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STREAMING
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, Netflix, from Sunday
For some, Chris Rock is best known for being the chap slapped by Will Smith at last year’s Oscars. But they haven’t, presumably, seen any of his acting work or, perhaps more importantly, his stand-up. The latter is how Rock first made his name in showbusiness; he was mentored by Eddie Murphy, who befriended Rock after seeing his nightclub act before going on to appear in movies such as Dogma and Grown Ups, and the TV series Fargo; sitcom Everybody Hates Chris was also based on his youth. But now Rock is returning to his roots for this comedy special,
Netflix’s first global livestreaming event.
DRAMA
Paris Police 1905, BBC4, 9pm, Saturday Turn-of-the-20th-century Paris was clearly a dangerous place. In raunchy historical drama Paris Police 1900, we saw lowly but principled cop Antoine Jouin encounter all manner of corruption and exploitation in the French capital. As its title suggests, Paris Police 1905 is set a few years on, and will once again explore a twisted world of murder and lies in the City of Light. It begins on Christmas
Eve 1904, when the Paris police department – under the orders of Police Chief Lépine – sets out to clean prostitutes off the city’s streets.
GAME SHOW
Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel, BBC1, 6.50pm, Saturday
Will tonight’s seven celebrities help or hinder the three contestants aiming to win a big cash prize? Those taking a seat on the giant spinning wheel are comedians Katherine Ryan and Judi Love, YouTuber Harry Pinero, the Rev Richard Coles,
Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills, TV presenter Mark Wright, and psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry.
FACTUAL
Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers, BBC2, 8pm, Sunday
Aren’t rivers brilliant? In this two-part programme, the comedian, fisherman and waterways campaigner travels around England and Wales looking at the pressures affecting our rivers from water companies, intensive agriculture and growing population. In the first edition, Paul travels through the north of England, looking at the impact those companies are having on our rivers. He explores the change in the water industry since privatisation in 1989 and what regulations are in place when it comes to sewage discharge. He meets concerned locals in Yorkshire looking to highlight the health of the River Wharfe, as well as a conservationist who warns of the ecological decline in the iconic Lake Windemere.
SERIES
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry, Channel 5, 7pm, Sunday
For the final programme, Stephen Fry heads 66 million years into the past, to the fateful last days of the dinosaurs, to see how the plant-eaters fought back against predators like the deadly Tyrannosaurus rex. He also witnesses firsthand how a light in the sky became an extraordinary extra-terrestrial threat which signalled the end of the dinosaurs’ reign on earth.