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Ray D’Arcy chats to children from all over the country to find out if the school around the corner is just the same.
Dishing the dirt on their parents and even their grandparents this week are the children of Presentation Primary School Kilkenny and St Ultans School Cherry Orchard.
This week the celebrity going back to their old school this, is man of many voices, Mario Rosenstock, who gets quite a shock when he returns to his Primary school Waterpark National School, Waterford.
There are some cars so iconic that even people who would usually be hard-pressed to recognise a classic motor if it ran over them at a zebra crossing can identify them.
Thanks to its starring role in Back to the Future and its famous gullwing doors, the DeLorean DMC-12 fits firmly into that category.
But sadly, even a striking design can’t guarantee success – disappointing sales, cash-flow problems and allegations of poor quality control meant the DeLorean failed to take off.
Fortunately, some people are still working to keep the model on the road, including in this episode Philip Glenister and Ant Anstead.
While Ant gets on with restoring one of the cars – although we can’t guarantee he’ll fix a new time-travelling flux capacitor – Philip heads to US to learn more about the story behind it, meeting workers from the original production site and John DeLorean’s daughter.
The British Soap Awards returns to celebrate another mammoth year in soap opera, looking back on twelve months-worth of murder, mystery, make ups, break ups, trials, tribulations, tears and heartache.
The 16th annual awards, which take place for the first time at London’s iconic Hackney Empire theatre, will honour the nation’s biggest and best-loved TV shows, as well as the stars that have portrayed the characters in this year’s most talked about storylines. The five biggest soaps - Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks - will be battling it out to win recognition for their work over the past year.
Stars from all five soaps will be hitting the red carpet for the most star-studded event in the soap calendar. Hosted by Phillip Schofield, the awards will be presented by an array of well-known faces from across the TV and showbiz world.
Bruce Forsyth is arguably Britain’s king of light entertainment – he may have recently stepped down as the presenter of Strictly Come Dancing, but there aren’t many people who can claim to have helmed a ratings-topping Saturday night show in their eighties.
However, if he was asked to choose the ultimate all-round entertainer, it seems he would probably opt for his old mate Sammy Davis Jr.
They first met at a Royal Variety Performance in 1960, and were friends up until Sammy’s death 30 years later.
In this documentary, the last in the current series of Perspectives, Forsyth looks back over the career of the American singer, dancer and actor looking at how he emerged from the dying days of vaudeville to conquer film, TV, music and the theatre – and earn himself a spot in the Rat Pack.
But despite his remarkable talent, success did not come easy, as the programme explores the racism and bigotry Davis had to face on his climb to the top.
This enjoyably edgy comic-book action comedy sees Aaron Johnson cast as an American teenager who becomes a real-life superhero.
Although his amateur crime-fighting adventures make him a media sensation, he is soon in over his head as he crosses paths with a gangster and a lethal father-daughter vigilante team.
Director Matthew Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman proved you don’t need a huge budget and a well-known comic-book series to make a great movie.
Their tale, based on a Mark Millar comic, is superbly crafted, and the movie is brilliantly cast with Chloe Grace Moretz stealing the show as foul-mouthed young crime-fighter Hit Girl – her career has gone from strength to strength since appearing in this.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage
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Toby Jones is as superb as ever in this critically acclaimed drama. He plays Gilderoy, a shy sound engineer who lives in the peace and quiet of Dorking with his mother (Suzy Kendall).
He is ushered to an Italian film studio where director Gianfranco Santini (Antonio Mancino) is currently shooting a grisly horror called The Equestrian Vortex under the guidance of producer Francesco Coraggio (Cosimo Fusco).
Gilderoy must create the sound effects for the graphic on-screen action. Within the claustrophobic confines of the sound studio, our hero becomes immersed in his meticulous work and sickening fantasy begins to leech into reality.
This is an offbeat, low-budget gem. Confusing at times, intriguing at others, the narrative is bound to keep you on the edge of your seat right up until the end credits roll.
Visually, the whole piece is stunning, and Toby Jones is perfectly cast for the lead role.
Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Antonio Mancino
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