BEST OF THE REST
THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE
BBC1, 9PM
JOE LYCETT is in a council bin. So everything is pretty much as sane as normal then.
If you haven’t guessed, it’s reduce, reuse, recycle week.
“The remaining sewers have to make fabulous creations with things that were destined for the bin,” he says.
All the fabric in the haberdashery has been replaced with charity shop clothes and soft furnishings.
It kicks off with a pattern for a men’s bomber jacket, which must be made from up to four secondhand women’s garments. Watch out for judge Esme Young sporting her own standout bomber jacket complete with skull motif.
In the transformation challenge, the seven sewers have to turn laundry bags into something you’d actually wear.
And then they have to use old knitwear to create a made-to-measure jumper dress.
Who will unravel and who will prompt Patrick to say: “I think it’s one of the best things I’ve seen on Sewing Bee”?
It’s all shear madness.
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SKY DOCUMENTARIES / NOW TV, 9PM
A MYSTERIOUS Uncle Jerry, a bold heist and an FBI sting, with millions of dollars stolen from a fast food game. You couldn’t make it up.
In fact, a movie is already in the works, with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon involved.
In the meantime, watch this twistfilled documentary series about an ex-cop turned security auditor dubbed ‘Uncle Jerry’ who rigged a McDonald’s Monopoly ‘peel and play’ game for a decade, building up a vast network of co-conspirators across America.
“Between 1989 and 2001, there were no legitimate winners of the high value game pieces. How crazy bullsh** is that!” says FBI special agent Doug Mathews.
The true story begins with a tip to the FBI in Jacksonville, Florida, that the most recent $3m winners were related.
“You’ve got more chance of being struck by lightning in Florida than that happening,” says assistant US attorney Mark Devereaux.
“Then we knew there was a problem.”