TV Times – 10 August 2019

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Saturday Highlights

Ireland’s Rory Best US troops in Vietnam

Connie’s really

not having a

good day

Big hug: Baymax

and Hiro get close

A bust of pharaoh

Amenhotep III

Rugby Union

● SPORT / 1.30pm / C4

LIVE

The home nations’

warm-up for next

month’s World Cup begins

with Ireland in action as

captain Rory Best leads his

men against Italy in Dublin

(k-o 2pm). Tomorrow,

England and Six Nations

winners Wales meet at

Twickenham (Sky Sports

Action, k-o 2pm).

Harlequins’ Joe Marchant

is among five uncapped

players hoping to catch

England coach Eddie

Jones’ eye. ★★★★ RMC

The Vietnam

War

● DOCUMENTARY /

from 10.30pm / BBC4

With another of his epic

series (this time on

country music) ready in

the wings, here’s a welcome

repeat of Ken Burns’ 10-

part history. Episode one

goes back to 1858 to cover

the conflict’s origins, while

episode two picks up in

living memory as President

Kennedy tries to ‘win’ in

Vietnam by waging ‘limited

warfare’. We all know how

that worked out. ★★★★ SM

Casualty

● DRAMA / 8.40pm / BBC1

In this feature-length episode of the

medical drama, Connie (Amanda

Mealing) and Ciaran’s sizzling stand-off

reaches a climax. With Hanssen breathing

down her neck and demanding an official

inquiry into prescriptions, it looks like Mrs

B’s luck is about to run out. She’s got one

last move to make, though, which could

change everything. Is it wrong that,

despite everything she’s done, TV Times

find ourselves on Team Connie? Elsewhere,

there’s a new paramedic in town but is she

up to the job? And Will and Robyn get

protective when Duffy looks vulnerable,

Gem is miserably trying to please everyone

and there’s a life-threatening shock for a

member of staff. ★★★★★ EB

● See Amanda Mealing interview, page 10

Egypt’s Sun King

● DOCUMENTARY / 8pm / National Geographic

NEW

Just when it seemed as if the

golden age of exploration

was over in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings,

archaeologists have discovered the

first tomb to contain a body since

Tutankhamun in 1 9 22. More surprisingly,

the tomb next door contains not just one

body but what appears at first glance to be

mummified remains of 30 people at the

very least. Who are they and why are

they all buried together? This one-off

documentary is part of a Nat Geo day on

a ‘tomb and treasure’ theme. C 4 also has

repeats of Secrets of Egypt’s Valley of the

Kings (7pm) and Egypt’s Great Pyramid:

Uncovered (8pm). ★★★ SM

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Big Hero 6

● FILM / 2pm / BBC1

An excellent attempt by Disney to replicate by CGI the

look and feel of Japanese anime, about 1 4 -year-old Hiro

teaming up with an inflatable robot called Baymax. It

plays out like a superhero origin story, and has a

toughness (and darker side) that balances the sweeter

elements, combined with a clever visual palette mixing

Eastern and Western styles of animation in a fresh way.

The all-action finale goes on a little too long, but for the

majority of its running time, this is terrific fun. ★★★★ NP