ITV HAS announced a huge new line-up of winter TV to get you through the cold, dark nights.

Whether its dramas, entertainment shows or soaps, the network has you covered, here are some of the highlights.

TRIGGER POINT

Line of Duty's Vicky McClure swaps AC-12 for counter terrorism policing in this gritty six-part thriller.

Trigger Point focuses on the officers who risk their lives daily on ‘the long walk’ towards danger. For them, death is always just a heartbeat away.

Vicky plays front line officer Lana Washington, who is an experienced bomb disposal operative, known as an ‘Expo’ and stars alongside Adrian Lester, who plays Joel Nutkins.

Both ex-military, the pair are close, having served together in Afghanistan.

When a terrorist campaign threatens the capital over the summer, the Expos are at the forefront of urgent efforts to find out who is behind the bombings before fatalities escalate…..

THE IPCRESS FILE

Gangs of London star Joe Cole plays iconic spy Harry Palmer in this high-octane thriller.

He stars alongside Bohemian Rhapsody's Lucy Boynton, The Night Manager's Tom Hollander and Top Boy's Ashley Thomas.

Harry Palmer is a British army sergeant on the make in Berlin. In this newly partitioned city, a sharp working-class young man with sophisticated tastes can make a lot of money.

Wholesaler, retailer, fixer, smuggler, Harry’s varied interests bring him into
contact with everything and everyone – until the law catches up and it all comes
crashing to a halt.

Harry finds himself sentenced to eight years in a grim military jail in England, all his prospects abruptly torn away.

But his impressive network and efficiency have not gone unnoticed, and a gentleman from British intelligence has a proposal.

To avoid prison, Harry Palmer will become a spy. And the case on which he cuts his teeth will be The Ipcress File.

Harry’s links to the man suspected of kidnapping a missing British nuclear scientist result in him being conscripted for a dangerous undercover mission that takes him from the Beatles’ London to the Berlin Wall, from the back alleys of Beirut to the whitehot sand of a Nuclear Atoll in the Pacific.

The Ipcress File is a stylish and tense tale of abducted scientists, brainwashing, interdepartmental rivalry, treason, and a possibly unwise romance.

NO RETURN

This complex four-part drama stars Sheridan Smith as Kathy, a mum who is looking forward to an idyllic all-inclusive luxury break in Turkey to enjoy the sun
and sea with extended family members.

Along with husband Martin (Michael Jibson), their son Noah (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) and younger daughter Jessica (Lily Sutcliffe), the family are blissfully unaware of the horrific ordeal about to unfold.

Their holiday is a chance to unwind and for Kathy and Martin to spend some muchneeded time together – until unsuspecting Noah accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to a beach party.

Suddenly Kathy and Martin’s world spectacularly falls apart when they are left desperately fighting for their son’s freedom against extremely challenging circumstances.

An arrest, an expensive and alien legal system, looming media coverage and resistance from fellow holidaymakers to come to their aid leaves the distraught parents fighting for Noah’s freedom when ironically he should be at school sitting his latest exams.

OUR HOUSE

Fiona Lawson (Tuppence Middleton) arrives home one day to find strangers moving into her house.

With all her family’s possessions and furniture nowhere to be seen, Fi believes
there’s been a huge mistake and insists her home isn’t for sale.

With events spiralling beyond her control, her panic rises as she can’t reach her estranged husband, Bram, played by Line of Duty's Martin Compston.

As she reflects upon the safe space in which she and her family had made a life
together, Fi begins to peel back the layers of her relationship and discovers her
husband has disappeared.

With her life shattered, she realises the secrets and lies have only just begun.

Intertwining the present day with flashback scenes of Fiona and Bram’s life together, their separation and their new relationships with Toby and Wendy, Our House gradually unravels unexpected secrets and shocking revelations, culminating in a nail-biting finale.

STARSTRUCK

Starstruck will see ordinary members of the public with an exceptional talent team up to transform into some of the world’s biggest music icons from Amy Winehouse to Ariana Grande, Lionel Richie to Lady Gaga, Marvin Gaye to Michael
Buble, and many more in between.

The panel consists of Sheridan Smith, Queen frontman Adam Lambert, comedian Jason Manford and singer Beverley Knight, while Olly Murs will host.

Each episode sees four teams of three battle it out each week to win the vote of our expert judging panel and virtual audience for a coveted place in the
final and to be in with the chance of winning a whopping £50,000.

Each episode will culminate in an exciting finale which sees the winning trio compete against each other for a place in the grand final and the chance to walk away with that life-changing sum of cash.

BEST OF THE REST…

Elsewhere, Dancing on Ice returns with a whole new host of celebrities taking to the rink including Coronation Street's Sally Dynevor and Love Island's Liberty Poole.

Meanwhile, The Masked Singer is also back with 12 new celebrities hiding behind 12 new characters, ready to once again leave the judges including Davina McCall once again crying out "who are you?!"

Drama The Bay is also back for a third series, with Marsha Thomason joining the cast after Morven Christie decided to leave following the series two finale.

Other returning favourites include McDonald and Dodds, Grantchester, Grace and Vera.

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