Second Hotel visit delights
Walks withMyDog 7,30pm, Choice New, eight-part British series which sees some of Britain’s mostbeloved celebrities, everyone from Phil Spencer to Ben Fogle, Bill Bailey and Julian Clary team up with their canine companions to amble their way around the local countryside. Look out for a special camera which provides a pooch-eye view of their walks. Calvary 8.30pm, Maori TV Brendan Gleeson and Chris O’Dowd star in this 2014 Irish drama about a good-natured priest who must battle the dark forces closing in around him. ‘‘This unexpected blend of passion play, detective story, rural comedy and serious inquiry into faith is destined for classic status,’’ wrote Total Film’s Andrew Lowry. The Inbetweeners 8.30pm, Duke Those unfamiliar with the Bafta-nominated comedy series, which ran from 2008 to 2010, can be forgiven for thinking this is essentially a British version of Superbad or American Pie. This 2011 big screen outing sees our protagonists on holiday, in transporting them from Rudge Park Comprehensive to Greece’s Malia Filled with cringe-worthy, slaphead humour, The Inbetweeners is only redeemed by Simon Bird’s cynical voiceover, some genuinely funny moments and female characters who give as good as they get. ‘‘Updates the teen summer holiday formula surprisingly entertainingly, considering it doesn’t subvert it Tonight, 8.30pm Three Eight months after we left the residents of Jaipur’s Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and things are tickety-boo.
The hotel is full up, with nobody checking out except to depart this world entirely.
That’s persuaded Sonny (Dev Patel) to look to expand the operation and he has his eyes firmly set on the rundown but one iota,’’ wrote The Guardian’s Steve Rose. This Way of Life 8.30pm, Maori TV A candid and intimate portrait of a warm and likeable family nearby Supreme Quality Hotel. He just needs investors.
The success of the first film was always going to be hard to replicate, but director John Madden and screenwriter Ol Parker did a great job in 2015 of retaining the chutzpah and cast chemistry that made the original such a charmer, while also adding a few new elements and characters (played by Richard Gere and Tamsin Greig) into the mix.
Stuffed full of subplots and who live what seems like a longlost lifestyle, this 2009 Kiwi documentary is at once joyous and melancholy. Director Thomas Burstyn’s cinematography, all moody landscapes and lush greens, adds to the atmosphere, as does Joel Haines’ acoustic guitardominated soundtrack. sexual tension, some viewers may be disappointed with the once over lightly treatment of many of their favourites (especially when the tale finds room for an extended Bollywood dance number), but it’s hard not to like a tale that boasts such delights as a gentle, slow-burning relationship between Bill Nighy’s Douglas and Judi Dench’s Evelyn and Dame Maggie Smith ranting against America and its serving of tepid tea. – James Croot The Transporter 8.30pm, Three Jason Statham stars in this 2002 action-thriller about a specialised courier whose life is thrown into chaos when he is asked to shift a package that