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TV Critic Steven Ross has something for everyone in this week's round up of what to get watching.

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

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

00:06 and I'll be talking you through what's on TV, streaming and at the cinema this weekend and beyond.

00:12 So on Friday the 23rd of Feb we have Martin Compton's Norwegian Fling.

00:19 Now Kelly spoke to the stars of the series, Martin Compton from Line of Duty,

00:24 and his friend Phil McHugh for the main pod, so give that a listen.

00:29 But that starts on BBC2 on Friday at 9pm and episodes will be released at the same time weekly.

00:36 They'll be on iPlayer after they've first aired as well.

00:39 It's a great travel series by all accounts.

00:42 Also on Friday we have season one of Married to the Game.

00:46 This is an Amazon Prime documentary series looking into the lives of the wives of famous Prem footballers.

00:55 So players like Matt Turner, Riyad Mahrez, Jorginho, I apologise for probably butchering that,

01:04 all feature and their relationship with their partners

01:09 and it looks into the pros and cons of dating a celebrity footballer.

01:14 And then heading to cinemas this Friday we have British comedy film Wicked Little Letters

01:20 starring Oscar winner Olivia Colman.

01:22 This follows the lives of the residents of the little seaside town of Littlehampton in the 1920s

01:30 where residents begin to receive some very vulgar letters full of

01:36 pretty hilarious profanities I guess you'd say.

01:40 And when rowdy Irish immigrant Rose is charged with the crime of distributing these letters,

01:47 the town's women suspect that something is amiss

01:50 and a miscarriage of justice may have taken place and investigate the phenomenon themselves.

01:58 On Saturday the 24th we have Saturday Night Takeaway returning for season 20

02:03 at 7pm, shockingly on Saturday night on ITV1.

02:07 It doesn't really need an introduction.

02:10 The two hosts who we know from the previous 19 seasons as well as I'm a Celebrity

02:16 return for their sort of fun and games with celebrity guests for a whole new season.

02:21 Going on to Monday we have Channel 4's social experiment series The Jury Murder Trial

02:27 which airs at 9pm.

02:31 The landmark experiment follows the restaging of a real-life murder trial

02:37 in front of two juries made up of ordinary people

02:40 and sees if they will reach the same verdict.

02:44 It's a very interesting, I guess a mind game experiment.

02:48 Will be airing on Channel 4 at 9pm four nights nightly.

02:55 So it's not a weekly show, it'll be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

02:58 On Disney Plus on Tuesday the 27th we have Shogun which premieres with two episodes on Tuesday

03:07 and then the remaining episodes, the remaining eight being released on Tuesdays weekly.

03:13 It's a sort of drama series that sees a mysterious European ship marooned

03:20 in a nearby Japanese fishing village where Lord Yoshi Toranaga discovers secrets on board

03:29 that could tip the scales of power and give him an edge over his enemies.

03:34 Obviously set in the shogunate era of Japan so it's a sort of historical drama series.

03:39 You definitely want to watch if that's your sort of thing.

03:44 And then finally going into Wednesday the 28th we have American conspiracy The Octopus Murders.

03:51 This is a Netflix series obviously by the title you could just guess.

03:56 It follows journalist Danny Casalaro's mysterious death while probing an alleged conspiracy

04:02 called The Octopus that links spy software theft, unsolved murders

04:07 and major 20th century scandals.

04:09 It could be the new big Netflix true crime series.

04:13 They're always very, very popular so definitely one to have on your radar.

04:17 Thanks very much for listening and join me again next week for more weekend watch recommendations.

04:24 Thanks.

Weekend watch - reality TV experiments and the return of Saturday Night Takeaway

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