TV Times – 03 August 2019

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Friday Highlights

Katie Derham presents

Troubled cop Valeria

Who’s got the

most pain:

Bob or Gwen?

Will this be Salah

and co’s season?

Edith (left) is

frantic about the

missing Phil

Thou Shalt

Not Kill

● DRAMA / 9pm / More4

NEW

Walter Presents’

Italian crime

drama centres on inspector

Valeria Ferro, a gifted but

troubled cop. She’s a loner

who bends the rules – and

it falls to her boss and lover

Giorgio Lombardi to rein

her in. Just as a father is

broadcasting a TV appeal

to help find his missing

daughter, the girl’s body is

found in a basement... All

episodes will be available

on All 4. ★★★★ JE

The John

Wilson

Orchestra

● MUSIC / 8pm / BBC4

NEW

The John Wilson

Orchestra is

always one of the hot

tickets of the Proms, and

this year is no exception.

Katie Derham presents

tonight’s prom, The

Warner Brothers Story,

with compositions by Max

Steiner, Erich Wolfgang

Korngold, Frederick

Loewe and Sigmund

Romberg. ★★★★ JP

Fosse/Verdon

● DRAMA / 9pm / BBC2

Life definitely isn’t a cabaret for dancer

Gwen Verdon as Fosse/Verdon continues

tonight. There are some passion-filled

flashbacks to the moment she and her

tortured-artist husband Bob Fosse first

met on the set of the Broadway hit Damn

Yankees while Bob was married to his

second wife, Joan McCracken, also a

dancer. Fast-forward to 1 969 and Gwen’s

in Majorca musing on the state of her

marriage after Bob’s affair with Hannah,

the German translator he met while

filming Cabaret. Clearly Bob has past form

for falling in love at work, but will Gwen

find the courage to call it quits? Don’t

miss Michelle Williams giving a cracking

rendition of Who’s Got the Pain?, the smash

hit from Damn Yankees. ★★★★ HD

Hold the Sunset

● COMEDY / 9pm / BBC1

Edith (Alison Steadman) is at her wits’ end

with worry as Phil (John Cleese) has gone

AWOL following last week’s open-day

debacle at his house. So what she doesn’t

need is an unscheduled visit from her

perennially hard-to-please sister Joan (the

wonderful Sue Johnston, reprising her

role from the Christmas special) who has

come to stay to avoid her neighbours’ noisy

builders. And Roger (Jason Watkins) is

even more unimpressed by Joan’s sudden

arrival as he’s secretly rented out the spare

room as a B&B. Will shrewd Auntie Joan

rumble his naughty scheme and spill the

beans to Edith? And, more importantly,

where the heck is Phil?! ★★★ CC

Premier League

● FOOTBALL / 7pm / Sky Sports Premier League

LIVE

The 2019-2020 Premier League is back, with

Liverpool taking on newly promoted Norwich

(k-o 8 pm) who, under manager Daniel Farke, lit up the

Championship last season. Reds talisman Mo Salah will

want to push the team that extra mile after being denied

the Premier League by a single point and ending up with

the most points ever for a second placed team ( 96 ). Is this

his and Liverpool’s year to finally grab the one trophy

that has always eluded them? ★★★★ NP

LIVERPOOL V NORWICH

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