08/03/2016 Too Much TV

and over the next half hour, Emma and I are going to

guide you through the best of tonight's TV shows.

Since we were with you last night, all this has been going on!

Deal? Deal. What the heck?! People like me... It is perfect for a

crowd. Is this a cheap bottle of Romanian wine? It might be, it is

the power of suggestion! With an area of over 200 square kilometres

to cover, it is a mammoth task. Being able to share the Highlands,

such a special place, with the rest of the world is just tremendous.

Coming up tonight, Holby City's newest general surgeon,

Bernie Wolfe, AKA actress Jemma Redgrave,

Keeping with the Holby theme, Susan Calman

goes behind the scenes of the show's prosthetics department

to find out how they make those operations look so realistic.

Which is nice if you are having your tea!

behind some of the most famous disasters in soapland,

including Emmerdale's plane crash.

But first, let's talk about some of the shows

we think are worth watching tonight.

is the award-winning Born To Be Different.

Now in its ninth series, this documentary

15 years ago, Channel 4 set out to follow the lives of six remarkable

children. All born with disabilities. Is the camera rolling?

As they have grown up, our cameras have captured their extraordinary

journeys. As fast as you can, clever girl! I am not having any more

operations! So gorgeous!

The children featured are approaching their 16th birthdays,

so they are now dealing with everyday teenage challenges,

as well as issues most of us will never face.

In this clip from tonight's episode, we catch up with competitive swimmer

Hamish, who is chasing his dream to compete at the Rio Paralympics,

but one thing he's not chasing is girls.

What things that matter to you Hugill?

What things that matter to you They are gross! Do you think you

might meet someone at the World Championships? At the worlds, you

are not looking for someone special, just looking to go to Rio. And then

find one in Rio! And fantastic young man! They film

with these children every two years, and there are some inspirational

stories, but a great bunch of teenagers.

it's on tonight at nine on Channel 4.

There's loads of great mainstream TV,

but if you dig a little deeper in the outer numbers,

They have a brand-new series called How Things Work,

The show takes a look inside everyday machines

they take us literally into a carwash.

Over 1000 components work in perfect unison. A conveyor belt that can all

over 30 tonnes. Or giant brushes spin 90 times a minute. -- four. 40

rinsing jets pump-out two litres of water every second.

I have never felt that a carwash was more like Robocop! The only thing

they cannot explain the inner workings of the human heart. Why

doesn't she loved me anymore, Emma?! If, like me, you were raised on

Sesame Street, this may be buying up your alley. This is tonight on

Quest. Over on BBC Two at ten,

it's the second episode at the biggest scrapyard

in the North West. This is the second series,

and owners Terry and Lyndsay are on the brink

of throwing in the towel Tonight they're interviewing

a new Italian employee, who's got the girls in the office

a bit hot under the collar. I think there is an Italian

downstairs, he is supposed to be a bit of all right. It is about time

we had something to look at in this yard. Hi, how are you doing? Nice to

meet you. Do you have tools? Yeah. Spanners? No, I am Italian.

I have been on holiday to Spanners, it is lovely there! That is at nine

tonight on BBC two. We will be bringing you more great programmes

later, but now it is time to find out what you have been saying.

who says that Rufus Hound reminds him of Jason King

from the '70s detective series of the same name.

Look at that?! Almost indistinguishable! I will add that

to the long list of people that I look like.

BBC One's Happy Valley seems to have an unlikely fan

in Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro!

It is sort of weird that he watches a gritty northern crime drama.

He says Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley is perfect

and creates an amazing character.

She absolutely is, Guillermo del Toro, but it is weird to think he is

curled up on the sofa drawing demons and watching that!

People were going crazy over Liverpudlian hunk Bretherton

on BBC Two's University Challenge last night.

