TV tonight: inside the Thames Water £3bn emergency debt package crisis | Television
Thames Water: In the crisis 9pmBBC 2 Thames Water, the UK's largest water company, recently won a controversial £3 billion emergency debt package for at least several months to prevent it from collapse. As customer bills increase and sewage continues to flow to the coast and rivers, the two will enter the company for the […]
TV tonight: an essential report on the civil war in Sudan | Television
Unreported world 7:30pm, Channel 4This documentary strand may be a dark testimony to the miserable amounts the world can produce, but it is just as essential as ever. Krishnan Guru Mursie is in Sudan exploring the horrifying aspects of the ongoing civil war. Approximately 30 million people need humanitarian assistance, certain areas experience hunger, and […]
Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in new John le Carré TV show | Television
Matthew McFadien was cast as George Smiley in a new television series based on the novel by John Le Carré. Various trade publications, including Variety and Deadline, reported on Thursday that the 50-year-old successor star will play Le Curre's most famous Spook on a television show called Legacy of Spies. Le Carré's bestselling novels were […]
TV tonight: how Michael Sheen’s mega ‘debt heist’ helped hundreds of people | Television
Michael Sheen's Secret pound million prize Monday, 9pm, Channel 4 Michael Sheen is attempting to “debt robbery.” I use my £100,000 of my own money to buy £1 million in debt from people in South Wales and write it down. How is this possible? In the documentary following his mission, the scene explains the secondary […]
TV tonight: exciting times as the Dope Girls nightclub opens for business | Television & radio
Dope Girls 9.15pm, BBC One It's an exciting time for Kate (Julian Nicholson) and Billy (Umi Myers) as they prepare to open the club. But they are trying to learn memorable lessons about the consequences of upsetting Italian criminal families. Meanwhile, Violet (the great Livewire Eliza Scanlen) becomes even deeper mask. It's not more than […]
Fear review – an extraordinarily creepy tale of a stalker … with added Martin Compston | Television & radio
fThe ears open with someone being transported from a rather gorgeous home, in a rather unprepared body bag. As is traditional in all TV dramas, we flash back and find out that things are very wrong. So the plot begins as the family, a historically important townhouse on Glasgow's gorgeous western tip, moves excitedly with […]
Dope Girls review – the dodgy accents could give Peaky Blinders a run for its money | Television
tHis Peaky Blind comparison has been flying around ever since filming with Dope Girls began, so it sounds like the BBC wants to have their successors in his hand. Certainly there are some superficial similarities between the two. The Dope Girls are set in 1918 and deal with the aftermath of World War I as […]
TV tonight: a vital film about young people in Gaza | Television
Gaza: How to survive the Warzone 9pm, BBC 2The teenager will share this absolutely important film about what life has been like for young people in Gaza since October 7, 2023. 13-year-old Abdullah shows the fear around him, so his feet are sharp and sometimes surprisingly indifferent. You will also meet Tiktalker Renad's dishes, which […]
The Gorge to Compartment No 6: the seven best films to watch on TV this week | Television & radio
This week's pickCanyon Lithuanian sniper Drasa (Anya Taylor Joy) and retired US Marine Sharpshooter Levi (Miles Terror) are separately selected for the same finest job. They are located on the other side – one run by Russia and another American – their remote meet cutes develop into romance beyond the gap. Scott Derrickson's sophisticated horror […]
26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon review – the inmates who find redemption in running | Television & radio
cThe inside of Hristine Yoo's intelligent, caring, deeply moving film, 26.2 To Life: San Quentin Prison Marathon, follows some of the prisoners at California's largest security facility. Mostly serving life sentences run 100 laps in prison yards that cannot weave or get out of the way, along barely marked tracks. I'm getting ready. . They […]