What’s on TV – 10 August 2019

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DUBLIN

MURDERS BBC

This eight-part murder

mystery set in Dublin stars

Strike’s Killian Scott and

Penny Dreadful’s Sarah

Greene. They play detectives

Rob Reilly and Cassie

Maddox, who investigate

two seemingly unrelated

murders – the deaths of

a talented ballerina and a

free-spirited woman – that

turn out to be connected.

On the case...

Detectives Rob Reilly

and Cassie Maddox

Troubled times...

Kasia and Harry,

and (inset) Sean

Bean as Douglas

WORLD ON FIRE BBC

An A-list cast including Oscar-

winning actor Helen Hunt, Sean

Bean and Lesley Manville star in

this epic drama series set during

the first year of World War Two.

It tells the intertwining stories

of ordinary people from across

Britain, Poland, France, Germany

and America, including Harry

(Jonah Hauer-King),

a British translator

working in Warsaw,

who tries to smuggle

his Polish lover Kasia

(Zofia Wichlacz) out of

her devastated country

after the Nazis invade.

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Dramatic turn...

Dolly’s songs

inspire a new series

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Sidney and
Charlotte

ALSO ON...

● Ken Nwosu (below right)

and Ben Miller star in ITV’s

Sticks and Stones,

a three-part drama

about bullying in

the workplace.

● BBC2’s eight-

part thriller

Giri/Haji is set in

Tokyo and London,

with the drama

following Japanese

detective Kenzo (Takehiro H ira),

who investigates a murder

that involves both cities. Kelly

Macdonald co-stars.

● Danny Dyer (right) hosts new

BBC1 game show The Wall,

with contestants

having to drop

balls into a

wall-sized grid,

while Angela

Rippon asks the

quiz questions.

● The Politician

is a Netflix comedy

series following student

Payton Hobart (Ben Platt),

who’s desperate to become

US President. But first Payton

must win an election at school.

Gwyneth Paltrow also stars.

● Callum Turner and Holliday

Grainger star in BBC1 six-part

thriller The Capture, about an

ex-soldier who is implicated in

an incident in London.

● Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings

on Netflix is a series of dramas

each based on one of the

country legend’s famous hits.

Julianne Hough plays Jolene.