TV previews: Buzzcocks, Sex: My British Job and Peter Andre: My Life (original) (raw)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Sex: My British Job and Peter Andre: My Life – TV picks
Published Sep 23, 2013, 6:00am|Updated Dec 10, 2019, 3:37pm
Noel Fielding and Phill Jupitus are back as team captains on the new series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks (Picture: Talkback Thames)
John Hannah guest-hosts new series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Peter Andre reveals all in My Life.
Never Mind The Buzzcocks, BBC2, 10pm
John Hannah brings the cheeky wit and mildly pervy grin he displayed in Spartacus and A Touch Of Cloth to bear as he acts as guest host to the opening round of the 27th series of the pop quiz institution. Yes, that’s 27 series of impossible-to- guess hummed intros, impossible-to-identify crinkly looking drummers from 1980s one-hit wonders and impossibly lame jokes from Phill Jupitus. Who probably hasn’t been in it from the start but, who knows, we’re darned if we can remember that far back. Tonight, Aluna Francis of electro-pop duo AlunaGeorge, dance duo Basement Jaxx and comedian James Acaster are effortlessly upstaged by Noel Fielding.
Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food, BBC2, 8.30pm
Tom Kerridge, the only UK pub chef with two Michelin stars, is on a mission to show us how simple it can be to create delicious pub grub on the home stove. For his first menu, he selects the perfect ale for simmering mussels, preps his firm plums for a fruity fool and mixes up a saffron-speckled sea-salt cure for his pollock. Sounds painful – looks delicious.
Sex: My British Job, C4, 10pm
In a brave attempt to expose the desperation that drives immigrants to the UK and into the sex trade, journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai joins forces with acclaimed documentary maker Nick Broomfield to report from the frontline. Pai goes undercover as a housekeeper at a brothel above a betting shop in London and, as she secretly films the bump and grind of daily life, finds herself butting heads with madame Mary, who wants to sign up Pai as one of her girls.
Fazer’s Urban Takeover, BBC3, 9pm
If you caught last week’s opener, you’ll be hooked on finding out if Seven Chapters, the group of young urban artists put together by Fazer (formerly of N-Dubz but don’t hold that against him) can cut it on stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall in a collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The idea is to see if urban and classical worlds can meet in the middle and, with the persuasive Fazer pulling the strings, it looks like a marriage made in musical heaven.
Peter Andre: My Life, ITV2, 9pm
Who needs hit singles when you can stay on top of the fame game by letting TV cameras chart every move you make? That formula has worked for Peter Andre, whose six-packed pop peak may be well behind him but who is now up to his fifth series of look-at-me reality TV. What’s the appeal? It’s mystifying to non-Team Peters but it seems he still makes folk, who really are old enough to know better, go weak at the knees…
FILM OF THE DAY
The Thomas Crown Affair, Channel 5, 10.55pm
Stay up after Under The Dome to catch at least the start of this sexy-pants caper. Pierce Brosnan is in super-suave mode as bored billionaire playboy Thomas Crown, who decides to spice up his life by creating a new hobby: stealing a priceless Monet from a high-security art gallery. A cat-and-mouse game ensues between him and Rene Russo, surely the most sultry insurance investigator ever invented. Their enviable first date, in a glider, is seductive beyond the dreams of Fifty Shades, while the Magritte-inspired heist finale has become iconic. It’s a rare case of a remake that stands on a par with its original – the classic 1968 thriller starring Steve McQueen.