TV Times – 10 August 2019

80 TV TIMES

Friday Highlights

Anna Torv

Bobby Robson in 1990

Fishermen friends:

Bob and Paul

head to Scotland

Jimi Hendrix

performing

at Woodstock

Eddie Redmayne

returns as quirky

wizard Scamander

Mindhunter

● DRAMA / Netflix

NEW

Series one of

this dark drama

charted the early days of

FBI criminal profiling, as

two agents tried to solve

ongoing murder cases by

talking to imprisoned

killers in an attempt to

get inside the mind of a

murderer. They’re back in

this second series, along

with psychologist Wendy

Carr (Anna Torv), and

they’re investigating the

notorious Atlanta child

murders. ★★★★★ RM

More Than

a Manager

● DOCUMENTARY /

Netflix

In the week that Premier

League football returns, it

seems fitting to remember

one of its most-loved

managers, Bobby Robson,

who died 10 years ago this

Summer. This Netflix film

looks back at his career and

includes interviews with

José Mourinho (Bobby’s

assistant at Barcelona) and

Pep Guardiola, who cites

him as a major inspiration

in his own career. ★★★★ JP

Mortimer & Whitehouse:

Gone Fishing

● ENTERTAINMENT / 8pm / BBC2

As Paul tells Bob, the fishing rod was once

described as having ‘a worm at one end and

a fool at the other’. Fortunately there are two

very funny fools at the end of these rods,

and this week they’re in search of salmon

on the River Tay in Scotland. In between the

usual comic diversions, including Bob’s

Dustin Hoffman impression, there are

more meditations on life as Bob meets

an angler with cancer who finds fishing

therapeutic. In turn, Bob reveals that,

when he suffered from depression as a

young man, his love of football helped him

to recover. We’re still hooked. ★★★★ IM

Fantastic Beasts:

The Crimes of Grindelwald

● FILM / 8pm / Sky Cinema Premiere

PREMIERE The second in a five-movie saga

by JK Rowling, this continues

the adventures of Eddie Redmayne’s wizard

Newt Scamander, who travels to Paris to

take on evil Grindelwald (Johnny Depp).

There’s an awesome finale and a few magical

set-pieces before we get there, but there is

a complicated story that slows things down.

That said, Jude Law is great as a young

Dumbledore and a strong cast, including Zoë

Kravitz and Ezra Miller, help bring this to

life. ★★★ NP

Woodstock

● DOCUMENTARY / 10pm / BBC4

NEW

Fifty years ago this month, more than 4 00,000

people gathered at a small dairy farm in upstate

New York for a pop concert billed as ‘three days of peace

and music’ that has since taken on legendary status.

Interviews with those who were there, plus footage and

music of the era, are combined in this documentary, which

looks at the lead-up to those three historic days, as well as

the actual festival itself. Jimi Hendrix: The Road to

Woodstock is on afterwards at 11.25pm. ★★★★ TE

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