What to watch on TV on Sunday 7 July, from Richard & Judy special to dark drama The Night Caller
RICHARD Madely and Judy Finnigan open up about life on screen in a new programme on Channel 5 tonight, while drama fans will enjoy The Night Caller and The Turkish Detective.
And there’s also more top documentaries featuring Guy Martin and a look at the seedier side of party island Ibiza.
Here are TV Mag’s six telly picks for Sunday 7 July 2024…
Richard & Judy: Our Best Bits – In Our Own Words (7pm C5)
Iconic couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan open up on their early careers and the TV partnership on This Morning that made them – and the show – legendary.
That was a few years after bosses banned them from working together when news of their relationship broke.
The couple discuss memorable moments including Judy’s dress disaster at the NTAs (see video above), while their kids Jack and Chloe watch their SM:TV cameos as Dec’s parents again and recall cringing at dad Richard’s unforgettable Ali G impression!
The Night Caller (9pm C5)
Robert Glenister stars in this four-part, edge-of-your-seat drama that airs on consecutive nights this week.
He plays Tony in The Night Caller, a former teacher who’s lost everything due to a traumatic event in his past and is now working the night shift as a black-cab driver in Liverpool.
His lonely nights are filled with a late-night radio show hosted by opinionated – and as we discover, disingenuous – DJ Lawrence (played by Sean Pertwee, who has nailed an amalgamation of dogmatic TV and radio presenters here).
After Tony witnesses Rosa (Suzanne Packer), a cafe worker he’s undeniably attracted to, being physically abused by her ex, Lawrence’s phone-in show debates the subject of taking the law into your own hands.
Lawrence’s pro-stance resonates with Tony who makes a split decision which turns his whole world upside down.
Darkly compelling.
The Turkish Detective (9pm BBC2)
A subtitled crime drama with a wry smile, this new part English, part Turkish series sees former Met Police copper Mehmet Suleyman transfer to Istanbul because he had “the wrong name, wrong skin and wrong religion”.
In Turkey he partners up with experienced but chaotic Inspector Ikmen, and their first case is that of the death of a young bride-to-be.
But who would want to kill such a respectable young woman?
Continues tomorrow.
Guy Martin And The Lost WW2 Bomber (9pm C4)
During WWII, more than 6,000 aircraft were shot down over the Netherlands, and Lancaster Bomber ED603 was one of them.
All seven of the crew on-board were killed, but only four bodies were discovered.
In this remarkable one-off, Guy Martin has his mind well and truly blown as he has the privilege of joining an incredible mission, led by the Dutch government, to drain a section of the Ijsselmeer lake in the hopes of finding the remains of the three missing airmen and to uncover what really happened on the night the aircraft crashed.
F1 British Grand Prix (2.30pm C4)
The eyes of the Formula 1 world will be on Silverstone this afternoon, for the British Grand Prix.
Fittingly, last year, British drivers Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton made it on to the podium, behind race winner Max Verstappen.
Can one of them manage to pip him to the chequered flag this time and make it a race to remember?
Ibiza Narcos (9pm Sky Documentaries)
The birth of the hedonistic ‘party island’ of Ibiza is the focus of this three-part documentary that takes us from the ‘hippie invasion’ in the 1970s to the present day.
The once tranquil Mediterranean island became a chosen destination on the hippie trail, and with that brought an influx of the hallucinogenic drug LSD.
This in turn opened the floodgates for several international drug cartels to set up business introducing increasing varieties of recreational drugs.