Latest news with #BBCOneThe
The Guardian
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: human remains are found in tense cold case drama Black Snow
9pm, BBC TwoThe Queensland-set cold case drama continues. Zoe Jacobs (Jana McKinnon) vanished on her 21st birthday back in 2003, and we have come to know her hopes, fears and love of ecstasy and pop-punk via extended flashbacks. So it's all the more upsetting that unkempt detective James Cormack (Travis Fimmel) and Zoe's old bestie turned beat cop Samara Kahlil (Megan Smart) have just recovered submerged human remains near the local dam. Graeme Virtue 8pm, BBC OneThe cosy crime drama takes a sharp turn into folk horror. Supernatural menace the Cornman is apparently on the prowl, terrorising locals, spoiling milk and scorching crops. It's up to Humphrey (Kris Marshall) to separate fact from Cornish folklore. The great Caroline Quentin and Kevin McNally guest star as feuding farmers. GV 8pm, BBC Two With spring in full swing, Monty Don brings colour to the Mound with an array of blue and yellow blooms. Then he gets ready for summer by planting some vegetables to harvest in a couple of months' time, while Frances Tophill is charmed by wisteria in Surrey. Nicole Vassell 8pm, Channel 4Natalie Cassidy concludes her roundup of Britain's most talked-about products, though surely robot vacuum cleaners' viral moment has long since passed. Nevertheless, Cassidy employs some crisp-munching children to test three models. Plus, are cheap 'dupe' perfumes any good? Jack Seale 9pm, Sky MaxThe creative death match between old stager Deborah (Jean Smart) and fiery upstart Ava (Hannah Einbinder) worsens as the comedian and the writer use a new talkshow as their latest battleground. Also, every scene with Hassidic Jew turned personal assistant Randi (Robby Hoffman) is a scream. JS 9.30pm, BBC OneBen Miller is one of the oldest sitcom archetypes here: the irritating, self-regarding man – smart enough to have delusions of grandeur and stupid enough to believe them. This time, Julian (Miller) has hired an award-winning film-maker to help push his documentary over the line. But will he get cold feet? Phil Harrison They Live (John Carpenter, 1988), 12.05am, Talking Pictures TVJohn Carpenter's pulpy 1988 sci-fi action flick is a hotbed of anticapitalist sentiment. Itinerant worker Nada (wrestler Roddy Piper, a low-budget Arnie) comes to Los Angeles seeking employment but, after donning a pair of special sunglasses, stumbles on a conspiracy involving hidden messages on billboards and shop fronts and in magazines telling people to 'Consume', 'Watch TV' and 'Obey' (the banknotes say: 'This is your God'). Also, some folk look like warmed-up skeletons. Have aliens invaded? A fun mix of politics and punch-ups. Simon WardellAmores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000), 12.25am, Film4The title translates as 'Love's a bitch' but there is also a lot of dog appreciation in Alejandro González Iñárritu's intense drama about desire, loss and blood-soaked revenge. Three stories collide in a Mexico City car crash: Octavio (Gael García Bernal) loves his brother's neglected wife and enters illegal dog fights to fund their escape; model Valeria (Goya Toledo) breaks her leg in the auto accident then her pooch vanishes under the floorboards of her new flat; and the tramp-like El Chivo (Emilio Echevarría) has a cohort of canines but is also a hitman for a cop. SW Premiership Rugby Union: Sale v Saracens 7pm, TNT Sports 1. Coverage of the top-flight clash from the Salford Community Stadium.
The Guardian
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: an essential report on the civil war in Sudan
7.30pm, Channel 4This documentary strand may be a bleak testimony to the amount of misery the world is capable of generating, but it remains as essential as ever. Krishnan Guru-Murthy is in Sudan exploring the horrific facets of the ongoing civil war: about 30 million people need humanitarian assistance, certain regions are experiencing famine and the conflict rumbles brutally on – bombings, executions and sexual violence are rife. Phil Harrison 7.30pm, BBC OneThe last subject for this moving modern portrait series is 20-year-old student Millie, who has Down's syndrome and is campaigning for equal abortion laws. Currently, abortion is legal up to the 24th week of pregnancy in most cases, but where a disability is detected, it is permitted up until birth. Hollie Richardson 8pm, Channel 4Claudia Winkleman's takeover of light entertainment continues apace with this deceptively difficult quizshow in which contestants have to answer a single question. It's the turn of retired Cardiff couple Terry and Angela and Yorkshire uncle-and-nephew team Peter and Jamie to try their luck. PH 8.30pm, BBC OneAfter months of renovation, Amanda Holden and Alan Carr have almost finished transforming a run-down Granada townhouse into a B&B. Their final challenge? Design a bar. That means a boozy research trip to Jerez and working out how to make an onyx countertop 'glow like ET's fingers'. Graeme Virtue 9pm, BBC OneThe penultimate episode of the sun-kissed Caribbean whodunnit starts with a flashback to the last movements of DI Mervin Wilson's mother before she was murdered. Back in the present, Mervin (Don Gilet) has reopened her case and there is one very fishy prime suspect – but why can't the detective collar him? HR 9pm, BBC TwoIn 2019, Royal Ballet superstar Steven McRae ruptured his achilles tendon live in front of a 2,000-strong audience. This deeply personal film shadows the candid Aussie as he continues his gruelling physical rehab with the aim of returning to the spotlight, supported by his wife Elizabeth Harrod, a former Royal Ballet soloist herself. GV Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One, 11am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere With its creator and star Kevin Costner anticipating three more chapters, the first tranche of his epic western has a definite scene-setting mood. It revolves around the nascent Arizona frontier settlement of Horizon at the start of the civil war. Folk for whom the dream of a town could become a reality – though the local Apaches have their own views on it – include Sienna Miller's homesteader, Costner's horse trader and a wagon train led by Luke Wilson's trail boss. Simon Wardell Medusa Deluxe, 11.05pm, BBC Two Thomas Hardiman's one-camera whodunnit roams around backstage at a regional hairdressing contest where one competitor has just been murdered. As the stylists and models come to terms with the death, gossip and rumour swirl in the air alongside copious clouds of hairspray. The suspects include the dead man's main rival Cleve (a marvellously angry Clare Perkins), Darrell D'Silva's event organiser Rene, and Kendra (Harriet Webb), who may or may not have fixed the result. The single-shot technique keeps things bubbling, while the hairdos are suitably outrageous. SW The French Dispatch, 11.20pm, Film4 Arguably the most Wes Andersony of all Wes Anderson's films, this whimsical doll's house of a comedy dramatises the contents of a fictional American magazine based in Ennui-sur-Blasé, France. Sections include Tilda Swinton's art critic celebrating Benicio del Toro's jailed killer turned painter, Frances McDormand's reporter taking in a May 68-style student protest, and Jeffrey Wright's James Baldwin-like food writer being caught up in a kidnapping. Gently satirical, with nods to the Nouvelle Vague, Jacques Tati and the New Yorker, it's a feast for the eyes. SW Women's Super League Football Liverpool v Man Utd, 7.05pm, BBC Three. From Anfield.
