66 LISTENER AUGUST 3 2019
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
period crime series is known
for featuring real people and
events – Winston Church-
ill, Harry Houdini, Thomas
Edison, Buffalo Bill and Helen
Keller have all appeared;
William Shatner famously
depicted Mark Twain. Season
12 begins with an appear-
ance by architect Frank Lloyd
Wright, who has designed
Detective William Murdoch’s
new house. Unfortunately,
there’s a death in the kitchen
as a result of an exploding pro-
totype microwave. In episode
two, a young nursing studentBossBabes, Tuesday.National Geographic seems to
think sending him on a global
culinary journey will make
interesting television. Peru,
Laos, Morocco, Hawaii, Alaska
and New Zealand are on the
itinerary.TUESDAY AUGUST 6
BossBabes (TVNZ OnDemand).
Yes, we would like to know
what it takes to be “Insta-
famous”, because from the
outside, it looks like a load of
bollocks. This series, which
is streaming online (but of
course), follows two womenin Auckland who market their
businesses through social
media: Iyia Liu, whose string
of enterprises has included
a waist-cinching compres-
sion garment and a women’s
protein powder, and swimwear
designer Edna Swart.Lambs of God (SoHo2, Sky
210, 8. 30pm). Phryne Fisher
in a hand-knitted nun’s
habit? It just doesn’t seem
right, although Essie Davis,
of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mys-
teries, is barely recognisable
in this four-part AustralianThe trend for sending actors
out into the wild merely to
look at their favourite animal
is, thankfully, waning; none
of them are a patch on Judi
Dench: My Passion for Trees
(Choice TV, Sunday, 3.30pm),
anyway.
There is a lot of Dench
gazing lovingly at large trees,caressing their bark and
saying such things as, “Oh my
word!” and “How beautiful!”,
but the documentary, filmed
over the course of a year, is so
much more.
There’s science with
Tony Kirkham, head of
arboretum, gardens & horti-
culture services at London’sDocumentaries
Judi Dench:
My Passion for
Tre e s, Sunday.relocates to New York City
to sell her face cream under
the moniker Elizabeth Arden.
There are serious stories, of
course, but it appears the
Canadians are rather fond of
Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) and
the Toronto Constabulary; a
13th season is scheduled to
begin in September.Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
(National Geographic, Sky 072,
8.30pm). Sending sweary,
offensive Gordon Ramsay out
into the world would appear to
be a bad idea, but nevertheless,