Public Enemy’s Chuck D charts 1970s New York hip-hop roots

Friday

Today’s Pick: Travelman: 48 Hours in Dublin

8:30 p.m. Channel 4

Last week it was Sarah Milikan from Vilnius, now it’s Mawan Rizwan from Dublin. task master If any guest accompanies Joe Lycett in this latest series. As Lycett tells Rizwan that Dublin translates as “black pool” and has 275 statues (some of which are talking), the duo is headed to Temple for his bar’s “Stag Do Central”. Guinness has an established Dublin tourism business, including visiting his storehouse. Trinity College (according to Lycett, “Dublin’s answer to the University of Wolverhampton”). Plus, take a chilly dip at a bathing spot immortalized by James Joyce. Ulysses.

do i lie to you

8pm BBC One

Scoring is do i lie to you is usually a functional addition to the fun, and few people seem to be doing the tallying at home. However, it’s worth noting that he won one team this week with his unprecedented 5-0.In a lively edition with Chris McColand and strict judge Shirley Ballas (is it true that Tom Cruise still owes her £600?) flanking David Mitchell Yes, Lee Mack’s team has Josie Gibson and Dragon’s Den Investor Stephen Bartlett. The latter has a funny (perhaps tall) story about him being expelled from school, and David Mitchell (perhaps misleadingly) explaining why he didn’t join his WhatsApp group. I’m here.

Amanda and Alan’s Italian job

8:30pm BBC One

During a recent visit to a renovated villa in Sicily, Alan Carr learns how to use a bidet properly, and Amanda Holden explains why she hates bidets and loves colon cleansing. Alan finds Amanda’s pink color scheme and disco ball lighting fixtures to be “too camp” (shock, dread) while discovering how to use a hammer, tidying up the bathroom. “I hate grafting,” he says. “So I got a job as a minor entertainer.”

paradise of death

9pm BBC One

This week’s story has a kind of watery version of the classic locked-room murder mystery.Fiona Button The Split and once Taggart Star John Mitchie plays a potential buyer on a secluded beach. The salesperson’s boat is anchored offshore so that while the salesperson is on board, potential buyers are brought to this beautiful location by bidding. However, when he returns to the ship, the clerk has been murdered…

The Strange Couple of John and Lucy

9pm, Channel 4

Camouflaged in comedy, this funny spin-on actually has some pretty sharp questions Mr and Mrs. “Do you love your mother more than Rodrigo?” John Richardson asks Duncan James of partner Rodrigo Reiss. And “Would he like to see your Internet search history or your bank balance?” Another pair of him is Sarah Pascoe and her husband Steen Lascopoulos.

graham norton show

10:40 p.m. BBC One

Hollywood star Michelle Williams talks about her lead role in latest Steven Spielberg movie favermansHelena Bonham Carter and Writer Russell T. Davies Discuss Teaming Up nollyabout the life of intersection Starring Noel Gordon. again, Strictly‘s Oti Mabuse talks about moving dancing on ice and Brendan Fraser whale.

Saturday

Pick of the Day: Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World

9pm BBC 2

What promises to be the definitive four-part history of hip-hop begins here with the music’s social roots, described by Grandmaster Flash’s Mele Mel as “the bastard son of disco.” The so-called “white flight” of the ’60s and his ’70s, the exodus from inner New York City and the politically orchestrated “benign disregard” of poorer neighborhoods such as the Bronx, turned rap and hip-hop into I have created the conditions for it. Meanwhile, Public Enemy’s Chuck D (executive his producer on the series) describes the genre’s evolution from escapist party his tunes to powerful protest his songs.

Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

6:50 p.m. BBC One

The BBC’s one-man answer to Ant and Dec welcomes a new roster of celebrities to his variety show. wheel, they don’t have to risk motion sickness. But while Allison Hammond has to hand over her cell phone for “Send to All,” Peter Crouch unceremoniously wakes up on “Midnight Game Show.” Meanwhile, at the Palladium, George Ezra performs his latest single.

royal palace secrets

7:30 p.m. Channel 5

See behind-the-scenes stories of Windsor Castle, Welsh Cottage and Waterloo Chamber, and discover why the royal family chose Windsor as their new name (rather than Saxony-Coburg or Gotha during World War I). ). The show also examines the 1981 incident in which gunshots rang out during his Trooping the Colour, with descriptions of security guards confronting the shooter.

