There's a real variety of new series arriving on our screens this week, from Mark Gatiss's new period detective drama Bookish through to celebrity entertainment reality series Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters.

There are also returning series to look forward to, including The Couple Next Door, back for season 2, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, now in its third season, and the 11th season of The Great British Sewing Bee.

Romantic Irish-Australian romantic miniseries Mix Tape is also on the way, which stars Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess, while coverage of the Proms is kicking off in style on BBC Two.

The summer of sport is also reaching its peak, as the Women's Euro continues and Wimbledon comes to a close with the Men's Singles Final on Sunday.

Here, you'll find our top picks for this week – read on for our full choice of what to watch.

Release Sunday 13th July, 4pm, BBC One

The summer of sport is reaching a peak. A fine afternoon and evening of live armchair action starts in south-west London with the conclusion of this year’s Wimbledon men’s singles tournament, and by now one of two things has happened: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have confirmed their dominance and are about to stage a rematch of their classic French Open tussle, or there’s been a shock along the way somewhere. Clare Balding is your host as the celebs and dignitaries look on from the royal box.

Jack Seale

Release  Monday 14th July, 9pm, ITV1

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… a bunch of celebrities are diving into it for this new reality series. A cut above the usual line-up of celebs (Sir Lenny Henry, Rachel Riley, Ade Adepitan, Ross Noble, Dougie Poynter, Lucy Punch and Helen George) are in the Bahamas in a bid to conquer their fear of these misunderstood creatures.

Their faces soon drop when shark expert Paul de Gelder, who lost an arm and a leg to a bull shark in 2009, explains their first challenge is to get in the water with… bull sharks. “It’s very real,” says Sir Lenny, as he’s submerged in the cage and surrounded by a shiver of the thrashing, feeding animals. “This is like the realest thing I’ve ever seen – and I’ve done Panto in Lewisham.” And not all the celebs escape from episode one unbitten…

Frances Taylor

Release Monday 14th July, 9pm, Channel 4

The first series of this drama simply wasn’t very good, but that didn’t seem to matter: it became Channel 4’s biggest scripted streaming launch, with episode one garnering more than a million streams in a week.

Bolstered by this, it returns for another series. Sharing both a bed and an operating theatre are heart surgeon Charlotte (Annabel Scholey) and her anaesthetist husband Jacob (Sam Palladio), who soon find the conventions of their busy-but-comfortable life challenged by the arrival of Mia (Aggy K Adams). She’s a young nurse who moves into the house next door and makes moves on their marriage.

Frances Taylor

Release Tuesday 15th July, 9pm, BBC One

What do a fire eater, a construction worker, a bus driver and a retiree have in common? The answer is that they’re some of the 12 amateur stitchers nervously walking into the sewing room and hoping to impress judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young (who’s sporting a spectacular pleated outfit as well as her trademark statement necklace). Also returning to the Bee is presenter Sara Pascoe, whose introductory joke about the similarities between giving birth and sewing may make you wince as well as laugh.

It always takes a while to get to know the contestants, but there’s a satisfyingly wide age range, four men and some very different sewing styles. This opening week’s challenges are a tie-front blouse with peplum, a circle skirt transformation and a made-to-measure dress featuring pleats (coincidentally several of them are using the same pattern, but they interpret it in very different ways).

Judging by the brilliant creations that we see parading down the catwalk, it’s going to be a vintage series.

Jane Rackham

Release Tuesday 15th July, 9pm, BBC Two

The film Past Lives is a recent, perfect bottling of the pain of a tender young relationship lost; of drifting apart from a first love, reconnecting decades later and suffering the emotional gut-punch of wondering what could’ve been.

By comparison, this good-natured and well-meaning four-part Australian drama, starring Jim Sturgess and Teresa Palmer, feels like a modest cover version. It’s 1989 in Sheffield, and teenage sweethearts Alison and Daniel bond over vinyl records as they listen to Nick Drake on a Walkman and snatch looks across the school corridor.

Now, Daniel (Sturgess) is a music journalist still living in Sheffield while Alison (Palmer) is an author who has relocated to Sydney. Both are married (conveniently, to vaguely irritating and unsupportive spouses) and share the nagging feeling that life didn’t work out how they expected. So when Daniel sends Alison a friend request on Facebook out of the blue, it might be about to turn both of their lives upside down.

Frances Taylor

Release Wednesday 16th July, 8pm, U&Alibi

The aftermath of the Second World War is a high time for lovers of crime, as morals often seem as grey as the rubble-strewn streets. Amid scarcity come those seeking shadily to profit, and down roads of supposed peace walk people considered to be heroes, but who are really harbouring secrets from their years spent in conflict.

Now, into this fertile landscape arrives Mark Gatiss, whose immediately likeable creation Gabriel Book very much embodies a sense of duality. He’s a London bookshop owner with a sideline in sleuthing, and a married man (Polly Walker adding a splash of colour as wife Trottie) who’s gay in a period when homosexuality was illegal.

This last detail is a smart touch, as what marks Book out from detectives who originate in the golden age is the subtle exploration of his private life. Not that Gatiss skimps on a sense of mystery in the process: this opener, for instance, includes homages to many of his well-noted passions, beginning with a skeleton-filled bomb site with the air (if not the alien matter) of Quatermass and the Pit.

David Brown

Release Thursday 17th July, Paramount+

News that a series is opening with a double bill would ordinarily be a reason to rejoice, but so tonally at odds are these instalments that I’m not sure this two-for-the-price-of-one gambit pays off. OK, so Star Trek does have a history of being a broad church in terms of the stories it tells, but there’s traditionally been a house style when it comes to language and codes of conduct.

Here, even though, in insolation, each adventure is undoubtedly entertaining, there lingers a sense that, episode by episode, the creative team is launching any plot idea at the Enterprise’s bulkheads in the hope that something adheres. How else to explain the lurch from a grim dogfight against the Gorn to a kooky romcom centring on Spock (Ethan Peck)? Granted, these new worlds are supposed to be strange (and the box is certainly ticked on that front), but need they be so dizzying?

David Brown

Release Friday 18th July, 6:45pm, BBC Two

We’ve already experienced Wimbledon, Glastonbury and heatwaves, but for many the summer only really begins when the Royal Albert Hall opens its doors to the BBC Proms. Eight weeks of world-class music lie ahead — with 24 of the concerts due to be televised. Tonight, in a rare live simulcast for BBC Two and Radio 3, Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny inaugurate the 131st season and provide an expert guide to the First Night’s playlist and performers.

Primal forces are to the fore and among the highlights are Mendelssohn’s always stirring Hebrides Overture and the premiere of The Elements by the Master of the King’s Music, Errollyn Wallen. Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, and the concert closes with Vaughan Williams’s century-old oratorio Sancta Civitas. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and we’ll hear the BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Singers, members of London Youth Choirs, tenor Caspar Singh and bass-baritone Gerald Finley.

Patrick Mulkern

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