What’s on TV – 27 July 2019

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faces appearing in

new roles this week

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Feeling the heat...

Will recruit Alfredo

impress the experts?

Zone of Champions ITV • Saturday • 6.45pm

Hold the Sunset BBC1 • Friday • 9pm

➤ Being Pete John

has played lovable

Pete Gifford in Cold^

Feet since 1997.

➤ Sketchy start In^

1994, he appeared

in sketch show The^

Fast Show. In the^

1990s, he also had roles in Knowing^

Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge^

and Men Behaving Badly.

➤ Weatherfielder In 2008, he landed^

the role of Jesse Chadwick in Corrie.

He’s also appeared in Waterloo Road,

Billionaire Boy and After Hours, and

guested in Sky One’s Trollied in 2017.^

➤ Odious Ossie^

He’s best known^

for playing abusive

husband Ossie

Whitworth in Poldark^

from 2017 to 2018.

➤ Getting political^

Christian played a young^

Tony Blair in C4’s Tony Blair: Rock Star^

in 2006 and Boris Johnson in the 2009^

More4 drama When Boris Met Dave.

➤ In the news He was the newsreader

in 10 episodes of Channel 5’s police^

drama Suspects from 2014 to 2015.^

J

ohn stars as

old-school sports

presenter Jack Bullman

in ITV’s new comedy

clip show that takes the

mickey out of sports

punditry. Jack and his

co-host Nicky Brimble

(Jessica Knappett)

commentate on bizarre

‘sports’ including

horse football and

escalator racing with the same enthusiasm

they would football or athletics. ‘Jack’s

trying to follow the politically correct and

modern approach to things,’ explains

John. ‘But he’s a bit behind the times!’

C

hristian pops up

in the return of

warm-hearted sitcom

Hold the Sunset (see

feature on p7) as

smarmy estate agent

Roland Percy, who is

struggling to sell Phil’s

house. Roland wants

to hold an open-house

event to get things

moving, but Phil (John

Cleese) is reluctant until

Sandra (Joanna Scanlan), the daughter of

his girlfriend Edith (Alison Steadman),

agrees to host it. As Roland tucks into the

free booze, however, things go awry...

JOHN THOMSON

CHRISTIAN BRASSINGTON

J

acey joins the

cast of Casualty

this week as

hospital porter

Rosa. Her arrival

has a big impact on

the ED – especially

on nurse David

Hide! He’s having a

bad day – from car

trouble to tricky patients, nothing’s

going right. Things look up when he

meets Venezuelan Rosa outside the

ED but intrigue turns to irritation when

Rosa takes it on herself to change his

car tyre and issues orders to patients.

CasualtyBBC1 • Saturday •8.25pm

➤ Nightmare nanny

Fans of ITV’s Cold Feet^

know Jace as fiery nanny^

Ramona Ramirez, a role^

she’s played since 1998.

➤ Soap baddie^ In 2016,^

she joined Hollyoaks as^

Diego’s mum Juanita,^

who cut her son off from

his inheritance after she found out about^

his relationship with Myra McQueen.

➤ Loose lipped She briefly co-hosted ITV

chat show Loose Women in 2003 and has

had roles in My Family and last year’s

Keith Lemon: Coming in America.

JACEY SALLES

1998

THEN

NOW

t thi ’

Who’s boss..?

Jacey as Rosa

Hard sell... Christian as

estate agent Roland

NOW

THEN

2017

THEN

1997

NOW

Own goals...

John in Zone of

Champions

Hungry

for success!

Top chef Jason Atherton challenges

a team of raw recruits to become

first-class cooks in just six weeks

G

ood teamwork

is everything in

a professional

kitchen, and that

well-oiled machine is

known as ‘the brigade’.

In this new six-part

series, Michelin-starred

chef Jason Atherton

sets out to train raw

recruits from various

culinary backgrounds,

from catering to

gastro-pubs, and

transform them into a

world-class brigade. If

someone isn’t cutting

it, however, they’re out,

and replaced!

Obsessed

‘Training the next

generation is a worry

because work ethics

have changed. There’s

nothing wrong with

that – it doesn’t have to

be how it was. But to be

good at anything you

have to be obsessed

and put the effort in,’

says Jason, who

trained under Marco

Pierre White. ‘It was

interesting to take 10

kids, who’ve not had

the training I’ve had,

and in a short space of

time try to turn them

into something special.’

Competition

Each week, Jason takes

the group to a different

destination to teach

them about cuisine and

working as a team. Later

they compete against a

top local kitchen, where

experts judge the

dishes. Among Jason’s

trainees are Reann, 21,

with a self-confessed

attitude problem, under-

confident Daisy, 28, and

jovial Stephen, 26, who

struggles to be serious.

This week, the team

head to Puglia, Italy,

where Jason can

immediately see who

has raw talent and who

can’t stand the heat...

‘It was a challenge

for everyone... it was

intense,’ says Jason,

47, ‘I found out a lot

about myself!’ n

THE CHEFS’ BRIGADE

Tuesday, 9pm BBC2Cookery

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