07/03/2016 Too Much TV

It is Monday! My favourite day of the week!

Call the Midwife ended on a series high of 9.2 million viewers,

and Ben Cohen not only survived but won The Jump on Channel 4.

It's Monday, the 7th of March, and over the next half hour,

Emma and I are going to guide you through the best

But before we do, here are some of the highlights

I was knew there would be a bolt of lightning when I met the man of my

dreams. Welcome to the family.

She is gorgeous! See that around the corner.

You have made a home for me for 20 happy years.

They can catch you unawares, which often happens. I have been hammered

to the ground and got whiplash. Today me and Emma are here to guide

you through the best And it's my first day on TMTV,

so be gentle with me, Coming up, EastEnders bad-boy

Jevan Wade is here to tell us all about the prison break storyline

gripping the nation. Star of BBC Two's black comedy,

Stag, Rufus Jones joins us And we look at another

TV Trailblazer. This week it's the classic

That's Life with Esther Rantzen. But first, there are some

brilliant shows on tonight that we want to bring

to your attention. A brand new series that starts

straight after us at 7pm on BBC Two This is a new documentary

all about farming families in some of the most beautiful and remote

areas of the Scottish Highlands. In this clip from tonight's episode,

farmer Martin talks proudly about his pedigree

bull called Irish. Martin has one breeding bull in his

herd. I am looking for the Arnold Schwarzenegger of balls and he is

it. He looks the part. He eats breakfast every morning.

That keeps him in good condition. Irish needs all of the sustenance he

can get. His job is to service Martin's entire herd of 70 cows.

He has every right to be proud of that bull, he's a beauty!

That is pure muscle. Neither of us is farming experts but it looked

like the real deal to me. So this series was filmed over

the course of a whole year - It doesn't always look

at the relationship between the farmers and the animals,

it also follows the ups and downs Has it? I bet there is a lot of

fresh chopped me at one of those. There is a surfeit of these rural

shows on at the moment. I find myself thinking in my little

concrete box, with buses whipping past, if I can just key and do

things like Countryfile, Land of Hope and Glory, the Welsh hill

farmer... You want to be owed their walking amongst hills. Perfect. Are

people wanting to connect? People are going glamping and that kind of

thing. We just want to be out doors. It is very now. Is it a winter

thing? When it is dark and miserable, you want to see some

sunshine on your greenery. That is very true.

So that starts tonight, and it's on Mondays,

Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the next four weeks on BBC Two.

As you'll no doubt have seen on the news today,

the Royal Navy are sending troops and vessels to the Aegean to help

On BBC One tonight at 9pm, a documentary called

Frontline Doctors follows medics and aid workers who have gone

to Greece to see first-hand what conditions are like for

Here, the doctors realise the full scale of the crisis.

I have to say, that is full on. We have got about 70 people out of the

boat. Treated some of them for hypothermia. A man with a heart

condition is having a cigarette! I feel elated but extremely sad. It is

a confusing feeling. All of these people are safe and there is another

boat ride there. These twin doctors have done a few

things on TV. I like them a lot. They seem to bring a human angle.

They are looking at the health of these people as they find themselves

washed ashore. They are tracing them from the point of arrival through to

their disbursement into refugee camps, which themselves have got

huge medical issues to face. Maybe a more human view of what is going on

in the refugee crisis. That is on BBC One tonight at 9pm.

Also on at 9pm on Sky Atlantic, we go all rock and roll

with the American drama series, Vinyl.

There's been a lot of hype about this series -

it was co-created by Mick Jagger and the Oscar winning director,

It is all about a fictional record company executive from the 1970s. He

is played by Bobby Carnevale. It stars Olivia Wilde as his wife. It

is hip, it is funky and you get great music.

Rufus has got some moves. I am quite impressed. Mick Jagger's son is in

it as well. Yes. It is weird what happens when you know the executive

Producer! It helps. Mick Jagger definitely came up with it. It is

interesting to see the influx of big-screen stars making their way to

the small screen. John Travolta and Cuba Gooding on the OJ Simpson

drama. Limitless, based on the Bradley Cooper film. Turning up in

that. Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager. If we talk about The Night

Manager any more, we will pop. Of course, even if you don't have

Sky Atlantic, you'll be able So those are just a few

of tonight's picks. We've got more recommendations

for you later on in the show. And remember, you can also join

in the conversation by letting us know what you think about TV

by tweeting #toomuchtv Our next guest stars

in BBC Two's dark comedy, If you haven't caught it yet,

it follows a group of men on the stag weekend from hell

in the Scottish Highlands. To tell us more about it,

here he is - Rufus Jones! The ruthless meeting can start now!

