36 saturday review Saturday June 11 2022 | the times
Sherwood
BBC1, 9pm
In an increasingly common
break with the usual police
procedural rules, we appear to
have been told who the killer of
Alun Armstrong’s former NUM
stalwart Gary Jackson was at
the end of episode one. There
seemed no doubt about the
identity of the person who fired
the arrow into Gary’s chest
since he was hiding in the
woods as a latter-day Robin
Hood. James Graham’s rich
drama seems more concerned
with exploring a fractured
community where the wounds
from the strike — and tensions
with the police — continue to
cause damage. If that’s what
interests you, tonight’s episode
is another belter. BD
We Own This City
Sky Atlantic/Now, 9pmEpisode one ended with cocky
cop Wayne Jenkins (Jon
Bernthal) getting bundled into
a windowless room by FBI
agents then receiving a visit
from an angry chief of police.
Jenkins seems to have done
some dodgy things to achieve
his success with the Gun Trace
Task Force and tonight we
discover what those might
be. The action opens in
flashback, with Jenkins as a
fresh-faced recruit. “All that
cultural sensitivity training...
f*** that shit, this is Baltimore,”
he’s told. David Simon and
George Pelecanos’s story of
modern policing drawn from
real stories continues to be
angry and unflinching. BDThe Fog of War
Sky Documentaries, 10.05pmSubtitled Eleven Lessons from
the Life of Robert McNamara,
Errol Morris’s bracingly brainy
2003 film is based on hours
of interviews with the eminent
US secretary of state, who
discusses his life and career
without seeming to break eye
contact with the viewer as he
stares down the camera lens.
McNamara never submitted to
an election, but wielded huge
power, especially during the
Cuban missile crisis and the
first half of the Vietnam War.
And while his analysis and
justifications are self-serving,
his lessons — empathise with
your enemy, get the data and
so on — have certainly stood
the test of time. BD9.00 The Nine 10.00 The Hunt for
Bible John (r) 11.00pm-Midnight
David Wilson’s Crime Files (r)
● S4C 6.00am Cyw: Crads Bach y Traeth
(r) 6.05 Jamborî (r) 6.15 Abadas (r) 6.30
Bach a Mawr (r) 6.45 Sbarc (r) 7.00 Caru
Canu (r) 7.05 Timpo (r) 7.15 Fferm Fach (r)
7.30 Pablo 7.45 Deian a Loli (r) 8.00
Shwshaswyn (r) 8.10 Halibalw (r) 8.20
Digbi Draig (r) 8.30 Llan-ar-goll-en (r)
8.45 Twt (r) 9.00 Nico Nôg (r) 9.10 Sam
Tân (r) 9.20 Rapsgaliwn (r) 9.35 Stiw (r)
9.45 Gwdihw (r) 10.00 Crads Bach y
Traeth (r) 10.05 Jamborî (r) 10.15 Abadas
(r) 10.30 Bach a Mawr (r) 10.45 Sbarc (r)
11.00 Caru Canu (r) 11.05 Timpo (r) 11.15
Fferm Fach (r) 11.30 Pablo (r) 11.45 Deian
a Loli (r) 12.00 News 12.05pm Codi Hwyl
(r) 12.30 Heno (r) 1.00 Bois y Pizza (r) 1.30
Ffermio (r) 2.00 News 2.05 Prynhawn Da
3.00 News 3.05 Iaith ar Daith (r) 4.00 Awr
Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh: Mwy o Stwnsh Sadwrn
5.25 Un Cwestiwn (r) 5.45 Oi! Osgar (r)
5.55 Ffeil 6.00 Natur Gudd Cymru (r) 6.30
Adre (r) 7.00 News 7. 2 5 Live Sgorio
Rhyngwladol: Netherlands v Wales
(Kick-off 7. 4 5). Coverage of the UEFA
Nations League Group A4 encounter
at De Kuip 10.00 Rocco Schiavone
11.00-11.35 Pobol Port Talbot (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except: 10.45am
Homes Under the Hammer 11.45-12.15pm
X-Ray (r) 10.40 Match of the Day Wales.
