Viewers can look forward to exciting new reality formats Virgin Island and Cheat: Unfinished Business plus the long-awaited return of Netflix’s deliciously twisted sagas You and Black Mirror.
Elsewhere, Rose Ayling-Ellis has sprung into action with three top new shows.
The Strictly Come Dancing winner has left the ballroom behind for meaty ITV thriller Code Of Silence and game-changing BBC drama Reunion as well as featuring in Doctor Who.
Here, Felicity Cross and Jess Lester take you through their pick of spring’s top TV.
THE STOLEN GIRL (Disney+, April 16)
She was all loved up in Netflix hit One Day, but this time Ambika Mod stars in a tense thriller about a play date that goes wrong after a little girl go missing.
Mother-of-two Elisa allows daughter Lucia to have an impromptu sleepover with new best friend Josephine after meeting up with her seemingly friendly mother Rebecca at her house.
But when Elisa arrives to collect her the next day, the house turns out to be an empty luxury rental and Lucia is nowhere to be found.
As a manhunt unfolds across Europe, Elisa’s perfect family starts to unravel under the pressure and long-buried secrets begin to come to light.
THE ASSEMBLY (ITV1, tbc)
Gary Lineker, David Tennant, Danny Dyer and Jade Thirlwall take part in a series of interviews led by neurodivergent and learning-disabled people.
Each episode focuses on one of the celebrities as they set aside everything they have learned in media training to face their most honest, chaotic and heart-warming grilling to date.
No topic is off-limits with this group of interviewers. It follows a successful pilot episode on BBC One which featured Michael Sheen in the hot seat.
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THE DIAMOND HEIST (Netflix, April 16)
Guy Ritchie works his magic as producer in this three-part documentary series about a stranger-than-fiction crime that took place in 2000.
It tells the cat-and-mouse tale of a group of hardened criminals who attempted to steal the Millennium Star diamond from London’s O2 — then known as the Millennium Dome — in one of the biggest heists in the world.
Featuring interviews with both the robbers and the police, it dives deep into what goes into the planning of such a major robbery and how the authorities intercept such crimes.
THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Prime Video, May 3; Channel 4, tbc)
Having killed Commander Waterford in a moment of vengeance, Elisabeth Moss’s June has an intensified resolve to bring down Gilead in this final season.
Much-loved characters Luke and Moira join the resistance to fight against the regime, while Commander Waterford’s widow Serena works to reshape Gilead from within.
It is all inspired by Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name.
MARRIED TO THE GAME (Prime Video, Tuesday)
Three new faces are joining the line-up for one of telly’s most glamorous series as the fly-on-the-wall show about Wags returns for its second season.
Taylor Ward, daughter of The Real Housewives Of Cheshire’s Dawn, will return alongside husband Riyad Mahrez, now living in Saudi Arabia, as they wed for a third time and discuss expanding their family.
Fresh face Claudia Rodriguez — girlfriend of Chelsea player Marc Cucurella — will open up on raising an autistic son.
And Leon Bailey’s girlfriend Stephanie Hope struggles with moving home again.
Of course, there’s plenty of glamour along the way, with lavish parties, shopping sprees and expensive holidays to feast your eyes on.
SILENCE IS GOLDEN (U&Dave, May 5)
Dermot O’Leary hosts this new format, which gives the audience a chance to win up to £250,000 by staying as quiet as possible.
He’ll be joined by comedians Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri, who must do their best to provoke belly laughs from the crowd and bring the prize pot down.
A Guinness World Records adjudicator will oversee the action, which sees every audience member watched with cameras, Big Brother-style.
AN EVENING WITH ELTON JOHN AND BRANDI CARLILE (ITV1, April 19)
The Rocket Man is back on the box for a thrilling night of new music and showbiz chit chat.
The primetime concert special will feature live performances, stories from the duo’s time at the top plus an intimate look at their new collaborative album, Who Believes In Angels?.
Recorded at The London Palladium last month and hosted by Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy, the pals perform together and solo and pull back the curtain on their friendship.
CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER (ITV1, Monday, 9pm)
The good, the bad and the ugly of showbiz will gather for another run of the reality behemoth — and the line-up looks to be one of the best yet.
The Sun revealed this week that Hollywood’s Mickey Rourke will be in the house, alongside chat show queen Trisha Goddard, EastEnders legend Patsy Palmer, Corrie star Jack P Shepherd and the one and only Chesney Hawkes.
AJ Odudu and Will Best are back with hosting duties.
CHEAT: UNFINISHED BUSINESS (Netflix, April)
Amanda Holden hosts her first dating show and it sounds deliciously dramatic.
With relationship expert Paul C. Brunson to help, the show follows eight former couples whose relationships have been torn apart due to cheating.
As they reunite at a retreat, they are encouraged to face up to past mistakes, rebuild trust and move forward — either together or apart.