Joanna Montgomery says Bretherton the most attractive

That is a little bit rich, he is a man, he was there to be tested for

his intelligence, not his looks! Keep them coming,

using #TooMuchTV She's the newest arrival

on one of TV's longest running medical dramas, Holby City,

and from the looks of this clip surgeon Bernie Wolfe

is taking no prisoners. Where the hell have you been? Don't

insult my intelligence with another chain of command speech. He had a

massive bleed which no-one picked up on because you insisted on caring

for him yourself, but you let him down. This man to whom you say you

owe everything. You're patient, your call, good luck with that. Wait! I

would like you in theatre, please. I like her in the theatre,

and on the telly too - Nice to see you! We are very happy

to have you here. For anyone who has not seen Bernie Wolfe, what is she

up to? Oh, what brought her here to Holby? And injury that she picked

out in a car that rolled, an IED hit the car she was travelling in

Afghanistan, where she was teaching medics, she is an army medic, and

she was flown straight back, not to Brize Norton but still Holby City

handy! She was, although it was terrifying, she was operated on

successfully, are, by the team. -- hurray. And after recovering from

open heart surgery, she was offered a job, confusing, isn't it? I do not

know which is more mental, referring to yourself in the third person

or... Really strange! She is a really interesting character,

because she works in a world where there is no NHS politics, where she

is in charge completely of the environment that she works in, and

she is now in a situation where there is a great deal of oversight,

management, and politics, and it is not her thing. So there is a lot of

room for clashes. I love the fact that she is quite feisty, she has

already given Jac Naylor a piece of her mind, are we going to see more

of that? Yes, she is extremely confident in her own abilities, some

would say arrogant. I think she is just confident in our own abilities!

And she is not afraid to say so. But she is... And she is tough, but she

is warm, but I think that she will stand her ground against anybody,

which is great. It is always good to see that. It is, and it is great to

play, because you know, as a performer, you always think that you

could have done it better. Right. I think she really thinks that she did

its great! A woman of absolute confidence. Yes! When you are on the

battlefield, you have to just get it done. You didn't have any medical

qualifications before you took on this role, was there a lot of

research to do once you knew you would be stepping into it? I did,

well, I worked with Mike, Medical Mike, one of the brilliant medical

advisers, he is a nurse, and he taught me suturing on a prostatic in

the brilliant prosthetics lab that they have. -- on a prosthetic. So I

worked with him, and I didn't... I haven't been into hospital to watch

an operation, but we have consultants on the show, consultant

surgeons who advise and help us as we go along. So it is like a Rolling

research. But I have done a play, a few years ago, and I have been on

tour in America with it, we did a command performance at the Pentagon,

actually! Yeah, and I played an army medic who had been working in

Afghanistan, and we did a lot of research around that. That is quite

handy! I am not squeamish at all, he is, but do you get squeamish with

the gory stuff? No, it is fabulous! I am like you, I am fascinated, I

want to know more, the only thing that has made me squeamish, one of

the actors we were working with, a visiting surgeon, it was like a

carpentry set that he had, and he had to put a bone back together,

yeah, yeah! With Boltz, basically, nails and bolts. And he was quite

gung ho about the twisting, and you could hear it as it was twisting.

You would be quite full on with this, and the guy said, no, imagine

you are putting together two porcelain plates. That made me feel

a little peculiar. You are going to be in this for a while? No, yeah,

they originally asked me for six months, they had a really good idea

about the character, and I thought she sounded great. And I started,

and within a few weeks they said, would I continue for a year? Nice! I

think she is so multifaceted, she is so interesting and so dynamic, and

it is such... It is good that you feel that way, because you could be

in it for a while if other medical dramas are anything to go by. All BC

has been on air for 17 years, 809 episodes so far. -- Holby City.

Casualty is even older, 986 episodes. Good God! 1000 would be

unbeatable, write?! No, ABC's General Hospital has got 13,510

episodes, including the one going out today! Bloody hell! Sorry about

that! It is absolutely fine. We were talking about skewering bones

together. Let's hear it for the brilliant Jemma Redgrave!

