Screen Babble Weekend Watch: Baftas, Grand Tour, Life and Beth

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Looking to find something to watch this weekend? Steven has you covered with the all the new films and TV shows coming out this weekend.

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00:00 Hi and welcome back to another episode of Screenbabel Weekend Watch. I'm Stephen,

00:04 National Wales Digital Trends Writer, and I'll be walking you through what's on TV,

00:08 at the movies, and on streaming this weekend and beyond. So quite a fun week this week,

00:14 but we're kicking it off on Friday with an atomic bomb series, well, an atomic bomb movie.

00:20 Einstein and the Bomb is a documentary film following Albert Einstein's time after leaving

00:27 slash being expelled from Germany, as he works on theories that would later be used to develop the

00:35 atomic bomb. It's a sort of 70-minute special documentary film. In cinemas on the 16th,

00:43 we have Danish movie The Promised Land, starring the one and only film star of Danish cinema,

00:51 Mads Mikkelsen. He plays Ludwig Kaelin in a sort of mid-18th century historical biopic.

00:59 It follows Kaelin, the Danish captain and agriculturalist in Denmark, who is pursuing

01:06 his lifelong dream to develop the Jutland Heath to bring himself wealth and honour.

01:12 Also on Friday, we have season two of Life and Death, and that's all 10 episodes coming to Disney

01:19 Plus. It follows Beth and John's relationship as it grows more serious. Beth begins to consider

01:26 marriage and having a family as she and John seek answers to their communication problems.

01:31 It stars Amy Schumer and Michael Cera, as it did in the first series.

01:36 And then this is one I'm quite excited about, embarrassingly. The Grand Tour returns with

01:40 Sand Job on Amazon Prime, again on Friday the 16th. For the latest adventure, Jeremy, James,

01:46 and Richard travel to the remote country of Mauritiana in West Africa. Their challenge is to

01:53 go on the iconic Paris-Dakar race, but they'll be using secondhand sports cars. Jeremy opts for a

02:00 Jaguar F-Type V6. Richard goes with an Aston Martin Volante V12, and James goes for a Maserati.

02:10 On Sunday the 18th, as discussed in the main podcast, we'll have The BAFTAs, which airs on

02:16 BBC One from 7pm. It's not live, but it is almost live. It sort of airs slightly after the ceremony

02:24 starts, so you may hear about some of the winners before they're announced on the show. The awards

02:30 ceremony will be hosted by David Tennant, and there'll be various celebrity award presenters

02:36 as well, such as David Beckham. As was discussed, there'll be a watch along with National World as

02:43 well, as it airs. Also on Monday, another fairly heavy series, we have Breathtaking, an ITV drama

02:51 about the COVID-19 pandemic. It airs at 9pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evening. It's a

02:57 three-parter, and it pays tribute to the work and sacrifices of the NHS staff during the pandemic,

03:03 and reveals the reality of hospital life in the face of such a huge challenge, probably the

03:09 biggest challenge in the NHS's history. On Monday, we have Panorama Special, Hamas's

03:16 secret financial empire, that airs on BBC One at 8pm. It follows an investigation into Hamas's

03:26 network outside of Gaza, and uncovers a web of shady financial enablers who have supported Hamas

03:36 through their terror attacks on October 7th, and indeed their activities before and since.

03:43 On Tuesday the 20th, we have Joe Lycett vs. Sewage at 9pm on Channel 4. Lycett investigates the

03:49 mind-boggling quantities of untreated sewage that are dumped in our waterways every day,

03:53 and he takes the fight to the water companies in his own tongue-in-cheek comedic style.

03:58 Then lastly, Wednesday the 21st, again as discussed in the main pod, go back and listen

04:05 if you haven't, we have Constellation coming to Apple TV. The first three episodes arrive on the

04:12 21st, and then there'll be five more episodes released weekly on Wednesdays. It's a sci-fi

04:17 series with Noomi Rapace as an astronaut trapped on the ISS following a malfunction after

04:26 investigating a new state of matter. When she comes back to Earth, she realises that her reality

04:31 and memories seem to have been affected by her time on the space station. Jonathan Banks, known

04:36 for playing Mike Amatrout in Breaking Bad, also stars as a bigwig at Mission Control, definitely

04:44 one to watch, a great sci-fi mystery. That's all from me, thanks very much for listening to this

04:49 week's Weekend Watch. Join me again next weekend for more recommendations. Thank you.

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