Netherlands v Wales 11.10 Everything I
Know About Love 11.55 PRU (r) 12.20am-
1.10 Freeze: Skating on the Edge (r)
● BBC2 Wales As BBC2 except: 11.15pm
First Minister’s Questions. Queries in the
Senedd 12.05am-12.50 The Chris & Rosie
Ramsey Show. Entertainment show (r)
● BBC1 Scotland As BBC1 except:
10.40pm Sportscene 11.25 Everything I
Know About Love 12.10am PRU (r) 12.35
Freeze: Skating on the Edge (r) 1.25
Celebrity Catchpoint (r) 1.55 Weather for
the Week Ahead 2.00-6.00 BBC News
● ITV Wales As ITV except: 9.00pm The
Falklands War: Our Stories. Personal
experiences 9.30-10.00 Movie Memories:
The Making of Tiger Bay (r) 10.45 Sharp
End 11.15-11.50 Wales on TV (r)
● STV As ITV except: 1.30pm-6.00 Live
STV Racing: Royal Ascot. The opening
day of the festival 10.30 STV News 10.40
Scotland Tonight 11.05 Yorkshire Ripper:
The Secret Murders (r) 12.05am-3.00
Teleshopping 3.50-5.05 Unwind with STV
● BBC Scotland 7.00pm Scottish Vets
Down Under (r) 7.30 Great Escapes with
Colin and Justin (r) 7.55 Beechgrove
Repotted (r) 8.00 Secret Body (r)Dead Reckoning (U, 1947)
Film4, 1.05pm
Two soldiers are en route to Washington to receive the
Congressional Medal of Honor in this film noir. One disappears
and turns up dead; the other, Captain “Rip” Murdock (Humphrey
Bogart), decides to investigate what happened. He finds a smoking
gun and a dame. Soon the gun is pointing at him and he has fallen
for the girl. Lizabeth Scott is an incendiary femme fatale and the
plot is cunningly convoluted. It’s pure pulp, but Bogart’s hard-bitten
cynic schtick is always worth watching. It was intended as a vehicle
for Rita Hayworth (the Bogart/Hayworth combo was considered
box-office gold), but Hayworth turned down the role and Scott,
who was often compared to Bogart’s wife, Lauren Bacall, got it
instead. (96min) Wendy IdeFilms of the day
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (PG, 1988)
Film4, 11.45pm
Several years before cult stardom with The Big Lebowski and
numerous characterful supporting turns, Jeff Bridges was a
box-office leading man, with Tron, Starman, Jagged Edge and
this comedy-drama biopic from Francis Ford Coppola — actually a
flop despite glowing reviews. His handsome, effortless charisma is
on full beam as Preston Tucker, an American car entrepreneur
during the 1940s. He wants to build the “car of tomorrow”, full of
revolutionary safety features, but tricky shareholders have little
faith in this maverick’s plans. And so we have a visionary against
the capitalist giants holding him back, with a top-calibre
supporting cast including Martin Landau, Joan Allen and
Christian Slater. (110min) James JacksonEverything I Know
About Love
BBC1, 10.40pmThe second visit to the
young, fun quartet has Birdy
(Bel Powley) happily ensconced
in a relationship with sweet,
dull Nathan. The arrangement
is grating for Birdy’s best
friend, Maggie (Emma
Appleton), and Amara (Aliyah
Odoffin), who are frustrated
that Nathan has not quite got
the “boyfriend of a housemate
vibe” yet and is constantly
watching so much sport.
Maggie perhaps needs
to consider whether the real
love story here might be her
intense, co-dependent
relationship with her
old schoolfriend. BDRegional programmes
Catch
up
Midsomer Murders: 25 Years
of Mayhem/Midsomer
Murders
ITV Hub
Midsomer Murders has been
going for 25 years and while
the recent new feature-
length episode —
involving death
by scarecrows —
was serviceable
enough, fans
were also given
a bonus
documentary
looking back
over 132
episodes with
cast past andpresent. They included the
lead actors Neil Dudgeon,
below, and (his forebear)
John Nettles, offering wry
explanations for this bucolic
show’s continued success. We
are reminded, too, of all the
famous names who had early
roles appearing in the
lethal English
village, among
them Olivia
Colman and
Orlando
Bloom.
Joe ClayTuesday 14 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice
Madness of King George
BBC2, 9pm
It’s winter 1788, we’re told, and
an actor playing George III
is ranting incoherently in a
splendidly appointed drawing
room as worried men in wigs
and tights look on. We’re used
to a bit of dressing up with
Lucy Worsley programmes,
but this series, Lucy Worsley
Investigates, has actually
been notable for its sensitive
and forensic approach to
storytelling. George’s descent
into madness has been much
explored, but newly released
papers provide Worsley, right,
a rich arena for fresh inquiry,
enabling her to talk to experts
and help to diagnose a dead
man. We know that the 1960s
diagnosis of porphyria has
been hotly debated amid
claims that the pioneers of
that thesis — the psychiatrists
Ida Macalpine and Richard
Hunter, her son — were ardent
monarchists keen on ridding
the royal family of the taint of
madness. What enriches the
story is Worsley’s sensitive
consideration of the king’s life.
Many now believe he suffered
from bipolar disorder and this
programme examines the
many possible triggers for
his episodes, including, most
touchingly, the deaths of his
two favourite children, Alfred
(aged two) and Octavius
(aged four). He slept next to
a specially commissioned
painting of them being
welcomed into Heaven and
Worsley’s examination of
reports from those waiting on
the king suggests that his
dead children were a key part
of his hallucinations, with him
imagining they had come
back to life. It didn’t help that
Britain had lost the American
War of Independence and that
revolution was fomenting all
over Europe. Or that in a new
age of mass media this man of
great feeling was often cruelly
depicted in print.
Ben Dowell