Friday TV Tips: Were you one of the 'attractive' extras in The Great Train Robbery?
The Great Train Robbery: 'attractive male and female' extras wanted
A prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a geologist to find gold in Indonesia. Stars Matthew McConaughey, Édgar Ramírez, and Bryce Dallas Howard. Loosely based on the true story of the 1993 Bre-X mining scandal.
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down star in this true-life action thriller, based on director/screenwriter Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, about a daring gold heist that shocked Victorian society. And some movie trivia: Some scenes were filmed in Cork and Heuston Station in Dublin and used as 'London Bridge Station' in the film. An ad in the then Cork Examiner on June 6, 1978 was looking for "attractive male and female film extras".
A teenager doing a school project on missing children discovers that he looks very much like an age-progression photo of a missing child. Once it is revealed that he was abducted as a child he goes in search of his real identity as shadowy agents pursue him. Action thriller, starring Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins and Sigourney Weaver.
Six-part drama headed by Sandra Oh. Dr Ji-Yoon Kim is navigating her new role as the Chair of English at prestigious Pembroke University, and faces with a unique set of challenges as the first woman to head the department, and being one of the few staff members of colour on campus.
Eight-part series starring Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy. Set at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises to provide healing and transformation, nine stressed-to-the-gills city dwellers attempt to unplug and get on a path to a better, healthier way of living.
BBC World Service, 8.30pm: Marnie Chesterton makes the case for our skin — the largest, fastest-growing organ, hiding in plain sight on our body.
Lyric FM, 9pm: World-premiere recordings of music by American composer Joan Tower, with percussionist Evelyn Glennie; and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, playing Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata.