Stag, we think it is about a Stag do. It is. It is basically a Stag do

full of objectionable posh people, and a normal person, who is the

brother-in-law of the Stag. He is that person we have all been at one

stage. The slight bruise Briand the Stag. He does not know anybody. --

the slight goos brie at the Stag. People start dying and they keep

dying and dying and dying for a 31-hours. -- three hours. Sometimes

in pairs. It is a very dark comedy. It is Agatha Christie with a

cagoule! That is my pitch! I follow you on Twitter. Likewise. There is a

loving going on here. Can I just leave? You are tweeting quite a lot

as you are making it. It sounds as if you are having a lotta fun. It

was fun. A lot of TV these days can be office-based, especially

comedies. In tiny studios. Not like this one! It is not the size of the

studio, it is what you do with it. This was filmed in the Highlands of

Scotland and then down in Pinewood. We used all of the toys. We were in

the James Bond underwater stage set. And the Star Wars was filming on the

next lot. You would see these fighters ready to be unwrapped. Can

you tell us the secrets that went on behind the scenes? When you get ten

young men together doing a show, hijinks will happen. It was great.

We were a long way from home. There were a lot of new fathers among the

cast. It was their first job since they had kids. They were missing

their kids extraordinarily. At the same time it meant that everybody

could just let loose a little bit. Two glasses of wine! No, darling, I

miss you so much! I wish I was home! We were in a Hotel were the Scottish

football team was staying. We would see Gordon Strachan, the manager,

every night. It is the little thing. We do not know who the killer is.

How does that work? It was very elaborate. We went for the

read-through. Normally you just read it through. Hence the title! But

with this, every time a character was bumped off and died in the

script, they had to leave the room. The director did not want us to know

who did it. So actually, the third and final episode, which is on

Saturday, is only known to a select group of people. Sometimes there

would be people coming in with codenames, certain actors we had

never met. We have actually got a clip from the final episode.

I do not know about you guys, but I am bored of running. This entire

weekend has been defined by running. That is not what any of us signed up

for. We were meant to have fun before we got married. So enough is

enough. This is my Stag do. I came here to hunt and that is exactly

what I am going to do. He can deliver a line. Intense

delivery. Which is hard to pull off in a neon pink onesie. It is a

challenge. We have seen you in Stag. Where will we see you next? OK, I am

doing a film with Jackie Chan. And Pierce Brosnan. I do not want to

talk out of turn. We both went up for this role. I feel awkward

bringing it up. No, that is fine. I could tell you I was up for a Cosmo

in Stag as well! The final episode of Stag

is on this Saturday night, BBC One at 9pm where all of us,

including Rufus, finally find out Thank you so much for

coming in Rufus Jones! Now, who remembers the hit

TV show, That's Life? The show combined consumer

journalism with real people's stories, and humour,

jokes - all sorts. It was hosted by Esther Ranzten and

we think it was a TV trailblazer. Turn around and look at the person

behind you. If you fancy them, give them a kiss! You want one? That's

Life was the linchpin of the nation's weekend viewing for 21

years. Recorded just an hour before transmission, it blazed a trail for

the TV schedules, attracting audiences across all ages and the

social spectrum. What is wrong with it? I loathe it.

The first chance you get to applaud is when I make my entrance. That's

Life grew from a can Schumer show, from... It featured a young reporter

called Esther Ranson. I can't give you anything but love, baby! Is that

enough? It's enough for me! Her future husband Desmond Wilcox was

the editor and together they devised That's Life. What began with Braden

evolved with restaurants. Thank you and welcome. This is a new

programme. And they had a host who could handle allcomers. Of course I

did everything wrong,... Esther and the team delivered their digest of

news, views and satire alongside hard-hitting campaigns that changed

the nation's attitudes and the law. Children and belted are in fact a

very great danger -- that are not belted. It had doubled the sales of

child restraints. Before health and safety went mad the attitude to any

safety was one of suspicion and That's Life change that. As you can

see they went up in seconds. From setting up Childline to making

urgent appeals for organ donations, That's Life broke taboo is and made

us more mindful. -- broke taboos. These arresting features were

tempered by less serious items. James Quinn wrote in to say, you

know the famous concrete statues of cows outside Milton Keyes? Well,

thanks to some overnight joker they have been joined by a concrete bull.

Thanks to its Britishness, That's Life reflected the attitude we claim

as a national virtue. You look through the window and you have

great big Stone Bulls. It dared to put comedy alongside tragedy,

triumph with disaster. I would like to disable your programme stinks.

That's brandy? No, that is whiskey. Should I tasted again?! -- taste it.

Let's hear Sapphire say, hello mum. While there are now whole show is

dedicated to consume investigation or public pranks, and social media

has replaced the random, have you seen this nature of the show, our

appetite for diversion is down to the eclectic and thoroughly British

That's Life. A show that changed the face of

television. We'll bring you another TV

Trailblazer next week. To prove that we are live, this is a

quick Twitter question to answer, yes, my moustache is dyed and so is

my hair, I am playing a Spanish man in a play. Not many Spanish men have

blonde moustaches and hair. Who does he think he is? Super Mario? I'm

glad you explained that. Now, EastEnders is really

hotting up at the moment. Our next guest plays Jordan Johnson,

who's involved in a secret plot Tonight's episode sees

the plan set in motion. I changed the kitchen rotor. It has

to be today. I trust you, you will think of something. Jordan, listen

to me. We are her family. You understand? Remember what we talked

about. Apart from you and JJ there is nothing for her in Walford. We

belong together as a family, all right? I'll try.

