The Diceman cometh...again
Dice Thursday, 9.30pm SoHo He was selling 80,000 seats a week and packing stadiums around the world as one of the most famous comedians on the planet.
The problem is, it’s not 1989 anymore, so Andrew Dice Clay has taken his last US$30,000 and packed his girlfriend and kids into the Denali to head to Vegas and make a comeback.
In this semi-autobiographical comedy, Dice chronicles life in the Vegas suburbs as he tries to live his life while trapped in the skin of ‘‘The Diceman’’, donning his trademark black leather jacket and fingerless gloves, ready for a comeback.
Whether he’s attempting to pay back his gambling debts, manage his sons’ heavy metal band or fend off pumped up fans, the show promises to shine a light on the sides of Dice we’ve never seen before.
‘‘Dice ruins everything,’’ Clay told AP recently, laughing at the leather-clad lout at the heart of his new six-part series, who, in the first episode, gets his nose out of joint when his favourite casino boosts the ATM fee to $5 and, as a result, nearly drives him to ruin his girlfriend’s brother’s wedding. British pop classicist. Meet the man who has ploughed a unique furrow since starting out on the star in this British-French coproduced drama about an independent claims specialist who is tasked with recovering a series of stolen diamonds – no matter what it takes. ‘‘It may require concentration to savour all its moving parts. But that’s not exactly work, considering the reward,’’ wrote The Wall St Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz. Birmingham Beat scene in the early 1960s, moving from the Idle Race to the multimillion-selling ELO in the 70s and then, with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and George Harrison, was a key member of the Traveling Wilburys. ‘‘It’s a lovely rockumentary: serious, without taking itself too seriously, probably because that’s how its subject is,’’ wrote The Guardian’s Sam Wollaston. WEDNESDAY Prey 8.30pm, TV One The second instalment of this British anthology mini-series focuses on a middle-aged prison officer (Philip Glenister) who SATURDAY Lebanon 8.40pm, Maori TV Based on writer-director Samuel Maoz’s traumatic experiences as a tank gunner, this 2009 drama is set inside a mobile iron prison on the first day of the war in Lebanon in 1982. ‘‘A haunting tale, it delivers an extremely personal story filled with searing imagery,’’ wrote Variety’s Maureen Ryan.