What’s coming up this week

Danny FullbrookCulture reporterGetty Photos/No Ju-han/NetflixDid you get tickets to Glastonbury pageant this 12 months? To not fear if not, you possibly can watch from the consolation of your personal residence on BBC iPlayer.However that is not all the subsequent seven days have in retailer you.Squid Sport is coming to an finish with season three, Brad Pitt is rushing into UK cinemas along with his new movie F1 and gaming auteur Hideo Kojima is releasing the sequel to Demise Stranding.Learn on for what’s developing this week…Greater than 90 hours of music from GlastonburyBy Mark Savage, music correspondentThe UK’s largest pageant opens its doorways on Wednesday, with followers gathering on the Pyramid Stage to see headline units from The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo and Neil Younger.In the event you weren’t one of many fortunate 175,000 individuals who obtained a ticket, although, you possibly can observe all of the motion at residence. The BBC is there all week, with dwell protection throughout TV, radio and iPlayer – masking all the primary phases, with greater than 90 hours of music.To whet your urge for food, there’s already a Glastonbury Hits Channel on iPlayer, streaming traditional tracks from earlier years – with highlights together with Oasis, Little Simz, The Who and Girl Gaga.And if you happen to’re heading all the way down to Worthy Farm, and cannot be bothered preventing for a place on the principal phases, I would advocate a go to to the Avalon discipline – which could simply have this 12 months’s greatest line-up.You possibly can relive your 2000s indie disco desires with Laborious-Fi, The Fratellis and Ash; try a few of 2025’s greatest new indie artists, courtesy of Orla Gartland and Rachael Chinouriri; and rejoice the reminiscence of Amy Winehouse, with an hour-long set from her former band.Netflix brings Squid Sport to an endNo Ju-han/NetflixAfter taking the world by storm, Squid Sport is coming to an finish on Friday.Since launching in 2021, its first season racked up greater than 265 million views making it Netflix’s most-watched present ever. The second season is not far behind, with about 192.6 million watches, touchdown it at quantity three on the platform.The story follows Seong Gi-hun who competes in lethal kids’s video games for an opportunity to win a money prize that might erase his huge debt.Creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who misplaced enamel from the stress of creating the present, known as the ending “bittersweet”. Initially imagining the sequence stretching throughout 5 seasons, Dong-hyuk discovered a pure ending level throughout writing. He defined: “I am relieved as a result of I lastly get out of the Squid Sport world, however on the identical time I’ve to say goodbye to all the great recollections… So it’s sort of unhappy in that method.”Lead star Lee Jung-jae added: “It hasn’t sunk in with me but… After I get to see how the followers reply to it perhaps I could be able to say goodbye to Squid Sport and Seong Gi-hun.”Hideo Kojima delivers star-studded gaming sequel By Tom Richardson, Newsbeat reporterDepending on who you converse to, Hideo Kojima is both a visionary prophet or a self-indulgent, wannabe movie-maker. However there isn’t any doubting he is one of the vital influential online game designers of all time – and he is obtained a brand new one out this week.Sequel Demise Stranding 2, out on PlayStation 5 from Thursday, picks up the story of protagonist Sam Porter Bridges, a supply man who lugs precariously balanced cargo throughout a post-apocalyptic Earth.We have solely obtained 4 paragraphs right here, so will not try and recap the – ahem – complicated plot (Kojima’s storylines and love of lengthy cinematic sequences are the most important supply of “self-indulgence” accusations), however early indicators level to a deeper, extra various expertise within the moment-to-moment gameplay.And though folks criticise them, Kojima’s earlier scripts have anticipated real-world occasions such because the rise of on-line misinformation and the Covid-19 pandemic with eerie accuracy. So perhaps you should not skip the cutscenes, acted by an all-star forged together with Norman Reedus, Léa Seydoux and Elle Fanning.Brad Pitt races into cinemasPA MediaBrad Pitt isn’t chopping corners on the subject of bringing F1 to the massive display screen.He and his co-star Damson Idris had been noticed rushing actual automobiles round Silverstone whereas filming throughout the 2023 and 2024 Grand Prix. Pitt performs burnt-out racer Sonny Hayes who’s pulled out of retirement to assist fictional crew APXGP.High Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski is behind the digicam, he is been eager to ensure the movie feels genuine to followers of the game. There is a thumping Hans Zimmer rating, gorgeous pictures of worldwide race programs and practical high-speed crashes that may make the entire cinema gasp.In the event you’re an F1 fan there are plenty of Easter eggs to be looking for- the movie is filled with cameos together with drivers similar to Lewis Hamilton and commentators David Croft and Martin Brundle.The movie is in cinemas from Wednesday.Different highlights this weekJordan Grey’s Transaction begins on ITV2 and ITVX on TuesdayIronheart, a brand new Marvel sequence, begins on Disney+ on WednesdayAmol Rajan Goes to the Ganges, airs on BBC One and iPlayer on WednesdayThe Bear, sequence 4, all 10 episodes arrive on Disney+ on ThursdayLorde’s album Virgin drops on FridayM3GAN 2.0 is launched in cinemas on Friday24 Hours in Police Custody begins Sunday on Channel 4