What’s arising this week

This week, I Know What You Did Final Summer time returns to the massive display screen, a long time after the unique had us all hiding behind our sofas.

However that is not all the subsequent seven days have in retailer.

Jacob Elordi is starring in The Slim Highway to the Deep North on BBC One, romantic drama Mixtape is out, and new recreation Donkey Kong Bananza is launched.

Learn on for what’s arising this week…

By Tom Richardson, Newsbeat reporter

Overlook blockbusters – summer season shockbusters are all the fad in 2025.

Scorching on the heels of 28 Years Later comes I Know What You Did Final Summer time, a sort-of-but-not-technically remake of the 1997 slasher traditional.

As earlier than, 5 pals who comply with cowl up a tragic accident are stalked one 12 months later by hook-wielding killer The Fisherman. And whoever’s hiding beneath the menacing waterproofs is not pleased with them.

With a buzzy new solid together with The Outer Banks’ Madelyn Cline, some 2025 tweaks (sure, there is a true crime podcaster) plus the return of OG solid members Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt, producers might be hoping the beloved sequence can hook a brand new technology of followers.

Jacob Elordi continues to go from power to power.

The 28-year-old actor, finest recognized for his roles in Saltburn, Euphoria and The Kissing Sales space, is now starring in The Slim Highway to the Deep North, an Australian mini-series which UK viewers can quickly watch.

The five-part saga is customized from Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel.

It charts the lifetime of Dorrigo Evans, performed by Elordi as a younger man with Ciarán Hinds because the older Dorrigo, by way of his love affair with Amy Mulvaney, performed by Odessa Younger, his time held captive in a World Conflict Two prisoner of struggle camp, and his later years spent as a revered surgeon and reluctant struggle hero.

Evaluations are out already, because it aired in Australia first. The Guardian gave it 4 stars, calling it a “advanced, confronting struggle drama”, whereas The New York Occasions praised it as a “brutal and poetic” sequence that takes on life’s large questions.

The Slim Highway to the Deep North is out there in full on BBC iPlayer subsequent Sunday 20 July, and begins that night on BBC One.

Nostalgia-based posts are throughout my TikTok feed, and there is now a brand new drama out tapping proper into that pattern.

Combine Tape, a four-part sequence, is ready within the late 80s and 90s and follows Daniel and Alison, transferring between their teenage romance in Sheffield and the modern-day actuality of their grownup relationships residing on reverse sides of the world.

There’s love, heartbreak and a soundtrack jammed stuffed with the golden oldies. And opinions, up to now, have been constructive.

Screenhub Australia referred to as it “resonant and actual”, whereas the Guardian, which awarded it 4 stars, referred to as it “candy and intense”.

It stars Teresa Palmer as Alison and Jim Sturgess as Daniel, with Florence Hunt and Rory Walton-Smith as their youthful selves.

Like The Slim Highway to the Deep North, it additionally premiered in Australia, however it’s now out there for UK viewers. All episodes can be found on BBC iPlayer from Tuesday, and it begins that night on BBC Two.

By Tom Richardson, Newsbeat reporter

Because the second large unique launch on Nintendo’s record-breaking Change 2, Donkey Kong Bananza has loads resting on its shoulders.

The preliminary response to this 3D platformer was cautious, and a few followers questioned if the gameplay – which sees gaming’s most well-known ape smashing his means by way of destructible ranges – can be a bit one-note.

However latest deep dives and previews – and the disclosure that Bananza is made by the identical Nintendo division as a few of Mario’s greatest hits – have helped to construct pleasure.

He could lack the plumber’s balletic moveset, however with a few of Nintendo’s most imaginative minds plotting his subsequent journey Donkey Kong’s newest has the makings of a smash hit.

• The Nice British Stitching Bee returns on BBC One and iPlayer on Tuesday
• London Indian Movie Pageant begins on Wednesday
• Elvis Evolution, an immersive expertise at Immerse LDN, opens on Friday