Today's TV tips
Many of us may dream of opening our own restaurant, but the fact is they’re more likely to go bust than many other business ventures. You need deep pockets, cast-iron nerves and a lot of luck if you’re going to beat the odds.
Thankfully dining guru Russell Norman is on hand to guide assorted wannabe restaurateurs through the minefield of the food industry.
In this week’s final episode, he comes to the aid of two sisters. They’re opening a cafe in the Warwickshire village of Dunchurch – so far so good – but the snag is that neither of them can cook and they have no professional catering experience.
Russell advises them on how to maximise the takings from what is a limited daytime menu, all the while encouraging them to think on a much bigger scale.
He also takes the siblings to Paris and an upmarket London hotel so they can be inspired by a range of profitable dishes and personalised service.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present a show aiming to help people reunite with long-lost relatives.
Jennifer Wilson from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, tells of her search for the twin sister from whom she was separated at birth, and Karen Lloyd from Warwickshire discusses how she has spent the past 20 years trying to track down her father (1/6).
There was a time when teenagers could get on with being teenagers without fear of a camera crew and their folks watching their ever move.
However, like gatecrashers at a party, worried mums and dads – together with camera crews – keep turning up in often sun-kissed locations to tut and sigh at their kids’ antics.
As you have probably gathered, the latest variation on the video entrapment theme takes place at the good old British music festival.
In the second of a two-parter, we meet 18-year-old Hannah from Stoke. She is in Sundown, Norfolk, for her first festival experience. With university just around the corner, she wants to prove she can stand on her own two feet.
Alas, her confessions soon leave her parents squirming with embarrassment.
We also meet Bristol-based ladies’ man Harry, whose treatment of the opposite sex leaves a lot to be desired.
Will he learn the error of his ways?
This brand-new topical discussion programme, chaired by the inimitable Vincent Browne will give the people of Ireland a platform to discuss important issues and voice their opinions in the media.
The People’s Debate with Vincent Browne is a monthly, two-hour-long debate style show broadcast in front of a live TV3 Sony HD Studio audience.
With a diverse range of hard hitting, intelligent and probing topics, the interactive audience, along with Vincent, deal with serious current affairs issues in Ireland - from topical matters, political discussion, economics and the affairs of the nation.
Tonight the motion being raised is ‘The Government Deserves the Confidence of the People’. This is democracy television.
Adapted from the best-selling book Schindler’s Ark, it tells the story of businessman Oskar Schindler, who came to Poland during the Second World War.
He was keen to make a killing selling pots and pans to the German army, whose upper ranks he befriended.
However, instead of lining his own pockets, the Austrian entrepreneur chose to use his wealth to buy the lives of thousands of Jews, saving them from the horrors of the concentration camps and certain death.
This black and white masterpiece reveals the harsh cruelty of the Nazis toward the Jews in Poland, and pays particular attention to Schindler’s relationship with camp commander Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes, in an astonishing performance).
It’s not for the faint-hearted, but it remains a compelling and moving film.
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz
97%
Inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, this fact-based drama follows the story of two police officers who were trapped in the wreckage of one of the Twin Towers while they oversaw the evacuation of survivors from the building.
It also examines the effects of the tragic incident on their families.
The first theatrical film to portray the collapse of the World Trade Center towers examines events almost everyone across the world knows well, but paints a human face on tragedy through the true story of Port Authority officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno.
The pair are played by Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena respectively, who do great justice to an intelligent script that refuses to become entrenched in political debate.
Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Connor Paolo
68%
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