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# Today's TV highlights
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## The day's best TV programmes on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Freeview,
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Freesat, Sky and cable as chosen by the Telegraph's critics.
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![Paul Merton presents the Birth of Hollywood][1]
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Paul Merton presents the Birth of Hollywood Photo: BBC
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![Karen Gillan stars in Doctor Who][2]
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Karen Gillan stars in Doctor Who Photo: BBC
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![Queen: Days of Our Lives ][3]
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Queen: Days of Our Lives Photo: Rex
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![Springwatch 2011: a beaver][4]
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Springwatch 2011: a beaver Photo: Alamy
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![Lead Balloon: Jack Dee stars as washed-up comedian Rick Spleen][5]
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Lead Balloon: Jack Dee stars as washed-up comedian Rick Spleen Photo: BBC
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6:00PM BST 26 May 2011
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[**Full TV and radio listings**][6]
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### SATURDAY 28 MAY
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**Doctor Who **
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_BBC One, 6.45pm_
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After a shaky start to this series, the sci-fi behemoth has bounced back
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strongly. The Doctor's Wife instalment a fortnight ago was smart, stylish and
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moving. Tonight it's the conclusion of the excellent Frankenstein-meets-Alien
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two-parter that started last week. Starring a small cast, set in a spooky
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gothic building with futuristic trappings and featuring much running down
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corridors in boiler suits, the story has a pleasingly old-fashioned feel. It
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could almost be a classic tale from the Patrick Troughton or Jon Pertwee eras.
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We pick things up again with a clone Doctor on the loose. Rogue doppelganger
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Jennifer (Sarah Smart) is driven mad by memories of her "execution" and seeks
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not just revenge against humankind but civil war. As the solar storm rages,
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lethal acid leaks everywhere and the factory crumbles, can the Doctor (Matt
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Smith) convince the fleeing factory workers to unite with their "Gangers",
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solve the problem and prevent further loss of life? Meanwhile, the series-wide
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story arc is building towards next week's climax. Something tells us we
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haven't heard the last of the mysterious "Eye patch lady" (Frances Barber) and
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Amy's "is she or isn't she?" pregnancy. **MH**
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**So You Think You Can Dance **
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_BBC One, 5.45pm & 7.30pm_
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It's struggling in the ratings and may face the axe after this series, yet the
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dance contest continues on its twinkle-toed way, tonight reaching the quarter-
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final stage. The remaining eight dancers perform group routines, couples'
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dances and solos, before individual voting lines open. It's now every
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legwarmer-clad man and leotard-sporting woman for themselves. It returns for
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the results show at 7.30pm, when one boy and one girl will bow out. **MH**
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**RHS Chelsea Flower Show **
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_BBC Two, 7.30pm; NI, 9.20pm_
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As the famous flower festival's gates close for another year, Alan Titchmarsh
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and Joe Swift present some highlights and show how to bring Chelsea magic to
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your own garden. They'll demonstrate how to get the look of the show gardens
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and grow your own in a small space, as well as giving tips for low-cost
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gardening - before the bell rings to signal the great plant sell-off. The RHS
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also announces the winner of this year's People's Choice Award. **MH**
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**June Whitfield Night**
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_BBC Two, from 8.00pm; NI, 9.50pm_
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The much-loved comedy actress is now 85 and the Beeb pays tribute with two-
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hours of celebratory programming. First is a vintage episode of Terry & June,
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which sees the hapless couple erect a tent in their garden with the usual
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"hilarious consequences". Whitfield then tells the story of her career,
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starting with her West End days working with Noel Coward. This includes great
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archive footage and contributions from Sylvia Syms, Nicholas Parsons and
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daughter Suzy Aitchison. Rounding things off is the second-ever episode of
