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Daily Mail, Thursday, August 8, 2019Now on Extreme Gardens, Charlie
Dimmock deadheads on a cliff...
DIRTY COP OF THE NIGHT:
Inspector Winter (Nicholas
Ofczarek) in Der Pass (Sky
Atlantic) is the nastiest TV
detective we’ve seen in years: a
corrupt, alcoholic junkie. Father
Brown he ain’t. His failings make
for great noirish drama, though.A
nd now on BBC1,
hold on to your
secateurs, because
it’s time for some
Celebrity Extreme
Gardening...
despite the craze for ever-
more convoluted combinations of
popular telly genres, no one has
yet thought to mix Bear Grylls’s
survivalist ordeals with the
Chelsea Flower Show.
But it’s only a matter of time.
Who wouldn’t tune in to see
Charlie dimmock abseil down
Beachy Head to deadhead some
begonias, or thrill as Alan Titch-
marsh jumps out of a helicopter
with a trowel between his teeth?
We had a taste of the format as a
65-year-old Cambodian gardener
set off to do some weeding at the
temple of Angkor Wat on Sacred
Wonders (BBC1).
Though I might have misheard,
the man’s name sounded like
Loon: that’s appropriate, because
the weeds were at the top of the
crumbling stone pinnacles, 200ft
high, and Loon was climbing
barefoot with a bamboo pole for a
ladder. And no safety ropes.
Unwanted greenery on English
church roofs usually means a bit
of moss, but, in the sweltering
tropics, a small tree can spring up
overnight. Loon had to start at
dawn and work fast, before the
baking sunshine made the stone
towers too hot to touch. Think ofthat next time you’re digging up
a dandelion.
Sacred Wonders is one of those
compendium shows that string
together gorgeous footage of
interesting places and a few fleet-
ing interviews.
We watched the vast gold throne
of the Virgen de la Esperanza being
carried through the streets of
Malaga, in Spain, and met a novice
monk at China’s Shaolin Temple
preparing for his kung fu exams.
At a Hindu temple in neasden,
north London, a polite medical
student named Miraj revealed how
much trouble goes into the acres of
food offerings for the gods — 10,000
biscuits and 30,000 sweetmeats,
arranged in towers and pyramids.
Carrying the ornate displays,
Miraj’s hands never trembled: the
boy will make a good surgeon.
But the show lost its way in the
final 15 minutes, as we followed
paramedics from the international
humanitarian Red Crescent
Movement on duty at the Wailing
Wall. Suddenly, we seemed to be
watching out-takes from the
Jerusalem edition of Ambulance.
It got worse, with a ‘making of ’Sacred Wonders HHHHI Remarkable Places To Eat HHHII
CHRISTOPHER
STEVENS
LAST NIGHT’S TV
segment at the end that involved
a film crew stuck in a traffic jam.
Sacred Wonders works well
when it’s slow and dreamy —
not when it’s plain boring.
Fred Sirieix was getting
dreamy about the world’s most
pretentious dishes in the final
part of his roving restaurateur
show, Remarkable Places To
Eat (BBC2). He visited Mugaritzin San Sebastian, northern
Spain, to sample a £200 tasting
menu that included crisps
made from sheep’s milk,
garnished with wild flower
petals and ‘presented on a
piece of volcanic rock’.
Then there was a piece of
chicken skin moulded into a
pig’s face and a spoonful of steak
tartare covered with mould —that is, ‘served under a blanket
of penicillin’.
In all its globe-trotting and
fact-finding over the past month,
the chief lesson of this series has
been that I never want to go to
dinner with Fred. The man’s
tastes are demented.
He went into ecstasies in a
backstreet bar over a tortilla
that was so runny he had to
mop it up with bread: ‘Look
at the egg yolk, completely
almost raw inside!’
The real attraction of this
dish seemed to be that the chef
made just one per day, and
diners had to beg and plead
to be granted a slice. One man
came all the way from Japan and
was turned away. More fool him.TELEVISION
Shona, played by Catastrophe’s Sharon
Horgan, whose relationship is suffering.
