Monday's TV tips
Jimmy Doherty, Kate Quilton and Matt Tebbutt reveal the latest scientific tips and ideas on how food can help people tone up their bodies.
Jimmy goes on an east Asian adventure to look for the mystery ingredient in a new range of diet foods containing konjac noodles, which have no fat and virtually no calories, and also discovers that finding out the calorific content of alcohol isn’t easy.
Kate examines research suggesting eating nuts can help shed pounds rather than piling them on, while Matt investigates ways to hone biceps and abs.
A few weeks back, Victoria Coren Mitchell presented an excellent BBC Four documentary series about bohemian society, and featuring prominently in it were members of the Bloomsbury group.
Now, hot on that show’s heels, comes this new, three-part drama focusing on the lives and loves of this extraordinary collection of artistic folk.
The story begins in 1905, when the Stephen sisters - later better known as Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf – are rallying against the stuffy confines of post-Victorian England.
Before long, their friendships with radical thinkers such as Duncan Grant and Lytton Strachey help them achieve a measure of freedom – but it comes at a price. Phoebe Fox, Lydia Leonard and James Norton head the impressive cast.
This week’s episode charts the unfolding drama of a big race day at Doncaster from opposing points of view, showing the battle between punters and bookmakers.
Traders at Coral’s HQ set odds to attract customers and beat their rivals, while at trackside, independent bookie Keith Johnson tries to offer better deals than the high-street giants, and passionate race-goers Andy and Gosia study every tiny detail of the horses and trainers before placing their bets.
Elsewhere, professional tipster Steve receives some family news that could make him change his ways for good.
New series. The return of the documentary in which more than 60 cameras are used to follow the work of Bedfordshire
Police, from the cells at stations to the operational heart of major investigations.
A small town near Luton has been plagued with an outbreak of teen criminality, and DS Emma James and DC Cathie Layton pull a 22-hour shift to find the evidence against a young man accused of robbery and assault.
He denies everything and paints himself as the victim. Will they uncover enough to charge, or will he be released?
Big Jim and Julia form a tentative alliance to search for proof that will discredit therapist Christine, who has upped her ante by manipulating Junior and Joe into working for her.
Eventually, the duo find new information about the Dome’s capabilities, but can they use it for their own needs?
Meanwhile, when tensions begin to run high in town and threaten Christine’s leadership of Chester’s Mill, she uses her usual tactics of confusion to unleash a new plan which could have deadly and far-reaching consequences.
(1996) Star-studded offbeat thriller from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Two criminal brothers on the run are hotly pursued by the Texas police and bound for Mexico.
The villainous Richie (Tarantino) and Seth Gecko (George Clooney) abduct ex-preacher Jacob (Harvey Keitel), his daughter, Kate (Juliette Lewis) and adopted son Scott (Ernest Liu), and end up at an all-night bar where the brothers intend to meet their contact, Carlos, and live a life of luxury down Mexico way.
However, things take a sharp left turn when the regulars turn out to prefer blood to tequila, so Richie, Seth and their hostages are left fighting for their lives against a small army of bloodsuckers...
(2012) The sins of fathers are revisited upon the sons in Derek Cianfrance’s doom-laden triptych. Fearless motorcyclist Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling) is part of a stunt show in a travelling circus. He moves from town to town without ever laying down roots.
By chance, Luke learns that he has fathered a son by one former conquest, Romina, who has found a boyfriend, Kofi, to provide stability for the infant. Luke plots to supplant Kofi as the man of the house and joins forces with a mechanic to raise the necessary cash by robbing banks.
Enterprising cop Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper) is in the right place at the right time to apprehend Luke during a botched robbery, and 15 years later, the men’s wayward offspring, AJ (Emory Cohen) and Jason (Dane DeHaan), are flung together with violent consequences.
(1997) One of Northern Ireland's most notorious IRA 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.
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