Can it get any worse for new TV releases! Well it is looking at next week but I have my fingers crossed for a better December Christmas is coming but I think it will be the New Year when most of the new drama to be release.
There is next to nothing on the TV next week that caught my eye maybe the new documentary Warship I am a sucker for anything to do with our armed forces.
Monday – Channel 5 – Warship: Life at Sea 9pm (Series New) Terrestrial TV
Documentary about Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duncan, following the ups and downs of everyday life for its crew of 280 and capturing dramatic moments in its operations. In the first edition, the crew make final preparations for launch under the watchful eye of Captain Eleanor Stack, before the ship sets out on a seven-month mission to the Mediterranean and Black Sea. As HMS Duncan passes into the Black Sea, the operation begins in earnest with the sudden emergence of a Russian warship that begins to follow it.
Tuesday – BBC 1 – Mrs Wilson 9pm (New Series) Terrestrial TV
In 1963 Alison Wilson is a neat, happy woman with a job in an office typing pool, two fine children, and a husband, Alec, who’s a successful writer at home at his desk in comfortable suburbia.
But Alison’s world implodes when Alec (Iain Glen) dies suddenly and a woman knocks on her door to make an extraordinary claim. Ruth Wilson is tremendous as older Alison and, in flashbacks, as young Alison, a dewy-eyed country girl who leaves Cumberland for London and the excitement of working for the secret service during the Second World War.
Wednesday – BBC 4 – Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out 10pm (New Series) Terrestrial TV
Surreal comedy with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, featuring sketches, slapstick, songs, and stunts, accompanied by a series of special guests. In the first of the four-part series, Vic and Bob disrupt a couple's cosy dinner date with a song and dance routine, before Tom Cruise performing a daring stunt interrupts the comedians.
Thursday – Channel 5 – Oxford Street 24/7 9pm (New Series) Terrestrial TV
Observational documentary revealing the inner workings of the central London thoroughfare. It's all hands on deck at John Lewis as the store open its new rooftop garden to the public, fans queue all night at the Disney Store to get hold of the new Mickey Mouse toy and final rehearsals take place for the Bat Out of Hell musical at the Dominion Theatre. Meanwhile, police target pickpockets and shoplifters and signal failure is causing problems at Oxford Circus underground station.
Thursday – Sky Atlantic – Kidding 10.40pm (New Series) Subscription Channel
A tragicomedy about an entertainer longing to show his public a darker side? It sounds tailor-made for Jim Carrey and, sure enough, he’s terrific in the warped tale of a TV puppeteer who is having his strings cut, one by one.
Jeff, aka Mr Pickles, has been a TV institution for 30 years, a sort of one-man Sesame Street. Now he wants to do a show teaching kids about death – having suffered a bereavement of his own. His full circumstances emerge bit by bit in a first episode full of odd tangents and quirky moments, as when his son tells him to smarten up because, “You look like Rosa Parks’s bus driver.”
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