The Mercury

And Lamorne Morris

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turbulent ride of three companies whose founders were trying to change the world using the new technology of the internet.

Before Google, Netscape (spoiler alert: this show is likely to make us feel old) pioneered the first commercial web browser and launched the “browser wars” with Microsoft.

Before Facebook, theglobe. com was a rapidly expanding social networking site built by dreamers on a university campus. And before YouTube, a con artist on the run from the FBI reinvented himself in Silicon Valley to start a streaming video company called Pixelon, resulting in an entreprene­urial rise and fall almost too insane to be believed.

Valley of the Boom features an ensemble cast led by two-time Emmy award-winning actor Bradley Whitford (The Post, The West Wing), Steve Zahn (War Of The Planet Of The Apes, Dallas Buyers Club)

(Game Night, New Girl).

Last but not least, Jamie Cooks Italy puts the Parmesan on the pasta of a satisfying­ly diverse viewing list. In this new series, Jamie Oliver is joined by longtime friend and mentor Gennaro Contaldo as they travel around the villages of Italy meeting the

nonnas (grandmothe­rs) who share their decades of experience and dishes made with love, care and oodles of time.

When Oliver was on Graham Norton, he said filming had taken more than two years because the lovely ladies would not be rushed.

Jamie Cooks Italy combines travel and food beautifull­y and there is an accompanyi­ng book. Watch it on BBC Lifestyle, Wednesdays at 8pm.

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