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MARMION OF PATRICK: Nicholas Hytner's production of Guys And Dolls, starring Daniel Mays, was the runner of my theatrical Gold Cup for 2023. It opened in March and is already selling out. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, reimagined by producer Jamie Lloyd and starring Nicole Scherzinger, was also on the rises. However, Lucy Kirkwood's wild and footloose adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches, directed by Lyndsey Turner at the National Theatre, was my personal favorite. My 13-year-old daughter loved it as well.

Our experts have hand-picked the best shows to watch right now, ranging from the end of a royal drama fit for a king to a contemporary spin on a children's classic. This week, the experts have compiled a list of the top ten shows to watch as well as reviewing new launches. Find out what to watch out for...

Check out our analysts' picks of the best films and shows to watch On Demand right now, from thrilling thrillers to festive fantasies. This weekend, the experts have chosen their top ten shows to watch as well as ten new launches. We've also included our reviews of the hottest new cinemas debuts in case that wasn't enough. To find out what to watch this weekend, read on.

BRIAN VINER: Every so often a film makes you laugh out loud, even before you've seen it, purely for the name. Who wouldn't flock to a second Shaun The Sheep caper, once they knew it was called Farmageddon (2019)?And now Aardman Animations has resurgent with their Chicken Run sequel, The Nugget's exquisitely named Dawn Of The Nugget. In 2000, Aardman's first full-length film was released. We quickly added a swarm of hens to our rural idyll as it happened that my family moved from London deep into the English countryside, where (as most townies relocating to the sticks). We encouraged the children to name them. To no surprise, they became Ginger, Babs, Bunty, and Mac after how much we all adored Chicken Run.

As host Alex Jones mistakenly made a big blunder on air, the One Show cast and crew were left in hysterics. On Wednesday night's show, the host, 46, was joined by actors Asa Butterfield and Daniel Mays to talk about their forthcoming film, Your Christmas Or Mine 2. However, Alex mistakenly believed Asa Butterfield, 26, who also appeared in the forthcoming Chicken Run sequel, Dawn Of The Nugget.

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The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine has reached yet another magnificent milestone - this month we turn 30! We asked you to share our top ten TV shows so we could compile our definitive list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows voted for by you.

The Long Shadow, a recent tale about the Yorkshire Ripper, is enthralling Kathryn Flett. Its ability to bring the victims' spotlight and investigate their lives makes it stand out. This week, the 2003 World Cup-winning England rugby team will reunite to educate prison prisoners, something else worth watching this week. Strictly Come Dancing isn't to be missed either in the early stages.

Daniel Mays is likely to have appeared in it if it was a British television hit in the last 20 years. The 45-year-old Essex-born actor (pictured) has appeared on televisions in everything from Line of Duty to Vera Drake and even the re-make of Dad's Army in 2016. However, while his face is instantly recognisable to British television viewers - as seen in The Long Shadow's last night as Sydney Jackson - he's continued to be prolific without courting mega fortune.

The Long Shadow, ITV's latest drama focusing on Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, was slammed by viewers after its first episode aired on Monday. Fans took to Twitter to protest the show's poor sound and lighting, with others claiming they were compelled to watch it with subtitles. Toby Jones, Daniel Mays, and Katherine Kelly appear in this film, which takes a deep dive into Sutcliffe's violent crimes in Yorkshire in the Seventies and Eighties, as well as the lives of the women he had fought.

A new ITV drama, which will air in September, will chronicle Peter Sutcliffe's journey as the police hunt unfolds. Sutcliffe, a serial killer who lived in Yorkshire in the Seventies and Eighties, will explore the women she had assaulted in the Long Shadow. Sutcliffe murdered 13 people and attempted to murder seven more before his capture in 1981, when he was sentenced to twenty consecutive life imprisonment sentences at HMP Frankland. Sutcliffe died at University Hospital of North Durham in November 2020 after refusing medical attention for COVID-19 while suffering with other underlying health conditions such as obesity and diabetes. The crime drama, which is made up of seven episodes, will air on ITV1 on Monday, September 25th.

