America gives Jamie some food for thought; BRIAN McIVER'S PICK OF THE DAY.Byline: BRIAN McIVER Jamie's American Road Trip Channel 4, 9.00pm JAMIE Oliver has finally left the UK, but the bad news is he is coming back armed with new recipes. However, to be fair, this series may actually be fun considering the subject matter. Jamie is on the culinary journey of a lifetime as he heads off the beaten track to discover the real heart of America, through its people, culture, music and its food. In the first programme, he's in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . The city is synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as glitz glitz Informal n. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis. tr.v. and glamour but Jamie experiences a very different version of the the US a few miles east of the Hollywood sign among America's largest concentration of Mexican immigrants. The Real Housewives of New Jersey Channel 4, 10.35pm FORGET what you saw in The Sopranos, because this purports to document the real domestic lifestyles of the Garden State. The first episode of this reality series showing the lives of five affluent housewives in New Jersey - Teresa, Jacqueline, Caroline, Dina and Danielle - reveals a surprising twist ... three of the housewives are related. Meanwhile, Caroline, who owns two businesses, prepares for her son's graduation party, and mum-of-three Teresa plots her daughter Tia's road to stardom after watching her dancing. River City BBC One Scotland BBC One Scotland is a television channel operated by BBC Scotland. It is the Scottish equivalent of BBC One.[1] For almost all of the time the channel is referred to on screen as BBC One Scotland , 8.00pm STILL suspicious about Lenny's involvement in Stuart's imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. , Amber questions Daniel and begs him to help her see her ex-boyfriend. Returning from his prison visit, Daniel informs Amber that she's lost Stuart's trust and he doesn't want anything to do with her. Amber explains to Daniel that Lenny lied to her about what happened to Stuart and has now also lied about going straight, leaving Daniel to give the young girl food for thought when he asks what she intends to do about her father's behaviour. Coast BBC Two, 8.00pm ON the final, triumphant leg of his latest journey around Britain's coast and beyond, Neil Oliver visits the bustling port of Rosyth to explore the staggering scale of the nation's global sea trade. The trade is now worth pounds 340billion a year, yet a pair of jeans can travel to Britain from China for just 30p. Neil also recreates a legendary "lifeboat drag" from nearly 150 years ago at the village of Cullercoats. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Celebrity ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). , 8.00pm CHRIS Tarrant presents another starstudded charitable edition of the quiz show format, as celebs hope to raise as much money as possible. The fact that it's not their lifestyles on the line does dilute the tension a bit from the normal show, but that is made up by the added glitz of well-known faces. Zoe Lucker and John Suchet are among the celebrities. Terry BBC Two, 11.00am FACT-BASED drama about a man who lost his leg, but tried to run across Canada on his new prosthetic pros·thet·ic adj. 1. Serving as or relating to a prosthesis. 2. Of or relating to prosthetics. prosthetic serving as a substitute; pertaining to prostheses or to prosthetics. limb. Shawn Ashmore, Noah Reid and Ryan McDonald star. Flicka Channel 4, 1.40pm FAMILY drama, starring Alison Lohman, Tim McGraw and Maria Bello. A teenage girl tries to tame a wild horse despite the disapproval of her rancher father. Expecting a Miracle Five, 3.10pm DRAMA, starring Jason Priestley and Teri Polo. A couple troubled by their inability to have children are stranded in a Mexican hamlet, where they get involved in the preparations for a fiesta - and discover the villagers' contented way of life gives them a new perspective on their own problems. Cheech Marin co-stars. CAPTION(S): NEIL OLIVER: BBC Two, 8.00pm JAMIE OLIVER: Channel 4, 9.00pm MARIA BELLO: Channel 4, 1.40pm |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion