TV & Radio Monday October 10

A modern Love Thy Neighbour set in, ah, 1963, and flags out for The Last Night of the Proms.

TV

The Indian Doctor

Border Security: Customs Greatest Hits (TV1, 7.30pm). It was filler telly anyway, so we’re not sorry to see this packaged version of Border Security finish tonight, along with the rest of TV1′s line-up: The Force (8.00pm), Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds (8.30pm) and Criminal Minds (9.45pm) are all finals this evening, to make way for MasterChef Australia and a This Is Your Life special next week.

True Blood (Prime, 9.30pm). The penultimate episode for the season, and it’s about time the situation at the Moon Goddess emporium was resolved, although Mantonia! has a few tricks up her sleeve, including a kind-of electric fence for vampires. It’s up to Sookie to use her faerie powers to get everyone out of the crapper. Again.

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The Indian Doctor (Vibe, Sky 007, 9.30pm). A comedy-drama series that’s a kind of modern Love Thy Neighbour: in 1963, an Indian doctor and his wife are posted to a small Welsh mining village. Hilarity bordering on racism ensues. The doctor and his wife are Sanjeev Bhaskar (The Kumars at No. 42) and Ayesha Dharker (Cutting It).

FILM

Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (TV3, 8.30pm). Minor superhero stuff that had its first life as a Marvel comic: maybe we should call them middlingheroes? Anyway, two of them – the invisible one and the “Fantastic” one – are just about to say “I do” when a psycho alien arrives in Manhattan, so the flaming one and the weird lumpy one get on board to save the world. A dumb, dreary collection of special effects that’s only the teensiest bit better than the first one. (2006) 5 – Diana Balham

Hattie (Rialto, Sky 025, 8.30pm). Carry On in the bedroom! This warm and witty British TV movie reveals the amount of carrying on actress Hattie Jacques got up to in real life. She was less the bossy matron and more the Rubenesque femme fatale who broke the heart of husband John Le Mesurier (Sgt Wilson in Dad’s Army) when she installed her younger lover in the marital boudoir and sent poor John upstairs. Eager to avoid scandal – this was the 60s – up he went. It stars Ruth Jones from TV’s Gavin & Stacey, with Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet) and Aidan Turner (Mitchell the vampire from Being Human). You may find it useful to know “Hattie Jacques” is Cockney rhyming slang for “shakes”. 7 – Diana Balham

RADIO

Music Alive (Radio New Zealand Concert, 8.00pm). Got your flags ready? It’s the famed Last Night of the Proms, which prompted Guardian critic Erica Jeal to write: “It’s the end of term. The Albert Hall arena is full of well-behaved schoolchildren playing at being naughty.” This concert features British soprano Susan Bullock, Chinese pianist Lang Lang and the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner. Along with a new work by Peter Maxwell Davies, the choral fanfare Musica Benevolens, Lang Lang performs Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 1 and Chopin’s Grande Polonaise Brillante, followed by Bullock – dressed as a Valkryie and wearing a flashing daffodil on her breastplate – belting out Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, Rule Britannia, Climb Ev’ry Mountain and You’ll Never Walk Alone. Super! – Diana Balham