It's pro-torture in the way that Hunger is pro-IRA.   Tell a story about beautiful men and women of iron will doing terrible things in the pursuit of great objectives on the historic stage.

Wednesday What's on tonight: unoffical UK freeview edition

Tuesday What's on tonight: UK freeview version:
Home Grown:  a smosrgasboard of things I could almost be bothered to tune in for:
Posh Pawn (c4 9pm) Lifestyles of the rich and famous
Bad Education (10pm BBC3) ep 3/6  
Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish (Dave 10pm)
Celebrity Juice (10.30 ITV2) Shout out for the…

Monday What's On Tonight: UK edition
Not much on at the moment.  Some more interesting stuff starts on Friday.
Home grown: Gadget Man (8.30 C4) with Ayoade and a mind-controlled helicopter.
Film: Mission to Lars (film4 10.55)Confetti (11.35 BBC1)
US Import: Under the Dome S1 ep4 (C5 10pm).  

Wot's on this weekend: unofficial UK freeview version:

Seven eps left before it's all over.   E4 is currently trailing the show with a shot of June holding the Mind Fork, and it cracks me up every time.

Thursday What's on tonight: UK freeview version:
Home Grown: Educating Yorkshire (9pm C4).   Peaky Blinders (9pm BBC2).   Oddly titled post-WW1 gangster drama.
Film: Amadeus (11.45 BBC1).   I once watched a chinese lady trying to ask a teenage HMV employee for a copy of the film Amadeus.   For 5 minutes.
Us Import: Don't…

This is the basic idea of John Carter of Mars, right?   He has an ordinary earth-man's earth-gravity-level strength, and among the indigenous people of Mars that makes him a superhero.

Wednesday What's on tonight: unoffical UK freeview edition

I remember it very fondly, but I was a teenager when it was on tv.

Tuesday What's on tonight: UK freeview version:
Home Grown:  Top Boy s2 ep4 finale (c4 9pm).   This is how you tell a story about a community.   Southcliffe, take note.

Monday What's On Tonight: UK edition
Home grown: Blackout (9pm C4).   Dramatisation of what would happen if the UK national grid shut down (because terrrrrrrism!)

Wot's on this weekend: unofficial UK freeview version:

I remember quite liking Rabbit Hole, it wasn't as morbid as it could have been.

Thursday What's on tonight: UK freeview version:
Home Grown: Educating Yorkshire (9pm C4).   Yer at school!   Do Maths!!!
Film: The Greatest (BBC1 11:35) 2009 bereavement drama with Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon and Carey Mulligan.   How does this compare to Rabbit Hole (2010)?
Us Import: Don't Trust the Bitch in…

That is a big deal!   Congratulations Jason Heller.

Amen.

Wednesday What's on tonight: unoffical UK freeview edition
Home Grown: Whitechapel 1/2 (9pm ITV).
Films: Cool Hand Luke (ITV4 8pm).
US Import: Sons of Anarchy S5 Ep5 of 13 (5USA 12:45am Thurs).
Australian Import: Wentworth Prison S1 ep2 (10 pm C5).

It needs to be more awesome if it's going to be as implausible as it is.   You just can't base an entire tv series on Idris Elba standing around with his hands in his pockets, there needs to be more to it.

Monday What's On Tonight: increasingly late British edition
Home grown: The Lost Hero of 9/11 (C4 9:00pm).   C4 doc about one of the WTC rescuers.
Doc Martin (9.00 ITV) New series starts.