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| TV highlights 02/07/2014 | TV highlights 02/07/2014 |
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| T20 Cricket: Surrey v Kent Spitfires6pm, Sky Sports 2 | T20 Cricket: Surrey v Kent Spitfires6pm, Sky Sports 2 |
| You can see what the brains behind T20 Blast were thinking: we'll reinvent the English short-form game by giving the teams exciting names like the Birmingham Bears. It's still very much a work in progress and nowhere near the grandeur of the IPL, but at least now the Indian competition is over English teams can sign genuine stars. One such marquee name is Kevin Pietersen, who is back from a stint at the Delhi Daredevils, and should feature for Surrey here. Lanre Bakare | You can see what the brains behind T20 Blast were thinking: we'll reinvent the English short-form game by giving the teams exciting names like the Birmingham Bears. It's still very much a work in progress and nowhere near the grandeur of the IPL, but at least now the Indian competition is over English teams can sign genuine stars. One such marquee name is Kevin Pietersen, who is back from a stint at the Delhi Daredevils, and should feature for Surrey here. Lanre Bakare |
| Celebrity MasterChef9pm, BBC1 | Celebrity MasterChef9pm, BBC1 |
| The final heat of the series sees Jason Connery, Charley Boorman, Christopher Biggins, Tina Hobley and Kiki Dee enter the kitchen. With only one place left in the next round, it's time for the quintet to step up to the (expertly garnished) plate, with John and Gregg demanding competence and creativity. The celebs rethink fish and chips, before helping out on the lunchtime service at two top restaurants. Then it's back to HQ, where they aim to please with noodles, risotto, beef and peaches, thankfully all in separate dishes. Hannah J Davies | |
| The Betrayers9pm, ITV | The Betrayers9pm, ITV |
| This one-off documentary focuses on vulnerable people who have been befriended then betrayed by fraudsters, and examines what motivates the perpetrators of these crimes. Cases such as David Checkley seem far-fetched, but finding out just how he charmed 14 women into funding his life of luxury is fascinating. "It's like realising you've been with the devil," says one victim. Most compelling is the analysis of psychological flaws present in the victims that make the con artists featured here chip away at them with such great success. Hannah Verdier | This one-off documentary focuses on vulnerable people who have been befriended then betrayed by fraudsters, and examines what motivates the perpetrators of these crimes. Cases such as David Checkley seem far-fetched, but finding out just how he charmed 14 women into funding his life of luxury is fascinating. "It's like realising you've been with the devil," says one victim. Most compelling is the analysis of psychological flaws present in the victims that make the con artists featured here chip away at them with such great success. Hannah Verdier |
| Majesty And Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces9pm, BBC4 | Majesty And Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces9pm, BBC4 |
| Dan Cruickshank concludes his three-part exploration of Britain's regal architecture with a look at the end of the "flowering of palatial style". After Prince Albert's death, the party was over for the royal palaces. Save for the various memorials to him, the lavish buildings were mostly maintained as grace-and-favour accommodation for down-at-heel posh nobs. Between the wars, things went very quiet until more recent times, when earnest conservation began to reveal the palaces' intriguing secrets. Julia Raeside | Dan Cruickshank concludes his three-part exploration of Britain's regal architecture with a look at the end of the "flowering of palatial style". After Prince Albert's death, the party was over for the royal palaces. Save for the various memorials to him, the lavish buildings were mostly maintained as grace-and-favour accommodation for down-at-heel posh nobs. Between the wars, things went very quiet until more recent times, when earnest conservation began to reveal the palaces' intriguing secrets. Julia Raeside |
| OJ Simpson: Caught On Camera9pm, More4 | OJ Simpson: Caught On Camera9pm, More4 |
| This June marks the 20th anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Subsequent events – a fugitive OJ Simpson pursued through Los Angeles while news helicopters swirled overhead; the football star's murder trial broadcast live on TV – now seem like a harbinger of a new kind of supercharged 24/7 media age. More troublingly, this documentary reveals the (continuing) deep fault lines between black and white America. Jonathan Wright | This June marks the 20th anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Subsequent events – a fugitive OJ Simpson pursued through Los Angeles while news helicopters swirled overhead; the football star's murder trial broadcast live on TV – now seem like a harbinger of a new kind of supercharged 24/7 media age. More troublingly, this documentary reveals the (continuing) deep fault lines between black and white America. Jonathan Wright |
| 19649pm, PBS America | 19649pm, PBS America |
| JFK's assassination in November 1963 wasn't just a tragedy in its own right; it unleashed the 1960s in earnest, the collapse of old certainties and the liberation of new forces. This wonderful, wide-ranging documentary examines the events of 1964, which included Beatlemania, Muhammad Ali becoming world heavyweight champion and going on to transcend sports, the struggle for civil rights and its brutal resistance in the Deep South, the dawning of feminist consciousness and President Johnson's "war on poverty". David Stubbs | JFK's assassination in November 1963 wasn't just a tragedy in its own right; it unleashed the 1960s in earnest, the collapse of old certainties and the liberation of new forces. This wonderful, wide-ranging documentary examines the events of 1964, which included Beatlemania, Muhammad Ali becoming world heavyweight champion and going on to transcend sports, the struggle for civil rights and its brutal resistance in the Deep South, the dawning of feminist consciousness and President Johnson's "war on poverty". David Stubbs |
| Coast Australia9.10pm, BBC2 | Coast Australia9.10pm, BBC2 |
| The series ends its Aussie expedition with a trip along the Coral Coast to the North West Cape, where, as one local writer has it, people live "in the teeth of the wind". There, Neil Oliver meets the amenable, off-grid shack dwellers of Wedge Island, a can-do kind of bunch – even to the extent of making dresses from "fish leather". Xanthe Mallett, meanwhile, gets stuck into something even grimmer: the tale of the 1628 wrecking of the Batavia on the Abrolhos Islands. It's not incorrectly pitched as "three men and a bloodbath". John Robinson | The series ends its Aussie expedition with a trip along the Coral Coast to the North West Cape, where, as one local writer has it, people live "in the teeth of the wind". There, Neil Oliver meets the amenable, off-grid shack dwellers of Wedge Island, a can-do kind of bunch – even to the extent of making dresses from "fish leather". Xanthe Mallett, meanwhile, gets stuck into something even grimmer: the tale of the 1628 wrecking of the Batavia on the Abrolhos Islands. It's not incorrectly pitched as "three men and a bloodbath". John Robinson |
| The White Widow: Searching For Samantha10.35pm, BBC1 | The White Widow: Searching For Samantha10.35pm, BBC1 |
| The media fascination around the so-called "white widow" has been building since the London bombings in July 2005. Samantha Lewthwaite is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay – one of the 7/7 bombers – who maintained she knew nothing of his plans. She is now one of the world's most wanted terrorists, on the run in Africa and hunted by international security services for the last three years. Here, film-maker Adam Wishart explores her path to radicalisation after spending a year following her story. Bim Adewunmi | The media fascination around the so-called "white widow" has been building since the London bombings in July 2005. Samantha Lewthwaite is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay – one of the 7/7 bombers – who maintained she knew nothing of his plans. She is now one of the world's most wanted terrorists, on the run in Africa and hunted by international security services for the last three years. Here, film-maker Adam Wishart explores her path to radicalisation after spending a year following her story. Bim Adewunmi |
| • This article was amended on 2 July 2014. An earlier version referred to five MasterChef contestants as a quartet. |
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