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push((api) => api.addSlot({"key":"card","index":"1","searchTerm":null,"fullSearchTerm":null})); Emily in Paris 2020 Drama Comedy 12 Summary: A young woman from the Midwest is hired by a marketing firm in Paris to provide them with an American perspective and she gradually falls under the spell of the French capital. Series 4 Part 1 — RT says:: Forget the Olympics: this is the biggest event to hit Paris this summer.
When we last said au revoir to Emily (Lily Collins), she was reeling from Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) having called time on their relationship, and the baby-shaped bombshell that had just been dropped by Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), after he’d been left at the altar. So, is there now a smooth path for Emily and Gabriel? Of course not — then there’d be no fourth series! Alongside Emily’s tumultuous love life, Mindy (Ashley Park) enters Eurovision and there are upheavals in the workplace for Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu). As always, the visuals are a treat: the French capital looks unrealistically beautiful and the clothes are as fabulous as they are ridiculous.
FRANCES TAYLOR How to watch Who Do You Think You Are? History Documentary and factual Summary: 'Who Do You Think You Are?' follows well-known faces as they trace their family histories. During the planning stage for a series, only celebrities with interesting backgrounds make the cut. Chat show supremo Michael Parkinson once famously declared his appearance had been axed because his ancestors were too boring.
The first edition focused on broadcaster Bill Oddie, who discovers a wealth of information about past relatives whose existence he was previously unaware of. Series one was BBC Two's highest-rated programme of 2004. It transferred to BBC One for the third series in 2006.
David Morrissey narrated the first series. Mark Strong has narrated the show since 2006. The format has been used all around the world, including an American version that has attracted names such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Susan Sarandon.
RT says:: “I don’t like the unknown,” Vicky McClure tells us as she starts her family tree investigations. She’s worried the experience won’t be worth all the anxiety and indeed what she discovers about her beloved and jolly Nonna Jean, who was abandoned as a baby and treated appallingly by her adoptive mother through her childhood, isn’t exactly uplifting. However, it’s when McClure learns about her great-grandfather Harry Millership, a Yorkshire miner who was taken prisoner by the Japanese during the Second World War, that she gets overwhelmed with emotion.
The reports of brutality and unbearable hardship that he and others like him endured in a prisoner of war camp really affect her and the tears fall. She also starts to feel weirdly connected to him, “which is bonkers because I never even met him.” It’s always distressing hearing these personal stories.
But putting them into a historical context is both fascinating and vital so we don’t forget what’s happened in the past. JANE RACKHAM How to watch The Twelve 2022 Drama Crime/detective Summary: Courtroom drama about the secret lives of jury members. After being selected for the jury, a juror is caught in a web of lies with her husband.
Sam Neill stars Series 2 — RT says:: All rise. The court is in session again. This time the legal drama relocates to rural Western Australia to follow a tangled murder trial through the eyes of 12 jurors and criminal barrister Brett Colby (Sam Neill).
When a wealthy landowner is found dead at the bottom of her cattle farm’s well, two ex-lovers stand accused of her murder. Was it a crime of passion or a workplace accident? Defending the accused, Colby must work alongside Meredith Nelson-Moore (Frances O’Connor), but the pair’s relationship is more than strictly professional. MICHAEL HOGAN How to watch Daddy Issues 2024 Sitcom Drama Summary: Sitcom starring Aimee Lou Wood as a woman who gets unexpectedly pregnant, forcing her to move into a flatshire with her domestically inept father (David Morrissey) RT says:: With David Morrissey, drama’s gain has been comedy’s loss.
Best known for roles that are hard-hitting and serious, he’s laugh-out-loud hilarious in this new comedy as Malcolm — a hapless dad forced to step up when daughter Gemma (Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood) becomes pregnant. Recently divorced, Malcolm is living in a bedsit — and it’s only now that Gemma’s discovering how inept he is. He does the weekly shop at a petrol station, doesn’t know how to make a jacket potato and flushes teabags down the toilet.
She came to him for help, but he’s the one who needs it more. Smart, snappy yet sweet, it’s a lot of fun. Episode one gets a BBC1 repeat tomorrow at 9.
30pm. FRANCES TAYLOR How to watch (window.adq = window.
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Legal comedy drama, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin RT says:: There was disappointing news for US fans hoping for a reversal in the decision to axe So Help Me Todd when the boss at the TV network CBS admitted that in “any other year” the show probably would have survived. Apparently, it’s all down to there not being space for it in the schedule. But in a landscape where cookiecutter action shows filled with federal agents bonnet-rolling over cars endure for 15 seasons, you’d have thought a chance might have been taken on this inventive legal dramedy.
