What to watch and review this weekend
What to watch on June 11 and 12.
Billy and Sean
SATURDAY
England v Russia (ITV, 7pm) Roy Hodgson’s men kick off their bid to become national heroes. We’ll walk this one. Or will we? Presenter Mark Pougatch, commentators Clive Tyldesley and Glen Hoddle, expert pundits Lee Dixon and Ian Wright. The 90 minute match starts at 8pm. The TV show goes on for an epic three and a half hours. OTT? Or can’t you get enough of soccer babble? And if you feel like assessing England’s performance and chances… go right ahead.
Casualty (BBC1, 9.25pm) Things may come and things may go but the Beeb’s hospital soap goes on for ever. After Charlie’s suspension, Big Mac still refuses to own up to stealing the drugs. And Rita relishes Iain’s attention. A welcome refuge from the football? Or does this long running medical saga need a health check?
Big Brother (Channel 5, 10pm)The moronic inferno of TV's house of horror continues apace as chef's son Marco Pierre White Jnr gets hot and heavy with self-styled siren Laura Carter and dim kickboxer Andrew Tate ruins the game by revealing the big secret.
SUNDAY
Coronation Street (ITV, 7.30) More turmoil on the cobblestones as David Platt and Jason Grimshaw get into a fight and vicar Billy struggles to save his stormy relationship with knicker-stitcher Sean.
Interview With A Murderer (Channel 4, 9pm) Quite simply must-see TV. Criminologist David Wilson interviews convicted murderer Bert Spencer who was the prime suspect in the 1978 killing of paper boy Carl Bridgewater… until the police turned their attention to four robbers who spent years in jail before being exonerated and released. After serving 15 years behind bars for an eerily similar murder, Spencer insists he had nothing to do with the violent death of tragic Carl. But is he telling the truth? This is compelling viewing at its most powerful.
City In The Sky (BBC2, 9pm) Breathless presenters Dallas Campbell (crazy name, crazy guy) and Dr Hannah Fry deliver a fact-tastic documentary series about the sheer amazing brilliance of the air industry. Airports, air traffic controllers, jet-setting horses… it’s all going on. Personally, this type of show drives me mad. What about you?
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Coronation Street . Did the scriptwriters brexit?
I'm actually watching Corrie right now! Originally based on well formed characters this was always it's charm and it's strength. Of late they may as well hold a big sign up behind the actors saying "Yes, we know you saw that coming".One of those bloody annoying meerkats could do it!
Did someone secretly cull all the script writers? Rather like those poor old BSE infected cows, Corrie of late is wobbly and ultimately falling on it's arse!
It's always been somewhat unbelievable that a trendy Bistro is on the end of a Northern working class street, where the mark up on the wine takes the piss out of it's customers almost as much as the script writers take out of their audience. I've also noticed of late that the acting has become almost as wooden as the bar in the Rovers. The plots now revolve around slapstick, lowering Sally and Gail into vaudeville style comic turns. Perhaps I've grown out of Corrie, perhaps I have a soft spot for when Corrie tackled real issues, and gave it's characters 'proper' lines to deliver. Shoving a character in a wheelchair, having an Asian family, even having a gay vicar doesn't make it more 'real', it makes the whole thing feel more like a desperate attempt to represent us, a token, a desperate bid to 'get our vote'. Perhaps Michael Gove is the new executive producer?
Please Corrie, higher some new scriptwriters and give this institution the kick up the arse it needs.
I'm off now to watch the footie on 'the other side' as I don't really care enough to hang about to see if the vicar's ironed his shirt properly, or to taste Tim's toxic home brew. By the way did the Grimshaw's secretly have a huge extension built on the roof, god knows where they all sleep, perhaps they're all shacked up together in some enormous water bed! See what I did there?