New Zealand Listener - October 13, 2018

66 LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT

The Looming Tower (Prime,

9.35pm). The evening’s

nostalgia/post-traumatic stress

disorder trip continues with a

free-to-air run for the dramatic

miniseries that originally aired

here on SoHo. It’s based on

American author Lawrence

Wright’s book The Looming

Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road

to 9/11 and the catastrophic

rivalries between the FBI and

CIA that helped create the

space for the terror attacks.

It’s especially notable for

Jeff Daniels’ Emmy-winning

performance.

The Looming

Towe r, Tuesday.

Rock‘n’Roll Guns for Hire: The

Story of the Sideman (Prime,

8.30pm). We’ve had the

backing singers (20 Feet from

Stardom), now it’s the turn

of the hired guitar-slingers.

Long-time Bowie guitarist Earl

Slick, Wendy and Lisa and

Steve Cropper all talk about

life when you’re in the band,

but not in the band and the

Rolling Stones turn up to heap

praise on Bernard Fowler,

who, it turns out, has not

only been the band’s onstage

backing vocalist since 1988,

but is also the man in charge

of remembering how all the

songs go. Given Fowler’s addi-

tional history with cult legends

Tackhead and the Peech Boys,

he’s probably the most influ-

ential performer you’ve never

heard of.

Grand Designs New Zealand

(Three, 7.30pm). Yes, we’ve

already featured this new

season recently – but this time

it’s a tree house! This week’s

builders Rik and Boio bought

a lifestyle block in Hanmer

Springs to retire to, but

found themselves taking on a

What might possibly motivate

a 16-year-old Australian high

school student to set out to

conquer the world’s three

great ice caps?

For Jade Hameister, it was

family first. Her mountaineer

father took her to Mt Everest

base camp at the age of 12.

There, she met an Icelandic

woman who had completed

a solo expedition to the South

Pole – and it was her stories

that sparked Hameister’s

dream to do the triple: the

North Pole, the South Pole and

Greenland.

Her father not only

encouraged her, but joined

her on the journeys captured

in the feature documentary

Jade’s Quest: To the Ends of the

Earth (National Geographic,

Sky 072, Sunday, 7.30pm). “It

Documentaries

Jade’s Quest: To the Ends

of the Earth, Sunday.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17

MasterChef Australia (TVNZ

1, 7. 30pm). It’s the head-to-

head series final and they’ve

brought in the big gun. Heston

Blumenthal appears as guest

judge as the two finalists com-

pete for the MasterChef title

and the $250,000 that comes

with it. (If you can’t live with-

out MasterChef in your life, a

new season of MasterChef USA

begins at 7.30pm, Thursday

night on Prime, with Gordon

Ramsay and Christina Tosi up

front and the likes of Wolfgang

Puck lined up as guest judges.)