Tuesday’s TV tips
In 2008, Canadian TV launched Love It or List It, a home makeover show in which a designer revamped a property in the hope of making its owners fall in love with it again.
If they did, great, but if they still felt it didn’t meet their requirements, they would put it on the market, guided by an estate agent.
The format is about to make its debut in the UK, and who better to host it than Channel 4’s property gurus, Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer?
Each week, they will meet people who have grown tired of the most important place in their lives _ their homes.
While Kirstie tries to breathe new life into it, Phil attempts to convince those involved to cut their losses and make a killing on the property market.
The Awards, now in their fourteenth year, are the only national celebration of Irish style, and have grown in prominence each year.
Ireland's most fashionable celebrities including the Xposé team - Glenda, Karen, Lisa, Aisling and Peter - Rosanna Davison, Roz Purcell and many more pull out all the stops for the style event of the year.
Find out who gets it right on the night and who will be sacking their stylist. This spectacular ceremony will take place in Dublin’s The Marker Hotel.
New series. On average, every household in the nation throws away a ton of rubbish each year, for bin wagons to collect, and this documentary follows the people who work round the clock to cope with the vast swathes of waste produced by the residents of Newcastle.
The teams tasked with dealing with the public’s refuse are waging a war on waste, with bin men and council enforcement officers taking the fight to the people as they try and get them to throw away less and recycle more, but Christmas always pushes the industry to breaking point.
Documentary featuring stories of people who have been signed off sick when in fact they were fit as fiddles, including sprinter Matthew Thomas, who was exposed as a fraud after racing in national competitions and coaching young athletes while he was on sick leave from his job as a payroll officer with Newham Council.
Plus, a nurse who was off due to an injury she received on the job turned out to be working hundreds of shifts elsewhere, and a woman faked her father’s death so she could get a leave of absence.
The story of the night when the future Queen Elizabeth II slipped out of Buckingham Palace with Princess Margaret to party in secret on the streets of London.
It was May 8, 1945 – VE Day – the end of the Second World War in Europe.
Seventy years later, eyewitnesses who were with the princesses that evening, including the Queen’s cousin and close friend Margaret Rhodes and lady-in-waiting Jean Woodroffe, reveal in detail what happened as the pair joined thousands of revellers celebrating peace.
The Beeb has described this new, four-part programme as a “dirty, smelly, immersive history series.”
What’s more, it features celebrities, so it should attract viewers who enjoy a wide variety of genres, including reality shows, historical documentaries and social drama. Fi Glover will host the series, while historian Ruth Goodman oversees the proceedings.
Ex-politician Ann Widdecombe, presenter Miquita Oliver, retired athlete Colin Jackson, actress Zoe Lucker, comedian Alistair McGowan and Outnumbered’s Tyger Drew-Honey are the famous faces who give up all mod cons to spend four days in four different environments, learning what it was like to be working class during the Victorian period.
This new American drama stars Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon, who has recently been diagnosed with a debilitating illness.
As a result, Lucious decides to choose one of this three sons to take over his successful music business when he dies.
Hakeem is a gifted musician, but values fame over hard work, middle child Jamal shies away from the spotlight and eldest son Andre lacks charisma. In the first episode, Lucious’s plans are thrown into chaos when his ex-wife Cookie emerges from prison wanting her share of the business.
(2010) A cop arrives at an office building to investigate after someone jumps to their death from the roof, only to find that isn’t the only unusual occurrence.
Five office workers have become trapped in a broken lift, and the cop joins the security guard in trying to free them.
However, it gradually becomes clear just how desperate the rescue mission really is as the five passengers are picked off one by one.
Apparently, one of the group isn’t an ordinary employee, but the Devil in human form, materialising to harvest the souls of sinners.
Chris Messina and Caroline Dhavernas star in a film that keeps you guessing right to the last minute, and is based on a story by M Night Shyamalan.
(2008) It may have vanished without a trace at the box office, but don’t let that put you off: this is one of the most touching comedy dramas of the past few years.
Ricky Gervais shines as a misanthropic dentist who lives alone, hates people and likes his life that way.
However, when he goes to hospital for an apparently routine operation, he’s stunned to discover he died for several minutes, and when he recovers, he can see dead people.
They start flocking around him, desperate to pass on news to the living, but our selfish anti hero keeps refusing.
There’s a romantic sub plot involving a love triangle between a womanising spirit (Greg Kinnear), a mummy expert (Tea Leoni) and Gervais’s dentist, but the heart of this movie is watching one man learn the error of his ways.
