The Times - UK (2022-03-18)

16 Friday March 18 2022 | the times

television & radio

— it’s happy to linger

in its more brooding

moments, depicting

families as well as

street dialogue between

the dealers as Dushane

(Ashley Walters) looks

to recruit his rival

Jamie (Micheal Ward)

to consolidate an

empire with links to

Spain and Morocco.

You don’t feel things

will end well. It’s very

smart, classy drama.

Top Boy

Netflix

Much how Black

Mirror enjoyed an

afterlife on Netflix after

originating on Channel

4, so Top Boy is bigger

than ever. This is the

second series of the

east London gangland-

drugs drama (the fourth

if you count the C4

ones) and it’s not just

about knives and guns

actress, cousin of

Gwyneth Paltrow and

aspiring business

mogul. Because this is

also a love story: we see

how Andrew wooed

her, then how the pair

hit gold, throwing

lavish parties and

spouting high-flown

philosophies of

changing the world for

the better. It’s just that

... wasn’t WeWork a
tad overvalued?

Israeli-American

entrepreneur and born

salesman, Neumann

was scrabbling around

pitching nonstarter

business ideas until he

hit on his lightbulb idea

in the late 2000s. It’s a

magnetic performance,

which Anne Hathaway

has to work hard to

keep up with. She plays

his wife, Rebekah — a

(deep breath) Buddhist

yoga teacher, sometime

hour. At its height the

business was valued at

$47 billion. Of course

things collapsed. By

2019 the business was

nearly bankrupt. What

went wrong? Allow a

slick, often amusing

mini-series to tell you

over six episodes.

Presiding over it all is

a compellingly wired

turn by Jared Leto as

Andrew Neumann, the

WeWork founder. An

Holmes) here is

another real-life drama

depicting hubris

running amok. This is

the story of WeWork,

the office space

company that promised

a new vision of working

lives — flexible desk

rentals in open-plan

warehouses where

freelancers could enjoy

a free beer while

sharing start-up stories

at the nightly happy

Viewing Guide

James Jackson

WeCrashed
Apple TV

After
Inventing
Anna (the
Netflix series
about the socialite
scammer Anna
Sorokin) and The
Dropout (the Disney+
drama about Elizabeth

Top

pick

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BBC1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 Channel 5

7.00 Comic Relief Lenny Henry, Paddy

McGuinness, Alesha Dixon, David

Tennant and Zoe Ball head this comedy

special direct from Media City UK,

Salford, entertaining the nation with

hilarious sketches, live performances,

big surprises and stunning music acts.

As usual this celebration is intended

to not just raise a smile, but also

much-needed cash for good causes.

Highlights include a special edition of

The Repair Shop with Dawn French,

Jennifer Saunders and Judi Dench,

Kylie Minogue joining forces with the

cast of hit BBC sitcom Ghosts in a

one-off sketch, Jack Whitehall

participating in a game of mini golf

with Declan Rice and Mason Mount and

star-studded, adults only bedtime

stories featuring Stephen Fry, Sue

Perkins, Alex Brooker and others. Plus,

the cast of the West End hit musical &

Juliet take to the stage to perform

and David Walliams and Matt Lucas

showcase a host of new pop and

rock stars. See Viewing Guide

10.00 BBC News at Ten

10.25 BBC Regional News and Weather

10.35 Comic Relief Further fun and games,

with the return of The Great Comic

Relief Prizeathon, hosted by Joel

Dommett and AJ Odudu

11.35 Six Nations Sin Bin Ahead of the

2022 Six Nations finale, Gabby Logan

and Gareth Thomas are joined by

Ross Kemp. Last in the series

12.05am FILM: Boyz N the Hood (15, 1991)

A teenager with a domineering single father strikes up a

friendship with two brothers, and over time, the three

young men each follow their own path — but a tragedy

eventually leaves them facing a dangerous choice.

Drama with Cuba Gooding Jr 2.00-6.00 BBC News

7.00 MOTDx Football discussion

presented by Jermaine Jenas

7.30 Inside Culture with Shahidha Bari

The role that the arts can play in

exploring the threat to our planet

from climate change (4/5)

8.00 Gardeners’ World Monty Don

makes a start on his bog garden and

demonstrates how to divide perennials

and get plants for free, and Rachel de

Thame visits a garden in Kent, a

labour of love where meticulous

planning, discipline and precision

have cleverly extended the season

9.00 Earth’s Great Rivers II New series.

From elephants and wildebeest to

Victoria Falls, the largest curtain of

water on earth, cameras reveal the

story of the Zambezi, Africa’s wildest

river. See Viewing Guide (1/4) (AD)

10.00 Comic Relief at the Movies

A celebration of when Comic Relief

turned to the world of film

10.35 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s

events with Mark Urban

11.10 The Real Peaky Blinders The

historian Carl Chinn explores the

evolution of the gang from a mass

movement interested in territory and

fighting into the first organised crime

group in Britain (2/2) (r) (AD)

