{"id":420,"date":"2018-02-21T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=420"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:20:05","slug":"this-weeks-best-tv-from-mosaic-to-john-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s best TV: from Mosaic to John Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This drama boasts its own app, complete with multiple perspectives and background documentation, so viewers can conduct their own research into the case at its heart. Take-up may depend on the strength of the actual story \u2013 Steven Soderbergh takes us to rural Utah, where Olivia Lake (Sharon Stone) searches for peace but finds only horror.
\nSaturday 17 February, 10pm, Sky Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n

Unpopped<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Aiming to discuss pop culture in serious terms without amputating the fun, this new BBC podcast gets off to a fine start with a fond but forensic dissection of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race. How has it affected our language? If you\u2019ve ever \u201cthrown shade\u201d, it\u2019s probably down to RuPaul. Elsewhere, is there a tinge of misogyny within drag? Future episodes explore the Spice Girls and Paris Hilton but this sets the bar high.
\nPodcast<\/em><\/p>\n

The Tick<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Peter Serafinowicz\u2019s absurd and delicious comic-book adaptation returns to resolve its mid-season cliffhangers. In a telly-scape overflowing with self-consciously dark and portentous superheroes, this blue onesie-clad oddity feels like a very welcome change of tone.
\nAvailable from Friday 23\u00a0<\/em>February<\/em>, Amazon Prime<\/em><\/p>\n

Marcella<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A second series for Anna Friel\u2019s bothered and bewildered detective, who transposes the Scandi-cop ethos to London. Perhaps inevitably, her crime-fighting ability is shadowed by the travails of her private life. However, Friel brings edge and heart to a familiar premise.
\nMonday 19\u00a0<\/em>February<\/em>, 9pm, ITV<\/em><\/p>\n

Troy: Fall of a City<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The historical epics keep on coming, probably with half an eye on the Game of Thrones-shaped hole in 2018\u2019s TV schedules. This latest one takes us to ancient Greece, where a humble Trojan herdsman sparks a conflict that threatens to jeopardise an empire. Louis Hunter, Jonas Armstrong and Bella Dayne are among those flexing their pecs.
\nSaturday 17\u00a0<\/em>February<\/em>, 9.10pm, BBC One<\/em><\/p>\n

Here and Now<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At times, this new offering from Alan \u201cTrue Blood\u201d Ball feels less like a drama and more like a checklist of Trump-era liberal neuroses. Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter star as the heavy-handed heavy-hitters whose rainbow coalition of biological and adopted children begins to fall apart under the stress of various secrets and lies.
\nTuesday 20\u00a0<\/em>February<\/em>, 9pm, Sky Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n

British Academy Film Awards 2018<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Bafta experience will feel very post-Weinstein this year, with Joanna Lumley taking over hosting duties from Stephen Fry and any comic preamble presumably requiring a good deal of pre-show legal red pencil. Big-ticket contenders include The Shape of Water, Call Me By Your Name and Dunkirk.
\nSunday 18\u00a0<\/em>February<\/em>, 9pm, BBC One<\/em><\/p>\n

Seven Seconds<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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An emblematically 2018-sounding new drama starring Regina King, Seven Seconds explores the grim aftermath of a fatal traffic accident involving a white police officer and a black teenager. Racial tensions explode in the light of the cover-up that ensues.
\nAvailable from Friday 23\u00a0<\/em>February<\/em>, Netflix<\/em><\/p>\n

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Whether the relentless ridicule of wise-ass comics actually helps or hinders Donald Trump is an interesting argument. But there\u2019s no denying that it feels good. Accordingly, John Oliver is back for another series this week \u2013 and the fish are sure to be lining up in the barrel to await his return.
\nMonday 19\u00a0<\/em>February<\/em>, 10.10pm, Sky Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n

The Misfits<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Both Marilyn Monroe\u2019s and Clark Gable\u2019s last film, this is a slice of raw Hollywood history. Monroe\u2019s then-husband Arthur Miller provided his only film script, a wordy affair about broken-down rodeo stars gathering for a show in Dayton. Gable\u2019s warm and tender cowboy and Monroe\u2019s sad showgirl embody a poignant sense of the last picture show.
\nTuesday 20\u00a0<\/em>February<\/em>, 3.45pm, Film4<\/em><\/p>\n

Source\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2018\/feb\/16\/mosaic-john-oliver-last-week-tick-amazon-baftas-marcella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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