Friday, 27 April 2018

Must see TV - Week beginning Sat 28 April 2018


Another slow week ahead for TV recommendations, Saturday and Sunday again is like a ghost town for new TV but it’s looking better for the weekdays. The TV highlight of this week was easy the return of Westworld and for next week the one and only Deadliest Catch is back on the TV and from some early looks at what is coming up. We are going to be entertained and I am looking forward Netflix new offering.

Monday – Channel 4 - Tricks of the Restaurant Trade 8:30pm ***New Series***

The return of the programme that offers an inside guide to eating out, providing insights, investigations, and campaigns to improve viewers' dining experience. In the first edition, Simon Rimmer finds out about Starbucks' research and development programme and meets the people who decide what its customers will be eating and drinking in the future. A woman and her son test whether phone apps can speed up service, and reporter Adam Pearson hits the high street with the latest trend in bottled water.

Tuesday – History Channel – Deadliest Catch 9pm ***New Series***

Its back one of my favourite TV reality shows in the hostile waters of the Bering Sea in the search of crab. Sig rejects Jake's partnership offer, sparking an intense feud between the pair. Northwestern’s captain Sig Hansen is white-hot angry at his former protégé and partner Jake Anderson who is now skippering his own boat the Saga.

Jake is in Sig’s prime fishing ground and that is making our heart attack survivor’s blood pressure go through the roof, and he blames Captain Keith Colburn for tipping off Jake.
Josh Harris is back working hard to prove himself as captain of his father's boat.

Tuesday – Pick – Slasher 10pm ***New Series***

I was late into the first series and had to play catch up but I was soon watching the full horror show. It returns to all its gloriously gory horror, is set in the remote Canadian winter wilderness and tells the story of a group of former summer camp counsellors who are forced to return to the isolated campground to retrieve evidence of a crime they committed in their youth.

Wednesday – BBC 2 – Love in the Countryside 9pm ***New Series***

Sara Cox goes back to her farming roots and sets up a dating service as she meets eight singletons living in the countryside as they begin their journey to find love. All eight participants have created online dating profiles, in the hope of meeting someone of a rural, show-paced life. Tonight 52-year-old Pete and 32-year-old farmer Christine begin their quest to find the perfect partner I wish them good luck in their quest.

Wednesday – Channel 5 – Rich House, Poor House: The Big Surprise 9pm ***New Series***

I was outraged when this show was muted although there have been dickheads I was won over mainly by the people from the Poor House. Colin and Lizzy Whiting, who find themselves in the wealthiest 10 percent of Britain, swap their five-bedroom house near Newquay to spend a week living in a two-bed property where the Timmins family live. The Timmins on the other hand, are among the poorest 10 percent in the country, and survive on a tenth of the weekly budget of the Withings. There have been spoilers in the press so I know what happens but I will still be watching.

Wednesday – Dave – Taskmaster 9pm ***New Series***

A new series of the comedy challenge kicks off, Greg Davies sets more stupefying tasks to a group of comedians with Alex Home assisting as his right-hand man. Wheelbarrow stunts and lemon towers anyone? Set to take part are Alice Levine, Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck, Russell Howard, and Tim Vine brilliantly bewildering tasks? It should be a good watch just for the very funny Greg Davies.



Wednesday - More4 – Building the Dream 9pm ***New Series***

I love a build show and in particular self-builds there is something very romantic about doing such a build. The tighter the budget the more I like it most have to up their budget or live in a bombsite still waiting for an end. Finding somewhere to build is never easy like this offering where presenter Charlie Luxton meets self-building duo Caroline and Chris in south London, who hope to build an urban marvel on a very tight plot.
Thursday – BBC 1 – Britain’s Best Home Cook 8pm ***New Series***

A competition in which 10 home cooks move into a shared house and compete in a series of challenges designed to demonstrate their flair, skill, and creativity to become the best home cook. For their first two challenges, the cooks have 90 minutes to prepare the ultimate burger followed by an improvised dish using one key ingredient.
The weakest cooks will face an elimination round to decide whom leaves the BBC are still looking for a hit to replace the Great British Bake off.

Friday – Netflix – The Rain ***New Series***

I am really excited by the sounds of this new series not your usual Scandi-noir. Following on from the success of its German sci-fi drama Dark, Netflix seems to be ploughing a similar furrow with The Rain. Both feature a young cast, a gloomy atmosphere, and forbidding woods. But whereas Dark’s premise involved time travel and a cross-generational mystery, The Rain is set to be a dystopian survival thriller.
The world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilisation gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life.

Friday – Channel 4 – Friday Night Dinner 10pm ***New Series***

Return of the comedy following the eccentric British Jewish family Goodman family focusing on their regular dinner experience each Friday night. There are strong elements of farce throughout Neighbour Jim is spotted in a restaurant dating a woman with the world’s most annoying laugh.
In the show’s fifth season Mum and Dad get a hot tub, much to the horror of Adam and Jonny, Adam accidentally sets his car on fire, which was handy; Jonny will not stop prank-calling Adam. Dad becomes obsessed with his old, terrifying ventriloquist dummy, Mum organises her own, terrible surprise party, Horrible Grandma comes back for more horribleness – and the family have dinner.

Friday – Channel 4 – High & Dry 10:30pm ***New Series***

Paradise turns to hell in this castaway comedy following a group of misfits as they struggle to survive on a remote desert island.
Having crash landed in a tropical paradise, narcissistic flight attendant, Brett Sullivan, puts himself in charge of the palm-fringed island, which is bad news for the castaways in High & Dry as they soon learn they are stranded with the world’s worst human being. Brett and four others – straight talking Harriet, zombie obsessed Arnab, cautious family man Douglas, and sheltered Susan – are forced to do whatever it takes to survive.

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