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Irish Independent
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Today's top TV and streaming choices: Saving Lives At Sea, All About Eve and Brady and the Blues
Saving Lives at Sea BBC Two, 8pm Time is of the essence after a 10-year-old boy is swept out to sea while paddleboarding — can the North Berwick crew reach him? Plus, three yacht passengers need assistance in Walmer when their vessel runs aground. Channel 4, 8pm Another ocean-going programme, this time a whole lot more luxurious and less death-defying. Members of the MS Nieuw Statendam let their hair down during some free time on land in Florida and the Cayman Islands before concentrating on the needs of their passengers. The Narrow Road to the Deep North RTÉ2, 9.35pm In the present, Dorrigo's decision to carry out a risky procedure is investigated, but it's his marriage he should be concerned about. In the past, he does his best to care for the PoWs who have cholera. All About Eve BBC Four, 7pm One of the greatest films of all time stars Bette Davis as an ageing stage star who takes a fan under her wing, little realising her protégé is a ruthlessly ambitious wannabe willing to do anything to make it to the top of the acting tree. Anne Baxter and George Sanders also appear. Wednesday Netflix, streaming now Of course, it's releasing on a Wednesday. Would a Wednesday in late September/early October better suit the eerie vibe? Absolutely. But humanity is always chasing the next season – observe Starbucks dropping its Pumpkin Spice this month (August 26, to be exact). Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) returns to roam the halls of Nevermore Academy, where new horrors and teen woes await. With her deadpan delivery, she dives into another school year of ghoulish japes, juggling family, foes and supernatural mayhem. Tim Burton steers the twisted ship into season two, where a new mystery unfolds, pushing Wednesday into even darker territory (put it this way, it's not for the early tweens). Familiar faces Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán reprise their roles, while new blood includes Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Evie Templeton and Noah Taylor, with bonus guest appearances from Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Lumley and Thandiwe Newton. More of besties Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne being various forms of 'platonic'. King of The Hill Disney+, streaming now Between this and the return of South Park, it's 1997 all over again (if only). Hank and Peggy return to Arlen after building their retirement fund in Saudi Arabia (peddling propane, obvs), while Bobby now lives it up in Dallas as a chef. For more grown-up animation, there's also Eyes of Wakanda. Hunting The Yorkshire Ripper Prime Video, streaming now Not to be confused with Jack the Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe shared a taste for misdirection and was ultimately facilitated by a Wearside Jack, whose notes and tapes led the police astray back in the 1970s. Fifty years later, retired detective Chris Gregg assembles a cold case team to hunt the impersonator who kept Sutcliffe's crimes alive. Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 Netflix, streaming now Frankly, I don't mind that they're starting to get repetitive; it's still appointment viewing every week in Chez McGinley. In 2019, a joke Facebook event to 'storm Area 51' went viral, drawing millions and triggering warnings from US authorities. Indeed, it does sound exceedingly similar to last month's Real Project X instalment, but I'm still here for it. Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes Netflix, streaming now 'Tis the turn of David Berkowitz's police tapes to get an airing. This chilling docuseries unpacks the Son of Sam killings, exposing Berkowitz's disturbing mindset he unleashed on 1970s NYC. Brady and the Blues Prime Video, streaming now Prime appears to be chasing some of that Welcome to Wrexham magic with a new sports docuseries featuring NFL icon Tom Brady. Mind you, this could be entirely different given Brady, at 3.3pc, is very much a minority stakeholder in Birmingham City FC. Perfect Match Netflix, streaming now Netflix's biggest reality stars – from Love Is Blind to Too Hot To Handle – head to paradise to search for love (or more followers) in a strategic dating showdown. So, like Battle Camp but with more bikinis. For more 'unscripted' drama, WWE: Unreal takes fans inside the writer's room for a look at the chaos behind the curtain. Leanne Netflix, streaming now Leanne Morgan's world flips when her husband leaves after 33 years. Menopausal and newly single, she leans on her family – especially her fierce sister Carol (Kristen Johnston) – to tackle this next chapter with Southern grit and lashings of 'jello salad'. Chuck Lorre is involved, so it can't be too bad.
Daily Mail
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Supercruising: Life At Sea: Want to keep the taxman off the kids' inheritance? Blow it all on a cruise...
Pam and Barry from Lincoln are aboard a cruise ship and they're going SKI-ing. This doesn't involve fake snow or steep slopes, though broken bones are still a risk. SKI-ing is an acronym: Spending the Kids' Inheritance. It's one of those catchphrases beloved of the Boomer generation, like 'On an adventure before dementia', providing justification for an expensive holiday. Heading for Madeira in one of the MS Nieuw Statendam's 1,339 cabins, on Supercruising: Life At Sea, Barry insisted he and his wife had their children's permission to blow their nest egg: 'They've all said, "It's your money, Mum and Dad, you go and spend it".' He might have added that it's better to enjoy it now than wait for the taxman to steal it. You could still come home in a plaster cast from a SKI-ing trip, as Pam and Barry realised when they took a sleigh ride on one of Madeira's carros de cesto. These wooden sleds career down the mile-long hill above the island's capital, Funchal, steered by carreiros - men in white trousers and straw boaters, who look like gondoliers, except in Venice you're less likely to crash into a wall at high speed. Barry and Pam's son enjoying horseback riding while on holiday Petrolheads of the night F1 is dominating the schedules. After the Sky portrait of Damon Hill, BBC4 aired the remainder of its Alain Prost documentary. But neither Hill nor Prost contributed to the profile that followed of their ex-boss Frank Williams. No love lost there. To make the prospect even more dangerous, the sleds have to dodge cars and other traffic. Your real risk, though, is being caught in the crossfire of a gunfight. In 2017, the head of the carreiros, Norberto Gouveia, was shot several times in the head following an argument at the top of the sled run. This fact was not mentioned in the documentary, and I bet the Madeira tourist board don't put it in their brochures either. The absence of crime and violence in Supercruising is one of its attractions. This show, narrated by Nick Brimble, is not much more than an hour-long ad for holidays on the high seas, but that does make a welcome change from the nightly bodycam footage of police battering down drug dealers' doors and paramedics treating teenagers for stab wounds. For Rich Fontaine, the chief security officer of the Nieuw Statendam, the only lawlessness he has to deal with involves prohibited electrical items such as travel kettles. Passengers try to smuggle them aboard, to brew a cuppa in the cabin. 'We'd rather take it now than have to go into their cabin and take it once the fire has started,' Rich said piously. Since flame grills are also forbidden, one highlight of a Caribbean cruise is an island stop-off for a beach barbecue. The MS Rotterdam, sailing out of Fort Lauderdale in Florida, called in at the idyllic Half Moon Bay in the Bahamas, where passengers tucked into 1,800 burgers and 600 hotdogs. Back on the ship, they managed to munch their way through three-quarters of a ton of lobsters. At that rate, the adventure won't end in dementia — indigestion will kill them first.
