TV & Radio
Highlights and listings.
DRAMA Professor T
This remake of a Belgian drama sees Ben Miller play uptight, punctual, OCD Professor Jasper Tempest, a brilliant Cambridge University criminologist who finds himself giving advice to the police when former student Lisa Donckers, now a DI with the local force played by Emma Naomi, turns to him for help to solve the case of a woman who has been attacked on campus. As the series unfolds, it explores the complex private lives of a diverse and engaging cast of characters, not least Professor T himself and the troubling effect that childhood trauma invariably has on adult psychology.
Also starring Frances de la Tour as Tempest’s overbearing mother Adelaide and Barney White as young police officer Dan Winters. Tomorrow, STV, 9pm
DOCUMENTARY Reclaiming Amy
To mark the ten-year anniversary of the death of Amy Winehouse, her closest family and friends, who were with her throughout her life until the very end, reveal the truth about the music icon and the impact that her loss has had on them.
Amy’s mother Janis, who has never spoken in depth on camera before, wants to reclaim the legacy of her daughter, celebrating Amy as the complex woman she was, and telling a version of events that often differs from the story of the singer that has so far been told.
Followed by Amy Winehouse At Portchester Hall – BBC Sessions at 10pm.
Friday, BBC2, 9pm
DOCUMENTARY Born To Be Wild
In this second series of Born to Be Wild, staff at the SSPCA Wildlife
Rescue centre in Clackmannanshire are involved in more animal adventures. Over the ten part series the team get to grips with cases including a beaver trapped in a sluice gate, fawns in need of care and a bat stuck in a light fitting.
Monday, BBC Scotland, 8pm
DOCUMENTARY
Secrets Of The Museum
Cameras return to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for a new series. In the first episode Theatre and Performance keeper Geoff takes delivery of a red Lurex suit, belonging to bass player Jim Lea from Slade and a 500-year-old wax, modelled by the great Renaissance master Michelangelo, is brought out of hibernation. This Michelangelo model, made as a template for a much larger sculpture, is one of the greatest treasures of the V&A.
Tuesday, BBC2, 8pm
DOCUMENTARY Uprising
In the early hours of 18 January 1981 a birthday party in New Cross, South London ended in a fire, killing 13 young black British people. The tragedy and its aftermath would ignite an uprising by the black British community, which is chronicled in this three-part documentary.
The series begins by recounting the build up to the fire and introduces some of the young people who would go to the party as they share their experiences of growing up black and British amidst the escalating tensions and violent racism of the 1970s. Their lives bring them into contact with police harassment, the rise of the National Front and the dramatic confrontation of the ‘battle of Lewisham.’
Tuesday to Thursday, BBC1, 9pm
SPORT
The Hundred
When Test cricket left terrestrial TV for Sky in 2006, the game made lots more money but lost the opportunity to grow its fanbase. This new broadcast-on-the-bbc format which features 10-ball overs and time outs is the English Cricket Board’s solution to try and inspire a new generation of fans to the game.
Wednesday and Thursday, BBC2, 6pm