3 April 2022 51THE BEST TV FROM MUBI AND BEYOND... FRIDAY 8 APRIL
Shellsuits and bucket
hats on, all you middle-
aged ravers — Radio 2 is
celebrating the 1990s all
day on Friday, with music,
guests and features from
the decade, beginning
with Zoe Ball’s Breakfast
Show. At 9.30am, Ken
Bruce’s Popmaster has a
nineties bonus round, and
at 12 noon, Jeremy Vine
examines how the arrival
of the internet changed our
lives forever. Later in the
day, Dermot O’Leary’s new
series, Dermot’s Alternative
90s (8pm), begins with the
presenter telling the story
of the decade in his personal
favourite songs. The day
ends with Fearne Cotton’s
Sounds Of The 90s (10pm),
with a special icons mixtape
feature that promises artists
ranging from “from Britney
to Whitney”.
Clair WoodwardThe Fighter
(Sky Cinema Hits, 6pm)
A biopic of Micky Ward, a
light-welterweight boxer from
Massachusetts who gave up
in the early 1990s but made a
comeback, David O Russell’s
film has a blue-collar setting
to match Rocky’s. Compared
with that movie’s thumping
melodrama, though, the
story here is leaner and
more nimble. It also has a
livelier crowd driving it on.
Russell animates the film with
vigorous quarrels between
Mark Wahlberg’s Ward, his
resolute girlfriend (Amy
Adams) and his wayward half-
brother (an Oscar-winning
Christian Bale). (2010)The Boss Baby 2 — Family
Business (Sky Cinema
Premiere, 8.40am/6pm)
A sequel to the 2017 cartoon
about a tot who acts like a
businessman, Tom McGrath’s
film does all sorts of madcap
stuff to compete with its older
sibling. It has the potential
to exhaust grown-ups while
enthusing children. (2021)
Edward PorterParental guidance (BBC1, 9.30pm) Mark Wahlberg (SC Hits, 6pm)FILM CHOICE
ON DEMAND
The Marvellous Mrs Maisel
(Amazon Prime)
As we predicted in February,
the big question for season four
of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s
wonderful sitcom is how it
would manage to keep its
central character within the
beating heart of Manhattan
while simultaneously allowing
Embrace The Panda (Disney+)
This documentary about the
making of Pixar’s most recent
film success, Turning Red, is
undeniably charming but also
surprisingly moving. Filmed
over four years, it follows the
female team of showrunners as
they create their characters’
identities and explores the
film’s themes of puberty and
female creative identity. Watch
with your kids, or inner kid.
Andrew MaleInside
(Walter Presents on All 4)
Investigating a murder in a
mental-health facility, a young,
brilliant cop (Noémie Schmidt)
gradually begins to lose her
hold on reality. With nods to
Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor
and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter
Island, this is not your normal,
gritty French crime thriller, but
something closer to gothic
melodrama. Suspend disbelief
and you’ll have a hoot.Brian Wilson —
Long Promised Road
(Buy as stream/download)
The Beach Boys’ former
leader is as terse as usual in
this documentary by Brent
Wilson (no relation), but its
leisurely, gentle approach
allows the film to observe him
closely and gather poignant
moments. Meanwhile, Elton
John, Bruce Springsteen and
other talking heads praise his
music. (2021) EPher to move forward. The
answer was to have our
now penniless stand-up,
Midge (Rachel Brosnahan),
take a job as an MC at a
Manhattan strip club and then
become the TV warm-up for
her arch-nemesis, Sophie
Lennon (the brilliant Jane
Lynch). In the process, Midge
becomes a little tougher and a
little more mercenary. Might
her future lie in the cutthroat
world of 1960s television?Marching faithfully on: following in the footsteps of St Columba (BBC2, 9pm)Pilgrimage — The Road
To The Scottish Isles
(BBC2, 9pm)
A programme about religion
under the cover of reality TV
caper, this show sends seven
more celebrities on a 15-day
pilgrimage in the footsteps of
St Columba, the sixth-century
abbot who spread Christianity
from Ireland to Scotland.
Cricketer Monty Panesar,
designer Laurence Llewelyn-
Bowen, comedian Shazia
Mirza and TV personality
Scarlett Moffatt are among
the multi-faith band hoping
to discover more about the
role of spirituality in the
modern world — and in
their own lives — as they
trudge from Donegal to the
Hebridean island of Iona. In
the noisy world of reality TV,
it is an unusually thoughtful
format, its revelations gentle,
its intentions good.
Victoria SegalDis/Informed
(PBS America, 9.05pm)
PBS’s ambitious documentary
brings together a squad of
academics to analyse the
rise of “disinformation” in
recent years, from QAnon’s
conspiracy theory to the
antivax movement’s fake
facts. Largely focusing on the
latter, they offer social and
psychological explanations
for why the myths have such
widespread appeal — to the
extent that the coalition
opposed to jabs ranges from
the far-right to “yoga moms”.
The film is often entertaining
as it examines antivaxers’
video posts, and is not as
smug as it may sound: there
is a “kernel of truth” in most
disinformation, more than
one expert acknowledges.
John Dugdale
Unreported World
(C4, 7.30pm)
Ashionye Ogene visits Ghana to
investigate an environmental
crisis caused in part by textile
traders who have been making
a living from “dead white
man’s clothes”. “Fast fashion”
has made clothes almost
disposable in the UK, but
Ogene finds our profligate ways
have consequences elsewhere.Cruising With Susan Calman
(C5, 8pm)
About 3,500 passengers and an
excitable comedian head for
Vigo, sampling the pleasures of
the boat as they motor. Susan
is a hit at dinner, explaining
to fellow guests: “What you
have to understand about me
is that I’m not really used to
eating in company. I very
rarely eat with trousers on.”Not Going Out
(BBC1, 9.30pm)
It’s time for Lee to make friends
with other parents at school,
says Lucy, aware that she’s the
only one making an effort to be
sociable. “If God wanted us to
talk to each other he wouldn’t
have invented Candy Crush,”
he whines. Enter Joe Wilkinson,
guest star and scene stealer.
Helen StewartCRITICS’ CHOICE
Celebrating the
roaring nineties