Playlist
Ten non-negotiable updates to your queue
Conversations With Friends
Premiering 15 May, BBC Three
Follow student Frances and her ex-gf (now best friend) Bobbi – as they get entangled with Melissa and her husband Nick. Starring Joe Alwyn (The Favourite), Jemima Kirke (Girls) and Sasha Lane (American Honey), plus newcomer Alison Oliver.
Umbrella Academy season three
Premiering 22 June, Netflix
The platform’s biggest superhero show is back. After stopping doomsday in 1963, the Hargreeves siblings are in the present with a new enemy and a new apocalypse. Robert Sheehan and Elliot Page are joined by a host of new faces, including Cazzie David and Jake Epstein.
Love Island
Premiering early June, ITV
Summer is approaching, which means one thing: get your water bottles and pool floats ready, because it’s time to head to the villa. The dating show is back for an eighth series, which means more eggs in baskets, more types on paper and a new group of singles looking for love. We’re ready to be invested.
Stranger Things season four
Volume 1 premiering 27 May, Volume 2 on 1 July, Netflix
Finally, it ’s here. Head to the Upside Down with all your favourite cast members – Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Natalia Dyer and Joe Keer y. With the Byers family and Eleven now in Cali, are we saying bye to Hawkins for good? And just in time for spring break; what could go wrong?
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George Ezra -Gold Rush Kid
Released 10 June
The angelic tones of George Ezra are back, as the singer-songwriter releases his third album this June. We already got a taste of what’s to come back in January, when Ezra dropped the first single from the record, Anyone For You. Summer soundtrack = sorted.
Thor: Love And Thunder
In cinemas 8 July
Big names and powers fill the latest MCU offering. Chris Hemsworth returns as Thor, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster and Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, with Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher