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Absolutely Fabulous, in which Edina (Jennifer Saunders) goes on a crash diet,
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prompting motherly tutting from Whitfield. **MH**
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**Dylan Moran: Aim Low**
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_Channel 4, 11.20pm_
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Tousle-haired Irish comic Dylan Moran won the Perrier Award at the tender age
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of 24. He's now nearing 40 and back out on the road touring an acclaimed
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stand-up show. This is a compilation of highlights from his back catalogue of
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live DVDs: three typically hilarious shows in Dublin, Sydney and London
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spanning 2004 to 2009. It captures Moran's funniest rants about ageing,
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religion, relationships and the little absurdities of life, all delivered with
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his unique shambolic charm. **MH**
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**In Love with Shakespeare**
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_Sky Arts 1/SA1HD, 6.30pm_
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An impressive cast of thesps assembles for this celebration of Shakespeare's
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speeches. Simon Callow, Robert Lindsay, Jonathan Pryce, John Simm, Catherine
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Tate and Samuel West recite their favourite Bard soliloquy in this well-
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crafted half-hour special. **MH**
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**Hay Sessions 2011**
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_Sky Arts 1/SA1HD, 8.00pm_
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and actor Simon Russell Beale host a
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debate about Shakespeare's religious beliefs. Was the world's greatest writer
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spiritual or secular? It's preceded by The Book Show (7.00pm), also live from
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the Telegraph-sponsored Hay Festival, which sees Mariella Frostrup joined by
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Jeffery Deaver to discuss his new James Bond novel. **MH**
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**The Pacific**
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_Sky Atlantic/SAHD, 9.00pm_
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More compellingly convincing military drama. The Japanese troops dig in,
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constructing caves and tunnels on Peleliu's Bloody Nose Ridge. Corporal Sledge
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(Joseph Mazzello) and comrades flush out resistance, but the Marines are
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becoming increasingly desensitised to the horrors that surround them. **MH**
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### SUNDAY 29
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**Queen: Days of Our Lives **
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_BBC Two, 10.00pm; Scotland, 10.30pm_
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"The people wanted Queen even when the press didn't," says rock expert Paul
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Gambaccini. Perhaps it's been the key to their longevity. Critical acclaim
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eluded the band. But their grandiose style, blending hard rock with soaring
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melodies, has never gone out of fashion. It's made their Greatest Hits the
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UK's best-selling album ever. Matt O'Casey's two-part documentary, 40 years on
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from the group's formation, provides an insight into their success.
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For the most part it's a straight-up biography. Queen's story is not
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particularly remarkable: there's the usual struggle to get established,
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financial wrangling with record labels, and wild on-tour antics. But when
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O'Casey homes in on the songs, things get intriguing. Queen's great advantage
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is that all four members were gifted songwriters. Guitarist Brian May explains
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how the surprise of hearing the audience singing along at gigs inspired his
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anthem We Will Rock You. Bassist John Deacon's Another One Bites the Dust
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almost didn't make it onto record but ended up the band's biggest hit. And
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there's footage of Freddie Mercury describing how he put together Bohemian
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Rhapsody from three different songs. Concludes tomorrow. **TD**
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**RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011**
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_BBC One, 6.05pm_
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As the 2011 show draws to a close, Alan Titchmarsh and Joe Swift bring us a
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round-up. They look back at the medal winners, review this year's new plants
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and pick out personal highlights from the week. **TD**
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**Britain's Got Talent**
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_ITV1, 7.30pm _
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ITV's light-entertainment juggernaut trundles on. The talent pool seems to
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dwindle every year but new panellists Michael McIntyre and David Hasselhoff
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have had some amusing moments. Tonight sees the final round of auditions.
