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The Guardian
08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: a sweeping night at the Proms with Dvořák
8pm, BBC FourThe Proms are in full swing, kicking the weekend off with a 'musical postcard from America'. The night starts with the European premiere of Adolphus Hailstork's An American Port of Call, followed by Jennifer Higdon's Blue Cathedral and Arturo Márquez's Concierto de Otoño. It ends in grand, sweeping style with Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No 9 in E minor, 'From the New World'. Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with trumpeter Pacho Flores. Hollie Richardson 9pm, BBC OneMore unapologetic sitcom silliness – and unspeakably bad scouse accents – as the Jessops accompany Sue (Alison Steadman) to Liverpool. Between a stakeout at an elderly woman's house and a trip to Sue's childhood home (now a chicken shop), there's far too much going on. But, really, that's just all part of the fun. Hannah J Davies 9pm, ITV1'True crime' and 'sensitive' aren't words that often go together – and yet this Lily-Gladstone-led series, which also stars Riley Keough, pulls it off. As it continues, we learn more about how Reena fell in with the wrong crowd in the lead-up to her death, and – via flashbacks – how her parents, Manjit and Suman, first met. HJD 9pm, Channel 4This chaotic words-and-numbers game continues to offer a showcase for an endlessly rotating cast of comics. We're in series 28 now and, as ever, Jimmy Carr is your smirking master of ceremonies. The guests include Joe Wilkinson, Alex Brooker, Judi Love and, in his Brian Butterfield alter ego, Peter Serafinowicz. Phil Harrison 9pm, Sky ComedyWe've reached the penultimate episode – and this is Carrie's most nauseating relationship yet: the English downstairs neighbour writing a novel about Margaret Thatcher. She also won't stop narrating the show with the awful prose from her own period drama book. Anyway, what moments will make this the biggest TV-show-we-love-to-hate-watch this week? HR 9pm, U&DramaWhen an infamous food critic comes to town, restaurateur turned private detective Pearl (Kerry Godliman) hopes for a top review. It's a shame, then, that her next case is the murder of said critic – who has been poisoned while dining at her gaff. But that's not the only problem she's having to juggle: her boyfriend Tom (Robert Webb) is about to propose. HR Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987), 11.10pm, Talking Pictures TV Moral panics over technology aren't anything new: radio is the youth-corrupting influence in Woody Allen's chirpy comedy, filling the head of young Joe (Seth Green) with revved-up superhero fantasies. But that's only one aspect of its communal power here: a string of vignettes unites Joe's eccentric Jewish family with radio personalities in 30s and 40s Rockaway Beach. Allen narrates as the older Joe, while Dianne Wiest as Joe's lovelorn aunt Bea and Mia Farrow as an aspiring announcer deliver standout performances. Phil Hoad Championship football: Birmingham v Ipswich, 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event The second tier gets under way from St Andrews.
Spectator
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Why can't the BBC Proms stick to classical music?
Welcome to this year's BBC Proms, the self-styled 'World's Greatest Classical Music Festival', whose programme was revealed today. Every year I write about how even The Proms, which bills itself unambiguously as a festival of classical music, can't bring itself to be just that: a festival of classical music. And every year it gets worse, with the idea of 'inclusion' so pervasive that music which has as much to do with a classical music festival as my pet cat would have at Crufts taking over ever more evenings. This year's schedule is the final straw. On day two, the Proms presents 'The Great American Songbook and Beyond' with Samara Joy, which is followed by 'Round Midnight' with 'hip hop artist Soweto Kinch'. That's followed a few nights later by Angeline Morrison singing folk songs from her album 'The Sorrow Songs', and then Arooj Aftab and Ibrahim Maalouf with their 'captivating, eclectic melting-pot of influences from jazz, folk, pop, blues and South Asian' and 'Middle Eastern melodies…jazz, Latin jazz, and African rhythms' respectively. There's an evening of Soul Revolution, which will 'trace a path from spirituals through gospel to soul, revealing the role of these genres in supporting the Civil Rights movement.
