Bafta-winner Andrew Garfield in Boy A, and a returning Antiques Roadshow rolls into Gloucestershire.
TV
Antiques Roadshow, photo BBC
Kia Ora Molweni (Maori, 7.00pm). The third series following kura kaupapa students on cultural exchanges (the others were to China and Chile). Here, the students are in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province for three weeks, where they attend schools, stay with families and sightsee. The students were given video cameras on which they captured life in the township of Mdantsane, their stay with an Afrikaner family and their visits to Steve Biko’s grave, and Nelson Mandela’s childhood playground.
60 Minutes (TV3, 7.30pm). Tonight, a chat with Robyn Malcolm about speaking out on behalf of the Green Party; a report about an American neo-Nazi who was killed by his 10-year-old son; and a story about the so-called sea gypsies, the Bajau Laut, who live on and in the waters north of Australia.
Antiques Roadshow (Prime, 7.30pm). New episodes of the antiques appraisal series that seems to exist in some delightful English parallel universe also occupied by Downton Abbey and Pride and Prejudice. This week, Fiona Bruce is beaming to us from the charming country pile of Stanway House in Gloucestershire, a Jacobean manor house that sports the world’s highest gravity fountain.
LIVE SPORT TODAY: English Premier League soccer, Arsenal v Fulham at Emirates Stadium (Sky Sport 2, Sky 031, 6.20am); Premier League XXV snooker, semi-final (Sky Sport 3, Sky 032, 8.30am); NHL ice hockey, Montreal Canadians v Pittsburgh Penguins from Quebec (Sky Sport 3, Sky 032, 1.00pm); Australian PGA golf, round four (Sky Sport 1, Sky 030, 2.00pm); A-League soccer, Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC, from Westpac Stadium (Sky Sport 3, Sky 032, 4.00pm); European PGA Tour golf, Mission Hills World Cup, round four (Sky Sport 2, Sky 031, 4.30pm); A-League soccer, Melbourne Victory v Gold Coast United from Melbourne (Sky Sport 3, Sky 032, 7.00pm); NBL basketball, Perth Wildcats v Sydney Kings (Sky Sport 1, Sky 030, 9.30pm); European PGA Tour golf, South African Open, round four (Sky Sport 3, Sky 032, 11.30pm); World Series netball, day three (Sky Sport 2, Sky 031, 2.00am); FIA Formula One Championship motorsport, Brazil Grand Prix (Sky Sport 3, Sky 032, 4.55am).
FILM
aimRenderAd(300, 250, '300X250','ContentRect','/POS=POS2'); if(!$.browser.msie){ ContentRect_frame = $("#ContentRect")[0]; ContentRect_frame.src = ContentRect_frame.src; }Boy A (TV1, 8.30pm). TV1 makes a welcome move back to traditional Sunday Theatre fare with this UK TV movie that also got a cinematic release. Based on the 2004 novel by Jonathan Trigell, it is the harrowing tale of a young man who is released from jail after serving a sentence for taking part in the murder of a girl when he was just a child himself. Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) won a best actor Bafta and he’s so believable you’ll be praying he gets the second chance he needs to start his life again. (2007) 8 – Diana Balham
Zombieland (TV2, 8.30pm). Charming drollery and jolly japes in this rom-com-zom, pop culture-referencing road movie. Jesse Eisenberg (brilliant in The Social Network) is the unlikely lead, a college kid who is resourceful enough not to get caught by mad cow-infected undead – he has rules, including “Double tap” (shoot twice to make sure), and “Beware of bathrooms” (you can get trapped in there). On the road, he meets Woody Harrelson, doing his best slightly crazy cowboy, and sisters Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin, and together they form a kind of … family. Aw. (2009) 9
It’s Complicated (TV3, 8.30pm). A post-Mamma Mia! comedy-savvy Meryl Streep, a reinvigorated 30 Rock-ed Alec Baldwin and … Steve Martin. Should be a lovable riot and yet I’ve never liked any of them less than in this smug effort written and directed by Nancy Meyers, who showed us love in a middle-aged climate so much more eloquently in Something’s Gotta Give. (2009) 6 – Diana Balham
The Frighteners (Four, 8.30pm). Peter Jackson’s first US-backed movie, which combines his Braindead splatter-comedy tendencies, a big Hollywood star (Michael J Fox) and a rollicking Ghostbusters vibe. It’s no coincidence that this is also his first not terribly original film. (1996) 6 – Diana Balham
Goodbye Bafana (Maori, 8.30pm). Joseph Fiennes looks intense and “foreign” (born Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes in the UK), which means he seems as comfortable playing the young Shakespeare as he does a Russian officer. Here, his handsome European-ness is called upon for the real-life James Gregory, a deeply racist Afrikaner who hates black South Africans and is happy to work as a prison warden on Robben Island and spy on them. But – and here’s the heart-warming bit – he guards Nelson Mandela for 20 years and undergoes an ethical epiphany. Well, you’d have to write a book about it, wouldn’t you? Dennis Haysbert, as Mandela, has little to do except be dignified and prop up Gregory’s transformation. (2007) 6 – Diana Balham
Othello (Stratos, Freeview & Sky 089, 8.30pm). Stratos’ Orson Welles season continues with Welles as the miserable Moor. It’s a marvellous mess: Welles was so short of funds he had to make this piecemeal over three years, shooting a few scenes each time he had the money. Consequently, there are some howlers – Iago’s moustache keeps migrating around his face or disappearing altogether and much of the original dialogue was dubbed in later. (Suzanne Cloutier, who plays Desdemona, was the third actress to sign up for the role, and Welles got a more experienced Desdemona, Gudrun Ure, to record all her dialogue.) Welles’s daughter Beatrice had the film restored and it was re-released in 1992, all cleaned up but still with the essential rawness that makes it so compelling. But even back in the day it was a classic in the making, winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1952. (1952) 8 – Diana Balham
American Psycho (TV2, 10.20pm). Welcome to the banker/psychopath interface where “I like to dissect girls” is a great pick-up line. Christian Bale does a great job of convincing us he’s just an ordinary Wall Street hotshot with a penchant for slicing up people he hardly knows. It’s less satirical than the Bret Easton Ellis novel on which it is based, but it still manages to mine some humour from the horror. (2000) 7 – Diana Balham
RADIO
Morning Report Election Special (Radio New Zealand National, 8.10am). The Morning Report after the night before, except that it isn’t, being Sunday and all, and Geoff Robinson’s co-presenter is Mary Wilson, not Simon Mercep, who is busy stuffing up his body clock by doing an evening show. But we know they’re up to it: you’ll get cogent analysis, speeches of victory and defeat and a mark out of 10 for the election coverage from RNZ’s Mediawatch team. – Diana Balham
Opera on Sunday (Radio New Zealand Concert, 3.00pm). Opera was made for mad scenes, and Donizetti’s classic tragedy, Lucia di Lammermoor, has a particularly good one, when poor Lucia turns her bridal bedroom into a chamber of horrors after being forbidden to marry her true love. This recording, featuring soloists with the Mariinsky Theatre Chorus and Orchestra and conducted by Valery Gergiev, won the Editor’s Choice award in October’s Gramophone magazine. It stars Natalie Dessay as Lucia, Pitor Beczala as Edgardo and Vladislav Sulimsky as Enrico. – Diana Balham
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