Sidney’s choice
Talk about your inconvenient truths. At the end of Grantchester’s second season, priest Sidney Chambers (James Norton) and Amanda Hopkins (Morven Christie) professed their love for each other. No matter that she’s pregnant with her estranged husband’s child.
Hence in Season 3, debuting Sunday on PBS, Sidney must choose between his vocation and the woman he seems fated for.
“They are living this slightly confused life as he’s a vicar, but he’s exploring this ‘thing ’ with Amanda — it’s not really a relationship, no one’s quite sure what it is,” Norton told What’s On TV.
Based on James Runcie’s short stories The Grantchester Mysteries, the British series is set in a 1950s village. Aside from the romantic goings-on, the show features Sidney and Det. Insp. Geordie Keating (Robson Green), teaming up for some stellar sleuthing. Their bromance, however, was put to the test.
“At the end of last (season), we saw a real moment of reconciliation, but I think they’re always going to be quite different,” Norton said. “It’s an unlikely friendship, so there’s always going to be conflict and a difference of opinion.”
OVER THE LINE
Many people spend between two and three years of their lives in lineups of some kind, says MIT professor Richard Larson. What’s more, lineups can cause stress, anxiety, rage and sometimes even violence.
But making like patient soldiers while waiting in places like the grocery store, the border and the bank is a necessary evil — or is it?
The new special The Taming of the Queue, airing Sunday on Documentary Channel, says nope. From filmmaker Josh Freed, it travels the world to examine lineup behaviours in different cultures. Lineups are celebrated in Britain, and people are particularly rule-abiding when it comes to queues in Canada.
The solution could be as simple as surfing the web fantastic. Says the film, the technological revolution is starting to undo the queue.
GRILL POWER
In a new episode of Kids BBQ Championship titled Tex Mex Showdown, airing Sunday on Food, the pint-sized meat wranglers look south of the border for inspiration. On the menu? Grilled nachos and giant taco platters. Vying for the $10,000 prize are Ava, who’s won two steak competitions; Gabi, who makes her own barbecue sauces and rubs; Josh, who dreams of opening a restaurant; and Stevie, whose goal is to own a food truck.
Cook, author and selfproclaimed “hardcore carnivore” Jess Pryles is the guest judge.