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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
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: fangtastic fun with the return of a hit vampire comedy
10pm, BBC TwoMatt Berry, Natasia Demetriou and Kayvan Novak are back with a fifth series of their bitingly funny vampire mockumentary. Human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) is acting oddly, and the vampires think it's because they missed his birthday (a 'terrible day' for humans). But the reality is that Guillermo has done something his masters won't be very happy about at all. Hollie Richardson 7pm, BBC TwoThe Young Ones veterans Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle motor through Northumberland in a vintage car to see who has the best eye for an heirloom. Valuation experts Natasha Raskin Sharp and James Braxton are on hand to steer them towards the bargains. Graeme Virtue 9pm, BBC OneAs the season finale of the hit Motherland spin-off arrives, is Amanda (Lucy Punch) about to change her insufferably snobbish ways? Not quite. But she needs to decide between a life with awful Johannes in his massive Wapping penthouse, or staying put with Anne and the rest of the SoHa gang. HR 9pm, ITV1 It's 1955 and Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton) stands accused of the murder of her racing driver boyfriend David Blakely (Laurie Davidson). There are also issues of class and gender at play during her Old Bailey trial, while her solicitor John Bickford (Toby Jones) believes Ruth is keeping secrets about an abusive relationship. Ellen E Jones 9.30pm, BBC OneTo include one solo karaoke rendition of I Know Him So Well by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson in your twisted village-based murder-comedy-drama is bold; but in its finale, the show does that for the second time this season, which is some kind of unhinged genius. Plus, a secret is revealed. Jack Seale 10pm, Channel 4Scotland Yard detective Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie) may be able to handle an extra-spicy jerk chicken, but does that really make him 'one of the good guys'? Detective Millie Black (Tamara Lawrance) isn't so sure, but the two team up anyway to search for missing schoolgirl Janet, in the latest instalment of the ticking-clock Jamaican crime drama. EEJ Moana 2 (David Derrick Jr, 2024), Disney+This is the second instalment of what we must now call a 'franchise' (a live-action version of the 2016 original is out next year), so savour the rarity value while you can. It's colourful, musical business as usual, with Auliʻi Cravalho's ebullient Polynesian navigator Moana setting off into the blue to seek a drowned island – cursed by bad-tempered storm deity Nalo – whose revival will reconnect all the scattered ocean peoples. Dwayne Johnson as demigod Maui vies for the comic foil position with Moana's pet pig and hapless rooster, and it's good to see the coconut pirates back in fighty form. Gods and monsters abound, with Nalo clearly being positioned as the Thanos of the series. Simon Wardell Champions League football: Aston Villa v Club Brugge, 7pm, TNT Sports 1. Arsenal v PSV Eindhoven is on TNT Sports 2 at 7pm.
The Guardian
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: more cringeworthy comedy in Amandaland
9pm, BBC OneExcruciating comedy in the hugely fun Motherland spin-off, with fallen-from-grace snob Amanda (Lucy Punch) reinventing herself as a lifestyle influencer – or 'visual storyteller'. She's going for a minimalist look in her downsized abode, but finds it hard to part with her treasures at the football club's car boot sale ('Please don't finger my pouffe!'). Meanwhile, mummy Felicity (Joanna Lumley) is reeling after a depressing funeral and making her feelings known to anyone who will listen. Hollie Richardson 9pm, BBC TwoThe gripping documentary series returns, retaining its approach of rejecting true-crime gimmicks in favour of the simple thrust and parry of a criminal trial. Human remains are found and a defendant is soon in the dock, but the how and why of the killing are unclear, which gives the defence something to work with. Jack Seale 9pm, ITV1In a meta move, the body of a brutally murdered professor of archaeology is found at a dig site outside the village. Crabby detective Geordie (Robson Green) and new priest Alphy (Rishi Nair) are on the case – and make some shocking discoveries about the late academic. HR 9.30pm, BBC One There's a reunion for This Country fans in Daisy May Cooper's dark comedy drama this week, as brother Charlie guest stars as the local weirdo ready to give Nic a doomed tarot reading. No wonder she's on edge: two teenagers who saw what she did on the train platform are back on the scene. HR 10pm, BBC TwoThis comedy is utterly relatable, with its awkward in-laws dynamics and pitch-perfect performances all round. While Simon and Ray visit Aunty Rose at her (unexpectedly lascivious) nursing home, Esther helps mind Sue's stall at the local craft fair, where among the woolly offerings, a knitted blue elephant appears to be anatomically correct. Ali Catterall 10pm, Channel 4The Selling Sunset-esque property show that offers an uncritical look at the exorbitant property market in the influencer capital rolls on. Babyfaced Connor has racked up significant commission since leaving the UK, but now hits a rough patch. Meanwhile, party-mad Harvey is yet to make a single sale. Hannah J Davies
