What’s on Sky in the next fortnight
James Cordon brings The Late Late Show across the pond for a week of special episodes. There’s a brand new drama Blocco 181 set in the outskirts of modern-day Milan. Learn about the dark side of fashion in Scouting For Girls. Dwayne Johnson’s life story continues in Young Rock and Westworld series 4 begins.
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
From Tuesday 28th June every week night for a week, 10pm
Emmy® Award-winning The Late Late Show with James Corden is returning to London to broadcast four special episodes. After a three-year pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the upcoming visit marks the fourth time the series will film from the UK and the first time from Freemasons’ Hall. The news comes on the heels of Corden’s recent announcement that he will host just one more year of his popular late-night series, promising his audience that he will make the most of his final run on the show.
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Blocco 181
Tuesdays at 10pm
Set in the multi-ethnic communities on the outskirts of Milan and co-developed with multi-platinum musician and rapper Salmo in his first television project, Block 181 is a story of love, generational conflicts, female emancipation and, above all, power struggles. Take a look at modern-day Milan through new eyes and re-examine what it means to live in a globalised world where extremes co-exist.
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Scouting For Girls: Fashion's Darkest Secret
Fridays at 9pm
This three-part documentary series reveals how a group of men behind the world’s most successful modelling agencies were involved in a darker side of fashion. Scouting for Girls: Fashion’s Darkest Secret exposes how modelling agents like John Casablancas, Jean Luc-Brunel, Claude Haddad and Gerald Marie (who contest the allegations), created a culture that enabled many of them to indulge in a spectrum of abusive behaviours, ranging from grooming and coercion to the rape of models as young as 15.
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Young Rock
Fridays at 9pm
The second season of Young Rock delves back into Dwayne Johnson's life, continuing the crazy rollercoaster that has shaped Dwayne into the man he is today. As Dwayne and his loving, resilient family face new challenges and meet new wild characters of professional wrestling, Dwayne contemplates embracing the grind of professional wrestling himself.
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Westworld
Mondays at 9pm
A dark odyssey about the fate of sentient life on earth. The Emmy® winning drama series Westworld returns for its eight-episode fourth season. Starring returning cast members Evan Rachel Wood, Emmy® winner Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul and Angela Sarafyan. Oscar® winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) joins the cast as a recurring guest star this season.
