The best UK TV to watch this week from Boiling Point to Loki season 2

Other highlights include Everything Now and Beckham

Wondering what to watch? This week boasts plenty of exciting new shows. (BBC/Disney+/Netflix)
Wondering what to watch? This week boasts plenty of exciting new shows. (BBC/Disney+/Netflix)

Unsure what to watch this week? Well the UK TV schedule is packed to the brim with drama, documentaries, reality shows and more to choose from.

The BBC will be bringing a new investigative special to the channel, as well as the next stage of dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing, while Channel 4 is premiering a drama about Partygate.

Elsewhere, Netflix has three new series coming to the streamer this week including a tell-all documentary about David Beckham, and Disney+ will see Ahsoka end this week and Loki begin.

Here is Yahoo UK's guide to the week ahead.

Sunday 1 October, 7.15pm: Strictly Come Dancing: The Results | BBC One

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Strictly Come Dancing 2023,23-09-2023,TX1 LIVE SHOW,TX1,Les Dennis & Nancy Xu,++LIVE SHOW++,BBC,Guy Levy

The first of the Strictly Come Dancing results shows airs this weekend, meaning that one couple will be eliminated from the competition following Saturday night's live show.

Can Nigel Harman remain on top? Will Les Dennis redeem himself after last week's performance? Tune in to the BBC to find out.

Sunday 1 October, 9pm: Boiling Point | BBC One

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Boiling Point,01-10-2023,Carly (VINETTE ROBINSON),Ascendant Fox,Kevin Baker

Following the success of the movie of the same name, the BBC has made Boiling Point a TV drama that follows the events in an intense workplace: The kitchen at a British restaurant.

Starring Stephen Graham once again, Boiling Point sees the staff reach their wit's end when investors in the kitchen causes things to go awry.

Sunday 1 October: Dear Mama | Disney+

Dear Mama (Disney+)
Dear Mama (Disney+)

FX's documentary about rapper Tupac, titled Dear Mama, is set to be released on Disney+, and it explores the late musician's life and untimely death.

Monday 2 October, 9pm: Panorama special | BBC One

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The BBC will launch a Panorama special this week (Getty Images)

The BBC will be airing a one-hour Panorama special on Monday, the details of which have not been revealed but are likely to be on a newsworthy subject.

Tuesday 3 October, 9pm: Partygate | Channel 4

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Rory Baskerville, (Tom Durant-Pritchard), Annabel D'Acre (Ophelia Lovibond), Josh Fitzmaurice (Hugh Skinner), Grace Greenwood (Georgie Henley), Alice Lyons (Alice Orr-Ewing) in Partygate (Channel 4)

The Partygate scandal has been dramatised in a new TV show for Channel 4, which explores the actions of the government during the Covid pandemic while the public were told to stay at home.

Wednesday 4 October: Beckham | Netflix

Beckham (Netflix)
Beckham (Netflix)

David Beckham will look back at his life in a new documentary with Netflix, which explores his early years, his personal life, and his meteoric rise to fame as a professional footballer.

Wednesday 4 October: Payback | ITV1

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ITV are unveiling a new crime drama starring Morven Christie as a police officer investigating notorious crime lord Cal Morris, played by Peter Mullan, and is swept into a terrifying conspiracy.

Thursday 5 October, 9pm: Solider | BBC

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Soldier (BBC)

BBC One is going behind the scenes on the British army, taking civilians and putting them through infantry training to fully understand what it'll take to be a soldier.

Thursday 5 October: Everything Now | Netflix

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Sophie Wilde in Everything Now. (Netflix)

With Sex Education over Netflix is offering fans a new coming-of-age drama titled Everything Now, which follows teen Mia who returns to school after spending months away at an institution for her eating disorder only to discover that everyone has moved leaps and bounds without her.

Keen to catch up on the sex, drugs, and partying that her friends are enjoying, Mia makes a wish list of things to do now she is back home.

Thursday 5 October: Lupin part 3 | Netflix

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Omar Sy in Lupin S3. (Netflix)

Omar Sy returns as Assane Diop, the gentleman thief inspired by Aresene Lupin to commit elaborate heists in order to exact revenge on those who hurt his father.

Thursday 5 October: Bargain | Paramount+

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Chang Ryul as Geuk-ryul in Bargain (Paramount+)

Paramount+ enters the K-drama sphere with a wild story titled Bargain, which follows a group of strangers thrown together in a life-or-death situation when a black market organ auction is hit by an earthquake.

An unhinged and thrilling narrative, the series goes to some surprising places and will keep viewers glued to the screed as it develops.

Friday 6 October: Loki season 2 | Disney+

(L-R): Owen Wilson as Mobius and Tom Hiddleston as Loki in Marvel Studios' LOKI, Season 2, exclusively on Disney+. Photo by Gareth Gatrell. © 2023 MARVEL.
Owen Wilson as Mobius and Tom Hiddleston as Loki in Loki (Disney+)

Marvel's trickster god is back and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) has new challenges to face as he takes on Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) across time and space now the multiverse has been unleashed.

Following the events of season 2, and Sylvie's (Sophia DiMartino) killing of He Who Remains (Majors), Loki must team up with his friends to try and stop him from unleashing chaos.

Friday 6 October, 8.30pm: Ghosts season 5 | BBC One

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Ghosts (BBC)

BBC's hit comedy series Ghosts is coming to an end, and the final season will premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the next week.

The new season opens on April Fool's Day, with Mike hoping to secure their finances while Alice is finding herself distracted by trying to get revenge.