12.10am Sign Zone: Panorama Where Roman

Abramovich’s money has come from (r) (SL) 12.40-1.10

Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen Garden. Marcus

heads to one of his old stomping grounds, Gravetye

Manor, to explore their kitchen garden before returning

to his smallholding to help with hay bailing (r) (SL)

7.30 Emmerdale Concern surrounding

Manpreet grows, while Rhona

and Mary experience a rare

moment of tenderness (AD)

8.00 Coronation Street Amy shocks Steve

and Tracy by bringing Jacob to their

family lunch, Maria’s election rival

gatecrashes her photo shoot, while

Carla advises Sarah not to blindly

trust Lydia over Adam (AD)

9.00 Grantchester Lester Carmichael, part

of the husband-and-wife team who

own the Carmichael’s cleaning goods

brand, is found dead with an unusual

wound. Will and Geordie’s investigation

leads them to look into Lester’s

private life, which, they discover,

is less than spotless (2/6) (AD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten

10.30 Regional News

10.45 Rocky V (PG, 1990) The

heavyweight champion is forced into

retirement and trains a young hopeful,

only to see his protégé turn against

him. Drama sequel with Sylvester

Stallone and Tommy Morrison (AD)

12.45am Teleshopping 3.00 Winning Combination.

Quiz show (r) (SL) 3.50 Unwind with ITV. Daily escape

designed to calm the mind 5.05-6.00 Cash Trapped. Quiz

hosted by Bradley Walsh in which contestants answer

questions and try to trap one another out of the game,

before one takes on the rest in the final round (r) (SL)

7.00 Channel 4 News

8.00 Grayson’s Art Club New series.

Grayson selects his favourite public

submissions on the theme of love

and chats with the entertainer Bill

Bailey and fellow artist Ai Weiwei.

See Viewing Guide (AD)

9.00 Gogglebox The armchair critics share

their opinions on what they have been

watching during the week on the

television, with cameras capturing

their instant reactions (AD)

10.00 The Last Leg Adam Hills, Josh

Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are

joined by guests Jack Dee and Ria Lina

for a comic review of the significant

moments of the past seven days

11.05 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

Sean Lock and Kerry Godliman take on

Jon Richardson and Joe Wilkinson,

while Mr Swallow — aka Nick

Mohammed — joins Susie Dent in

Dictionary Corner. Hosted by Jimmy

Carr, with Rachel Riley (1/3) (r)

12.10am FILM: Why Him? (15, 2016) A protective

dad is far from thrilled when his daughter begins dating a

foul-mouthed playboy millionaire. Comedy starring Bryan

Cranston and James Franco (AD) 2.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen

Nightmares USA (r) 2.50 Come Dine with Me (r) 5.00

Moneybags (r) (SL) 5.50-6.05 Kirstie’s House of Craft (r)

7.00 World’s Most Scenic River

Journeys Cameras travel down the

Potomac, and float in the river valley

that was surveyed by a young George

Washington. Bill Nighy narrates

7.55 5 News Update

8.00 Submarine: Life Under the Waves

Life on board nuclear submarine HMS

Trenchant on its four-month tour of

duty to the mid-Atlantic, uncovering

the reality of life at sea (1/2) (r)

9.00 Only Fools and Horses: Britain’s

Favourite Sitcom Famous fans,

including Jonathan Ross, Theo Paphitis,

John Thompson, Paul Whitehouse,

Nina Wadia, and Martin and Shirlie

Kemp, talk about why they love classic

sitcom Only Fools and Horses. There

are also contributions from the crew,

and insight into how such iconic

comedy moments were devised and

executed, including the chandelier

scene, and the much-loved bar fall (r)

10.30 The Hunt for Red October (PG,

1990) A Soviet submarine commander

creates an international crisis by

piloting his experimental nuclear

vessel, which is invisible to sonar,

toward the American coast. The US and

Russian navies think he is planning

to attack and set out to destroy the

submarine, but a CIA analyst suspects

he intends to defect to the West. Cold

War thriller starring Sean Connery,

Alec Baldwin and James Earl Jones

1.05am The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.05

Entertainment News on 5 3.10 1994: Britain’s Biggest

Hits. The biggest-selling singles of the year (r) 4.20

Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts. Documentary (r)

5.10 House Doctor (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r) (AD)

5.40 Paw Patrol (r) 5.50-6.00 Pip and Posy (r)

6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live. Magazine show

hosted by Sara Cox and Gethin Jones 10.00 Crimewatch

Live. Rav Wilding and Michelle Ackerley ask for help with

unsolved cases 10.45 Caught Red Handed. A bizarre

burglar who committed many crimes in many disguises

(r) (AD) 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer. The

development of houses in Derby and South and West

Yorkshire (r) (AD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt. From

Eccleston in Lancashire (AD) 1.00 BBC News at One;

Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45

Shakespeare & Hathaway — Private Investigators. Frank

and Lu must track down a vital witness in a crown court

trial (r) (AD) 2.30 Money for Nothing. Sarah Moore and

her team transform unwanted items into unique pieces

3.00 Escape to the Country. Jules Hudson helps a couple

from Cambridgeshire look for a three-bedroom home in

west Wales with a holiday let or annexe, plus an acre of

land, on a budget of £425,000 (r) 3.45 The Repair Shop.

