It is back after a break due to a lack of new programming
this week there is an abundant of new stuff on TV. The World Cup is closing in
football programming is becoming more prevalent before the big kick off.
Versailles is back and for its last series it is reported and I would highly
recommend Hidden on BBC Wales it will probably appear nationally on the BBC of
BBC4 at a later date. Alex Polizzi is back with her The Hotel Inspector.
3 June Sunday – BBC 2 – Frankie Goes To Russia 9pm ***New Series***
With stories of spy poisoning, hooliganism and an imminent
World Cup hitting the headlines, who better to send to Russia than perhaps the
BBC’s hardest comedian, the irrepressible Frankie Boyle? The comic, whose
viciously acerbic material and style of delivery belies a highly thoughtful
mind, visits several of the tournament’s host cities, and discovers the
Soviet-era drunk tanks that are being brought out of retirement for unruly
fans.
He also has a lot of fun visiting a city twinned with
Glasgow that’s renowned for its football violence, recording a World Cup rap
and swishing sabres with some of the Cossacks who’ll be policing the stadia.
Eventful.
In the first episode, he visits the seaside town hosting the
England team and a city renowned for football-related violence. He also joins a
daredevil motorbike football team, records a world cup rap, and meets the
sabre-wielding Cossacks policing the World Cup stadiums.
4 June Monday – BBC 2 – Versailles 9pm ***New Series***
This towering camp croquet bouche of corn and porn returns
for reputedly its final series, and the Sun King Louis XIV (George Blagden)
feels invincible. His brother Philippe, Duke of Orleans, returns victorious
from war with the vanquished Emperor Leopold in tow, and the palace of
Versailles is complete.
Louis celebrates France's victory over the Protestant Dutch
and their allies by welcoming Leopold of Hungary and his niece Eleanor to
Versailles, but the defeated emperor's own ambitions could have personal
consequences for the French king. Madame de Montespan finds a way to hurt a
former friend in the king's prim companion Francois de Maintenon, while
Philippe returns a war hero, accompanied by his brother-in-arms Guillaume, who
is rewarded by the King for his bravery in battle. Return of the period drama,
starring George Blagden.
4 June Monday – History Channel – Football Godfathers 9pm
***New Series***
If you want to get in the zone for the World Cup, History is
catering for you with every inch of its schedules. The channel is showing
non-stop football-themed original series and tactical repeats across every day
this week. Tonight Geoff Shreeves starts a run of interviews with managers by
visiting former England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson in Sweden.
Of his tabloid-tinged private life, Shreeves notes, “The
average England fan can name three of your former girlfriends…” Eriksson bats
that away and defends the strengths of his England side at big tournaments,
noting that at the 2006 World Cup, “We were ready…We should have done it.” The
strand continues later in the week with Louis Van Gaal, Roy Hodgson, Claudio Ranieri,
and Gerard Houllier.
5 June Tuesday – Channel 5 – The Hotel Inspector 9 pm ***New
Series***
Return of the hostelry-assistance strand. Alex Polizzi has
been called to help Alan, tenanted landlord of the Crown Inn, nestled in the
Wiltshire village of Aldbourne. Seven years ago, Alan took on the Crown hoping
it would set him up for retirement. But now at 69 years old, he is still
working every hour of every day just to get by. With the Crown failing to pull
any profit, no pension in place and no Plan B, Alan is desperate for Alex's
help.
6 June Wednesday – BBC 1 Wales – Hidden 9pm ***New Series***
I watched this when it was on S4C the Welsh TV channel with
English subtitles so happy to re-watch the drama in my native language. Hidden
tells the story of Detective Sergeant Cadi John, played by Siân Reese-Williams,
who returns to North Wales after a career in the army’s Military Police to move
home to care for her ailing father a former Police Officer.
When the body of a local woman is found in a river, it
becomes obvious that sinister secrets lie within the region as the body links
to other missing woman over a number of year. Cadi’s world is changed forever
as she delved into the case, which comes close to home mischarge of justice
involving her father.
6 June Wednesday – BBC 1 – Who Do, You Think You Are. 9pm/11:05
on BBC Wales ***New Series***
The genealogy documentary follows eight more celebrities as
they trace their family trees to uncover facts about their heritage. First up
is Our Girl actress Michelle Keegan, who discovers the dark story of how her
great-grandmother Leonor, who lived on Gibraltar, was evacuated during the
Second World War. She then goes further back to her great-great-grandmother,
who lived in poverty in Manchester at the start of the 20th century. But as
Michelle investigates, she unearths a special connection to the suffragette
movement.
7 June Thursday – History Channel – Matthews 7pm ***Film***
Nicknamed "The Wizard of the Dribble", Stanley
Matthews remains the greatest English footballer of all time. The first player
to be knighted and among the earliest to profit from product endorsements, he
helped bring the game into the modern era before retiring at the age of 50.
Ryan Scott Warren's documentary could easily have run another 15 minutes to
provide a few more statistics about Matthews's dual stints at Stoke City and
his time at Blackpool, for whom he appeared in three FA Cup Finals before
winning his long-cherished medal in a remarkable 4-3 victory over Bolton
Wanderers in 1953.
More might also have been said about his pioneering fitness
regime, his England career, his all-star testimonial in 1965 and his enduring
popularity with fans nationwide. But Warren creditably devotes considerable
time to "Stan's Men", an all-black team in Soweto that he formed at
the height of apartheid oppression. Full of glorious newsreel footage, this is
affectionate, engaging, and well overdue.
7 June Thursday – BBC 2 – Mock The Week 10pm ***New
Series***
Dara O Briain returns with a new run of the topical comedy
show. Regular panellist Hugh Dennis looks back on another eventful week in news
and politics, with the help of fellow comedians James Acaster, Angela Barnes,
Ed Gamble, Darren Harriott, and Zoe Lyons. Yet again, stand-up and
improvisation are the name of the game as the contestants try to get one up on
each other.
8 June Friday – Channel 4 – George Clark’s Amazing Spaces
8pm ***New Series***
This is a sort of greatest hits package. George looks back
over some of the best projects from past series of Amazing Spaces. Given the
levels of supportive enthusiasm he expresses on a routine show, the prospect of
a best-of compilation may send him into overdrive.
The architect looks back over some of the best off-grid
projects from Amazing Spaces, from a wooden yurt in a Devonshire, quarry to a
medieval summerhouse in a suburban Kent garden made out of cob. George also
views the stunning results of a campervan restoration in Shropshire and visits
a Victorian shepherd's hut in Worcester.
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