Join TV Critic Steven Ross as he lines up the best in TV and streaming over the weekend including Oscar-nominated film Poor Things.
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00:00 Hi, I'm Stephen, National Horrors Digital Trends writer,
00:03 and welcome back to another episode of Weekend Watch,
00:05 where I'll be telling you through what's on TV
00:08 and the cinemas and streaming over the weekend and beyond.
00:13 Already out on Thursday the 7th is The Gentleman,
00:17 the Guy Ritchie series based on the 2019 film
00:21 with Matthew McConaughey.
00:22 This is a sort of sequel series with eight episodes.
00:26 It's released all in one go on the 7th.
00:29 Benji spoke about it at length on the main pod,
00:32 so go and give that a listen if you haven't already.
00:34 Also out on the 7th was Poor Things,
00:38 the Best Picture nominee with Emma Stone and Matt Ruffalo,
00:41 Willem Dafoe.
00:42 It's a sort of sci-fi, fantasy period drama,
00:47 which was a weird modernist take on Frankenstein.
00:52 Very well-acclaimed, obviously, to get the Best Picture nom,
00:55 as well as several other gongs.
00:56 And if you missed it at the cinema,
00:58 now is your chance to catch it on Disney+.
01:00 So getting on to Friday now, the 8th of March,
01:03 and Netflix fantasy film Damsel,
01:05 starring Millie Bobby Brown, is released.
01:09 It follows Brown's character, Isaiah Dutiful Damsel,
01:13 who agrees to marry a handsome prince,
01:15 but only to realize that the royal family
01:19 has intended her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt.
01:22 So she finds herself thrown into a cave
01:24 with a fire-breathing dragon
01:25 and has to rely on her wits and abilities
01:28 to survive.
01:29 So a sort of twist on the traditional fairy story.
01:32 Also on Friday, season two of The Reluctant Traveller
01:36 comes to Apple TV.
01:37 So it follows Schitt's Creek star Eugene Levy
01:40 on his travels through Europe
01:41 as he visits some of the continent's
01:43 both most intriguing destinations,
01:46 uncovers hidden gems,
01:47 and finds some fantastic hotels along the way.
01:50 Across the week, Crufts will have been on Channel 4,
01:55 and on Sunday the 10th, we have the Best in Show episode.
01:59 So Claire Balding will present the crowning
02:01 of this year's Best in Show winner
02:03 at 7 p.m. on Channel 4.
02:05 As I say, the main show itself is on throughout the week
02:09 on Channel 4, so check your TV guide.
02:12 Sunday, we also have the film event of the year,
02:15 the Oscars.
02:17 So this will be on Sunday evening.
02:19 And we have big names up for awards.
02:23 Oppenheimer tipped to do very well off its success
02:27 at the BAFTAs and the Golden Globes previously.
02:30 Barbie's up for eight gongs,
02:32 but probably not tipped to win very many of them.
02:35 Other big name nominees are of course,
02:37 Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon,
02:40 and Anatomy of a Fall,
02:43 which could well win Best Foreign Picture.
02:45 So that will definitely be worth watching.
02:50 On Monday the 11th, we have season three
02:53 of Young Royals coming to Netflix,
02:56 sort of a romantic drama series.
02:58 First five episodes come on the 11th,
03:00 and then the sixth and final episode of the series
03:03 will be released on the 18th.
03:05 Again on Monday, Snow Going Back,
03:07 Comic Relief vs. The Arctic is on BBC One at 9 p.m.
03:11 It's a Comic Relief special,
03:13 which will follow Laura Whitmore, Alex Scott,
03:15 Sarah Davies, and Vicky Patterson
03:17 as they take on the coldest challenge ever for Comic Relief,
03:21 attempting a 50-kilometer sub-zero Arctic expedition
03:26 over the course of four days.
03:28 Definitely worth watching.
03:30 Again on Monday, we have a pretty heavy documentary
03:35 accused the Hampstead pedophile host.
03:37 This is a feature-length doc
03:39 coming to Channel 4 at 9 p.m. on Monday.
03:41 Follows four mothers who were falsely accused
03:44 of being part of a satanic cult.
03:47 And then again Monday, 9 p.m. on Channel 5,
03:50 we have Love Rat, a four-part psychological thriller
03:53 starring Sally Lindsay.
03:55 This will be airing at 9 p.m. weekly over four weeks.
03:59 Then going on to Tuesday, we have Royal Kill List.
04:02 This is something a little bit different.
04:04 Sky History Program.
04:05 We don't often preview many Sky History movie, series, sorry.
04:10 So this is a historical drama
04:13 following King Charles II's hunt
04:15 for the killers of his father, Charles I.
04:19 They're known as the Regicides.
04:21 It's a three-part series airing weekly at 9 p.m.
04:25 And lastly for weekend watch,
04:27 we have Bandidos, a Mexican comedy series
04:31 coming to Netflix on Wednesday the 13th of March.
04:34 Follows a quirky hustler who recruits
04:37 a gang of skilled misfits to find
04:40 Snake King's treasure in the Maya Riviera.
04:43 Well, that's all from me.
04:44 Thanks for listening.
04:45 And join me again next week
04:46 for more weekend watch recommendations.
04:49 Thanks.
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