney+
Follows Nicola’s character Alice, who is devastated when her best friend Steve, starts dating her 26-year-old daughter Izzy. She’s going to lose her best friend and her daughter in one fell swoop.
Alice tries everything she can to end the relationship. Unfortunately for her, Steve’s more than ready for the attack, and what begins as a perfect friendship, devolves into an all-out feud.
With Joel Fry, Tyrese Eaton Dyce and Ebony Aboagye.
G’WED: S3 – Monday 8th June @ 10.35pm | ITV2
Reece’s life spirals as Disneyland Darren resurfaces, his mum dates Mr Dunn, and being forced to help The Brimble during Refugee Week sparks constant clashes.
With Louis Emerick and Zak Douglas.
Sweet Magnolias: S5 – Thursday 11th June | Netflix
With wedding bells on the horizon, the Magnolias chase a shared dream, explore the world beyond Serenity, and lift each other up amid s summer of change.
Starring Heather Headley, Dion Johnstone, Frank Oakley III, Al-Jaleel Knox & more.
The Polygamist – Friday 12th June | Netflix
A glamorous matriarch’s world shatters when her husbands secrets are exposed. Terrified of public ruin but too proud to be played for a fool, she must fight through her exhaustion to reclaim her self-worth before the truth destroys them both.
Gugu Gumede, Kenneth Nkosi, Celeste Ntuli, S’Dumo Mtshali, Kwanele Mthethwa & more.
Power Book III: Raising Kanan: S5 – Saturday 13th June | MGM+
Over two seasons, Kanan Stark uncovers painful truths about his mother and himself, confronting a web of family secrets. Season three pushes him and the Thomas family into moral and identity crises. Each member seeks redemption or escape, but ultimately learns there are no absolutes, only individual choices and selves.
Free Nelson Mandela – Sunday 14th June @ 9pm | Channel 4
Documentary about the South African leader’s 27-year imprisonment during the apartheid era, and how he led his country to democracy from inside a cell. The first episode begins in the early 1960s, when Nelson Mandela led the fightback against the South African government and was imprisoned for life. Soon, a global anti-apartheid movement is taking the struggle worldwide, particularly after the murder of activist Steve Biko.
Windrush: Portraits of a Generation – Sunday 14th June @ 10:05pm | BBC Four
Marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush to British shores in 1948, cameras follow a project spearheaded by King Charles. He commissioned 10 leading artists, from Britain and abroad, to create portraits of 10 pioneering members of the Windrush Generation. The sitters, many in their nineties, speak frankly about their experiences of arriving in Britain, making lives for themselves, and the contribution they have made to their communities and the nation.
