Wednesday’s TV tips
Ash returns to work following his violent encounter with Yorkie and becomes convinced a big shipment of drugs is being planned.
Cartwright is sceptical, so Ash secretly begins to investigate on his own. Kim is horrified to discover that ex-boyfriend Connor has used their relationship to feed intelligence to Stannard, while extensive surveillance on Docker yields nothing.
David Olusoga traces the bitter propaganda war waged between the pro-slavery lobby and the abolitionists and reveals how, in 1834, the British government arrived at the decision to compensate Britain’s 46,000 slave owners with the equivalent of £17bn in today’s money.
He goes on to investigate what happened to the wealth generated from the slave trade and the compensation pay-out, revealing links to aspects of Britain’s industrialisation in the 19th century, expansion of the railway network, and a number of the country’s most well-known institutions.
New series. Students Brooke and Tim, both aged 23, who became inseparable when they met in their first term at university, become parents for the first time and have difficulty deciding on a name for their baby, while things don’t go according to plan in theatre for 40-year-old Hayley.
She is afraid of being separated from her 23-year-old partner Nick, after he became critically ill during the pregnancy as a result of contracting pneumonia and septicaemia.
Meanwhile, Tara, aged 36, has chosen her 16-year-old daughter Courtney as her birthing partner.
(1997) One of the North's most notorious terrorists, Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) escapes to New York, where he, under the name of Rory Devaney, with support of friendly Judge Peter Fitzsimmons, lives in the house of Irish cop Tom O'Meara (Harrison Ford), who doesn't know who Frankie really is.
Rory tries to buy some weapons from dealer Billy Burke, while Tom has moral problems covering up his partner cop Edwin Diaz.
The problems begin to arise when Tom begins to suspect something about Rory's identity.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin.
Witnesses is set in the northern France, where a man, woman and a teenager have been found murdered.
They had no connection to each other, and yet were left posed by their killer as if they were a family.
During the investigation, detective Sandra Winckler finds a picture of legendary police chief Paul Maisonneuve, who is so baffled by the snapshot that he comes out of retirement to help find whodunit.
Marie Dompnier and Thierry Lhermitte head the cast.
We’re back behind bars with the inmates at Australia’s toughest women’s jail as the drama returns for its third season.
The action picks up four months after the dramatic end of the previous run, when Bea was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the revenge killing of Brayden Holt.
Now the women are pleased to have her back as their top dog.
Ferguson isn’t so thrilled by the sight of her – she knows that Bea could make life very difficult for her, and as her position as governor hangs in the balance, she dreads the idea of anything else going wrong.
In an attempt to stamp her authority, Ferguson subjects Bea to a humiliating strip search – a move she may live to regret when her arch enemy launches a revenge plot.
(2013) Werner Herzog’s acclaimed 2005 documentary Grizzly Man chronicled the life of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell, who was killed by one of the majestic creatures he adored and studied.
Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary Blackfish tells a similarly harrowing tale of man’s relationship with nature, chronicling the true story of a performing killer whale called Tilikum, who killed several people while in captivity, including a trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.
Through emotional interviews and shocking footage, Cowperthwaite explores our treatment of these highly intelligent mammals at marine parks, the experiences of the men and women who work with killer whales, and the sadness of family and friends, who have lost loved ones in the course of their work.
(2014) Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to his documentary roots for this epic feature captured almost entirely in static shots over 90 tumultuous days.
The film begins in winter 2013 when citizens gathered in Maidan Square in Kiev to openly demonstrate against President Viktor Yanukovych’s regime.
Over the next three months, defiance ballooned into a full-scale rebellion of the people and Loznitsa’s camera captures this remarkable uprising in exquisite detail, documenting impassioned speeches as well as songs and prayers that galvanized the masses and brought to worldwide attention a nation’s cry from the heart for freedom.
CONNECT WITH US TODAY
Be the first to know the latest news and updates
