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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5
Rugby (Sky Sport 1, Sky 051,
12. 55pm). It’s a big weekend
for American rugby fans, who
are treated to the Maori All
Blacks versus the US Eagles
today, and the All Blacks v
Ireland tomorrow (Sky Sport
1, 8.30am). The action takes
place in Chicago, but at two
different venues: the MABs
play at Toyota Park, usually a
soccer stadium, and the ABs
meet the Irish at the home
of the Chicago Bears, Soldier
Field, one of the few grass
gridiron fields in the US.Silent Witness (Prime, 9.35pm).
The Brits keep on watching it,
so the BBC keeps on making
it: here’s season 18 of the
forensic drama series, which
is Emilia Fox’s 10th season
as Nikki Alexander, improb-
able crime fighter. Relatively
new to the team is comedianand disability
rights campaigner
Liz Carr, who is
wheelchair-bound.
She’s the one adding a touch
of humour. “She continues
to add the light to the dark
and brings the sarcasm,” says
Carr, “but really nails it when
it comes to the cases. I don’t
think anyone really knew
who Clarissa was at first,
but she has been such a hit.
She’s a bit like M in the Bond
films.”SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
Finest Interiors (Living, Sky 017,
8.30pm). It’s Property Month
on Living, although you
may be forgiven for thinking
“when is it not?” Among all
the tatty little escape-to-wher-
ever shows is this Channel 4
series that pokes around crazy
expensive interiors in London
and is the very definitionof how the
other half
live. After
avoiding all that
tax, the very wealthy
are always looking for stuff to
spend their money on, and in
the past 10 years, more than
$171 billion worth of London
property has been bought by
foreign investors. Cameras
follow a number of design-
ers, including posh Joanna
Wood as she transforms a
penthouse; the, ah, less posh
Juliette Thomas, who can
have crystals embedded in
anything; and Brian Wade,
who has been working for
four years on a seven-storey
townhouse for his Russian
clients.MONDAY NOVEMBER 7
2016 MTV Europe Music Awards
(MTV, Sky 015, 8.00am). The
crazy annual music awardslittle bit of skill to eat, as
their liquid contents can
easily ruin a nice pink
shirt. With the help of
various guides, Stein eats
steamed hairy crab (“eight
out of 10”); pig intestine
noodles (“quite piggy”);
stinky tofu (“it’s not great,
but the taste is a lot better
than the smell”); boiled
chicken; and has seafood
bought at a market, includ-
ing a crab all the way from
Devon, cooked for him at a
restaurant.
They don’t serve crab
with salted duck-egg yolk in
Padstow, however, and they
don’t stir-fry clams with
spring onion, ginger and
rice wine, either, but hope-
fully his next cookbook will
tell us how. l
Silent Witness, Saturday.The Best of the Week
Television by FIONA RAE
Rick Stein’s Taste of
Shanghai, Sunday.Good for a
Laugh!
ALL TALK WITH
ANIKA MOA
Maori, Thursday,
9.30pm