Saturday 17th March 2012
| The Story of Light Entertainment (4/8) |
In the 21st century, comedy is firmly at the very heart of light entertainment and, far from struggling for their art, comedians stand to make a fortune if they hit the nation's funny bone. Laughter is now a very big business, but it wasn't always like this - back in the early days of music hall, the comic was the lowest of the low in the showbiz world.
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Sunday 18th March 2012
| Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy |
Movie adaptation of Douglas Adams's cult sci-fi comedy novel. Arthur Dent escapes the destruction of the Earth - to make way for a new galactic hyper-space bypass – with the aid of his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide. With the dubious aid of the Guide, a galactic President with short-term memory loss (in both his heads) and a depressed robot, Arthur embarks on an improbable journey through the universe in search of the meaning of life and a really good cup of tea.
| War of the Worlds |
Science fiction remake of the 1953 adaptation of HG Wells's classic novel about a dock worker's fight to get his children to safety when merciless aliens attack Earth.
As the family race through the streets of New York, they find themselves being chased by giant tripods while alien vessels open fire on the retreating crowd, incinerating everything that gets in the way.
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Monday 19th March 2012
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Tuesday 20th March 2012
| Are you having a laugh? TV and disability |
A humorous and irreverent look at the way disability has been portrayed on TV over the last 50 years, narrated by David Walliams. From Sandy in Crossroads to Brenda in The Office, we'll see how the subject has been done well, how it's been done badly and how box ticking and the odd token wheelchair has helped this process. We look at the astonishing journey from Ironside to Cast Offs, Monty Python to The Office and Little Britain.
With contributions from comics, actors and pundits including Stephen Merchant, Ben Miller, Mat Fraser, Kiruna Stamell, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Ash Attala, Dom Joly, Jimmy Tarbuck, Julie Fernandez and Frencesca Martinez, the programme looks back at the way we used to see disability on our screens and how that compares with what is on there today.
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Wednesday 21st March 2012
BBC 2, 8.00pm - 9.00pm
Monty works for eight solid days and nights on a 90ft deep-sea trawler.
BBC 2, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Richard Bilton examines the struggle between America's ideals and the demands of security.
Aliens
E4, 10.00pm - 1.10am
(1986) James Cameron directs as Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, leading a force to the planet where she first met the Alien - only to find a whole colony. Strong language/gory violence.
| Deathwatch |
(2002) A group of First World War British soldiers (including Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis) get lost in German trenches. Then the dead start rising... Violent horror with strong language
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| Death row (1/3) |
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog meets inmates on Death Row. Hank Skinner has had his execution scheduled three times. On one occasion, he was only 20 minutes away from death.
| The shootong gallery: caught on camera |
...Camera: A mixture of new original material, award-winning shorts and internet hits. This collection of seven shorts focus on still images and photography.
| The worlds strangest plastic surgery and me |
...Surgery and Me. Mark Dolan meets people leading extraordinary lives, in this programme visiting the US and Brazil to get the stories of three people having extreme plastic surgery.
| Stagnate |
Receptionist Mildred's life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a huge pink flower on her tongue.
| Tomorrow |
Ingram is an old man living alone at the edge of a forest. When a mysterious girl appears in his garden and offers him a glowing flower he is puzzled and intrigued.
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Friday 23rd March 2012
| Classic albums: Perter Gabriel: So |
With the release of So in 1986, Peter Gabriel achieved a level of success that had thus far eluded him. Gabriel famously started out leading Genesis, but his four albums of solo work had made him the definition of a cult artist, with flashes that broke through such as Solsbury Hill and Games Without Frontiers. His fifth album, the first not to be titled Peter Gabriel, changed everything and became a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
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