The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Programmes
BBC Proms 2020: Last Night of the Proms This most unusual of Proms seasons concludes with a performance featuring soprano Golda Schultz and violinist Lisa Batiashvili, live from the Albert Hall. There is music from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, and it ends with the Last Night favourites. Sat 12 Sep, BBC1 20:00 (105mins).
The Singapore Grip Playwright Christopher Hampton adapted J.G. Farrell’s satirical novel for this new six-part period drama. It’s 1941 in Singapore and, far from war-torn Europe, ex-pat rubber barons have little to worry about, until the Japanese invasion looms. Sun 13 Sep, ITV1 21:00 (60mins).
Moscow Noir Stylish thriller from Walter Presents. A young investment banker gets in over his head selling shares for a Russian oil company. In Russian, Swedish and English, with subtitles. Sun 13 Sep, Channel 4 22:55 (60mins); full series available on All 4.
Britain’s Biggest Dig Long-buried – literally – stories of Georgian London are revealed in this documentary about the excavation of a cemetery in Euston, prior to HS2 construction. Tue 15 Sep, BBC2 21:00 (60mins).
Cat Tales: In from the Wild Geneticists, archaeologists, historians and others answer some of the big questions about the world’s most popular furry pet, including how did wild cats come to be domesticated, and can cats be trained? Tue 15 Sep, BBC4 21:00 (60mins).
Lost at Sea: My Dad’s Last Journey Peter Bird, the first person to row solo across the Pacific Ocean, disappeared on a voyage in 1996. In this poignant film, his son Louis pieces together his life and tries to come to terms with the painful legacy of his father’s death. Wed 16 Sep, Channel 4 22:00 (65mins).
Films
Casablanca (1942) Almost 80 years on, Casablanca still shines, thanks to some fine performances, from Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and others, and the sharpness of its script. Round up the usual suspects! Sun 13 Sep, BBC2 16:20 (100mins).
Fill the Void (2012) A portrait of a young woman in Tel Aviv’s Orthodox Hasidic community, who must balance the fallout of a family tragedy with her own hopes for marriage. Thur 17 Sep, Film4 01:35 (115mins).
Bait (2019) Network premiere of this bleakly beautiful family drama, shot in black and white on a hand-cranked camera, about two brothers and the tensions between locals and tourists in a Cornish fishing village. Thur 17 Sep, Film4 23:20 (105mins).