What’s going on this week

This week, Gladiators And the competitors are preparing that the grand final of the competition takes place on BBC One.

But it’s not all week in store.

Banksy’s story is there for a second season, Doctor Who is back on our screens, new game Midnight is released, and Black mirror Make an appropriate return.

Read the rest for what is happening this week …

After 10 weeks of intense competition, the grand finale of Gladiators is almost on us.

The finalist Zavia Hill was forced to withdraw due to an injury. This means that the fastest finalist in the semi -finals, Aneila AFSAR, will take her place – after having already marked history as the first competitor appear on gladiators carrying a hijab.

She will participate alongside Amanda Wah, while Joe Fishburn and Mus Dumbuya complete the programming.

Co-animators Bradley and Barney Walsh promised that it would be a “biting final”, with “exciting moments” that you will not want to miss.

The BBC resuscitated the successful show of the 1990s last year, presenting a brand new set of fans with the joy of foam fingers, fighters dressed in Lycra and stretched events on the traveler.

Look at all the action on Saturday from 5.50 p.m. on BBC One and Iplayer.

What does it really happen when an original Banksy appears on the wall of your house?

This is what Surface James Peak investigates in season two of Banksy’s story.

Through the five -part series, James Follows two owners of Banksy In two different seaside cities, Margate and Lowestoft.

He looks at the circus that can follow when you wake up to find a painted bench on your walls, and the strange and sometimes unexpected consequences for residents, fans and the art world.

James told me that he liked to be back on the track of the elusive street artist.

“I learned much more about his Modus Operandi-and I had more information on how he continues not to get caught,” he said.

Banksy’s story: when Banksy arrives in town starts on Monday on BBC Radio 4, with the Complete boxset available now on BBC sounds.

Fans of Saturday Night TV have a lot in stores this week, as Doctor Who is also on the way back to our screens.

Ncuti Gatwa plays the doctor for a second series, alongside Millie Gibson who is back as Ruby Sunday. They will be joined in their adventures by Varada Sethu, who plays his companion, Belinda Chandra.

Varada, who is 32, told my colleagues in the Asian network that when she said to her family for the first time she wanted to become an actress, There was no immediate support.

But she persevered and now says that inspiring young girls to follow their dreams are one of her big goals.

The star of Eastenders, Rose Ayling-Ellis, who won strictly Come Dancing as the very first competitor of the deaf people of the show in 2021, will also appear as a special guest this season.

By Emma Saunders, entertainment journalist

With recent news on the next Liberation of the Nintendo 2 switch and a video generated by AI make the headlines In Hollywood (again), the return of Charlie Brooker Black mirror I couldn’t be more opportune.

The seven series of the popular dystopian anthology series falls on Netflix on Thursday, and as usual, there is no shortage of stars on list A on the list, notably Emma Corrin, Chris O’Dowd, Awkwafina, Paul Giamatti, Issa Rae, Peter Capaldi, Harriet Walter, Will Poulter and Asim Chaudhry.

Do you remember the film Black Mirror Interactive Bandersnch where Chadhry and Poulter have played a boss of the game company and a developer? The couple is now taking their roles from the 2018 interactive film in a new episode entitled Playser.

Scottish actor Lewis Gibben, who will soon play in the long -awaited television series Bladerunner 2099, plays a lonely obsessed with a video game published in the 90s.

He told the BBC that he was also a little a player but himself had more handle than his black mirror character.

“When you have a day off … I can spend a good solid 10 hours (on video games). But I like to think that most people show up in moderation or just have Binger game sessions. It’s more like relaxation,” he said.

By Tom Richardson, newsbeat journalist

America’s Deep South, with his rich troubled story and his deep wells of folklore, is a curiously underused setting for video games.

Action adventure Midnight (Xbox, PC) On the other hand, kisses it actively.

The game follows Hazel Flood, a young woman on a mission to find her mother after their trailer is swept away in a storm.

Along the way, she visits strange and mystical worlds filled with head sees with the Southern Gothic motifs and the complicated and real history of the region.

Her quest is ultimately that of healing, while she brings together emotional stories of loss and tragedy to try to repair past trauma.

It may seem heavy, but the criticisms have praised the charming presentation of the game, the animations, the performances and the music of the game of the game, even if most of them found repetitive gameplay.

But a lean of 10 to 12 hours to finish, most agreed that it was worth checking when he came across the Microsoft game pass service on Tuesday.

• Celebrity Big Brother 2025 Lance on ITV1 and ITVX Monday
• Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex New podcast, confessions of a founding woman, falls Tuesday
• The returnWith Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, the cinemas will be released on Tuesday
• The Bafta Games Awards Tuesday takes place
• David Hockney 25 Open at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris on Wednesday
• One by one: John and YokoA documentary film, was released on Wednesday
• The amateurWith Rami Malek, is in cinemas on Friday
• DropWith Meghann Fahy, is also in cinemas on Friday
• Good Iver’s New album, sand, fable, falls on Friday
• Wu-Tang clan New album, Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman, Drops on Saturday
• Cartier exhibition Open the V & A in London on Saturday