Thank you for joining us. You were in the middle of a big plot line.

What's going on? It's a bit mental at the moment, Lucas is trying to

break out of prison and Jordan is trying to help and he is in this

place where he has been with Denise for a while. She is like a mother to

him but at the same time Lucas is his father and he is torn. He has

got into this whole thing thinking he can break out my dad and build a

relationship and at the same time, I have to bring Denise into the

situation. I know that Lucas is your dad in this but he has done some

horrible things. Why would you want to break him out? When you look back

and think about it, he has killed Jordan's mother, his dog, he has

killed everyone. He has put away Denise. At the same time it is his

dad and you always have that thing where you have been away for so long

and he yearns for that connection with his father. As much as he knows

he is doing wrong, he can't help it. It's my dad, what do you do?

Exactly. You have only been in EastEnders for a while, amazing, you

have stepped in and straightaway got an amazing plot, how does that feel

as an actor? It's mad, the biggest thing is that I've only had a few

weeks so far and about four duff-duffs! Some people wait years.

It has been great. Coming in on such a strong storyline, every actor ones

that heavy storyline to get your teeth into. It has been brilliant.

-- wants it. It's nice to be part of it, I'm really enjoying it. I know

you better from Doctor Who. That must have been thrilled to be in.

Did the people in EastEnders CU in Doctor Who? Is that where the

connection came from? -- did they see you? I have always had casting

directors wreak asking me for roles and the industry is so small that

everybody gets passed around like a bouncing ball. Only when you are

good! Now with the jailbreak

storyline full steam ahead, we got to thinking -

what are TV's best-ever prison Coming in at three, we're

heading to Australia - Where else would you start thinking

about prisons?! It's 1983 and it's Bea Smith's

escape from Prisoner Cell Block H. Here she combs, dressed as a prison

guard, creeping out of prison. -- here she comes.

It is my absolute favourite, and the theme tune... SINGING I loved it. It

was number five in the charts. Incredible. I loved it.

At number two, it's the most unlikely jailbird in TV History -

it's Deirdre Rachid swapping number seven Coronation Street for a cell

But Deirdre, I love you! Are we expected to sleep through this? It

will be quiet in a few hours. You will be all right. I should not be

here, I have not done anything. There has been a mistake. There has

been a mistake! Proper acting! Ugly cry, I watched it with my mum

actually. I remember it well. Back in 1998, that led to public

campaign to 'Free the Weatherfield And Prime Minister Tony Blair

even said that he would That is worrying. You don't have a

list about the best prison on telly without ending with Porridge. I want

you to fill one of those flasks. From here?! Behind the screen.

Behind the screen, yes. Ronny Baka! It does not get better. Where will

you be watching EastEnders tonight? Hopefully I can watch it with my

family at home but it is such a big storyline. You will be going, look

how great I am! Look at me! EastEnders is tonight at 8pm on BBC

One. Thank you for joining us. It's the biggest

decision of the day... AUDIENCE SHOUTS: What are

we watching tonight? No one goes out on a Monday,

better to stay in and watch It's Royal Navy School We've gave

you the heads up about this documentary following Royal Navy

recruits last week. Tonight it's all about the girls

as they go through their physical It is exactly the same as the men!

There is no special treatment, there is a standard that they have to meet

whether they are male or female. I am praying for God for them to be

kind. Get to the top! I love climbing the robe. They should just

recruit from primary schools. -- the rope. We have not seen access into

the Navy like this for 30 years. Last week is the last episode in the

series. It is The Return of the Flying Scotsman on Channel 4.

This one-off documentary follows the famous train getting back

on the tracks after a 10-year restoration that cost more

For a train that originally cost eight grand, that's a big mark-up.

The Flying Scotsman. For ten years it has been away. Undergoing a

painstaking ?4 million rebuild. It's a massive relief. There are times

where we thought we'd never finish it. To work on the Flying Scotsman

is a privilege. The museum celebrates with an emotional return

to the mainline and the Flying Scotsman speeding home to York. She

runs like a sewing machine, perfect. Let's be honest, you already know

whether you are going to watch this! It gives us an excuse to show this

clip of a guy who waited all day to see it. He loves it, he is waiting,

and then this happens. There is your train, just behind the

Pendolino! That is BBC for tonight, 8:30pm. Before we go, what TV theme

tune will we'd be playing out with tonight? Let's see. -- will we be

playing out with. I have never been happier.

A huge thank you to our guests Rufus and Je-van.

Join us tomorrow when Holby City's Jemma Redgrave will be

Plus, we meet the stuntman behind some of the most famous disasters

in soapland - including Emmerdale's unforgettable plane crash.

Enjoy your evening and tell us what you think of all tonight's

telly on bbc.co.uk/twomuchtv or tweet us at #toomuchtv.

Until tomorrow, you will see this lovely face... And this lovely face.

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