Stock-Aitken Waterman: Legends of Pop

8:30 p.m. Channel 5

From Kylie, Sonia and Rick Astley to Jason Donovan, Bananarama and Sinitta, in the late 80s you couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing songs written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. had. His two-part look at the sometimes fragmented history of SAW’s so-called “assembly line” begins with American drag’s breakthrough with his star, Devine.

casualties

8:50pm BBC One

A boat, seemingly unseaworthy, washed up on the beach with a cargo of distressed passengers. Asylum seekers carried by smugglers seems like a proposition, but would they have landed somewhere near Holby in southwest England?

Mystery Road: Origins

9pm BBC Four

The final two episodes of this excellent Aussie noir prequel series conclude the twin mystery surrounding the deaths of Mary’s brother and Jay’s father. The latter’s investigation revolves around an outsider paying local indigenous people to sabotage a mine, and lawyer Anusha (Salme Jeranthal) makes a breakthrough when cleaning out the local newspaper library. increase.

transatlantic

21:00 Drama

The focus of this extravagant costume drama is the exiled Crown Princess Martha (bridgeSophia Herrin in ) develops a flirtatious relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt (played by Kyle MacLachlan).

Sunday

Pick of the Day: The Warship: Tour of Duty

9pm BBC 2

This new series follows the first operational mission of the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier (and flagship) HMS Queen Elizabeth. Award-winning director Cristeril incorporates a crew of 1,600 on her grueling seven-month voyage to the South China Sea. Aiming to show Britain’s new naval power to friends and foes alike, the first enemy it encountered was creeping out of sight, the Covid outbreak.

how to live to be 100

6:45 p.m. Channel 4

Jon Snow continues his ‘semi-retirement’ by traveling the world, meeting healthy and happy communities, and reaching ‘old age’. First, he visits his community of Christians in California who are obsessed with healthy living. Life expectancy in the United States is plummeting, but Loma Linda’s Seventh Day Adventist lives 10 years longer than average. But do those extra years justify giving up many of life’s pleasures?

Great Pottery Throw Down

7:45 p.m. Channel 4

Hosted by Siobhán McSweeney, Retro Week challenged participants to build a trio of flying birds, and this week’s surprise task challenged them to build an old-fashioned hot water bottle (a ceramic hot water bottle known as “stone”). increase. As always, judges Keith Brymer-Jones and Rich Miller will decide who will be potter of the week and who will go home.

call the midwife

8pm BBC One

Alas, things are not going well with Reggie (Daniel Laurie). Fred and Violet Buckle’s surrogate son, who is usually full of sunshine, now lies in bed in the morning and is mostly smug. Elsewhere in 1968, a posh consultant running a training course made the mistake of making disparaging remarks about Nurse Crane’s age, and an outbreak of gastroenteritis brought motherhood to the attention of the health board. I pulled.

Vera

8:00 p.m. ITV1

In the final episode of the series, Columbo-esque detective DCI Stanhope, played by Brenda Blethyn, is summoned to the banks of the River Tyne where the corpse of a young woman has been washed up. While the victim appears to have been a popular manager of a local green energy company, a loyal friend, and a loving mother and wife, Vera uncovers a web of intrigue, betrayal, and lost promises.

happy valley

9pm BBC One

In summary, jailbird killer Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton) has invited his son Ryan (Rhys Connor) to come see him “when I’m in Leeds.” Tommy, of course, was referring to his upcoming court appearance, but as the big day approached, Katherine (Sarah Lancashire) grew suspicious.

Walter Presents: Glow

11:20 p.m. Channel 4

A taster opening episode for this new Danish crime drama (before it moved to All 4). A freshly graduated stockbroker returns to his hometown after the death of his father and becomes involved in his gang of bikers and drug traffickers. His homecoming also leads him to a reunion with his brother, a police officer.Lars Mikkelsen’s Borgen I am in the cast.