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During the week, things ramp up a notch. Simon Cowell makes his return from
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the US to oversee the live semi-finals, starting tomorrow and continuing
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nightly. Two acts from each show will get through to the final and closer to
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that coveted slot at the Royal Variety Performance. **TD**
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**Scott & Bailey**
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_ITV1, 9.00pm_
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Another week, another new detective drama. No sooner has Brenda Blethyn's
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bumbling Vera shuffled off our screens, than Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp
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swoop in to take her place. Jones plays feisty DC Rachel Bailey. She's a canny
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cop but unlucky in love, just dumped by slick boyfriend Nick Savage (Rupert
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Graves). Sharp is her partner and confidante, soft-spoken but steely mother-
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of-two DC Janet Scott. With conveniently contrasting personalities, they make
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the ideal double act. Tonight the pair investigate the death of Emel, a young
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Turkish girl killed at home. With no sign of a break-in, it looks like
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suicide. But Scott and Bailey suspect Emel's shifty husband is hiding
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something. On tonight's evidence the show adds nothing fresh to this over-
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saturated genre. But Jones and Sharp have enough personality to keep things
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ticking along. **TD**
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**The Classic Brit Awards 2011**
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_ITV1, 10.15pm_
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Pianist-turned-pop star-turned presenter Myleene Klass makes an apt host for
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these celebrity-studded awards. Popular tenor Russell Watson and chart-topping
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soprano Katherine Jenkins make an appearance. The cast of West End musical Les
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Miserables performs. And Dame Shirley Bassey leads a celebration of work by
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the late composer John Barry, honoured here with the Outstanding Contribution
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to Music. **TD **
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**Welly Telly: the Countryside on Television**
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_BBC Four, 9.00pm _
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A celebration of all things bucolic, Welly Telly looks at television's
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changing relationship with the countryside. Bill Oddie, Bill Bryson, John
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Craven and Clarissa Dixon Wright are among those discussing how Springwatch
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and Countryfile have become popular with urban audiences, and how decades of
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avoiding the countryside on TV have been followed by periods when it is a
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ratings winner (the 1970s and now). Narrated by musician turned cheese-maker
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Alex James, the programme salutes the achievements of Jack Hargreaves and Phil
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Drabble and the sitcoms The Good Life and Last of the Summer Wine. Finally it
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asks if the current vogue for all things green is bringing town and country
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closer together. **SH**
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**Hawaii Five-O**
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_Sky1/Sky1HD, 9.00pm _
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This remake of the Seventies cop show may favour gloss over substance but it
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still does what it does engagingly. Oh, and the scenery is pretty nice too.
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Tonight, Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) and "Danno" Williams (Scott Cann)
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hunt a bomber seeking revenge on the legal system after the prison death of
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his son. **SH**
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### MONDAY 30 MAY
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**Springwatch 2011**
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_BBC Two, 8.00pm_
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Better late than never, Springwatch has arrived. Given that the bluebells were
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out in April this year, the BBC may have to start factoring climate change
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into its scheduling decisions. Quibbles aside, the series is destined to be
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another three weeks of glorying in the mating rituals of British fauna and
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sighing over the furry hatchlings that result. The animals are the stars of
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the show, but the human trio of Kate Humble, Chris Packham and Martin Hughes-
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Games represent an impressive flock of presenters, and convey a wide knowledge
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of the natural world in an easy style that is no doubt harder to pull off than
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it looks. Their playfulness is as charming as that of any badger family the
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cameras are trained on, even if Packham does have that irritating habit of
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casually quoting pop song titles.
