TV Times – 27 July 2019

TV TIMES 73

Thursday

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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.

ALSO ON...

1 August

THURSDAY

1 August

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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