TV TIMES 73
Thursday
PICTURES BY GETTY
Living with
Young Carers
Chris Pine stars
On the Town, directed by
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
Ross meets
young carer Ali
The Directors
● FACTUAL / 8pm / Sky Arts
Stanley Donen is in the spotlight this week, a director
who embodied Hollywood’s golden age. Singin’ in the
Rain, Charade and On the Town are the most obvious
standouts in a long career and life – he died earlier this
year aged 94. But Donen also made the promo for Lionel
Richie’s Dancing on the Ceiling, inspired by that scene in
Royal Wedding when Donen had Fred Astaire dance up
the walls and into musical history. HHHHSM
I Am the Night
● DRAMA / 9pm / Alibi
NEW
Chris Pine is the latest Hollywood star to cross
over to TV in this new six-part mystery drama
based on the story of the Black Dahlia, a notorious
unsolved 1940s murder case. He plays a down-on-his-luck
journalist in 1965 LA whose investigation brings him into
contact with a girl from a small town in Nevada. She’s
looking into her past and embarks on what turns out to be
a dangerous journey of discovery... HHHHJL
Sewer Men
● REAL LIFE / 9pm / ITV
LAST ONE
‘You get used
to the smell,’
sewage shoveller Pete tells
us as this two-parter shot
during last year’s heatwave
goes out on a high.
Murdered by
My Boyfriend
● DRAMA / 10.35pm
(times vary) / BBC1
Another chance to see the
award-winning fact-based
2014 drama starring
Georgina Campbell as a
victim of domestic abuse.
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Ross Kemp meets
the youngsters
spending their
childhood as carers
● REAL LIFE / 7.30pm / ITV
In the second of this Living
with... series, Ross Kemp looks
at the issues facing young
carers – 800,000 children in
the UK are looking after sick
relatives. He finds that
although the youngsters are
saving the NHS lots of money,
it’s a ‘postcode lottery’ when it
comes to getting funding for
themselves. Ross meets some
of the young carers, including a
15-year-old who looks after her
schizophrenic mother and a
much younger Ali, who cares
for his sister, who has cerebral
palsy and visual impairment.
‘There’s a whole generation of
kids who are losing their
childhood,’ says Ross, who has
revealed that this Living with...
episode, which he thinks is the
best of the series, made him
very emotional. HHHHRF
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