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THE BEST TV FROM PRIME VIDEO AND BEYOND... MONDAY 29 NOVEMBER
I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue
(Radio 4, 6.30pm)
The fact that this “antidote to
panel games” is returning for
its 76th series is a testament
to the format devised in
1972 by the now-occasional
panellist Graeme Garden. It
has survived the deaths of
the chairman, Humphrey
Lyttelton, and stalwarts
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Willie
Rushton and Jeremy Hardy
and is now allowing new
comedians to enjoy its
brilliant daftness, alongside
Barry Cryer, now the heart of
the show. This series begins
at the Hexagon Theatre in
Reading, where chairman
Jack Dee will drily control
the teams (Cryer and Tony
Hawks v Jan Ravens and
Omid Djalili), with Colin
Sell at the piano. The names
may change, but the laughs
remain just as big.
Clair WoodwardThe Big Lebowksi (Sky
Cinema Comedy, 11.30pm)
The eccentricity of the Coen
brothers’ shaggy-dog story
about a hassled stoner ( Jeff
Bridges) becomes more and
more striking as time goes
by. Few films have noticeably
tried to copy this parody of
The Big Sleep; even its makers
have done nothing else in the
same vein. Its rarity value
enhances the many other
qualities that have kept it
fresh: they include its hero’s
laid-back nobility, a wealth
of quotable lines and great
performances (by John
Goodman, Julianne Moore
and Philip Seymour Hoffman,
among others). (1998)Terror In A Texas Town
(TCM, 11.50am)
The director Joseph H Lewis
is remembered for jazzing
up his pulp films by adding
new quirks. In this western,
he sends a Swedish sailor
(Sterling Hayden) to the Lone
Star state and crafts a final
showdown that involves a
curious weapon. (1958) B/W
Edward PorterHi-de-die? (ITV2, 10.45pm) Goodman, Bridges (SCC, 11.30pm)FILM CHOICE
ON DEMAND
Bridget Riley — Painting
The Line (BBC iPlayer)
The grand dame of British
op art, although she would
probably hate all those terms,
Riley has been experimenting
with line, form and colour
since the early 1960s, falling in
and out of fashion and always
wary of how she is seen by the
Damilola — The Boy Next
Door (All4)
Radio DJ Yinka Bokinni grew
up on south London’s North
Peckham estate with friends
that included Damilola Taylor.
Following the ten-year-old’s
murder in 2000, the estate was
demolished, separating the
friends. Here, Bokinni revisits
the trauma, remembers the
real Dami and speculates on
what life he might have had.
Andrew MaleCurse Of The Chippendales
(Amazon Prime Video)
The first profitable male strip
troupe for female audiences,
the Chippendales — like many
1980s business ventures that
operated on the wilder edges
of culture — became a magnet
for drug dealers, grifters and,
ultimately, murder. With the
occasional pause for regret,
this is the perfect cocktail of
true-crime doc and shoulder-
padded cultural history.Candyman
(Buy as stream/download)
The ghostly killer from 1992’s
Candyman returns in this
revamp. Its writers include
Jordan Peele, the maker of Get
Out, and like that horror film,
this too offers thoughts on
matters of race. Here, though,
the social commentary comes
with paranormal scares —
staged with fantastic elan by
the movie’s director, Nia
DaCosta. (2021) EPmedia. Interviewed by Kirsty
Wark across a number of
years, Riley appears alert
and cautious — sometimes
suspicious of the whole
documentary enterprise — but
she is also smart and funny.
What ultimately emerges is
the portrait of a singular
painter, now entering her
tenth decade, who rejected
figurative and abstract art in
pursuit of the ultimate ideal
of colour and form.A grand day out in the Dales: walk awhile with Amanda Owen (BBC4, 7.30pm)
Winter Walks (Monday-
Thursday, BBC4, 7.30pm)
Amanda Owen, star of Our
Yorkshire Farm, is the first of
four walkers as the reliably
enjoyable series returns with
daily episodes. Even though
her hike only involves
swapping Swaledale for
next-door Wensleydale,
she seems anxious as well
as excited about briefly
abandoning her children
and sheep, and unsure if she
will be able to “switch off ”.
Yet the shepherdess is good
company as she admires
dry-stone walls, notes
enviously that Wensleydale
seems “kinder”, and meets
horse riders, fellow farmers
and another walker who
enthuses about the Dales’
landscape and light. Alastair
Campbell, Kate Bottley and
Nihal Arthanayake are the
other celebrity strollers.
John DugdaleKiller Camp (ITV2, 10.45pm)
Anyone who has ever enjoyed
a campfire round of “murder
in the dark” will probably
appreciate this ludicrous
reality gameshow, back now
for its second series. Eleven
contestants are driven to a
slasher-friendly lakeside
summer camp run by the
deranged Bobby (Canadian
standup comedian Bobby Mair)
and his horribly bandaged
sidekick, “handyman” Bruce.
There they will play games,
form scantily clad alliances
and be picked off one by one
in a variety of unpleasant
ways by Bruce, in cahoots
with the “killer” hidden
among them. It’s a cartoonish
composite of Big Brother and
Friday the 13th. Think It’s a
Knockout (with an axe).
Victoria Segal
Villages By The Sea
(BBC2, 7pm)
Ben Robinson is in
Charlestown, formerly Pol
Mear, a pretty Cornish village
renamed in honour of the
18th-century visionary who
invested in technology to
bring boats in at all hours.
He created a harbour the envy
of the coast, but scurrilous
workers brought him down.Great British Landmark
Fixers (Yesterday, 8pm)
It is high stakes work inspecting
and repairing Edinburgh’s
North Bridge, which has sat
over Waverley Station since- Not only is the structure
rusted, but should engineers
fail to sufficiently protect the
station ceiling, one dropped
tool might smash the glass roof
and brain a passing commuter.
Along For The Ride
(C4, 10pm)
David O’Doherty’s companion
is Grayson Perry, the artist
and mountain biker. He plays
the curmudgeon on the brutal
Brecon Beacons, claiming to
be unimpressed by “boring
trees and samey old hills” —
until, like a true romantic, he
softens with a Mr Whippy.
Helen StewartCRITICS’ CHOICE
Old warhorse
returns to please