TV Times – 27 July 2019

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Tuesday Highlights

Prepare for take-off!

Bad idea: Sian and Cory

Jason Atherton takes a close

look at the brigade’s best shot

Exceedingly good?

Cherry with a cherry

Bakewell tart

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Ackley Bridge

● DRAMA / 8pm / C4

Though she’s on

maternity leave, head

Mandy Carter pays a visit

to the school and discovers

there’s a rumour going

around that troubled teen

Cory Wilson is the father

of her newborn! Mandy

is unaware that Cory

and acting head Sian have

secretly been seeing each

other, and believes Sian’s

story that Cory’s become

obsessed with her. But

Cory has a different

version of events. HHHVW

Manifest

● DRAMA / 9pm / Sky One

NEW

If you liked Lost,

this supernatural

mystery has more than a

few similarities. It follows

the passengers of Montego

Air Flight 828, which

disappears and then

returns years later, having

been presumed lost at sea.

Although no time has

passed for those on board,

for their loved ones at

home – who had given up

hope of ever seeing their

friends and family alive

again – many years have

gone by. HHHHNC

The Chefs’ Brigade

● REALITY / 9pm / BBC2

NEW

Teamwork makes the dream

work, and in a professional

kitchen that well-oiled dream machine is

known as the brigade. In this new six-part

series Michelin-starred chef Jason

Atherton sets out to train raw recruits

from a variety of culinary backgrounds,

from cafes to gastropubs, and transform

them into a world-class brigade. If

someone isn’t cutting it, however,

they’re out, and immediately replaced!

Tonight’s episode in Puglia, Italy, sees

the team compete against a top local

kitchen after some basic training. Initially,

everyone’s hungry for success, but as

homesickness and doubt begin to creep

in, will Jason’s experiment prove a recipe

for disaster? HHHHER

I Am Kirsty

● DRAMA / 10pm / C4

If you only watch one of director Dominic

Savage’s I Am trilogy, make it this one.

Samantha Morton plays loving mum

Kirsty, who falls on hard times when her

gambling-addicted partner ups and leaves

her deeply in debt. Struggling to feed her

daughters, hotel cleaner Kirsty reluctantly

borrows money from Ryan (Paul Kaye),

a sympathetic dad who befriends her at

the school gates. Overnight, Ryan reveals

himself to be a loan shark and demands

Kirsty repay him with sex work. Arguably

the hardest-hitting story in the trilogy,

this is a masterclass in realism and

compassion. Haunting, emotional,

redemptive and brave. HHHHHER

Inside the Factory

● FACTUAL / 8pm / BBC2

NEW

Gregg Wallace’s willpower is put to the test

as the new series starts in a cherry Bakewell

factory. Using one of his favourite flavours – frangipane

• Gregg gets stuck in to the production process with
  regular sidekick Cherry Healey, helping make some of
  the 250,000 tarts the Stoke-on-Trent factory produces
  each day. Meanwhile, historian Ruth Goodman explores
  the origins of the tart and the history of frangipane. HHHJL
  ●See Gregg Wallace interview, page 18

TUESDAY

30 July

On their game:

Paul Kaye and

Samantha Morton