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Newcomer Charlie Hamilton-Jones will bring reports from Argyll and Bute on the
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comeback beavers are making after being extinct in the British Isles for over
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400 years. The big development for the programme this season is that after
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three years in Norfolk, the show is moving to the RSPB-managed Ynys-hir nature
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reserve in Montgomeryshire. It makes Humble's commute shorter, since she lives
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in Wales, although the move has caused headaches for the technicians who have
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had to lay nearly 40 miles of fibre-optic cable to wire up the site to enable
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viewers to peek into the remotest of animal nests and hidey-holes. **VP**
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**Pixar: 25 Magic Moments**
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_BBC One, 4.00pm_
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Ahead of this afternoon's screening of the delightful Wall-E (see Film choice,
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right) comes this repeat of a documentary celebrating a quarter century of
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Pixar. Voice-over stars Tim Allen and Kelsey Grammer pay tribute to its
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pioneering efforts in CGI as the film explores the creative process that's led
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to gems such as Toy Story, Up and the anticipated release - at least by the
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under-eights - of Cars 2. **VP**
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**The Story of Ireland**
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_BBC Two, 7.00pm; not Scotland_
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In tonight's third episode of his comprehensive history, Fergal Keane
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addresses one of the events that created division in the first place: King
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James I's social engineering experiment of the 17th century, the Plantation of
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Ulster, which saw hordes of English and Scots invited in to colonise Ireland's
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northern counties. Keane also investigates how the American revolution of 1776
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and the 1789 revolution in France paved the way for Ireland's rebellion in
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1798. **VP**
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**Britain's Got Talent **
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_ITV1, 7.30pm & 9.30pm _
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Simon Cowell - who has apparently been too busy preparing the American version
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of The X Factor to take part thus far - returns for the first of five nightly
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semi-finals. Will he be impressed with the acts that the other judges (Amanda
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Holden, David Hasselhoff and Michael McIntyre) have chosen? The results show
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is at 9.30pm; the final is next Saturday. **VP**
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**Egypt's Lost Cities**
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_BBC One, 8.30pm _
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In her study of ancient Egypt, American archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak has
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discovered that satellite photographs combined with infra-red technology can
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see underneath sand. Because the ancient Egyptians built with mud brick that
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was denser than the soil around it, Parcak's photos have revealed vast buried
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cities and possibly pyramids. It's a find that could redraw the map of ancient
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Egypt. Now all Parcak has to do is convince the Egyptian authorities to start
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digging, and they haven't so far been amenable. **VP**
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**All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace**
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_BBC Two, 9.00pm_
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If you fear the BBC mistakenly scheduled an Open University course as prime-
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time viewing, join the club. Tonight's second episode of Adam Curtis's series
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about machines' impact on our lives is seriously complex, but no less
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fascinating for that. He explains that the concept of the ecosystem was the
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invention of scientists who applied so-called "machine theory" to nature. It
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caught on in a big way, and yet it's a fallacy that doesn't work in nature or
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with humans, says Curtis. Discuss. **VP**
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**Storyville: Pol Pot's Executioner - Welcome to Hell**
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_BBC Four, 9.00pm_
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This is a portrait of Comrade Duch, once the chief torturer and executioner
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for the Khmer Rouge.Under the orders of Pol Pot, Duch was involved in the
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deaths of more than 14,000 Cambodians. The fascination of Adrian Maben's film
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comes from trying to understand Duch's transformation from studious teenager
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to ruthless murderer. Featuring the recollections of people who knew him as a
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child and those who survived his monstrousness, Welcome to Hell hits home. But
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the image that lingers longest is of a smiling and apparently born-again Duch
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suggesting that, "My fault was that I didn't serve God, I served Communism."
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Repentance never sounded so hollow. **SH**
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**Gordon's Great Escape **
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_Channel 4, 9.00pm_
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The final leg of his Asian gastro-tour sees chef Gordon Ramsay in Thailand,
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visiting eateries off the beaten path in search of authentic recipes. He takes
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part in a live, televised cook-off with a celebrity Thai chef, joins the
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nation's equivalent of the Women's Institute, helps a local woman to make her
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speciality spicy sausages, and goes in search of giant oysters on the island
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of Krabi. Ramsay's cocky arrogance around the reserved Thai people makes him a
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fish out of water, which is fun and discomfiting in equal parts for the
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viewer. **VP**
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**Game of Thrones**
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_Sky Atlantic/SAHD, 9.00pm_
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Shoddy acting aside, HBO's intrigue-rich medieval fantasy is diverting.
