New on
BBC Entertainment this February, 2011:
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 4Premiere date: Tuesday 1 February at 19h30
New episodes air Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 19h30.
Chris Tarrant returns to present the fourth season of the gameshow.
For more about the series format, see:
TVSA's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Mini-Site.
The Real Hustle 6 Premiere date: Wednesday 2 February at 20h30
New episodes air every Wednesday at 20h30 and 21h00
This season: the hustlers tackle the problem of recognition by becoming unrecognisable as they continue to hustle unsuspecting members of the public.
The hustlers also give celebrities the chance to help them highlight a crime that the public should be aware of. The disguised celebrities are thrown into the dark world of crime as they becomes part of the team scamming an unsuspecting member of the public.
Participants include Danny Dyer, Caprice, Emilia Fox, Greg Rusedski, Iain Lee and Huey from Fun Lovin Criminals.
Green Green Grass 4 Premiere date: Sunday 6 February at 17h00
New episodes air Sundays at 17h00
A new season of the sitcom that centres round Boycie and Marlene who've fled their native London to settle into a new life in Shropshire and are enjoying the trappings of the country.
In this fourth season: Boycie and Marlene are looking forward to their 40th wedding anniversary. To celebrate Marlene has arranged for them to renew their vows.
But, while checking up on old friends and acquaintances for the guest list, she hears some devastating news that puts an entirely different complexion on her and Boycie’s relationship.
Lark Rise To Candleford 2 Premiere date: Sunday 6 February 2011 at 17h30
New episodes air on Sundays at 17h30.
The residents of Lark Rise and Candleford return for Season 2 of the TV adaptation of Flora Thompson’s novels.
Set in the Oxfordshire countryside in the 1890s, Lark Rise To Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.
Seen through the eyes of young Laura, the series depicts the relationship between the contrasting communities of the small old-fashioned hamlet Lark Rise and its neighbouring market town Candleford whose residents are eager to embrace the future.
This second season sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich, enterprising, worldly and without a wife, James Dowling soon has the Pratt sisters batting their eyelashes in his direction. Where did he come from, and what is his business in Candleford?
It soon transpires that not only is he the owner of the new Golden Lion Hotel, but he was once a resident of Lark Rise, and the Lark Risers are thrilled that ‘Little James’ who ran away to make his fortune has returned.
Now a successful businessman with a string of London hotels, James has come to “transform Candleford and bring new prosperity to this sleeping economic giant of a town”.
But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial qualities, and it isn’t long before he is sparring with the spirited - yet suddenly unusually flustered - Dorcas over the post office refurbishment, and aggravating the pride of the male Lark Risers with his superior business acumen and somewhat overbearing manner.
Dancing with the Stars 8Premiere date: Sunday 13 February 2011 at 18h30
New episodes air weekly at 18h30.
The eighth season of the US series of Dancing With The Stars.
Celebrities taking part in this season: singer Belinda Carlisle, actress Denise Richards, Playboy model Holly Madison, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, comedian and actor David Alan Grier, Jackass star Steve-O, retired footballer Lawrence Taylor, country singer Chuck Wicks, rapper Lil’ Kim, rodeo champion Ty Murray and actors Melissa Rycroft and Gilles Marini.
For more about the series format, see:
TVSA's Dancing With The Stars Mini-Site.
Spooks 8Premiere date: Sunday, 27 February 2011 at 20h00
New episodes air weekly at 20h00.
In this new season: the fallout from Russia’s thwarted attack on London finds Section D in a race against time to rescue Harry, missing in action following a meeting with the Russian Intelligence Services and last seen being bundled into the boot of a car.
As the team dig deeper into Harry’s disappearance, they find a trail that leads to Iraq, and a conspiracy that involves the CIA, MI6 and some missing weapons-grade uranium.
Could Harry know where the uranium is? And how is former team member Ruth Evershed, returned to the security of MI5 having fled her new life in Cyprus, connected to it all?
For more about the series, see:
TVSA's Spooks Mini-Site.
LutherPremiere date: Monday, 28 February 2011 at 20h30.
New episodes air weekly at 20h30.
A psychological crime thriller, driven by an intellectually brilliant but emotionally impulsive detective.
For Luther (played by Idris Elba), his profession is a vocation rather than a job. He serves his own idea of a moral order as much as the rules and codes of criminal law.
Over the course of the series we see Luther face a succession of psychological duels between hunter and hunted, predator and prey.
We encounter his capacity for violence as well as his kindness, his sudden vulnerability and dizzying, visionary mind. We discover why his wife left him for another man, and why his colleagues are frequently left open-mouthed in awe.
However as the intensity of his convictions combine with the violence of his passions, they provoke the question of whether Luther is a force for good or a man hell bent on self-destruction.
BBC Entertainment is on DStv, channel 120.