Thursday’s TV tips
(2002) Gurinder Chadha’s unabashedly feelgood comedy is a hugely entertaining mix of East Is East and Billy Elliot, about a young woman striving to realise her dreams on and off the soccer pitch.
Eighteen-year-old Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) is a hard-working Indian girl with one abiding passion: David Beckham.
More than anything, she wants to join her idol on the football pitch, but her parents (Anupam Kher, Shaheen Khan) will never accept a football player for a daughter.
Nagra makes us fall in love with plucky Jess from the get-go but Khan steals the movie as the girl’s no-nonsense mother. The script scores countless belly laughs, laced with tears for the rousing finale.
One in four British households own a dog, so some of the issues raised in this series hosted by Mark Evans affect quite a lot of us.
For those who don’t have a pet pooch, maybe you are thinking of getting one eventually and can use the interactive show to take tips from Mark and his team? If you have no desire at all to get a dog, perhaps this series will confirm you were right, or otherwise.
Tonight, surveillance footage reveals how chihuahua Marley has become territorial, leaving a smelly urine trail around his house, and destroying the furniture. Meanwhile, alsatian sisters Tasha and Kes have forced their owners to lead separate lives.
Mark Evans and the experts are on hand to give their views on this and other canine behaviour, and investigate whether dogs can feel emotions such as jealousy and guilt.
Dylan is on the lookout for new talent so he goes to Gastown to meet aspiring actress Shaynee.
Its Vancouver Fashion Week and Sean is styling the opening show for Designer Olya Shisenka. With only an hour until showtime things are manic backstage.
Sean can’t handle the backstage chaos and decides to take matters into his own hands. He starts coordinating the show, and things begin to improve.
As the show begins Sean is in his comfort zone, in charge and ready to go. However now the pressure falls on Nicola.
John Torode and Gregg Wallace return to put their taste buds through a range of lip-smacking and possibly distasteful dishes, as they seek out which stars have the palate and skill to secure a place in the semi-finals.
This first episode sees singers Sarah Harding and Chesney Hawkes, TV presenter Yvette Fielding, and actors Sheree Murphy and Tish Potter face the infamous invention test.
Then, two of the celebs are thrown in at the deep end at Asian cuisine specialists, Novikov, while the other three try to deliver the award-winning modern menu of Sixtyone.
Finally, back at MasterChef HQ, the contestants prepare a two-course menu of their own choosing, before John and Gregg make their decisions.
Stewart delves deeper into the apparent suicide of his best friend Callum, uncovering secrets and lies in Stonemouth’s close-knit community.
He soon realises his questions are ruffling feathers – even his godfather, local businessman Mike MacAvett, is behaving strangely, warning Stewart to leave well alone.
The only person he can turn to is ex-girlfriend Ellie, and despite their troubled past, they work together to expose the sinister forces behind Callum’s death. Conclusion of the mystery based on Iain Banks’ novel, starring Christian Cooke, Charlotte Spencer, Gary Lewis and Peter Mullan.
Documentary about a rural African tribe living together in four mud huts in southern Ethiopia.
It’s a stressful time for family elders Ayke Muko and Kerri Bodo, whose son is due to get married to a girl from a neighbouring village.
However, after failed dowry negotiations, relations between the two families have broken down. Meanwhile, their only daughter remaining at home is Hacho, who is next in line to marry.
As she clings on to her last few months of freedom, she skips family dinners, dishes out endless backchat and steals her mother’s money – just like any other rebellious teenager.
An insight into the development of forensic science over the past 200 years, charting the scientific breakthroughs that have changed the course of justice.
Surgeon Gabriel Weston begins by looking at the difficulty of identifying the body in a murder case, from charred bones to bodies completely dissolved in acid.
She focuses on the use of teeth and bite marks to identify a victim or killer, traces the uses of insects to pinpoint the time of death, and meets the geneticist who pioneered the technique of DNA profiling.
The documentary focuses on marriage, following the stories of four wives whose husbands all have dementia.
Jenny, June, Sheila and June meet regularly at Ivy House, a respite day centre in Eastbourne, run by Jane Lowe. Jane’s approach is to help the women hold on to their loved ones for as long as possible by encouraging them to build new memories.
While 75-year-old Mike travels back to his time in Australia, his peer George travels to the Angel of the North. Last in the series.
(1984) Turn the volume dial up to 11 for Rob Reiner’s hysterical mockumentary about the British heavy metal outfit, who lay claim to being the loudest band on the planet.
Film-maker Marti DeBergi (Rob Reiner) decides to make a probing documentary about British heavy metallers Spinal Tap, comprising childhood pals David St Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), bass player Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), keyboardist Viv Savage (David Kaff) and an ill-fated assortment of drummers.
Interviews with band members are intercut with concert footage as DeBergi peeks behind the puffed chests and inflated egos of the music scene and exposes the corruption and vice that lie beneath. The poster tagline sums it up so well: “Does for rock’n’roll what The Sound Of Music did for hills.”
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