9PM Tuesday BBC1
starring Keeley Hawes
Crossfire is a thriller about a terrorist attack on a Spanish hotel. It plays with the convention of the genre by having an number of flashbacks that full us on the characters personal backgrounds. That is not to say they are moments of tension. Hawes who through her years on Spooks (MI5) is a commanding presence. The final 2 episodes come tonight and tomorrow.
Next Saturday sees the start of an New series of Blankty Blank on BBC1 with Bradley Walsh hosting. Soon after that Bradley turns up on ITV in The Larkins.. Too much of a good thing?
The title of the final Doctor Who to feature Jodie Whittaker in the lead role has announced as The Power of the Doctor. It will feature the return of Sophie Aldred and Janet Fielding as classic era compinons Ace and Tegan. The special goes out in October.
The stand up comic Stewart Lee is not one to mince his words. He called the Rickey Gervis co.dey Afterlife abysmal. Lee was reminded by podcast host Rob Brydon that Rickey was a of him, Lee said was Robert Oppenheimer proud of the atomic bomb.
On last night's edition of Only Connect during the sequence round a team was given the clues of (David) Vine, (David) Coleman and (Sue) Barker. The team captain said crisp man referring to Gary Lineker, who besides his Football and media careers made a string of adverts for Walkers Crisps. They believed him to be a host of A Question of Sport. While the team got the reason for the sequence right they got the last person wrong. The actual answer was Paddy McGuinness has done adverts himself in particular for the Greegs bakers chain.
As Boris Johnson enters his final days as UK Prime Minister it is to forget that prior to his ascent to the UK Prime Minister he was something of TV staple. Here are a couple of examples. In 2003 he appeared on Parkinson, his fellow guests were Scottish Nationalist Sean Connery and socialist actor Ricky Tomlinson, yet in screen the 3 got on. Even when he was London Mayor he still made appearances on TV shows like Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson took him to task over car reviews he had written. Johnson will now likely to the lucrative corporate speech circuit.
On the day's edition of Fastest Finger First, the question what does pret-a-porter mean in English. One contestant buzzed in with the answer turkey. The actual answer is ready to wear.
