40 saturday review Saturday January 1 2022 | the times
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10.00 Bing (r) 10.10 Halibalw (r) 10.20
Meic y Marchog (r) 10.35 Jen a Jim Pob
Dim (r) 10.50 Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd (r)
11.00 Tatws Newydd (r) 11.05 Oli Wyn (r)
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4.45 Byd Tad-Cu (r) 5.00 Stwnsh:
Pengwiniaid Madagascar (r) 5.10 Bernard
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5.55 Ffeil 6.00 Codi Pac (r) 6.30 Adre (r)
6.57 News S4C 7.00 Heno 7.30 News 8.00
Pobol y Cwm. Cassie suggests that Tesni
takes a pregnancy test 8.25 Rownd a
Rownd. Kay is shocked when a letter from
the solicitors’ arrives for her, but it is
questionable who has the worst reaction
to the news 8.55 News 9.00 Gwesty
Aduniad 10.00 Canu gyda Fy Arwr (r)
11.00-12.05am Pantomeim y Ffermwyr (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing● BBC2 Wales As BBC2 except:
7.00-8.00pm Inside the Factory.
Following a malt loaf production line
● BBC1 N Ireland As BBC1 except:
12.30am The Ulster Rugby Show (r) 1.00
Superman & Lois (r) 1.40-6.00 BBC News
● BBC2 N Ireland As BBC2 except:
10.00pm-10.30 The Ulster Rugby Show. A
look at Ulster Rugby’s latest matches in
the United Rugby Championship
11.15-11.45 The Apprentice: You’re Fired
● STV As ITV except: 10.30-10.45pm STV
News 4.05-5.05am Unwind with STV
● BBC Scotland 7.00pm Gold Town (r)
8.00 The Adventure Show. New series.
The outdoor activities show returns with
a look at the Orkney Islands 8.30 Iain
Robertson Rambles. New series. The
presenter takes on the Southern Upland
Way 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Scot Squad.
New series. Return of the spoof
documentary 10.30 The Karen Dunbar
Show (r) 11.00 Growing Up Scottish (r)
11.30-Midnight Mirror Mirror (r)
● S4C 6.00am Cyw: Bing (r) 6.10 Hafod
Haul (r) 6.25 Wibli Sochyn y Mochyn (r)
6.35 Sblij a Sbloj (r) 6.45 Straeon Ty Pen
(r) 7.00 Sali Mali (r) 7.05 Cymylaubychain
7.15 Jamborî (r) 7. 2 5 Blero yn Mynd i
Ocido (r) 7.40 Deian a Loli (r) 8.00
Peppa (r) 8.05 Halibalw (r) 8.15 Abadas (r)Dragons’ Den
BBC1, 8pm
The business reality show is
back for its 19th series, with
Steven Bartlett, founder of the
social media company Social
Chain and the youngest
Dragon yet, joining the
stony-faced stalwarts Peter
Jones, Sara Davies, Deborah
Meaden and Touker Suleyman.
Among those trying to
convince the investors to sink
their money into their bright
idea are an ethically minded
couple who have ideas for
transforming the DIY market
and saving the planet; a mum
with an invention inspired by
her sleepless nights; and an
animal lover from Canada with
a green solution to canine
pollution. JC
The Apprentice
BBC1, 9pmThat other business reality
show is back for a 16th run, as
Lord Sugar goes in search of
another company to invest
£250,000 into. No previews
were available, with even the
identity of the new “chancers,
posers, brown-nosers, moaning
Minnies, big-time Charlies and
half-pint Harrys” (copyright
Lord Sugar) being kept under
wraps. His trusted adviser
Karren Brady returns, but
with Sugar’s chief attack dog
Claude Littner taking a break,
Tim Campbell, the winner of
the first series, joins to observe
the candidates. The first task
involves devising an
advertising campaign for a
destination cruise. JCThe Real Anne:
Unfinished
Business
ITV, 9pmThis documentary follows
the four-part drama (which
concluded last night) about the
Hillsborough campaigner Anna
Williams, whose 15-year-old son
Kevin was killed in the disaster.
