ANOTHER week, one other Apple TV+ collection with an enormous movie-star identify hooked up. This time it’s Samuel L Jackson within the miniseries The Final Days of Ptolemy Gray, based mostly on the novel by Walter Mosley, who’s performed the variation himself.
ackson performs a person with dementia who undergoes experimental remedy that restores his full cognitive colleges. However there’s a worth: the impact is short-term and as soon as it wears off, the illness will take maintain once more, dragging him again into the fog.
Laid low with his previous, Ptolemy makes an attempt to learn how and why his nephew was shot lifeless on the road — whereas he nonetheless has time. Two episodes at this time, the remainder weekly.
The truth that Sister Boniface Mysteries (Drama, 9pm) is made by the BBC however not displaying on certainly one of its channels rings a small alarm bell. It’s a spin-off from Father Brown, that includes a personality from an early episode, the eponymous nun (Lorna Watson) who zips round on a moped and solves murders with the assistance of her moveable forensics lab. Feels like my concept of hell.
There’s extra clerical sleuthing within the return of Grantchester (UTV/ITV, 9pm), set in a village the place no person asks why the native detective (Robson Inexperienced) is blissful to let a vicar (Will Davenport) nostril round crime scenes — or certainly why there are such a lot of murders.
If it handed you by final Monday, the one-off drama Life and Loss of life within the Warehouse (BBC3, 9pm), impressed by actual experiences, is a fictionalised have a look at the situations endured by these working within the warehouse of a huge on-line retailer.
Twenty-five years after plummeting to his loss of life whereas flying a home-built aircraft, singer John Denver — so healthful he made The Osmonds look like Anthrax — is remembered within the documentary Nation Boy (BBC4, 9pm). It’s adopted at 10pm by a live performance at London’s Speak of the City from 1976.
The Late Late Present (RTÉ1, 9.35pm.) is a attribute combine of sunshine and heavy. Dolly Parton and James Patterson speak from Nashville concerning the guide they’ve co-written, whereas reporter Tony Connelly and former presidents Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese will likely be discussing Ukraine.
Saturday
CRUFTS (Channel 4, 3pm & 7pm) has been in full tail-swing since yesterday. The intense enterprise of choosing this 12 months’s Greatest in Present occurs on Sunday.
Immediately, although, is all concerning the stuff atypical dog-lovers get pleasure from most. The afternoon programme has agility, heelwork to music and, better of all, the flyball semi-finals.
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The night session options the return of the much-loved Scruffts, the place crossbreeds get to take their share of the limelight in competitions together with Little one’s Greatest Good friend and Most Good-looking Canine. It’s slightly a surreal expertise watching Clive Myrie host Celeb Mastermind (BBC1, 6.30pm) when everyone knows he’s presently reporting from Ukraine, most lately in an underground shelter.
The contestants this week are actresses Phillipa Dunne and Dani Harmer, comic Phil Wang and The Nice Pottery Throw Down decide Keith Bymer Jones.
The Radio 2 Piano Room (BBC2, 6.45pm) is an instance of creating content material stretch so far as attainable with out snapping it. It’s a choice of performances recorded within the Maida Vale Studios for Ken Bruce’s weekday radio present.
The road-up consists of Anne-Marie, Stereophonics, Emeli Sandé, Easy Minds, Pleasure Crookes and the inescapable E* S******, all accompanied by the BBC Live performance Orchestra.
The identical goes for Prime of the Pops: The Story of 1991 (BBC2, 7.45pm). Mel Giedroyc narrates a lookback on the 12 months when the mainstream and the underground discovered themselves colliding within the cramped TOTP studio.
It’s a digital ceremony once more this 12 months for The IFTA Movie and Drama Awards (Virgin Media 1, 8.30pm). I’m absolutely anticipating Kin to stroll away with, on the very least, greatest drama and greatest lead actress for the fabulous Clare Dunne.
Sunday
IF you possibly can abdomen two awards reveals in two nights, it’s time for The British Academy Movie Awards (BBC1, 7pm), hosted by Insurgent Wilson. It’s again to regular service on this case, with a purple carpet occasion at a packed-out Royal Albert Corridor. The three massive contenders are Dune, Belfast and The Energy of the Canine. Keep in mind the times when Dara O Briain hosted RTÉ1’s It’s a Household Affair? Effectively, he’s again in gameshow host mode for One and Six Zeroes (Channel 4, 6pm), an ostensibly easy however truly devilishly intelligent risk-based quiz providing a prime prize of a cool million quid.
Loss of life on Daytime (Channel 4, 9pm) sounds just like the title of some dire American TV film. In actual fact, it’s a two-part have a look at how the The Jeremy Kyle Present — a stain on the display screen for 14 years — was deservedly wrenched off air when a participant killed himself every week after he’d recorded his episode. Contributors embody individuals who appeared on it, their family members and members of the manufacturing group.
Now that the nods to the 1965 Michael Caine movie are out of the way in which, The Ipcress File (UTV/ITV, 9pm) can settle into its personal groove. On this pacier second half, Harry (Joe Cole) and Jean (Lucy Boynton) head to the nuclear weapons lab. However somebody is tailing them.
After a second instalment that felt slightly on the skinny aspect, Peaky Blinders (BBC1, 9pm) will hopefully additionally decide up a bit extra momentum tonight.
Tommy (Cillian Murphy) tries to search out out who positioned a curse on his household, whereas brother Arthur (Paul Anderson), who’s had little or nothing to take action far besides get drunk or stoned, recruits some new muscle.
