Another bad week TV wise with very little to excite me but Dr. Pimple Popper is back on TLC next Thursday I have been following her for years on YouTube. Even Netflix, which I subscribe to as a back up to poor weeks, is not giving this week, oh well.
Hopefully things will pick up in the next few week if you believe the flashing "coming soon" flash trailers. confirmation is what I want but I expect them to come through more in the autumn.
Monday – Channel 4 – Now to get Rich Quick 8.30pm ***New Series***
Businessman Dave Fishwick - creator of Bank of Dave - we need a follow up series to see how the Bank is doing today and a guy I really like in this programme attempts to teach people the moneymaking skills that helped him become a self-made millionaire. He gives people the tools to make their money grow and double their investment pot in just a few months. In the first edition, he advises a council worker who wants to double her £1,000 savings by running food stalls in her spare time with the help of her mum and sisters, and introduces a pensioner from Warrington, to the world of financial investment.
Tuesday – BBC 4 - Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema 9pm ***New Series***
Mark Kermode dissects the heist movie, talking us through its building blocks: the introduction of the gang, including the obligatory mastermind and loose cannon, the explanatory sequence, the job itself and the demise (or not) of the criminals.
As well as clips of our favourite crime capers (whether Ocean’s Eleven, The Italian Job, Baby Driver or French Connection) we learn about parallel editing, jump cuts and low-level camera angles. And you have to love Kermode for pointing out the astonishing similarities between Mission: Impossible, Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers and Rififi.
This programme will be followed by the classic British film “The Lavender Hill Mob” stupid time for this film.
Wednesday – ITV – The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco 9pm ***New Series***
Consigned to the bin by ITV however, fan power brought it back. Millie and Jean (Stirling and Graham) arrive in San Francisco in 1956, 14 years after the murder of a colleague. They fear the killer has struck again, this time in the American city (he leaves a significant mark on his victims’ hands) and through a mixture of guilt and tenacity, decide to track him down. They are helped by an American codebreaker they worked with during the war.
Thursday – BBC 1 – Inventing the Impossible: The Big Life Fix 8pm ***New Series***
A team of inventors try to help people in need, creating solutions to their problems. Forty-year-old Graham was a passionate snowboarder until an accident changed his life. Now severely disabled, can anyone help him realise his dream of standing upright on a board again? Others requiring help are Alexander, who could die if his skin is exposed to sunlight, and trainee hairdresser Kyle, whose hopes of becoming a professional stylist are hampered by his deformed hand.
Thursday – TLC –Dr. Pimple Popper 9pm ***New Series***
It’s back for a second series for those who like pus and Dr. Pimple Popper. In this week episode there is the story of Melissa, who covered her huge lipoma with a sweatshirt for years. Tyler's fear of cancer stopped his head lumps being diagnosed, and Tahj is covered in painful boils.
Friday – 5Spike – Wynonna Earp 10pm ***New Series***
If you haven’t seen this show before, Wynonna Earp, is the great-great-granddaughter of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, battles revenants, the reincarnated outlaws that Wyatt killed. She also fights other supernatural beings that inhabit the Ghost River Triangle, a cursed territory near the Canadian Rockies that includes Purgatory, her home town.
Having already entrusted her newborn child to care of Great Aunt Gus, Wynonna must face the entity who originally cursed Wyatt and his line.
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