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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7
Urban Myths: Princess Diana,
Freddie Mercury and Kenny
Everett (Sky Arts, Sky 020,
10.00pm). They don’t always
work, but when they do, they
are super fun. There have
been three seasons of Urban
Myths on Sky Arts in the UK,
each a standalone story based
on a strange, apocryphal tale
that can’t be true, can it?
Stories have ranged from that
time Muhammad Ali talked a
man down from a ninth-floor
balcony, to Johnny Cash’s
run-in with a killer ostrich
in a Nottingham hotel. This
episode is based on a famous
rumour that Lady Di spent a
wild night out at a gay caba-
ret bar in Vauxhall with her
mates Freddie Mercury and
Kenny Everett. She wore a dis-
guise, naturally. As delicious
as that sounds, the drama is
elevated by Di’s conversationwith a drag artist
dying of Aids, a
reminder of what
is around the corner
for both Mercury and
Everett. Sophie Rundle plays
Diana, David Avery is Mer-
cury and Mathew Baynton is
Everett. Watch out for future
Urban Myths episode The Trial
of Joan Collins, based on Col-
lins’ legal battle with Random
House in the 90s. Victoria
Hamilton (The Crown) plays
Collins and David Walliams is
her boyfriend, Monty.SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8
The Block NZ: Firehouse (Three,- 0 0 p m). It’s the story of Auck-
land right now: a building
that was once a fire station
and then became a boarding
house is now luxury apart-
ments. The live auction for
the four Block NZ apartments
will take place at a hotel in
central
Auckland,
which will
be a relief for
the suburb of
Kingsland, at least. The
four teams take home any
profit they make over their
reserve and the team that
makes the most profit wins
an extra $100,000, ensuring
that they’ll have enough cash
for a deposit on a small apart-
ment near the railway line
in New Lynn. The winners
of the People’s Choice Award
take home a car.Married at First Sight NZ
(Three, 8.35pm). Stupid reality
formats, the gift that keeps on
giving. Although, when the
time comes to weigh the net
value to humanity of Married
at First Sight, in all its various
iterations, we’re thinking
God might have a few wordsment
cannabis market here,” says
Gower. “From what I’ve seen,
once you go medical, you’ve
got to go big, or else you’re
going to have a black market
in the medical space before
you even get to recreational.”
In the US, the recreational
green rush is on. “Anything
that you can think of making
into cannabis, they’ve done it.
That’s modern-day branding,
that’s modern-day merchan-
dising, that’s America.”
But it’s possibly not New
Zealand. The draft scheme put
to the Cabinet by the Minis-
try of Justice would ban the
advertising and marketing of
cannabis products, although
Gower doesn’t cover that in
the documentary.
One thing Gower is very
clear about is that CBD, the
non-psychoactive compound
in cannabis that is often used
for pain relief, should be
legal. In the documentary, he
includes his personal story
about his mother’s death from
lung cancer.
“It made it a way better
documentary for me, because I
started thinking, ‘Man, I wish I
had found out more about this
while Mum was suffering.’” lUrban Myths: Princess
Diana, Freddie Mercury and
Kenny Everett, Saturday.The Best of the Week
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