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THIS WEEK’S BEST FILMS
SATURDAY
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2017) (BBC1, 6.50pm)
Will Turner’s son Henry is searching for the mythical Trident of Poseidon. He meets plucky astronomer
Carina Smyth, who possesses a diary penned by Galileo Galilei containing clues to the object’s hiding place. The duo join forces and unexpectedly cross paths with Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). He is being pursued by spectral pirate Captain Armando Salazar (Javier Bardem), who has escaped from the Devil’s Triangle and intends to exact revenge.
Beautiful Boy (2018) (BBC2, 10pm)
David Sheff (Steve Carell) is a senior writer for prestigious magazines, who famously conducted the last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980. His first wife Vicki lives in Los Angeles, amicably sharing custody of their son Nic, while David builds a new life in San Francisco. David suspects Nic is in the grip of drug addiction and the concerned father persuades his boy to attend Ohlhoff Recovery Centre. Treatment appears to go well until the teenager goes AWOL and David applies his journalistic mind to learning everything about drugs and their treatment.
SUNDAY
Skyfall (2012) (ITV2, 8pm)
Arguably the best of Daniel Craig’s Bond films to date begins with 007 seemingly killed in action. It’s left to section chief M (Judi Dench) to pen his obituary as a political storm rages around her. A database of MI6 assets has fallen into the wrong hands, which puts M in the firing line and she is summoned to Westminster to explain her actions. While she fends off sustained attacks on her reputation,
viewers all about France’s judicial system, which differs from our own; the police work hand-in-hand with judges who have the power to drive investigations in certain directions, long before a trial date is set. Now the final two episodes in season eight are set to air - and they will be the last ones we’ll ever see. The good thing is, it’s set to go out with a bang probably literally. Here, as Karlsson heads back to Paris, Gilou’s life is placed in grave danger by Judge Vargas, who decides not to pursue Cisco any further.
SUNDAY
Grayson’s Art Club: Get Creating (C4, 7pm)
the death of her father, Charlotte decides it’s time she went back to school. It’s clear that Alice, however, has taken her presence for granted and struggles to deal with her grief and various problems alone. Meanwhile, the date of the inquest into Harry’s death looms ever larger, but the police are no further forward in identifying the mystery person caught on CCTV. George seems reluctant to help too, so Alice turns detective to do a little digging of her own.
10 Years Younger: Quick Tricks (C5, 10pm)
Cherry Healey and her team of specialist beauty experts deliver more beauty and fashion tips and tricks on how to roll back the years. They offer solutions to the most common ageing complaints, from dark circles and puffy eyes to saggy skin, and being afraid of getting it wrong in the style stakes. In this episode, Cherry and co give us 10 brilliant solutions to the most common ageing complaints. Plus, the host investigates how clothes and colour can transform how old we look, and she uncovers the truth about vanity labelling.
MONDAY
Mend It for Money (C4, 5pm)
As well as providing heartwarming stories, the BBC’s The Repair Shop is proof (if we needed it) that many of us are sitting on a potential goldmine of unused items in dire need of a new lease of life. In this new series, Britain’s best makers and menders go head-to-head, pitching for the job of bringing dilapidated relics back to life in the hope of making a tidy profit. In this afternoon’s first episode, former screen painter Julie has brought in a vintage FH Ayres rocking horse. Over 100 years old, this champion steed is just one of eight she has in her collection - but now it’s looking for a new home. Plus, self-employed bike restorer Kyle presents a 1930s general post office bicycle, and retired couple Monica and Tony bring in an item that sends the furniture restorers potty - a chair that’s also a toilet.
Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad (STV, 8pm)
The duo reach Slovenia, where Brad’s passion for bikes gives Barney an excuse to take his dad motocross racing, which turns out to be a very slippery challenge. Then, after hearing that one in 200 people in Slovenia is a beekeeper, they make a stop to meet one - but they won’t be seeing any bees. Instead, they will be treated to some unusual honey therapies. Upon reaching the capital city of Ljubljana, things take a magical turn when the pair join Slovenia’s national Quidditch team, before having a go at the notoriously dangerous sport of ski jumping.
The Drowning (C5, 9pm)
Has Channel 5 finally found a hit drama series to rival the much lauded offerings regularly seen on BBC and STV? Time will tell this week as this new four-part thriller is broadcast across consecutive nights. Jill Halfpenny plays fraught mum Jodie, whose son has been missing for eight years. She has been rebuilding her life since his disappearance and suspected drowning - until she sees teenager Daniel (Cody Molko), and becomes convinced he is her missing child. Whether she is right or not, her spark of hope is ignited and she commits to a dangerous path. Jonas Armstrong portrays Jason, Jodie’s brother, the only real support she has in her life, with Deborah Findlay as her mother Lynn, and Rupert PenryJones as Daniel’s father Mark, an architect who keeps a tight rein on his emotions - and his son’s life.
Long Lost Family (STV, 9pm)
Tonight’s first story follows the journey of Yasika Fernando, separated from her Sri Lankan birth mother when she was adopted, by a British couple, at a few months old.
Though Yasika has always known her birthplace to be Sri Lanka, she only discovered the truth about her start in life at the age of 18. Ever since, she has yearned to find her birth mother. Meanwhile, Richard Standen has never forgotten his son Darren, who he last saw over 50 years ago, after he and his then girlfriend unwittingly agreed to have him adopted. Now 71, Richard has found Darren’s half-sister, Kim, who it turns out has also been searching for Darren.
Boxing and the Mob - Panorama (BBC1, 9pm)
A boxing trainer shot and badly wounded. A former boxer executed in broad daylight. And a gangland killing at a weigh-in for a European title fight. Is organised crime involved in professional boxing? Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates the murky world behind the glamour of the big fights. Daniel Kinahan has been named in the courts as the head of one of Europe’s biggest drug cartels. So how did he become involved in setting up Britain’s biggest ever bout between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua?
TUESDAY
Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr (BBC2, 8pm)
It isn’t just a selection of rooms receiving makeovers during the new series - it’s the show itself. Fearne Cotton was the host of the first run, but this time around Alan Carr is taking charge of the proceedings, which means we’re probably in for a more light-hearted approach than before. Think Joe Lycett on Sewing Bee and you get the picture. It will be Alan’s job to soothe furrowed brows and keep the contestants going as their nerves take hold, while design expert Michelle Ogundehin sets the challenges and is joined each week by a guest judge. First up is Laurence LlewelynBowen, who casts an appreciative eye over the efforts of 10 wannabe professional interior designers as they set about transforming show homes in Oxford.
Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home Travels in My Own Land (STV, 8pm)
Lumley can currently be seen in Sunday night drama Finding Alice, in which she portrays the title character’s acerbic mother. But here, she’s very much playing herself, although the trip isn’t what she originally had planned - before Covid-19 hit, she’d planned to travel the spice route. When that had to be cancelled, attention turned to places closer to home in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. Lumley begins in Essex by exploring Tilbury docks, the principal port for London, before heading north to Manchester, where she makes a nostalgic return to Coronation Street - she appeared in eight episodes of the soap back in 1973. From there she travels to Whitby, to which she also has a tenuous connection - she starred in Hammer movie The Satanic Rites of Dracula, and the Yorkshire seaside town is where the vampire arrives in England in Bram Stoker’s novel.
Celebrity Best Home Cook (BBC1, 9pm)
Having friends stay over isn’t something we
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