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Tonight's episode finds Charles Dance making an appearance as a menacing Lord
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Tywin Lannister, and there's an assassination attempt on Daenerys Targaryen
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(Emilia Clarke). **SH**
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**Queen: Days of Our Lives**
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_BBC Two, 10.00pm; NI, 10.30pm_
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The concluding part of a celebration of the British rock band Queen sees them
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at the peak of their powers. Having smashed attendance records with a series
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of stadium concerts across South America, the group took the world by storm
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with their stunning performance at Live Aid in 1985. But tragedy was not far
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around the corner. See left for a review of last night's first episode. **RW**
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**CRITIC'S CHOICE: Panorama: Undercover Care - the Abuse Exposed **
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_BBC One, 9.00pm_
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Expect to see Panorama at its most harrowing. This edition examines what goes
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on in a care home, to see the abuse, assault and even torture handed handed
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out to its patients. Paul Kenyon, an undercover reporter, goes to work in a
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home looking after the learning disabled, the autistic and the mentally ill.
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While the footage is being kept under wraps, the information that the BBC has
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allowed out is damning. It says the show will include a carer goading a
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patient with the mental age of an infant to commit suicide, carers physically
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assaulting patients and using martial arts techniques against them, and one
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patient being soaked in water and then left outside in the winter.
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Apparently more than a dozen of the carers secretly filmed have since been
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suspended. We are told that one experienced nurse had tried to report abuse
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some months ago, and blew the whistle to Panorama when nothing was done.
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The film will feature interviews with the families of the abused, and promises
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to name the institution involved - owned, it's said, by one of the leading
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learning disability care companies in Britain. The programme-makers compare
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what they found to "Victorian asylums", and the author of the Government's
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policy on disability care, Professor Jim Mansell, says: "The staff don't think
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that the patients are human beings." **TC **
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**The Flight of the Phoenix **(1965)** **
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_Film4, 4.10pm_
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A well-told, if not very imaginative, disaster movie about a plane crash in
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the Sahara. As the pilot (James Stewart) and navigator (Richard Attenborough)
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try to save their passengers, an engineer (Hardy Kruger) devises a wild plan
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to build a new plane from the wreckage. **SH**
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**Britain's Got Talent **
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_ITV1, 7.30pm & 9.30pm_
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ITV's ratings juggernaut trundles on with this, the second live semi-final.
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Judges Simon Cowell - who missed the earlier rounds because he was too busy
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working on the American version of The X Factor - David Hasselhoff, Michael
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McIntyre and Amanda Holden will decide which two acts from tonight's show get
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through to the final. The live semi-finals are showing nightly this week; the
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final is on Saturday. **PS**
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**Four Rooms**
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_Channel 4, 8.00pm_
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The cross between Antiques Roadshow and Dragons' Den continues. As the
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introductory voice-over puts it, "In four rooms, four of Britain's top dealers
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are waiting. And they're ready to spend big money." They're also ready to make
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you groan at their blustering twaddle. One says, "I don't do ordinary, I just
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do the utterly exceptional." But you're still bidding on a life-sized model of
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a Dalek, mate. These people are what The Apprentice's buffoons will grow up to
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be, and this show is compelling in a similar way: what nonsense will he say
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about himself next? ("The name Andrew Lamberty stands for risk, charm, and
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reassuring expense.") What idiotic tat will he buy now? (A large stuffed
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tortoise makes an early appearance.) It's refreshing to have people this
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objectionable on television. It lets you get all your hate out in the comfort
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of your living room. **TC**
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**The Thomas Crown Affair **(1968)
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_Sky Movies Modern Greats, 8.00pm_
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Norman Jewison's stylish romantic caper stars Steve McQueen as a businessman
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who masterminds an ingenious bank heist for his own amusement, then meets his
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match (in both senses) in Faye Dunaway, the pin-sharp insurance investigator
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assigned to the case. **AP**