Maxine Peake, who played her
in the drama, narrates. There is
new footage of Williams, and
the first public broadcast of
pivotal moments in court. Her
daughter, Sara, reveals the true
cost of her mother’s struggle
for justice, and contributors
include the politician Andy
Burnham, the footballer John
Barnes and survivors. JCScrew
Channel 4, 9pmThe Bafta-nominated
screenwriter Rob Williams (The
Victim, Killing Eve) penned this
promising new six-part series
set in a men’s prison. Williams
strikes a darkly comic tone,
accentuating the absurdity of
life behind bars, but not
shirking from the depressing
reality and frequent bursts of
violence. Driving the narrative
is a battle of wills between the
long-serving screw Leigh (Nina
Sosanya), who isn’t averse to
bending the rules, and Rose
(Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Derry
Girls), a mouthy young
probationer. “Prisons aren’t full
of bad people,” Leigh says.
“They’re full of people who’ve
done bad things.” JCIn the Heart of the Sea (12, 2015)
BBC1, 10.35pm
Ron Howard’s film positions itself as a popcorn blockbuster about
the story behind Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick — cue giant
computer-generated whale somewhere off the coast of South
America, terrorising the good ship Essex, itself in a power struggle
between a lily-livered blueblood captain (Benjamin Walker) and his
fearless first mate (Chris Hemsworth, below). Yet this is a serious
movie of ideas, with only a grown-up audience in mind. As the tale
unfolds, told within another tale, it becomes clear that this is also
about narration and narrators, unreliable and otherwise. The film is
recounted to Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) by the last surviving
crew member of the Essex, Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson),
who is hiding a ghastly secret. (121min) Kate MuirFilms of the day
Viva Las Vegas (U, 1964)
BBC4, 10.45pm
This spirited musical is arguably Elvis Presley’s most successful
movie vehicle — certainly more successful than the vehicle he
hopes to race in the Las Vegas Grand Prix, just as soon as he can
afford to buy an engine. Elvis plays Lucky Jackson, who works
at a casino, hoping to get his wheels back on the road, and
chasing all the wrong girls, when Ann-Margret (who, unlike
Presley’s other female leads, shared top billing with the King) is
right in front of his nose. And he finds time to belt out a total of
12 songs. The chemistry between the winsome Ann-Margret and
a pre-podge Elvis sizzles effectively — the pair dated during
preproduction but split up soon after filming. (85min)
Wendy IdeRegional programmes
Catch
up
Walking with Jim Moir
BBC iPlayer
Jim Moir, right,
better known by
the name of his
comic alter ego
Vic Reeves, turns
out to be a
pleasingly
thoughtful
walking
companion as
he takes a solo
hike along the
Kent coast. This
is Moir’s corner of
the world. He starts at
Littlestone-on-Sea,
heading south pastthe mysterious Denge Sound
Mirrors (a forerunner of radar)
en route to Lydd-on-Sea, with
Dungeness on the horizon.
“It’s great to be back here to
explore this wonderful,
strange place,” he says.
“There’s always something
new.” True to his word,
this “nosey parker”
indicates myriad
points of interest,
big and small, as he
notices them, from
a disused water
tower to a marsh
flower (with slow
TV-style captions
floating up to
offer details). It’s
a rich, scenic half-
hour, and a long
way from Vic Reeves
Big Night Out.
James JacksonThursday 6 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice
Andy Warhol’s America
BBC2, 9pm
In 2019, during one of the
lucrative advertising breaks
for Super Bowl LIII, Andy
Warhol appeared in a Burger
King commercial. It featured
the maverick pop artist
quietly consuming a Whopper
and the hashtag #EatLikeAndy.
The clip was from a 1981 film
by Jorgen Leth, 66 Scenes
from America — a series of
vignettes about life in the US.
The advert stuck out like a
sore thumb amid the usual
brash clips, and it had the
desired effect for Burger King
— people couldn’t stop talking
about it. More than 30 years
after his death they were
talking about Warhol again.
The story is a neat
introduction to an excellent
new three-part series from
Francis Whately (David Bowie:
Five Years), which explores
the history of 20th-century
America by revealing how the
life and career of Andy Warhol
intersected with it. Warhol
was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, the son of
working-class first-generation
immigrants from Austria-
Hungary, which gave him a
unique perspective on the
country. The first episode
looks at Warhol’s difficult
childhood and his rise from
poverty to wealth and fame in
New York in the 1950s. Family,
friends, biographers and
artists, including his nephew,
James Warhola, as well as
Jerry Hall, Bianca Jagger and
Jeffrey Deitch, share their
insights into Warhol and what
was happening at the time.
He started out as a promising
illustrator, and his great
strengths were his powers of
observation and his ability to
glorify and critique US culture.
But first he had to get out of
Pittsburgh. “He could have no
more stayed in Pittsburgh
than a tiger can live on the
streets of New York,” says the
artist Penny Arcade. Joe Clay