Lights, Cameron, action
SORRY to utter the B word, but tonight’s TV demands it. Brexit has thrown the country into crisis and there are many who point the finger of blame for it in one direction – at the man who called the 2016 referendum in the first place, David Cameron.
Our former PM seems to know it, too, for he’s been pretty much AWOL since disappearing from Downing Street three years ago, holing up ever since in Chipping Somewhere or other.
But now Cameron is sticking his head above the parapet once again for THE CAMERON INTERVIEW (ITV, 8pm), not least because he’s
got a memoir to sell.Tonight, Mr Cameron will reflect on his 11-year stint as leader of the Conservative Party with newsman Tom Bradby, describing the ups and downs and his thoughts on that Leave vote and its consequences for the country, which are still being thrashed out rather painfully.
Let’s hope Bradby takes his chance to give Cameron a bit of a grilling – it’s about time somebody did.
Hats off to ITV.They’ve eased the sadness of summer’s passing with a slew of great dramas, like the rip-roaring costumer Sanditon and A CONFESSION (ITV, 9pm). It’s the sort of real-life detective drama the channel does well.
Martin Freeman excels as real-life detective Steve Fulcher, who went so seriously off-piste when trying to catch a serial killer that he sabotaged his own career, yet he got the answers he and the victims’ families had sought for so long.
Tonight’s third instalment sees Fulcher questioning prime suspect Christopher Halliwell about missing woman Sian O’Callaghan.
But after the cop refuses Halliwell’s request to go to a police station, Halliwell and Fulcher head off on an odyssey that will end up steering the investigation into the unknown.
Fulcher gets a bit muddled between the requirements of his job and the opportunity he seizes to get closure for the community.
There are plenty of lessons in BBC2’s RISE OF THE NAZIS (BBC2, 9pm) about how tyrannical leaders can spread hate and manipulate the masses to follow them. The series has reminded us, chillingly, how a liberal and democratic Germany was transformed into a murderous dictatorship in a matter of four years.
Most interesting has been enlightening commentary from the likes of Baroness Helena Kennedy and Professor Sir Richard Evans discussing the motivations of politicians and officers who held similar jobs to theirs in Nazi Germany.
Tonight’s final episode focuses on the Night of the Long Knives in summer 1934, when Hitler ordered the executions of at least 85 political and military rivals he deemed a threat to the Nazi Party.