![]() ![]() Expect the usual royal commentators and paucity of genuine insight.Ī neat idea, brilliantly executed on a technical level without quite having the script to match, Deep Fake Neighbour Wars pits AI-generated versions of Andy Murray and Lorraine Kelly against RuPaul, Greta Thunberg and Ariane Grande in a highlights package designed to tempt you to seek out the series in full on ITVX. Harry & Meghan: Is America Turning Against Them?Ĭhannel 5’s disheartening obsession with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (the programmes provide a sure-fire ratings boost, one assumes) reaches an ironic nadir tonight in this documentary questioning whether public interest might, in fact, be waning, at least in their adopted home of the United States. The concert, meanwhile, dates from 2022 and features guest turns from Missy Elliott and Cardi B. GTĪ double dose of Lizzo on iPlayer (before their respective BBC Three broadcasts on Sunday at 9pm and Friday at 10pm), with Storyville’s Love, Lizzo tracing the singer’s rise to international stardom via her childhood in Detroit, a decade of graft and a lot of flute playing. A diversion into more speculative research, suggesting a tentative breakthrough regarding Cleopatra’s tomb, is followed by a visit to a newly discovered temple in Tanta following the groundwork laid by controversial British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie Roberts’s views on the latter feel ripe for further exploration, yet time is short and, next week, the Pyramids are calling. She begins with a trip to Alexandria, visiting mosques, a fort built by a slave-turned-sultan and a dig in the city that has disinterred a university and bathhouse alongside exquisite avian mosaics. While the locomotive element feels a little superfluous, some lovely camerawork aside, Roberts brings something new to the historical travelogue: the grounding of professional expertise (much of her television work has been focused on archaeology of late) combined with the thrill of personal discovery (this is, remarkably, her first trip to Egypt). Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice RobertsĪncient Egypt may not be a period or part of the world under explored in documentaries, but Professor Alice Roberts is reliably good company whatever the subject matter, and so it proves here.
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