It’s not laugh-a-minute but it touches on
important issues with irreverent humour.FILM CHOICES
Dream House, Nightmare
Neighbour, 2.15pm, Ch5
REBECCA (Clare Kramer) and Brian
(Tilky Jones) move from New York City to
the Los Angeles suburbs with their young
daughter, expecting a quiet life — but the
woman they gazumped has other ideas...Trance, 1.30am, Ch4
DANNY BOYLE’S art
heist thriller injects
the genre with a
welcome flourish
of originality as an
amnesiac inside
man (James McAvoy,
pictured) is
hypnotised into remembering where
he hid a priceless stolen painting. The
deceptions soon start piling up. Vincent
Cassel and Rosario Dawson co-star.mbering whereCHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Peppa Pig (R,HD) 6.15 Ben
and Holly’s Little Kingdom (R) 6.30 Olly the
Little White Van (R,HD) 6.35 Noddy: Toyland
Detective (R,HD) 6.45 Fireman Sam (R,HD)
6.55 Thomas & Friends (R,HD) 7.05 Shane the
Chef (R,HD) 7.20 Peppa Pig (R) 7.30 Peppa Pig
(R) 7.40 Top Wing (R,HD) 7. 5 5 Paw Patrol
(R,HD) 8.05 Digby Dragon (R,HD) 8.20 Little
Princess (R) 8.40 Shimmer and Shine (R,HD)
8.55 Floogals (R,HD) 9.10 Sunny Bunnies (HD)
9.15 Jeremy Vine (HD)
11.15 GPs: Behind Closed Doors (R,HD)
12.10 5 News Lunchtime (HD)
12.15 GPs: Behind Closed Doors (R,HD)
1.10 Access (HD)
1.15 Home and Away (AD,HD)
1.45 Neighbours (AD,HD)
2.15 Dream House, Nightmare
Neighbour (2016) (15) ● (HD)
Thriller, starring Clare Kramer,
Tilky Jones and Allison McAtee.
See Critics’ Choice.
4.00 Friends (R,HD) Monica
shows off her new boyfriend.
4.30 Friends (R,HD) The girls
spend a night indoors.
5.00 5 News (HD)
5.30 Neighbours (AD,R,HD) A kiss
with Dee panics Toadie into flight.
6.00 Home and Away (AD,R,HD)
Tori suggests that Robbo and
Jasmine move into the cottage.
6.30 5 News Tonight (HD)7.00 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway
Journeys (R,HD) The presenter
explores five countries that
were part of Yugoslavia.
(Followed by 5 News Update)8.00 Britain’s Parking Hell (HD)
The West Midlands traffic
police are assisted by Robocop.
(Followed by 5 News Update)9.00 Vegas 24/7 (HD) New series.
Documentary meeting the
characters of Las Vegas, from
a high-rolling millionaire from
Texas there to play the tables
to a theatre impresario
searching for new talent.10.00 Portillo: The Trouble with the
Tories (HD) Part two of two.
How the party has brought
itself to the brink of political
destruction over Brexit, arguably
the biggest political crisis in
Britain since World War II.11.15 When Luxury Holidays
Go Horribly Wrong (R,HD)
A couple’s cruise to the Bahamas,
which saw them trapped in the
eye of a cyclone, and another
pair caught up in the Las Vegas
shootings in October 2017.12.15 Lauren Goodger: In Therapy
(R,HD) 1.10 The 21.co.uk Live
Casino Show (HD) 3.10 Gotham:
Wrath of the Villains (R,HD)
4.00 Gotham: Wrath of the
Villains (R,HD) 4.45 House Doctor
(BSL,R) 5.10 Great Artists (BSL,R)
5.35 Wildlife SOS (BSL,R)(^) ▲ Particularly liable to offend
WELSH TV VARIATIONS
BBC1: 11.45am Eisteddfod 2019 with Jason
Mohammad. 1.30pm BBC Wales Today; Weather.
6.30 BBC Wales Today; Weather. 10.25 BBC Wales
Today; Weather. 10.35 Saving Britain’s Worst Zoo.
The aftermath of the shooting of the lynx. Last in
series. 11.15 Murdered by My Father. Fact-based
drama, starring Adeel Akhtar. 12.30am Who Do
You Think You Are? Jack and Michael Whitehall
investigate their family tree. 1.35 BBC News.
S4C: 6.00am Cyw. 10.00 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol
Cymru 2019. 12noon Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd.
12.05 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru 2019. 2.00
Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd. 2.05 Eisteddfod
Genedlaethol Cymru 2019. 3.30 Eisteddfod
Genedlaethol Cymru 2019. 6.00 Newyddion S4C
a’r Tywydd. 6.05 Y Fets. 7.00 Heno. Live from the
National Eisteddfod. 8.00 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol
Cymru 2019. 9.00 Newyddion 9 a’r Tywydd. 9.30 Huw
Stephens: Cofiwch Dryweryn. 10.30 Y Babell Len
- 11.30 Un Swig Arall: Llanrwst 89. 12midnight
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru 2019.
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