A woman who was a third-year fine art student days from her 21st birthday shares her close encounter with the convicted killer as the ITV drama recreates the terror inflicted by Peter Sutcliffe. Mo Lea was a student at Leeds Polytechnic University and just two days from her 21st birthday when Sutcliffe attempted to murder her in October 1980. It had been more than five years since his first known murder in 1975, and West Yorkshire Police were apparently at the height of the country's biggest manhunt.

The Long Shadow tells the victims' stories rather than focusing on murderer Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women in Yorkshire and left seven others dead between 1975 and 1980. Jill Halfpenny, Katherine Kelly, and Daniel Mays of Line Of Duty are among the featured former Eastenders on ITV1.

Peter Sutcliffe's first victim's son has praised ITV for removing 'Yorkshire Ripper' from a new drama. Richard McCann (left), a child of Sutcliffe (inset) when he was five years old, begged on the Long Shadow (right) designers to delete the serial killer's moniker. The name only served to 'traumatize' families of victims,' according to Sutcliffe, because it represented the exact ways used by Sutcliffe to murder and injure them. Following criticism from families of those killed by the killer, screenwriter George Kay decided to rename the writer.

The highly awaited "Chicken Run" sequel, which is now available on Netflix, is over 23 years old. On September 5, Netflix announced a teaser trailer that brings back all the chicken and roosters for a new adventure. It's the sequel to the stop-motion animated 2000 classic "Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget." They're turning into a herd and going on the run to break out of a chicken farm rather than running out of a chicken farm. Netflix first announced the "Chicken Run" sequel back in June 2020, tweeting at the time, "POULTRY NEWS: Exactly 20 years to the day since the original was released, we can confirm there will be a Chicken Run sequel coming to Netflix!!"Aardman Animations is now at the helm (much like the first film), with producers Nick Park and Peter Lord back as executive producers. Sam Fell is the sequel's producer.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: If you felt the first part of Great Expectations (BBC1) was traumatic, the second episode was even worse. Any part of this adaptation is beyond belief, but the majority of all exposes Steven Knight's storytelling in a brutal way.

Daniel Mays (left) is the go-to-Cockney geezer du jour. However, the former EastEnders and Line Of Duty actor has long had the air of a man eager to return to Ladbrokes and put a monkey on the 3.20 at Kempton. All of this makes Mays a perfect match for this dazzling new revival of the Frank Loesser musical about gangsters and illegal gamblers or 'crapshooters' in 1930s New York. And yet, Bunny Christie's staging is the true star of Nicholas Hytner's swaggering revival of the 1950 musical.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: During Prince William's visit to the homelessness charity The Passage had to be handled sensitively by aides, with the heir's saying, 'Everyone deserves a place to call home.' Why the delicacy? It was seen as a potentially awkward message from someone with five households. By the Queen's last year, Adelaide Cottage at Windsor Castle was given to him and Kate. It was formerly owned by Kensington Palace and the Sandringham Estate. Since becoming Prince of Wales, William has also acquired properties in Cornwall and Llandovery. None of The Passage's dispossessed questioned him at which abode he was lying his head that night, which was fortuitous.

JAN MOIR: The end of an extraordinary week in our country's history, the conclusion of a period that no one of us will ever forget. Holly and Phil, the ITV daytime television presenters who have gone from heroes to zeros, went from heroes to stone-cold pariahs in less than seven days. Their crime? To skip the line. I know! They skipped the line to see the Queen in state at Westminster. Queue-skipping carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison, as well as the postponement of new panto appearances and any ancillary funds. Will Holly Willoughby's fans ever feel quite the same way again about paying forty quid for a bottle of her Wild perfume, with its top notes of shame and embarrassment?

The Council of Bradford has barred a new ITV drama about Peter Sutcliffe's murders, titled The Long Shadow, from being shot throughout the city's streets and parks. The production in Braford, Yorkshire, could not film in public spaces, such as parks and streets, because they did not want to 'perpetuate' the Yorkshire Ripper's memory. Sutcliffe (right) brutally murdered 13 people in a six-year killing spree in the 1970s - three of his victims, Patricia Atkinson, Yvonne Pearson, and Barbara Leach were killed in Bradford.