Friday 21 October 2016

Must see TV - Week beginning 21/10/2016 - My Choice

Some interesting TV shows to watch this upcoming week the highlight being the return of ‘The Walking Dead’ and the final of ‘Bake off’. The highlight of the last 7 days for me was Gold Rush on the Discovery Channel. I love a bit of gold hunting, this is one of the best in that gene, and this year in particular looks very interesting.

One of the three groups look to be going to have a torrid time which could see them break up putting friendships on the line.

Saturday BBC3 - Class (Online)

Another Doctor Who spinoff starring Katherine Kelly as Quill, a grumpy physics teacher at a Sixth Form College called Coal Hill Academy linked Coal Hill School that has been featured in the main Doctor Who series. Her class of exceptional students find their lessons interrupted by a shadowy monster, who comes through splits in time and space in search of a mysterious alien in this opening episode.

Doctor Who himself as a cameo and don’t worry Class will be on BBC1 or BBC2 later in the year.

Sunday BBC2 – QI XL 10:35pm

Out with the old Stephen Fry, in with the new as Sandi Toksvig makes her debut as the new host of the show. This is an extended edition. It’s not as if Toksvig doesn’t know what she is letting herself in for having been a regular as a guest. Stephen Fry’s dry humour will be missed but I expect to giggle away has is show isn’t a belly laughing kind of comedy panel show.


Monday Fox – The Walking Dead 9pm

Last time we saw Rick and is crew they were on their knees and some new nasty was about to cave in one of their heads with his barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat after a wait that seems like an eternity. There has been a lot of speculation about who gets it but tonight we find out. What ever happens we can expect many walkers and infighting among those fighting for survival, I just can’t wait.

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9pm
I enjoy stuff like this people living on the edge. The adventurer journeys to the USA’s frozen Pacific Northwest to live with a British-born woman who has spent more than half her years living in the wilderness. Living this kind of life is a fantasy dream for me.
Wednesday BBC1 – The Great British Bake Off (Final) 8pm

The final and the last time it will be the present team together before the show up sticks to Channel 4. There is rumoured to be two upcoming festive shows and that is it for the BBC. I have to say I have a favourite in the final who I picked before the show started, Candice. Yes, I picked her because she was a looker but she turned out to be able to bake. Also in the final is Jane and Andrew and the viewing figures should go through the roof.

Thursday Film4 – Sin City: A Dame to Kill For 10pm

This film weaves together two of Miller’s classic tales – ‘Just another Saturday Night’ and ‘A Dame to Kill For’ along with new stories including the never published ‘The Long, Bad Night.’ The second visit to the infamous city is part prequel and part sequel, wrapping around the original 2005 film. Once again, we see the town’s most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants.

There are a few familiar characters returning, including Jessica Alba as stripper Nancy Callahan, Mickey Rourke as Marv, called ‘Conan in a trench coat’ by Miller, Rosario Dawson as prostitute Gail and Bruce Willis as avenging cop John Hartigan. They are joined by Sin City newbies including Eva Green as the ‘Dame’ Ava Lord, coin-flippin’ Johnny played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin playing Dwight McCarthy, the same character as Clive Owen played in the original, only this time with a face lift - hey it’s a Frank Miller world!

Friday Film4 - Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead 10:50pm

Zombies invade the Australian Outback in this brain-splattered, Mad Max-meets-the-undead thrill ride. When an apocalyptic event turns everyone around him-including his wife and daughter-into marauding zombies, everyman mechanic Barry arms himself to the teeth, soups up his car, and hits the road in order to rescue his sister from a deranged, disco-dancing mad doctor.

Bursting with high-octane car chases, crazy-cool homemade weaponry, and enough blood-and-guts gore to satisfy hardcore horror fans, it should be fun.

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