The strangest sports story of 2020 is when Ryan Reynolds and his friend Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) bought Wrexham AFC despite knowing almost nothing about football.
Told in a six-part documentary series Welcome to Wrexham (Disney+). Once you get past the inevitable Americanism, it’s a fascinating series that focuses less on celebrity companions and more on loyal fans.
If you’re into cricket and I’ve ever met an Irishman, the documentary Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes (Amazon Prime) is an unflinching and honest look at a player whose tumultuous life away from gaming threatened to overwhelm his career.
sell sunset The so-called “scripted reality” show, in which LA real estate agents obscenely flog rich and shameless people with expensive pads, gets a second spinoff. OC sales (Netflix).
With streamers generating increasingly large amounts of dross like this, it’s no wonder so many cursors are hovering over the “cancel subscription” button these days.
The issue of racial inequality is partner track (Netflix) is an elite New York law firm in a glossy new drama series about Arden Cho as a domineering attorney and the only woman of color.
Agatha Christie’s Hygerson (More4, 9pm) has to be the first series to feature a fictional detective who exists only in the mind of another fictional detective.
Christie’s Hercule Poirot had a friend named Ariadne Oliver who sometimes helped him. Oliver was supposed to be a crime writer whose most famous character was the eponymous detective.
This Norwegian series, which is said to be even more paradise of death More than Scandi, Hjerson (Johan Rheborg) brings to life an original adventure set in the present.
TV’s most hilarious and outrageous animated comedy South Park: 25th Anniversary Concert (Comedy Central, 11 p.m.), recently performed in Denver, Colorado.
Creator/star voices Trey Parker and Matt Stone will perform with Vienna and Primus, the two bands that contributed songs to the show. is chocolate salty balls.
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Actor, singer, songwriter — is there anything the magnificent Cynthia Erivo can’t do? Legendary Voices at the Proms (BBC2, 8pm), in a two-hour concert recorded at the start of the festival, she performed with Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack and more.
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The rise and fall of Mr. Saturday Night (Channel 5, 9pm) Take a look at the career of the very eccentric Noel Edmonds. He never showed any particular talent, except when he seemed complacent in front of the camera and had an odd look, but at one point he was the BBC’s biggest and most valuable star. did. he counts as a talent.
can’t remember if i mentioned last movie star (Sky Documentaries, 9 p.m., all episodes on demand) Last week, but if you haven’t seen it, go watch it! A great series by Ethan Hawke that delves into the lives of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. .
What do peanut butter, basketballs, pacemakers, paint rollers and garbage bags have in common? They were all invented by Canadians, as Griff Rhys discovered Griff’s Canadian Adventure (Channel 4, 9pm).
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A seminal thriller that caps off its gripping first season just before Covid-19 almost completely halts television production The Capture (BBC1, 9pm) focuses on “deepfake” video manipulation.
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Holiday Grainger returns for Season 2 of The Capture
DCI Rachel Carey (Holiday Grainger) is now in the same counter-terrorism unit she suspected was useless last time. It opens with crackers in the murder scene.
2019 documentary follows shocking and barbaric attack on Salman Rushdie Satanic Verse: 30 Years Later (BBC4, 9:40 PM) is repeated. Find out how the author had to go into hiding for nine years after Ayatollah Khomeini laid a fatwa on him, and follow journalist Mobeen Azar’s return to his birthplace in Yorkshire, Rushdie’s Book and Religion Find out the impact the fanatic’s reaction had on his own community.
Two years after Caroline Flack’s tragic death aged just 40, her memory is honored. flack stock (Sky Max, 7:30 pm), a music festival hosted by her family and friends.
Held early in the summer, the one-day event was not just about raising money for mental health charities, it was about raising awareness and fighting stigma.
The Princess Diana TV bandwagon continues. part 2 of Diana’s Investigation: Death in Paris (Channel 4, 9pm) focuses on the Metropolitan Police investigation into an alleged conspiracy involving members of the British royal family and MI6. The third part is tomorrow.
The story of her death seemed exhausting at first glance, Princess Diana: Who do you think she is? (More4, 10pm) Reflecting on her life as Lady Diana Spencer.
Adrian Dunbar is the only reason to watch ridley (UTV/ITV, 9pm) is a routine police proceeding in which a retired detective is recalled by a former protégé (Bronner Waugh) as a consultant on a murder case.
