Another quite week of TV just catching up with odds and ends but I love the finale of Hinterland a wonderful piece of television.
Election news has been hovering up my TV time I have been watching lots of news from the man my eldest son has told me. It is all false news beamed in from the man. Who knows he could be right and I am a puppet.
The Island with Bear Grylls was a welcome return and I love the young old divide. When the oldies landed on their island within hours they had fire while on the youngsters island it took them three days to make fire. Looking forward to the battles to come.
Saturday – Channel 4 – Carol 9pm
A love story CAROL follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change.
A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage.
As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens. While Carol breaks free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) begins to question her competence as a mother as her involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) becomes known.
Sunday – History Channel – Ancient Assassins 10pm
Hopefully an informative and entertaining new series shedding light on some of the highest profile Ancient Assassins, from Ancient Greece to Japan, bringing their stories and missions to life with dramatic reconstruction, documentary filming and expert testimony. Rulers have always needed their elite combat troops; men and women trained to perfection, skilled with weapons, able to infiltrate and disrupt the enemy and kill when necessary.
Each standalone episode will focus on one individual assassin or group and will explore their specific skills, how they trained, why they excelled. What exactly made them the most feared killers of their age, and how their exploits have influenced modern day tactics in warfare? Amongst other subjects, Ancient Assassins reveals how a Buddhist nun became a Kung Fu killer, how a Saxon fighting force finally overcame the Vikings, how Vlad the Impaler’s gypsy mercenaries halted an Ottoman invasion. How an elite Dutch tribe finally delivered Britain into the hands of the Roman Emperor Claudius.
Monday – Sky Cinema Premiere - X-Man: Apocalypse 9pm
Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible.
Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto, to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth is uncertain, Raven with the help of Professor X must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save humanity from complete destruction.
Tuesday – Discovery Channel – Gold Divers 9pm
Winter in Nome, Alaska so the search for gold gets underway. Dredge owner Emily Riedel is back looking for her piece of the golden pot of gold. She has never been lucky with her crews and needs the right team of divers and then there is Zeke. Hope the fighting Kelly’s are back a father and son team where daddy is not a versed in stealing from his sons at any chance.
Miners dive and dredge to scour the bottom of the sea from custom-built, barely-seaworthy rigs in a race to haul in as much gold as possible before the waters become too icy to dive. The easy gold is drying up, pushing miners to extreme new locations in a desperate search for gold. This series brings plenty of new challenges to the dredgers what will we see before the ice is back.
Wednesday – TCM – The Night of the Hunter 10.55am
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he had stolen in a robbery. 'Night of the Hunter' proved to be one of the best films I have ever seen. The cinematography is breath taking, especially the river journey of the two children who are fleeing for the evil and demented preacher who killed their mother. Never have I seen nature being portrayed in such a mysterious and dangerous way. The sharp contrasts of light, the dark church in the distance, which symbolises the dangerous preacher.
Robert Mitchum played a psychopathic preacher with a restrained malice who married and murdered Shelley Winters for her money – only to find that her young children had it, and he proceeded relentlessly to terrorize them…
Thursday – BBC1 – Question Times 10.45pm
Part of my TV religion and a must for a Thursday night ‘Question Time’ chaired by David Dimbleby. The panel changes weekly touring the country on the panel are politicians from the main parties along with journalists, business people, and others answering questions from the audience? The panel differs depending where it is appearing north of the border or in Wales or Northern Ireland with a local panel of guests.
With the General Election triggered, the discussions should be red hot from both the audience and the panel. This Question Time will come from Wigan.
Although, not broadcast live, it is filmed in one take, as if live and then shown 2 hours later in full.
Friday – Sky 1 – Jamestown 9pm
Jamestown is a new drama for Sky 1 from the makers of Downton Abbey. Set in 1619, follows the first English settlers as they establish a community in the New World as we follow three woman on their journey. Their passage is paid by the men they are to marry normally woman where sent as prisoners. The woman soon realise they have the control over the men of Jamestown where life is not easy.
Jamestown is an altogether more adventurous period drama charting the beginnings of the first British settlers in America with Sky hoping to have a success on their hand.
For a payment of 50 pounds of leaf tobacco men could buy themselves a bride. The chosen men it this case all come with problems. One is a drunk, another a brute and the other power hungry.
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