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**The Country House Revealed**
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_BBC Two, 9.00pm_
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Admirers of fine architecture will find Dan Cruickshank's continuing journey
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through the keyholes of Britain's country homes to be right up their oak-lined
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drive. This week, it's Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire, one of the
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largest privately owned country houses in Europe. **TC**
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**Storyville: Amnesty! When They Are All Free**
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_BBC Four, 9.00pm_
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It began as a "mischief-making" letter-writing campaign group but, 50 years
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on, Amnesty International has become one of the most powerful non-governmental
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organisations. James Rogan's balanced film shows what it has achieved. But
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there is controversy too, as the documentary explores, detailing how Amnesty
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has had to change over the decades, and why one interviewee labels it the
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"McDonald's of human rights". **SH**
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**The Secret Millionaire**
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_Channel 4, 9.00pm_
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Its detractors may argue its format - in which a wealthy person goes under
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cover in a poor area, so as to better decide how to donate some of their money
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- veers on patronising, but The Secret Millionaire still has the capacity to
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spring some affecting moments. Such is the case in tonight's episode, the last
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in the current run, in which Iranian-born entrepreneur Aria Taheri goes
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undercover in Sparkbrook, south Birmingham - an area renowned for its diverse
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ethnic population. Here she meets Sister Margaret, who runs a sanctuary for
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asylum seekers and refugees. **PS **
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**Lead Balloon**
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_BBC Two, 10.00pm; NI, 11.20pm_
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The start of a fourth series for Jack Dee's downbeat sitcom, in which his
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character, the unsubtly named Rick Spleen - a washed-up, cynical comedian -
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goes around being annoyed by things. He's hardly cast against type: it's
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essentially Jack Dee playing Jack Dee, so if you like Jack Dee it will go down
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very well. In this episode, he's trying to write a novel and to persuade his
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wife Mel (the excellent Raquel Cassidy) to allow a Sunday newspaper to do a
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feature on them. Good support comes from Spleen's teenage daughter (Antonia
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Campbell-Hughes). **TC**
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**Jamie's Food Revolution Hits Hollywood**
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_Channel 4, 10.00pm_
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Or, apparently, it doesn't. The big-tongued chef keeps trying to push his
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broccoli-based uprising on LA schools, and LA schools keep telling him where
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to shove it. This week he's desperate to get Dino, the owner of a fast-food
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restaurant, to "upgrade his meat" - I'm sure there are lots of surgeons on
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Hollywood Boulevard who will help with that, Jamie - and gets his usual
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righteous strop on when Dino ain't biting. It's always entertaining telly.
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**TC**
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**Unforgiven **(1992)
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_ITV4, 10.00pm_
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Dedicated to Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood's dark, sombre Western won four
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Oscars. Eastwood plays a gunslinger-turned-pig farmer, searching for some
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level of redemption from his violent past. Then he is coaxed out of retirement
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when a bounty is offered by some vengeful prostitutes. **PS**
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**True Stories: Google Baby**
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_More4, 10.00pm_
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A disturbing film which looks at the world of pregnancy outsourcing. With
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sperm and/or eggs purchased online in the US, fertilised embryos are shipped
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to India where they are implanted into surrogate mothers; after nine months,
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and having paid around £4,000, the customer picks up her baby. The scheme is
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the brainchild of an Israeli entrepreneur; a doctor who runs a surrogacy
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clinic sees the service as "one woman helping another". Director Zippi Brand
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Frank, however, sees her film as a warning of the dangers surrounding the
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human reproduction industry. **SH**
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**Mickey Blue Eyes **(1999)
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_ITV1, 10.35pm; not Ulster/STV _
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The concept of Hugh Grant playing a British art auctioneer trying to pass
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himself off as a US gangster is ripe with comic possibilities, but sadly this
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romcom is a one-joke pony. That said, it's mildly entertaining. Godfather
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alumnus James Caan stars along with numerous actors who would later appear in
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The Sopranos. **RW **
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