Items being restored include a custom-made model boat

4.30 Bridge of Lies. Quiz show hosted by Ross Kemp 5.15

Pointless. Quiz hosted by Alexander Armstrong 6.00 BBC

News at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

6.30am Sign Zone: The Repair Shop. The restoration of

an 18th-century French clock, a junior drum kit and a

microscope (r) (AD, SL) 7.30 Politics UK. The week’s

political proceedings around the UK 8.15 Live Athletics:

World Indoor Championships. Gabby Logan presents

coverage of the morning session on the opening day from

Stark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia 1.15pm FILM: School

for Scoundrels (U, 1960) A timid company owner

enrols at a college that teaches life’s losers how to be

devious and plans to get even with his enemies. Comedy

starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas (b/w) 2.45

The Heights. Leonie and Claudia intervene in Sabine’s

situation. It seems as if Kam is destined never to take his

exam (r) (AD) 3.15 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth

Is. Chuko Ojiri hopes a wooden beetle will fly at the

auction, while a job lot of broken crockery threatens

disaster for Eric Knowles in the week’s finale (r) 4.00 The

Wonder of Animals. The anatomy and physiology of the

elephant (r) (AD) 4.30 Live Athletics: World Indoor

Championships. Jeanette Kwakye presents coverage of

the second session on the opening day from Stark Arena

in Belgrade, Serbia. Coverage continues on BBC3

6.00am Good Morning Britain. Morning magazine

featuring a lively mix of news and current affairs, plus

health, entertainment and lifestyle features 9.00

Lorraine. Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news,

as well as showbiz stories and gossip. Presented by

Lorraine Kelly 10.00 This Morning. Daily magazine,

featuring a mix of chat, showbusiness news, lifestyle

features, topical discussion, health and beauty advice and

more. Including Local Weather 12.30pm ITV News;

Weather 12.50 Live ITV Racing: Cheltenham Festival. Ed

Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani present the fourth day

of the festival, including feature race the 3.30 Boodles

Cheltenham Gold Cup, plus races at 1.30, 2.10, 2.50 and

4.10. With analysis from AP McCoy, Mick Fitzgerald and

Ruby Walsh, reports by Alice Plunkett and Luke Harvey,

social stable chat with Oli Bell and Chris Hughes, and

commentary by Richard Hoiles 4.30 Tipping Point: Best

Ever Finals. Compilation of some of the show’s most

dramatic endgames 5.00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh

presents as four contestants pit their wits against the

Chaser, adding money to the jackpot for the final chase (r)

6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather

6.00am Countdown. Lemn Sissay joins Susie Dent in

Dictionary Corner (r) 6.40 Cheers (r) 7.35 Everybody

Loves Raymond (r) (AD) 9.00 Frasier (r) (AD) 10.30

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. The chef Gordon

Ramsay travels to the El Greco restaurant in Austin,

Texas, where the owners have resorted to using a

microwave to prepare their “authentic” Greek dishes (r)

11.25 Channel 4 News Summary 11.30 Coast vs Country.

Sara Damergi and Kerr Drummond help a couple search

the Isle of Wight for a new home (r) (AD) 12.30pm

Steph’s Packed Lunch. Weekday magazine show, hosted

by Steph McGovern 2.10 Countdown. Jon Culshaw joins

Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner 3.00 A Place in the Sun.

A couple looking for a home in Manilva on the Costa del

Sol (r) 4.00 A New Life in the Sun. A cycling retreat wins

some much-needed business (r) 5.00 Four in a Bed. The

holiday hosts meet to discuss feedback and settle some

scores 5.30 Fame in the Family. The pop star Kerry

Katona hosts the latest dinner party 6.00 The Simpsons.

Homer resolves to be more generous (r) (AD) 6.30

Hollyoaks. A desperate Warren places himself in

the middle of a dangerous situation (r) (AD)

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster

and guests discuss the issues of the day, with co-host

Storm Huntley joining him for phone-ins and reading out

viewers’ correspondence 12.15pm George Clarke’s Build a

New Life in the Country. A finance director renovates his

16th-century home in the Cotswolds, but the extensive

redesign is hampered by frustrated builders and looming

deadlines (r) 1.10 5 News at Lunchtime 1.15 Home and

Away. Ziggy and Dean are in high spirits. Ryder and Theo

try their hand at diplomacy, and the latter is ready to turn

a new page 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 FILM: My Deadly Ex

(PG, TVM, 2020) An engaged couple’s lives turn into a

nightmare after they experience a mysterious break-in at

their home. Thriller starring Vivica A Fox and Yan-Kay

Crystal Lowe 4.00 Filthy House SOS. Richard and Brennan

are in Oldham, coming to the aid of 70-year-old part-time

DJ Olly, a compulsive shopper, whose house is packed to

the rafters with junk (r) 5.00 5 News at 5 6.00

Neighbours. David confronts Dean, furious that he told

their secret. Glen’s mind is still on Kiri, and he finally

confesses the truth to a shocked Terese (r) 6.30

Eggheads. The Red Roses hope to defeat the regulars