The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
FRIGHT NIGHT
1985 Horror Channel, 9pm ÌÌÌÌÌ
Vampires have never fallen out of fashion, but Tom Holland’s sexy, disturbing and gory take on the genre marked a new benchmark. You can trace its influence all the way through the
2011 Colin Farrell remake to Twlight and Let the Right One In. The film follows Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) who thinks that his new neighbour is a vampire but no one believes him. So who does he call? The host of his favourite TV show, of course.
This nostalgic featurelength documentary chronicles the birth of the New Romantic music and fashion scene at the short-lived London nightclub Blitz in 1979-80. Gary Kemp, Midge Ure and Boy George are among those reminiscing about misspending their youth at the club, with several recalling George’s stint as a light-fingered coat-check assistant.
BBC One, 9pm
One of the things I’ve most enjoyed about Chris Brandon’s noir thriller is the way in which it has confounded expectations, presenting viewers with a world in which terrible actions have been suppressed in the name of justice. That notion is driven home in a tense final episode which sees detective Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt) under increased scrutiny as the truth about the assassin nicknamed “Goliath” bubbles up to the surface.
With an estimated 500,000 people in the UK suffering from long Covid, Fatima Manji narrates and Sally Ogden reports from Bradford, one of the communities worst-hit by Covid, to consider whether the NHS is
equipped to deal with the years after the outbreak of the pandemic. in Welsh art prompted by the still-striking experiments of Augustus John and James Dickson Innes, influenced as they were by Picasso and the French PostImpressionists, and perpetuated today by multidisciplinary artists including Daniel Trivedy and Bedwyr Williams.