Thursday’s TV tips
David Dimbleby grills the three men hoping to lead their parties to victory in the UK: Conservative leader David Cameron, the Liberal Democrats’ Nick Clegg and Labour’s Ed Miliband.
This edition is conducted slightly differently to the usual QT format, with David conducting individual interviews with each leader.
So it may be less heated than usual, but given the timing, it’s more important than ever.
Who knew that the world of trainee London bus drivers was so cutthroat? Not us, until this series opened our eyes when it began just over a month ago.
Here, it reaches it’s ’final destination’ as the last episode airs and Michelle, whose driving test is fast approaching, still seems to struggle with some seemingly basic concepts – namely traffic lights.
Meanwhile, 20-year-old Sean has a near miss, and instructor Bob decides to test Nadine’s concentration by taking her into the heart of the capital, where distractions abound.
From recreational runners to rugby regulars, we see how an indulgence in contact sports leads to an increase in emergency calls.
We take a look a what ambulance crews cope with when faced with a 999 call for help, that no Paramedic ever wants to receive. and what it takes to deal with the youngest of patients - sick and injured children.
And when an unwilling teen volunteers to play in her sisters match, a half time tackle results in a serious injury, and a heated exchange between siblings when the Paramedics arrive.
Chronically shy Jordan has only ever had one short-lived job in his brother’s cafe and dreams of escaping the vicious cycle of the dole and kick starting his life.
Young mother Niamh is anxious to rectify the mistakes of her teenage years so she can find a career and set a good example for her daughter.
At our job seeking bootcamp, Jordan is pulled kicking and screaming from his shell as he completes a range of confidence-building tasks while Niamh learns how to utilise her great personality to get her foot in the door with employers.
Everyone loves a good cloak-and-dagger espionage tale, but while James Bond keeps pace with the times, with each film seeming more futuristic than the last, audiences are left longing for a more old-fashioned breed of spy.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, set in 1970s London, performed well at the box office a few years ago, and now this new series from BBC, while unrelated, continues in much the same vein. In 1972, a defecting KGB officer reveals the existence of a shady Soviet plot involving sleeper agents posted around Britain.
The charismatic leader of MI5 sets about assembling a special committee to fight back, but when the first sleeper is activated, it sparks a frantic race to identify him.
Feature-length episode bringing the curtain down on the American crime drama.
The hunt for the serial killer continues and when a public appeal for witnesses yields no results, Jane reluctantly agrees to masquerade as a renowned psychic and be used as bait in an attempt to lure out the murderer.
As he is leaving a studio after an appearance on a TV news programme, Jane’s car is rammed and he is knocked unconscious – waking up to find himself shackled to a table. Simon Baker and Robin Tunney star. Last in the series.
(2010) Truck driver Paul Conroy is attacked during a convoy run in Iraq and wakes inside a crudely constructed coffin. With no obvious way out, Paul discovers a mobile phone with a weak signal and hurriedly calls for help.
As anxiety takes hold in the cramped confines of his prison, Paul discovers that terrorists have placed him in the box and want a five million dollar ransom.
Rodrigo Cortes’s thriller daringly asks us to invest all of our emotions in just one character - who spends the entire film on screen trapped in a single, cramped location.
Luckily, leading man Ryan Reynolds sustains the interest for 94 nail-biting minutes, while Cortes doesn’t allow his camera to escape from the subterranean prison for a second.
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