We may be bidding farewell to the ludicrously hot weather for another year, but the temperature on Sky isn’t dipping any time soon. After shattering all expectations with its debut earlier this year, the gang are back for more comedy chaos as Saturday Night Live UK returns for its second season.
Elsewhere, some of politics’ most recognisable faces take on a simulated attack on UK soil in The Wargame, and Ohio’s most intrepid reporters take on the biggest stories they can find in the second season of The Paper.
Meanwhile, on Sky Cinema, the post-apocalyptic saga continues in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and we’ve got two Sky Original films making their UK premieres. There’s something in the water… and it’s Hungry. And Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi are on a mission of redemption in the action-packed thriller The Fix.
‘Saturday Night Live UK’ Season 2
Live from London, it’s Saturday Night! The British incarnation of NBC’s legendary late-night showcase returns for its second series, with a new guest host taking the helm each week, putting their own distinctive stamp on the SNL formula alongside a chart-topping musical guest.
Written, rehearsed and performed in the week of each show, every episode is staged in front of a live studio audience and delivers an opening monologue, topical sketches, live music, and a UK twist on SNL’s iconic news satire, Weekend Update, and the gloriously unpredictable energy that made Series 1 Sky’s most talked about show of the year.
‘The Wargame’
The Wargame is a landmark four-part series where constructed documentary meets propulsive drama, based on the award-winning Sky News podcast of the same name. Set six months in the future, the series takes viewers beyond the news cycle and behind closed doors into a sealed COBR-style crisis room where real-world senior politicians, military leaders and intelligence chiefs are challenged to confront a high-stakes scenario: a Russian attack on UK soil.
This gripping simulation has been developed in conjunction with leading academics, military and defence experts, including Sky News’ Security and Defence Editor Deborah Haynes, to replicate the pressure of political decision-making at the highest level. An impressive cross-party cast of highly experienced public figures must navigate this crisis, including Michael Gove, Nicola Sturgeon, Penny Mordaunt, Sayeeda Warsi, Harriet Harman, Jim Murphy, Ayesha Hazarika, General Sir Richard Barrons, Kim Darroch, Christopher Steele, Lord George Robertson and Anthony Scaramucci. Opposing them, a team of Russia experts, led by Keir Giles.
‘The Paper’ Season 2
The intrepid team at the Toledo Truth Teller return for a second season of the mockumentary sitcom based in the same world as the US adaptation of The Office. In season two, after sweeping the Ohio Journalism Awards, Ned searches for a journalistic crusade, coming for a local private club and jeopardising the paper, while he and Mare try to figure out their attraction, Esmeralda struggles to find her place, and the staff gradually mature as reporters.
Read our review for The Paper Season 1 here.
‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 3
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan return as the fan-favourite characters Negan and Maggie in the third season of The Walking Dead: Dead City.
Maggie and Negan finally put aside their differences to build the first thriving community in Manhattan since the apocalypse, but when chaos in the city begins to arise, they are forced to question: have they learned from their old wounds or will their dark past spell doom for the entire city?
‘Lorne’
From Morgan Neville, Academy Award-winning filmmaker of 20 Feet from Stardom and Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, comes Lorne, an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the man who built the inimitable empire of comedy, shaping television and culture for generations.
The documentary features exclusive footage, archival treasures, and candid interviews with the show’s most iconic cast members and writers including Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock and many more.
‘Hungry’
After getting lost in the dense Louisiana swamplands, a group of stranded holidaymakers must fight for survival against a highly aggressive, rampaging hippo on the loose.
‘The Fix’
After their mission in Afghanistan goes tragically wrong, a group of war-torn CIA operators mentored by “Larry” (Liam Neeson) and led by “Tucker” (Zachary Levi), enter the heart of Tehran to earn redemption by pulling off a daring rescue.
’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’
Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later, but turning that world on its head, Nia DaCosta directs 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
In a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) makes a discovery that could change the world as they know it, and Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) becomes a nightmare he can’t escape. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the only threat to survival. The inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
Read our review for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple here.
‘Nirvanna: The Band The Show The Movie’
Based on the 2007-09 web series Nirvanna The Band The Show, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol star as fictionalised versions of themselves as they revive their musical duo Nirvanna the Band, having previously attempted to book themselves at the Rivoli music venue in Toronto, despite having not written or recorded a single song.
Seventeen years later, having still not successfully secured a gig, the pair are accidentally sent back in time to 2008, where they must find a way to get back to the present… but may as well tinker about a bit with the continuum while they’re there.
Read our review for Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie here.
‘Hamlet’ (2026)
Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy is reimagined in a bold, modern adaptation set within London’s elite South Asian community. When Hamlet (Riz Ahmed) returns for his father’s funeral, he is stunned to discover his uncle Claudius is marrying his newly widowed mother.
Visited by his father’s ghost, Hamlet learns his brutal murder was at the hands of Claudius, and spirals into a quest for vengeance that exposes the rot at the heart of the family’s empire and threatens his own sanity.
‘The Moment’
As her arena tour debut looms, a pop star (Charli XCX) finds herself caught inside the afterglow of a breakout summer, but under the mounting pressure of what it costs to stay on top.
Pop mockumentary also starring Alexander Skarsgård and Patricia Arquette.
‘The History of Sound’
The History of Sound follows two young men, Lionel (Paul Mescal) and David (Josh O’Connor), in the shadows of WWI who are determined to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen. As they begin to log the events, the two fall in love.
