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The Night Manager

RTE Player, until December 19 For those who missed the BBC’s very successful adaptation of John le Carre’s book when it was broadcast in 2016, or indeed for anyone who wants a second look at it, The Night Manager is now showing on RTE Player. Tom Hiddleston (left) is a 007-double as Jonathan Pine, night manager of the very fancy Nefertiti Hotel in Cairo. Blond, handsome, charming, he has nerves of steel and ice in his veins. A beautiful, and soon dead, guest throws Pine into the path of arms dealer Richard Roper, AKA “the worst man in the world”, brilliantly played against type by the usually-bumbling Hugh Laurie. Roper takes a shine to Pine, which brings the latter to the attention of the relentless Angela Birr (Olivia Colman), head of an obscure British intelligence agency that operates alongside MI6, who is determined to take Roper down. At Birr’s request, and motivated by revenge for the dead beauty, Pine joins Roper’s crew — led by a brilliant Tom Hollander as Corky — and starts to track secrets. Unfortunately, he also falls in love with Roper’s troubled American girlfriend, Jed (Elizabeth Debicki). Trump, An American Dream Channel4.com, until December 16 This goes right back to the beginning of the Trump story, back four decades to when he was a jolly kind of joke. A silly property tycoon with bad hair who we could all laugh at. Tellingly, asked back then who would play him in the movie of his life, Trump responded “Maybe myself ”, without a hint of irony. If you can stomach it, this starts with the 1980s, when The Donald went against his father’s advice and jumped into the casino business, buying first a yacht, then an airline and then an American football team, at which point his life started to unravel. Then came the 1990s, the divorce settlement from Ivana, and the approach of bankruptcy. Except, of course, Trump turned his business life around, published The Art Of The Comeback, married Melania, starred in The Apprentice, took to Twitter, and set his sights on the White House...