Especially when shades of grey are now being added to the supporting characters: this week, it’s Todd’s stuffed shirt of a sibling Lawrence who’s making a very odd request of his brother. DAVID BROWN How to watch Bangers & Cash 2019 Documentary and factual News and current affairs PG Summary: Behind the scenes of a Yorkshire-based, family-run historic car auction business RT says:: Splendidly, Bangers & Cash is becoming more eccentric with each passing series. This week at the Mathewsons classic car auction house, we find a Norton Jubilee 250cc motorbike from 1961, with two miles on the clock: “just parked up and forgotten about, the poor old girl,” laments Paul Mathewson; a 1951 double decker Bristol bus called Gertie and her single decker companion, Doris; plus a dusty collection of vintage vehicles that includes a bowtop caravan and a 1947 Bentley with an inconveniently located gearstick.
The auctions are predictable only in their unpredictability, but a nervous new auctioneer makes his rostrum debut. “I think he’ll be good,” chuckles Paul’s wife, not wholly convincingly..
. JOHN AIZLEWOOD How to watch Klitschko: More Than a Fight Documentary and factual News and current affairs Summary: A profile of former heavyweight boxing world champion Vitali Klitschko, charting his journey from the ring to becoming the mayor of Kyiv and on the frontline in Ukraine's battle against the invasion by Russia. The documentary shows how he and his brother Wladimir used their celebrity status to raise funds and military support, helping to ensure the conflict remains in the minds of the world's leaders and populace RT says:: Kyiv mayor and former heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko has shepherded the Ukrainian capital through its darkest days.
This featurelength film intercuts that mission with the story of his life as a boxer and politician. Directed by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September), this is a no-nonsense portrait of a thoughtful, driven and caring man. His fractious relationship with Volodymyr Zelensky is threaded through it, but so too is Klitschko’s paternal care for “his” people.
The man’s almost religious zeal to give Kyiv’s citizens a “normal” life amid daily drone strikes and power cuts is deeply affecting. CERI THOMAS How to watch Interview with the Vampire 2022 Fantasy Horror 18 Summary: Gothic horror based on Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, starring Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid and Eric Bogosian RT says:: Ease your Olympics withdrawal symptoms with some historical bloodsports in the same host city. In the latest flashbacks from postwar Paris, we learn how Lestat (Sam Reid) revived the Théâtre des Vampires in 1795, with consequences for Louis (Jacob Anderson) 150 years later.
Haunted by hallucinations, he accidentally kills in the park and the coven demands that he’s disciplined. Meanwhile, teen vampire Claudia (Delainey Hayles) is given her mission for the next 50 years. In the present day, journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) gets intel from a mysterious source — played with enjoyable hamminess by Bogosian’s fellow Succession alumnus Justin Kirk (aka Jeryd Mencken).
MICHAEL HOGAN How to watch Open Country Documentary and factual Nature RT says:: With trilling birdsong in the background and lightly rustling leaves, Helen Mark introduces authors Miriam Darlington and Patrick Barkham, the two tutors leading an nature-writing course in Shropshire. Be it fiction, non-fiction or poetry, the strategy to inspire the nine participants is to take them on slow, quiet walks where they can immerse themselves in nature, “dropping down” as the 19th-century poet John Clare called it, to experience the landscape from the point of view of other creatures. Further inspiration comes in the form of ten-minute writing exercises and when they are asked to imagine the origin story of one of the coastal redwoods they pass, I am tempted to join in.
FIONA HUGHES How to listen Dial M for Murder Thriller Drama 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 101 mins PG Summary: Thriller starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly. When he discovers his wealthy wife Margot is having an affair with novelist Mark Halliday, playboy Tony Wendice hatches a plot to ensure that he doesn't wind up penniless. RT review:: Kicking off a night dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock, who was born 125 years ago this week, is this rare showing for one of his classic potboilers.
Hitch only took on this version of Frederick Knott’s play to fulfil his Warners contract. But as Ray Milland plots to bump off wife Grace Kelly there are plenty of deft touches that loudly proclaim “genius at work”. Milland’s sinister sophistication catches the eye, but Kelly’s subtly shaded suffering is superb.
The director’s earlier Suspicion follows, then two documentaries on the Master of Suspense. DAVID PARKINSON How to watch.