Gemma paid great service to the prosthetics lab. We heard it had

great skill and beauty, so we sent Susan Coleman to go behind the

scenes to see what they do. Warning it is a little gruesome. If you are

sat there enjoying your tea. You might want to look away now. We are

about to GP behind the scenes of Holtby City. I'm a huge fan of

medical drama. I'm about to get to the guts of the story with thes were

though theics's department. Not too much behind the scenes but behind

the spleens. Holtby City has been on screens for over 17 years. Most

screens contain at least two operations which keeps the

prosthetics team very busy Behind this innocuous looking door is where

the blood and gore is created. Carry on without me, if I faint. I'll

catch up. I'm going N Hi.

-- I'm going in. They are not real, are they? No. They are not real.

Wow. Ahhhh.

My dad was a surgeon. I don't know how he did T this is horrific. It is

not real. What is this needle? It is a two part silicon. We have

different moulds, a liver mould, a stomach mould. You can't buy them in

the supermarket like a jelly mould. This they are sculpted from scratch.

That's just like looking inside someone's stomach. Yes, this is a

gastric fwhand has slipped into the wrong place and has gone a bit

necrotic. And this would be a vein. . Muscle. It is like bacon. You are

very smiley, do you enjoy this? I'm at my happiest when I'm in here.

Making all the guts and gore. Right. If I'm correct, the yellow layer is

fat. Yes. . A bit like cake. Like icing a cake. Just like making a

cake. It is like watching the Great British Bake-off.

Just a bit more gory. Then the blood, do you have different types?

Yes, original. We have dark and congealed and some wound filler. So

we have four different types. Of course you do. Could we see it

bleed? I never thought I would say that. Is that what you do on set?

Yes. So all of the technology, you knew that the BBC had. So just

before a dramatic scene... Yes. They are going like that. We are hiding

under the bed. # Keep bleeding

# Keep, keep bleeding love... ...# Is it working? Yes. Oh, wow. Quite

extraordinary. Next time you watch Holly City, understand that one of

these lovely people is probably underneath that bed, out of breath

after pumping the blood for that, for you. That's what they are doing.

Now the great thing about Tupperware is to keeps everything fresh. Just

to show you some of the Tupperware we have got here. You have your

bones. You have your kidneys and spleens. You need to keep them

fresh. Your muscles and burns, your stomach and finally your bits and

bobs. What is in there, no-one knows.

I could spend all day poking around in various body parts but I have to

get to set to seat prosthetics team's work in action. Action.

Everything is so detailed. But it is not real. We have a farmcy. None of

the pills are real. This is called video village where they watch

everything on set happening. The gastric band operation scene won't

air for a few weeks but in a Too Much TV exclusive, we can see the

prosthetic team's work in action right now. She's bleeding. There is

a tear. Press on that swab. Thank you. I've had a wonderful time here

at Holtby City. I think I'll leave it to the professionals. I'll just

continue scarring people emotionally with my comedy.

Is it finished? Can I look. It's finished. Next up a clip from a

sitcom you almost definitely would have scene, or have you?

Play it nice and cool, son, you know what I mean, we are on to a winner.

Now, on BBC Three online there's a very funny thing

called Changing Channels, where they take bits of TV

that we all know and twist them in funny ways.

We're going to be talking to one of it. V's stunt co-ordinator but

before that, some of it. V's most memorable stunts.

Here to tell us how they make all of that stuff happen, please welcome

Stuart St Paul. Thank you for joining us.

You've been working in stunts for over 40 years.

For those that don't know, what exactly

does a stunt co-ordinator do on a TV production?

It takes the ambition of the script and has to make it real. If it is a

car crash you may have to close roads, book the fire, book

ambulance, rescue, have everybody there in case. Have the car prepped,

made stronger and design how you are going to do it. If it is explosions

you need clearances. All kinds of things. It could be mechanical. It

could be building something. You are the abouts of the whole stunt thing?

You are taking over a view and try to make it happen for real. You need

to plan it. What kind of training do you need, then? Well, the initial

training for any stuntman is to be an instructor in six different

sports. You become an actor first, because we are all actors. Then you

train and do six different sports and then come into the

apprenticeship. From that, you then start to learn but you will find

most of us have a more mechanical background than arty background.

Have you ever hurt yourself? The idea is to try and not get hurt.

