The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
TOWER BLOCK
Channel 5, 11.05pm
A year after a youth is beaten to death on their doorstep, the residents of the top floor of a London tower block – all their neighbours have been rehoused – find themselves trapped in the building and picked off by an unknown sniper. Jack O’Connell (This is England) gets the wittiest lines in this gritty urban thriller, while Sheridan Smith gives a charming and natural performance which almost compensates for the fairly illogical plot.
The most venerable of golf ’s four major events continues, entering its third day then concluding on Sunday. Past champions Pádraig Harrington and Ernie Els failed to make it past Friday last year; who will miss the 2019 cut? On Thursday, the circus flies off to Tennessee for the St Jude Invitational (SS Golf/ Main Event, 7pm/10pm). which began as a means of preserving the spirit of the 2012 Olympics, is held at London Stadium in Stratford. The highlights for British fans on Saturday include Laura Muir taking on world and Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon (Kenya) in the 1500m. On Sunday, Dina Asher-Smith faces Shelly-Ann FraserPryce (Jamaica) in the 100m (BBC One, 1.20pm).
With Wimbledon fever at last dying down, the ATP Tour returns to the weekly grind in Germany. Nikoloz Basilashvili will defend his crown against a feisty field including Dominic Thiem and Fabio Fognini. Over on the women’s tour, two events begin on Monday: the WTA Baltic Open (BT Sport 1, noon) and Palermo Open (BT Sport 3, 3pm). The quarter-finals of all three events are on Friday.
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