MOLLY-MAE: BEHIND IT ALL (Prime Video, May 9)
She’s the ultimate influencer, drawing millions of fans into her life through perfect pictures on Instagram and carefully filtered videos on YouTube.
But that all changed when she let cameras into her home during her torrid break-up from Tommy Fury.
Part two of the fly-on-the-wall series lands and Molly promises to open up on that New Year’s Eve kiss with Tommy, along with their reunion and recent holiday to Dubai.
HAVOC (Netflix, April 25)
Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker take top billing in this action noir thriller from Gangs Of London director Gareth Evans.
After a drug deal goes wrong, Hardy’s bruised detective Walker must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son.
He has several factions on his tail, including a vengeful crime syndicate and a crooked politician, as well as the predictable demons from his past.
Fans have been holding their breath for this big-budget project ever since Covid stalled production.
YOU (Netflix, April 24)
It’s the fifth and final gripping season of the hit thriller and somehow the enchanting-yet-deadly Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) has found new sick and twisted ways to kill.
Goldberg returns to New York City, where he is now married to Kate and living a seemingly normal life.
But his past and dark desires resurface, threatening his new life and the people around him.
There are new enemies to contend with too, as fans ask one final question — will Joe ever face justice for his crimes?
VIRGIN ISLAND (Channel 4, May)
Channel 4’s much-hyped offering finally makes it to our screens.
It features a group of virgins heading to a luxury retreat to finally pop their cherries, with “sexological bodyworkers” on hand to help out.
Two celebrity sexperts will add some science to proceedings.
Who needs Love Island with all this on offer?
BLACK MIRROR (Netflix, Thursday)
Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical series returns with six episodes, including a sequel to series four sci-fi adventure USS Callister.
Elsewhere, Peter Capaldi plays a scientist obsessed with a 1990s video game, Emma Corrin is a 1940s movie star brought to life as part of a simulation, and Chris O’Dowd is a desperate husband who tries to keep his dying wife alive through technology.
GRACE (ITV1, tomorrow. 8pm)
The Brighton-based detective show returns for its fifth series.
The four-part collection, based on Peter James’s best-selling novels, follows on from the shocking conclusion of the last season when Det Supt Roy Grace (John Simm) discovered his missing wife had killed herself.
He also finds out he has an eight-year-old son. But when he tries to take him to a football match for some normal family life, he finds himself embroiled in a bomb scare.
SUSPECT (Disney+, spring)
Four-part drama that focuses on the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes after police mistook him for a terrorist in the wake of the London terror attacks of 2007.
The tragedy, which took place at Stockwell Tube station, is told from the varying perspectives of those involved.
The all-star cast includes Daniel Mays, Russell Tovey, Max Beesley, Emily Mortimer and Laura Aikman.
CLARKSON’S FARM (Prime Video, May 23)
Jeremy and the gang are back at their best as challenges on Diddly Squat Farm go from bad to worse.
Kaleb is on a nationwide tour and Lisa is frantic on a new product line, which leaves Jezza to run the farm alone — so he buys a pub.
Swapping pigs for pints comes with a whole barrel of new problems, including derelict buildings, red tape and a picnic site with a raunchy past.
Back on the farm there’s a new bull, a tiny pig and a flock of hi-tech goats to contend with.
KATIE PIPER: LOCKED UP IN LOUISIANA (U&W, April)
Katie takes her activism to the next level in this gritty four-parter uncovering life behind bars at one of the toughest female prisons in the US.
She delves into inmates’ cases at New Orleans Parish Prison and seeks to uncover what drove the women to commit serious and shocking crimes.
It follows the popular series Jailhouse Mums and builds on the sterling work Katie does off camera across women’s issues.
ROSE BLOOMS IN 3 NEW ROLES
CODE OF SILENCE (ITV1, May 18): A deaf waitress is dragged into a dark world of crime after being enlisted by police to use her lip-reading skills to help with surveillance on a gang.
Rose Ayling-Ellis leads the cast as canteen worker Alison, whose mission gets more complicated when she crosses paths with new gang recruit Liam Barlow (Kieron Moore) and they form an unexpected and very dangerous bond.
REUNION (BBC One, Monday, 9pm): Deaf Daniel Brennan has been released from prison and is on a mission to right some wrongs about how he ended up there.
This four-parter, an emotional thriller of revenge and redemption, marks a milestone in inclusive storytelling because the majority of the cast and many members of crew are deaf or use British Sign Language.
Matthew Gurney plays the lead, with support from Rose and Bad Sisters star Anne-Marie Duff.
DOCTOR WHO (BBC One, April 12): Love it or hate it, it’s hard to argue with the stellar cast the BBC has lined up for the new series of the now divisive sci-fi series.
Bonnie Langford, Alan Cumming and EastEnders’ Angela Wynter all feature as guests as well as TV darling Rose, who plays a mysterious new character.
Ncuti Gatwa is back for his second series as the Doctor, this time with a new second assistant alongside Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday – Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra.