Try. If he was getting hurt, you don't

need a stunt co-ordinator. Then they get an ambulance, not me.

The idea to figure out how to do something safely. We are looking for

the accidents before they happen. How things are maybe not quite

right. Sometimes an actor may have his weight on the wrong foot. You

can see he is off balance. You need to quietly correct that. If you are

improving the safety why do the soaps call you the Angle of Death? I

have killed off an awful lot of soap stars. Have you? Yes. There was a

period where I basically knocked them all off, one after the other.

The funny thing is, if you are on a train, getting a phone call from a

producer saying - how would you murder somebody? And people start

listening. I'm going to murder Rita Fairclough's husband! What? !

Weren't you responsible for the Emmerdale plane crash? Yes that was

movie-esque. It is great to be working on that one day and then

work on something smaller. But you take the talents and bring them down

to television. It was an iconic, turning point in history for soaps.

So many people involved as well in that? It was cranes, planes and

automobiles. 18 million people tuned in to watch that. Let's take a look.

It's not worth it. There is still some of my stuff in there. Leave it.

The gas cylinder. EMMERDALE THEME TUNE

That's such an English thing, isn't it? - a big explosion and then da

sp, da, da. In America it would be, bash, Bosch, aaaaahhh. It is not

killing everyone off, it is a bit of destruction. A little bit. You were

called in on Mrs Brown's boys. I have been on all of the series.

You wouldn't expect that at all. It is the little things that catch you

out. Just the tiny things. Like a dodgy Christmas tree, once, which I

had to take special care of. We are going to see that clip. Let's have a

look. No, offence, that didn't actually

look that dangerous. No, but what was dangerous there, was the

Christmas tree was actually a big heavy metal pole to hold his weight.

They put a crash mat on the floor. The special effects had designed it.

But they man falls, crash mat stops him but heavy pole falls, what stops

him? Oh, yes, You are going to show us something now. There are no

Christmas trees here. Come on, let's do a bit of something. I was warned

about you. We are going to make it exciting. No, no. We can do a bit of

something. I would rather not if you don't mind.

OK, fine then, don't show us anything at all.

Oh my God, don't try this at home. They are professionals.

Look, what a treat to have a proper stuntman here. Let's hear it for

Stuart, please. Loved that. Are you all right?

I was talked through it. Yes.

We've already told you about some of tonight's top picks.

Time for some more shows that we'll think you'll enjoy.

It's time for the biggest decision of the day.

My choice tonight is on Sky Atlantic at ten.

It's Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters.

This comedy series goes behind the scenes

of Alan's daytime chat show on North Norfolk Digital radio.

that after nearly 22 years of Alan on our screens,

nothing's really changed - this is classic Partridge.

is having a go at his poor assistant Lynn.

I haven't got Angela a Valentine's present. You have until noon to

scour the place for a competitively priced baby doll nighty. That's what

I said. Put a bow and wrap it in bubble wrap. I know it won't smash

just wrap it in bubble wrap. If you, like me have loved Alan Partridge as

long as he has been on TV, you might have been worried when he decided to

move it over to Sky, but trust me, there are only two episodes left in

this series, it is on Sky Atlantic at 10.00pm.

There's some big hitters on tonight, like Happy Valley

and Coronation Street, but if you're in the mood

for something different then tune into E4 at nine

for the launch of new series The Aliens.

Here's the setup, Aliens have landed and now live

on earth in a segregated city called Troy.

Tonight we meet the star of the show,

who's life is about to take a turn for the worse.

I'm going to make sure they are tagged and sprayed. By 8.00 they

will be on the right side of that wall. I'm not going to let anything

bad happen. He is in charge. Looks good. That's all we have time

for tonight. Tomorrow's we've got special

guests Calum Callaghan, who plays George Towler

in ITV's Mr Selfridge, and Piers Taylor from BBC Two's

100K House: Tricks Of The Trade. Stuart what theme tune do we have

tonight? Yes, the man has evolved from theme

tunes, you would expect nothing else from a stuntman.

Thank you to all of our guests tonight. All, I mean both.

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