Weekend Watch - Survivor, Five Nights at Freddy's, The Gilded Age and Fellow Travellers

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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 Five Nights at Freddy's (Friday 27th Oct, cinemas), Sister Death (Fri 27th, Netflix), Pain Hustlers (Fri 27th, Netflix), Fellow Travellers (Sat 28th, Paramount+), Survivor (Sat 28th, BBC1), Britain's Human Zoos (Sat 28th, Channel 4), Time (Sunday 29th, BBC1) and The Gilded Age (Mon 30th, Sky Atlantic).

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00:00 Hi and welcome back to another episode of Screenbabel Weekend Watch.

00:03 I'm your host Stephen, National Wales Digital Trends Writer,

00:06 and I'll be walking you through what's on TV and streaming and cinemas this weekend and beyond.

00:12 So to kick things off, on Friday we have three new films coming out.

00:16 We have Five Nights at Freddy's, the video game adaptation film,

00:20 hopefully better than most video game adaptations,

00:23 follows a troubled security guard who's working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria,

00:29 and on his first night on the job he realises that there's some sort of animatronic mascot who's out to get him.

00:37 It's a sort of dark comedy horror, I guess you would describe it as, in time for Halloween.

00:45 Then on Netflix we have another horror film coming out, Sister Death.

00:49 This is a Spanish language film about Narcissa, a novice nun with some supernatural powers

00:55 who joins a school for young girls in a former convent and realises that the school itself

01:02 has some strange paranormal goings on and is causing some terror for the students.

01:10 Then again on Netflix we have Pain Hustlers, the new Emily Blunt film.

01:14 You'll know Emily Blunt from various movies, Edge of Tomorrow,

01:20 and of course her recent apology for her "fatphobic" comments on the Jonathan Ross show.

01:26 She plays Lisa who dreams of a better life for her and her daughter,

01:30 gets a job at a bankruptcy pharmacy and then catapults the company into success

01:35 but at the same time finds herself in the middle of a criminal conspiracy.

01:39 Then on Saturday we have a few new releases.

01:42 Velo Travelers is out, as I discussed on the main podcast, definitely give that a watch or a listen if you haven't already.

01:49 It's a Paramount+ series about two gay men during the McCarthy era,

01:53 investigations into communism and deviancy in the US in the 50s

02:00 and also takes place 30 years later in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic as well.

02:06 It's a very good romantic historical drama thriller,

02:10 definitely worth your time if you do have Paramount+ or are thinking of getting it.

02:15 The first episode will launch on Saturday 28th October

02:19 and then there'll be seven more episodes releasing weekly on Saturdays.

02:24 Again on Saturday we have Survivor starting on BBC1 at 8.25pm

02:29 with another episode on Sunday at 8pm.

02:31 There'll be 16 episodes in total.

02:35 The series is hosted by Joel Domet who welcomes 18 castaways to the Dominican Republic

02:40 where they'll compete in a physical and psychological competition.

02:46 They'll be divided into two tribes and will live on separate beaches

02:49 where they'll become self-sufficient and deal with the daily challenges that the environment throws at them.

02:58 Again on Saturday on Channel 4 we have Britain's Human Zoos.

03:02 This is a one-off documentary special and quite a grim one by the sounds of things.

03:07 It explores how African and Asian people were taken from their homeland,

03:14 transported to the UK and used as human entertainment in essentially human zoos.

03:23 So very nasty stuff.

03:25 Then on Sunday on BBC1 we have Season 2 of Time.

03:29 This is the long-awaited follow-up to the Stephen Graham/Sean Bean series,

03:32 though they won't be in it.

03:33 This time the action focuses on an all-women's prison.

03:40 Stars Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrence and Bella Ramsey as three new prisoners

03:44 who enter this new violent world but discover that they can find their own sense of community

03:50 and understanding within a very dark place.

03:54 The last thing I wanted to mention is the Guild of the Aged Season 2

03:57 which comes to Sky Atlantic on Monday 30th October at 3am

04:01 but will be repeated at the more sociable hour of 9pm on Monday evening.

04:06 It follows the economic changes that led to huge class structures and rivalries

04:12 and differences between old and new money during the Guild of the Aged.

04:17 There's eight episodes in the new season and they will be released at the same time

04:21 on Sky Atlantic Weekly with the 3am original airing and the 9pm repeat.

04:26 That's all from me, thanks very much for listening.

04:29 Join me again next week for more weekend watch recommendations.

04:32 Thank you very much.

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Weekend Watch - Survivor, Five Nights at Freddy's, The Gilded Age and Fellow Travellers

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