By hook or by rookie...
Christ! Xmas ...in August? TUESDAY with SIMON DEAN
12noon – C5,
IF you are infirm of mind, you may feel the need to spend the day with Channel Five as they’re screening four – yes, FOUR – Christmas movies.
In the first, two schools are merged, and rivalries develop between students and staff.
The music teachers from the two schools realise that only one of them will be kept on as they coach their choirs for a televised Christmas singing contest.
Romantic drama, with Natasha Henstridge and Gabe Hogan.
And yes, you haven’t been in a coma for several months, it IS only August.
– ITV, 9pm
SEEMS we just can’t get enough of fly- on- the- wall cop documentaries.
This show follows trainee officers in Surrey Police, charting their progress as they venture out onto the streets under the watchful eyes of experienced veterans.
The rookie law enforcers include 29- year- old Tyne, who has made a radical career move from dance instructor to trainee Police Officer.
Cameras also follow 19- year- old Angus, who is leaving a close family home in rural Somerset where he worked in a call centre, to take on a career which will push him to his limits. NEW series. Drama set in the remote Scottish Highland village of Braeston, focusing on the aftermath when two childhood sweethearts are killed on their return from honeymoon.
Their families are devastated to hear of their deaths, but their world is turned upside down when the murderer arrives, badly injured, on their doorstep the night after the killing, leaving them with a terrible dilemma.
Gripping bit of entertainment starring Juliet Stevenson, Joanna Vanderham, Laura Fraser and Joe Dempsie. RUSSELL Crowe is no slouch in this excellent conspiracy thriller based on the BBC TV mini- series. He brings a raw intensity to the role of slovenly Washington journalist Cal McAffrey, who smells a rat when a political aide employed by his old college pal and rising Congressman Stephen Collins ( Ben Affleck) turns up dead.
The intricately woven plot sees McAffrey chasing down a high- ranking politician ( a sinister Jeff Daniels) and rankling his editor ( a typically hard- nosed Helen Mirren).