TV Times – 27 July 2019

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Friday

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Fosse/Verdon

Screen royalty

Bacall and Bogart

Mums Gillian,

Carol and Helen

plan a surprise

Gwen and Bob steal a

moment together

Otherhood

● FILM / Netflix

PREMIERE

What’s the difference between letting your

kids grow up and letting them grow distant?

That’s the question posed by this Netflix film starring

Patricia Arquette, Angela Bassett and Felicity Huffman.

Hurt when they don’t hear from their grown-up sons on

Mother’s Day, pals Gillian, Carol and Helen drive to New

York to surprise them. How will it go down?HHHHRF

●See Patricia Arquette interview, page 21

The Big Sleep

● FILM / 6.35pm / TCM

Famously baffling, this classic adaptation of a Raymond

Chandler story was the second time out for the immortal

pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. He’s the

street-smart gumshoe Philip Marlowe; she’s the hoity-

toity daughter of a general who’s hired Marlowe to track

down his other daughter and the man who has some very

compromising pictures of her. Sex, death and drugs all

rear their heads – quite a cocktail for 1946. HHHHHSM

PICK

OF THE

D AY

8 Out of 10

Cats Does

Countdown

● COMEDY / 9pm / C4

With Jimmy Carr in the

chair, Sean Lock and Jon

Richardson welcome guests

Victoria Coren Mitchell and

James Acaster.

BBC Proms

● MUSIC / 7.30pm / BBC4

Katie Derham introduces

two pieces originally

premiered by Proms founder

Sir Henry Wood: Britten’s

Piano Concerto and Mahler’s

Das Lied von der Erde.

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2 August

FRIDAY

2 August

The life of dance

legend Bob Fosse

enters the spotlight

● DRAMA / from 9pm / BBC2

NEW

Jazz hands at

the ready!

The troubled

relationship between Bob

Fosse, who directed Sweet

Charity and Cabaret, and

his musical-theatre icon wife,

Gwen Verdon, is told in this

glossy drama, starring Michelle

Williams and Sam Rockwell.

Spanning five decades, it

chronicles their marriage, which

was rocked by Bob’s infidelities

and depression. This week’s

first double bill begins in 1969,

as Bob is offered the chance to

direct Cabaret and later has an

affair with a German translator

on set. Thereare also some

thrilling re-enactments of show-

stoppers including Mein Herr

and Big Spender. All episodes

will be available as a box set on

BBC iPlayer. HHHHHD

●See interviews, page 14