Sunday Independent (Ireland)

CATCH -UP TV— IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...

- EMILY HOURICAN

Tin Star Channel4.com, episodes 1-10 This 10-part series started out on Sky Atlantic last year, then went to Amazon Prime in the US, and has now made its way to Channel4 and been recommissi­oned for a second season.

Starring Tim Roth, Christina Hendricks and Irish actor Genevieve O’Reilly (The Honourable Woman, Star Wars: Rogue One, left), this is set in a small town at the edge of the Canadian Rockies. Roth is Jim Worth, a former London undercover police detective, now police chief of Little Big Bear, where he moved with his family — wife, teenage daughter, young son — to escape the violence and alcoholism of his undercover past. That past catches up with him when the oil company that dominates the town — paying wages, calling the shots — builds a huge refinery just on the outskirts, attracting migrant workers and rising crime levels, and causing pollution.

Worth starts to ask awkward questions, fielded by the super-smooth oil company PR, and then one night, his home is attacked by gunmen. And we’re off.

This is pretty bloody stuff — probably not for the squeamish — but tense from the get-go. I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here... Virgin Media Player, episode 1 If you missed the kick-off of the 18th season of I’m a Celebrity... here’s another chance to watch it. Now presented by Holly Willoughby and Declan Donnelly (the TV star formerly known as ‘Dec’, back when he was one half of Ant & Dec), this feels tired and forced but remember, it’s the jungle; anything can happen.

‘Celebrity’ is obviously pushing it as a descriptio­n for most of the contestant­s, although we do have Harry Redknapp, former football manager and teller-like-it-is of all things. Really though, the best fun is watching people scoff live maggots, and three of this year’s crop — The X Factor runner-up Fleur East, The Vamps’ James McVey and Coronation Street’s Sair Khan — are apparently vegan, and will therefore be spared the insect eating. Shame.

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