66 LISTENER MARCH 14 2020
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
Westworld, Monday.expo will save Lassiters Hotel
and that means a wedding per
episode featuring couples from
different decades of Neighbours
who didn’t make it down the
aisle the first time. Of course,
it can’t be all happy matches;
there have to be dispatches. It’s
reported that three characters
will not make it to the end of
next week.Westworld (SoHo, Sky 010,
2.00pm and 8.30pm). Season
two’s convoluted – and
repetitive – storylines tried ourpatience somewhat, so let’s
hope season three has better
narrative chops. Details are
under wraps, of course, but
it has been revealed that the
hosts who escaped into the real
world are being hunted; Maeve
(Thandie Newton) is sent after
Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood),
who forms an alliance with a
new character played by Aaron
Paul; and future Los Angeles
is a lot like the most sci-fi bits
of present-day Singapore. But
the show looks amazing in the
trailers (cool cars! robots!). ItTroubled film productions are
part of Hollywood lore. Some
(Jaws, Cleopatra, Apocalypse
Now) survive their chaotic
creation and go on to acclaim,
some (Heaven’s Gate) become
bywords for excess and disas-
ter and quite a few most of us
never get to hear about.
The Ghost of Peter Sellers(Sky Arts, Sky 020, Saturday,
8.30pm) is about a film of
the third kind. It is director
Peter Medak’s account of his
attempt to make the 1973
pirate comedy Ghost in the
Noonday Sun – a film madeDocumentariesby RUSSELL BROWN
Roswell, New Mexico,
Tuesday.The Ghost of Peter Sellers, Saturday.has anything to do with
climate change. But
we digress. The Aussie
soap that introduced
Kylie Minogue to the
world is celebrating its
35th anniversary with
double episodes this
week followed by special
hour-long wedding-
themed episodes next
week. Apparently, Chloe
has the wild and crazy
idea that a wedding