We have picked out the our top shows and movies to watch this weekend whilst sat back on the sofa… So just grab a bottle of wine, popcorn, sit back and chill… We’ve found something for everyone!
Super Bowl 2026 Championship PlayOffs – SKY SPORTS NFL
Both games can be watched on SKY Sports.
The NFL Super Bowl 2026 playoffs are down to the final four!
The No 1-seeded Denver Broncos broke the hearts of Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills to advance to the AFC Championship Game, where they will meet the New England Patriots after Mike Vrabel’s side beat the Houston Texans.
The Seattle Seahawks, the No 1 seed in the NFC, meanwhile await the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship Game after cruising to a 41-6 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional Round
Denver Broncos vs New England Patriots
Sunday January 25, 8pm – Sky Sports NFL and Main Event
LA Rams vs Seattle Seahawks
Sunday January 25, 11.30pm – Sky Sports NFL and Main Event
The Rip – NETFLIX
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck star in a tense, Miami-set police thriller
The Rip is based on the true story of Chris Casiano, a real Miami cop who discovered a massive sum of money stashed in a house while serving as head of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Tactical Narcotics Team.
The murder of a captain has remained unsolved for six weeks, mired in bureaucratic delays, leaving the officers of Miami’s Tactical Narcotics Team restless and eager for justice. Seeking an outlet for their frustration and perhaps a chance to secure something for themselves the team acts on a tip about a potential cartel stash. What they uncover is far more than they anticipated. Inside a derelict stash house, they discover millions in cash, and with it, the fragile bonds of trust within the team begin to unravel. As news of the massive seizure spreads, outside forces close in, and everything comes into question-loyalties, motives, and even who they can truly trust.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – Disney+
Intense biopic starring The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen
From 20th Century Studios, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.
Starring Jeremy Allen White as the Boss, the film is Written for the Screen and Directed by Scott Cooper based on the book “Deliver Me from Nowhere.” by Warren Zanes. “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” also features Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s long-time confidant and manager, Jon Landau; Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan; Stephen Graham as Springsteen’s father, Doug, Odessa Young as love interest, Faye; Gaby Hoffman as Springsteen’s mom, Adele; Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive, Al Teller. Arriving only in theaters October 24, 2025, the film is produced by Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson and Scott Stuber. Tracey Landon, Jon Vein and Zanes executive produce.
The Toxic Avenger (2023 film) – SKY Cinema
Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage stars in an extremely daft superhero dark comedy, when a downtrodden janitor called Winston Gooze is exposed to a toxic accident, he is transformed into a deformed green superhero and must go from outcast to saviour by taking on the corupt ruthless corporate forces who threaten his son, his friends and his community. Get ready for a radioactive fun form of justice!
The Toxic Avenger (1984) – Amazon Prime Video
Why not check out the 1984 version and compare to the 2023 reboot. The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 American superhero black comedy film produced and directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman.
Melvin Ferd is a scrawny, socially awkward janitor at a health club in the fictional town of Tromaville, New Jersey. He’s regularly harassed and bullied by customers Bozo, Slug, Wanda and Julie, who also regularly engage in random, senseless acts of vehicular homicide around town, including deliberately running over the head of a preteen cyclist.
One day, as a cruel prank, the group trick Melvin into wearing a pink tutu and kissing a sheep in anticipation of having sex with Julie. He is ridiculed by a gathered crowd and chased around the health club and out of a second-story window. He falls into a drum of toxic waste on a truck parked outside, which transforms him into a hulking, hideously deformed mutant with superhuman size and strength.
Pole To Pole With Will Smith – Disney+
The actor Will Smith journeys across all seven continents over the course of 100 days.
Inspired by his late mentor to explore life’s big questions, Will Smith throws himself into incredible challenges for 100 days: skiing to the South Pole, catching a giant anaconda, milking a venomous tarantula, climbing mountains, and diving under the ice of the North Pole. He will venture from pole to pole in the company of scientists, explorers and local experts.
The Running Man (2025 film) – SKY STORE
Glen Powell stars in this pacy take on the dystopian Stephen King story, available to rent at home.
A reboot of the 80s action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man’s charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favourite – and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Amazon Prime Video
Youthful series set among the students of Starfleet in the 32nd century
Paramount+ has launched its latest Star Trek franchise spin-off, the latest in a flurry of recent spin-offs is Starfleet Academy, set in the 32nd Century. This latest edition to the franchise follows a new class of Starfleet cadets as they train to become the next to boldly go where no one has gone before.
As the new cadets start their time at Starfleet Academy, the Federation come under threat from an unfamiliar enemy, and they are soon sent on high stakes missions.
Starfleet Academy, is set in the 32nd century, following the far-future storyline of Star Trek: Discovery, focusing on the first new class of cadets in over a century as they train after a galactic cataclysm known as “The Burn“. The academy campus, including the training starship USS Athena, operates in San Francisco, but also deploys with the fleet for real-world experience.
Everwood – Netflix
Weekend Binge – We’ve just finished a week of binging on a new show to Netflix… Everwood: A famous New York brain surgeon is left a widow and moves his two children to Colorado to start over.
Dr Andy Brown gets more than he bargained for whilst fitting into a small town community after leaving the Big Apple, which already has a town physician. For Browns two children, Ephram, a gifted pianist and his little sister Delia also find their new small town life filled with ups and down. Throughout the four seasons, follow the Browns and the people of Everwood get to know each other, relationships develop and plenty of drama follows.
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