TV in May: Poker Face, Code of Silence, and Murderbot
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00:00We might be enjoying the gloriously sunny start to May but there are still plenty of reasons to
00:06stay inside and watch TV especially with multiple band holidays on the cards. I'm National World's
00:14television and technology specialist Matt Monixson and these are the TV shows you simply can't miss
00:20in the back half of May. So first off we have Poker Face that stars Natasha Lyonne and it's
00:27on Sky TV slash Now TV. It's back for its second season. She plays a wandering detective kind of
00:33figure. She's not a detective. She solves crimes. It's a whole thing. She has this superpower that's
00:40not a superpower where she can tell when people are lying. There's a different case every week.
00:44There's lots of celebrity guest stars. Cynthia Evo from the Wicked Movies is in the premiere of
00:51season two. Three episodes came out on Thursday May the 8th and the remaining nine episodes will come
00:59out weekly on Thursdays on Sky TV slash Now TV. Next up we have the bombing of Pan Am 103 which is a
01:09dramatization of the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing from 1988. Now if that sounds familiar
01:17that's because Sky had their own kind of take on this with Colin Firth very recently that was about
01:24a grieving family and the search for justice. This is a collab between the BBC and Netflix in the UK.
01:31It'll come out on the BBC. It tells the untold story of Scottish and American investigators who
01:39search for justice after the terror attack. It starts at 9pm on BBC One slash iPlayer and it's coming
01:46out weekly. The box set will also be available on iPlayer either on the day or afterwards. It
01:53depends. BBC changes it up sometimes. Next up we have ITV's Code of Silence. Now if you haven't watched
02:01it already Malpractice season two has just finished and that was really really good so really go and
02:06watch that. That's all on ITVX both seasons of that. But following that up is this new drama which
02:12stars Rose Ayling Ellis who won Strictly a few years ago and was also on EastEnders. She plays a deaf
02:21woman working in the canteen of a police station or police headquarters. Yeah I don't know if they're
02:28still police stations. Police headquarters and she's called in to help with a high stakes investigation
02:35because of her ability to lipread because she's deaf. It starts on Sunday May 18th as well at 9pm and the
02:45full box set will also be available on ITVX, STV in Scotland. It's on STV Player the box set in Scotland
02:52as well and that will air over the coming weeks. ITV have been really promoting that so I think they've
02:59got a winner on the hands there. And finally hopping back over to the world of streaming. Now this is a
03:05personal one that I'm really excited for. It's a show called Murderbot. It's on Apple TV. It stars
03:11Alexander Skarsgård. It's a sort of comedic sci-fi series about a robot who has gained sentience that
03:20doesn't like people but really likes watching soaps. So there's a in-universe soap inside the TV show
03:28which yeah begrudgingly Alexander Skarsgård's robot called Murderbot. It calls itself Murderbot
03:37sort of ironically and it has to help people begrudgingly. There's a lot of sci-fi capers
03:44and that starts on Friday May the 16th and will release weekly on Apple TV+. Those are the shows
03:52that I think you need to check out in the second half of May 2025.