WORTH WATCHING
Fish of the Day
Three, 5:30pm Sunday
Little known fact about the Prime Minister’s fiance . . . he absolutely loves fishing. Here we all were assuming Clarke Gayford must have just been living comfortably off the fortune he made as a VJ on C4 all those years ago, when in actual fact he’s been flat out making a world-class fishing show. Fish of the Day doesn’t just settle for the standard half an hour of hauling in big snapper with a bit of chat about rigs and lures, it takes a more cerebral approach and the results are infinitely more informative and entertaining.
The Confession Killer
Netflix
The latest serial killer to get the Netflix true-crime documentary treatment spent the 1980s confessing to hundreds of murders — most of which he didn’t actually commit. The unusual case of Henry Lee Lucas is detailed in The Confession Killer, which reveals some shocking but probably unsurprisingly negligent work by Texas law enforcement. Jailed in 1983 for the handful of murders he did do, Lucas made confessions that allowed police to clear hundreds of "unsolved" murders from their files. Subsequent investigations from journalists showed in most cases it was clearly impossible that he was the killer. True crime continues to be stranger than fiction.
Liam Gallagher: As It Was
Prime, 8:30pm Wednesday
If there is even a remote chance that Liam will say something mean about brother Noel, or vice versa, then count me in for this and every other Oasisrelated documentary until the end of time. Conveniently screening ahead of his show at Spark Arena on Friday night, As It Was charts the former Oasis frontman’s rise and fall and rise again, from the heights of Britpop stardom through the lows of drinking far too much booze, getting into endless legal battles and a long period in the musical wilderness, to getting back out there, writing new music and performing again. It’s a heck of a ride, and Liam tells it like it is — you wouldn’t expect anything less.