PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV
FIASCO, NETFLIX
WHEN a first-time director embarks on an extravagant costume drama, he thinks that getting the intense personal story on film is going to be his biggest problem. He’s wrong: the disasters, blackmail and sabotage that go on when the cameras aren’t rolling is what really challenges him. With hints of Call My Agent (which you can also find on Netflix) and created by the team behind the comedy show Casting(s), this excellent seven-episode French comedy show is both a no-holds-barred satire of the movie industry and a full-on barrel of slapstick silliness. Pierre Niney (who’s also the cocreator and writer, pictured with Leslie Medina) is brilliantly bewildered as the out-of-his-depth director whose struggles are being captured by a behind-thescenes film crew, while actual French movie star Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, Westworld) has great fun playing the film’s diva of a leading man.
ANCIENT WARRIORS World’s First Battlefield, 9pm, Sky History
AN INTRIGUING new two-part documentary that takes us to the Tollense Valley in Germany, where it seems a battlefield from the Bronze Age has been discovered by an amateur archaeologist. Primitive weapons and thousands of bone fragment have led experts to estimate that up to 4,000 warriors clashed there around 1,300BC. Concludes next week.
NORDIC ROMCOM The Worst Person In The World, Channel 4
NORWEGIAN writer-director
Joachim Trier described his Oscarnominated movie as ‘a coming-ofage film for grown-ups who feel like they still haven’t grown up’. Renate Reinsve (pictured) stars as Julie, who is about to turn 30. Her inability to see anything through means she has failed to mature throughout her 20s. As for her love life, she’s equally incapable of seeing that through – with one person. Reinsve is a revelation: you can’t take your eyes off her as she narrates her life, as filled with lust, doubt and intransigence as a teenager’s.
GLASGOW COMEDY Dinosaur, 9pm, BBC3
AFTER what happened in Rothesay, will Nina (series co-creator Ashley Storrie) be able to keep the truth from her sister’s fiancé? And does this mean the wedding’s off? Find out in the double bill finale to this fun Scottish comedy.