WHAT’S HOT TO WATCH TODAY
IF you feel as though you need a bit more time to recharge your batteries before nipping back to the BIG BROTHER house – where tonight of course we have the latest noncelebby LIVE LAUNCH (9pm, Channel 5) – then can I suggest you pop over for now to BBC Four? Yes, I can. And indeed I just have. Why? Because it’s showing nearly three solid hours of stuff featuring the late, great Amy Winehouse.
Two of these programmes, admittedly, are repeats. Namely, her BBC SESSIONS (10pm) and ARENA: AMY WINEHOUSE – THE DAY SHE CAME TO DINGLE (10.50pm), about a memorable trip the singer made to County Kerry back in 2006, when she was aged just 22.
But the one that goes out before both of these, CLASSIC ALBUMS (9pm), is a brilliant new thing about the remarkable, multi-million-selling, knock-yoursocks-off record Amy released that year, Back To Black.
That was the one that included tracks such as Rehab and which effectively catapulted her to global megastardom. A mind-boggling status-boost, of course, and one which, while sending her career into the stratosphere, pushed Amy into territory she was maybe too emotionally fragile to cope with. ELSEWHERE, A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES (9pm, Sky One) is a new Oxford-set drama about an American historian (Teresa Palmer) who’s playing down her witchy heritage, until she stumbles upon an ancient manuscript that forces her to face up to it – and which also happens to lands her in grave danger. Other stars include Matthew Goode as the vampire guy she ends up forming an alliance with.