TV Times – 13 July 2019

80 TV TIMES

FridayHighlights

Eddie Murphy and Jerry

The famous five

messing about

in a boat

You don’t want

to mess with

these guys

It’s all going

on at the Royal

Albert Hall

Comedians

in Cars

● COMEDY / Netflix

NEW

...Getting

Coffee. There’s

something about a moving

vehicle that brings out the

best in entertainers – look

at Carpool Karaoke! And

as a new series of Jerry

Seinfeld’s show drops

today, Eddie Murphy, Seth

Rogen, Jamie Foxx and

Ricky Gervais are among

those driving with the

Seinfeld star. What will

they let slip? HHHHSM

●See Seinfeld interview, p21

Celebrity 5 Go Barging

● ENTERTAINMENT / 9pm / C5

Packing their suitcases for a holiday with

a difference, Amanda Barrie, Anita Harris,

Michael Buerk, Shaun Williamson and

John Prescott embark on a special jaunt

that sees them learning the ropes about

canal life. As the famous five set off on two

traditional narrowboats, Esme and Mollie,

on Caldon Canal in Staffordshire, it’s not

that long before the bargepoles are needed

for a bit of a rescue situation. Fortunately,

a quick stop off at the pub puts the wind

back in everyone’s sails. This is a shipshape

adventure, filled with interesting historical

titbits and lashings of good old-fashioned

fun... for both the celebrity crew on the

canal and all the landlubbers who are

watching at home. HHHHER

●See interviews, page 16

First Night of the Proms

● MUSIC / from 7.30pm / BBC2 / BBC4

NEW

It’s a sure sign that Summer is

in full swing when the Proms –

the world’s biggest classical music festival

• start on the BBC! Tonight, Katie Derham
  ushers in the new season at London’s
  Royal Albert Hall, with the BBC Singers
  and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and
  Chorus performing Dvorák’s Golden

Spinning Wheel. There’s also the world

premiere of a composition by Zosha Di

Castri, titled Long Is the Journey, Short Is

the Memory, commissioned to mark the

50th anniverary of the Apollo 11 manned

mission to the Moon. Coverage continues

on BBC4, with Janácek’s monumental

Glagolitic Mass. HHHHLB

Money Heist

● DRAMA / Netflix

NEW

The third series of one of Netflix’s most-

watched foreign-language shows is available

from tonight. If you’ve never seen it, it’s about a criminal

mastermind who assembles a crew of various talents to

execute an audacious heist on the Royal Mint of Spain...

and the aftermath when it doesn’t quite go according

to plan. The series is created by Álex Pina, who was also

behind hit drama Locked Up (available on All 4), and

is in Spanish with English subtitles. HHHHJP

FRIDAY

19 July