Unreported World | Castle | 4Funnies: Uncle | James Bond 50th Anniversary Gala Concert | Jack Irish: Bad Debts | An Idiot Abroad
**Unreported World*![ext]()
7.30pm, Channel 4
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Ksenia Sobchak is about as well connected as one can get in Russia. Raised as part of the elite that got rich in the wake of the collapse of the USSR, she was, until recently, best known as a socialite and Big Brother host. Then she started criticising family friend Vladimir Putin's government. Instead of appearing on mainstream TV, she now hosts a political discussion show on a small cable channel, and armed cops have raided her flat. Reporter Marcel Theroux and director David Fuller meet Sobchak, and look on as she records an interview with Pussy Riot's Katya Samutsevich![ext]()
. Jonathan Wright
**Castle*
10pm, Channel 5
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A retired bank robber is found dead in his car, seemingly the result of an interrogation that went too far. Castle![ext]()
takes a break from teaching his daughter the finer rules of poker to get stuck into a case that points towards major police corruption. A plus in this episode is having the main suspect, a criminal of some fearsome reputation, played by the great Michael Ironside. Blessed with the sort of hard features that have kept him in work as a bad guy since he broke through in Cronenberg's Scanners, Ironside's presence just makes any show better. Phelim O'Neill
**4Funnies: Uncle*
11.25pm, Channel 4
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The latest 4Funnies![ext]()
pilot stars standup Nick Helm in his acting debut. Oliver Refson has written and directed Uncle, in which Helm plays Andy, an out-of-work musician charged with looking after his 11-year-old nephew Errol on the day he hoped to kill himself. Typical. The simple task of taking him to football practice, though, spirals into a bizarre adventure for the pair, involving a faked injury, a car crash and a trip to a gay club. Oh, and lies. Lots of lies. Ben Arnold
**James Bond 50th Anniversary Gala Concert*![ext]()
9pm, BBC4
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The music from the Bond films is as central to the franchise as the martinis, gadgets and acquiescent women. This anniversary concert features the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Carl Davis and includes music from all 23 Bond movies, including Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever and Quantum of Solace. Honor Blackman hosts, while vocal duties are left to Lance Ellington and Mary Carewe (sorry, no A-Ha guest appearance). Before that is a repeat of a 2000 interview with Bond composer John Barry, while Sings James Bond, a root-around the archives for Bond themes, follows at 10.30pm. Martin Skegg
**Jack Irish: Bad Debts*![ext]()
9pm, FX
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Guy Pearce stars as a part-time investigator and a literal jack of all trades in this excellent new crime drama from Down Under. Nick Cave's Red Right Hand sets the tone from the off, with a pre-credits sequence depicting a former client blasting away Jack's girlfriend – then himself. It's a wry, graphic affair, where tough-talking Ockers abound ("Do come in, or I'll shoot your balls off"), and even Jack's new love interest Linda (Marta Dusseldorp) threatens him with "a lifetime case of herpes". Ali Catterall
**An Idiot Abroad*
9pm, Sky1
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The most offensive, vile, inexcusable bilge you'll see on TV this year. Karl and Warwick are in Siliguri, India![ext]()
at a carnival featuring a pair of conjoined twins. Karl tells Warwick he should get on stage with them and make them some money, before adding that he could join them too because he is "bald" and "white". Later he makes Warwick cry with pain by encouraging him to climb some steep steps up the side of a mountain. Televised pyramid-scheme bullying with Gervais at the top and his willing "friends" filtering the abuse downwards. If this is your kind of fun, get help. Julia Raeside
Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 days ago.
**Unreported World*
7.30pm, Channel 4
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Ksenia Sobchak is about as well connected as one can get in Russia. Raised as part of the elite that got rich in the wake of the collapse of the USSR, she was, until recently, best known as a socialite and Big Brother host. Then she started criticising family friend Vladimir Putin's government. Instead of appearing on mainstream TV, she now hosts a political discussion show on a small cable channel, and armed cops have raided her flat. Reporter Marcel Theroux and director David Fuller meet Sobchak, and look on as she records an interview with Pussy Riot's Katya Samutsevich
. Jonathan Wright**Castle*
10pm, Channel 5
*
A retired bank robber is found dead in his car, seemingly the result of an interrogation that went too far. Castle
takes a break from teaching his daughter the finer rules of poker to get stuck into a case that points towards major police corruption. A plus in this episode is having the main suspect, a criminal of some fearsome reputation, played by the great Michael Ironside. Blessed with the sort of hard features that have kept him in work as a bad guy since he broke through in Cronenberg's Scanners, Ironside's presence just makes any show better. Phelim O'Neill**4Funnies: Uncle*
11.25pm, Channel 4
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The latest 4Funnies
pilot stars standup Nick Helm in his acting debut. Oliver Refson has written and directed Uncle, in which Helm plays Andy, an out-of-work musician charged with looking after his 11-year-old nephew Errol on the day he hoped to kill himself. Typical. The simple task of taking him to football practice, though, spirals into a bizarre adventure for the pair, involving a faked injury, a car crash and a trip to a gay club. Oh, and lies. Lots of lies. Ben Arnold**James Bond 50th Anniversary Gala Concert*
9pm, BBC4
*
The music from the Bond films is as central to the franchise as the martinis, gadgets and acquiescent women. This anniversary concert features the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Carl Davis and includes music from all 23 Bond movies, including Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever and Quantum of Solace. Honor Blackman hosts, while vocal duties are left to Lance Ellington and Mary Carewe (sorry, no A-Ha guest appearance). Before that is a repeat of a 2000 interview with Bond composer John Barry, while Sings James Bond, a root-around the archives for Bond themes, follows at 10.30pm. Martin Skegg
**Jack Irish: Bad Debts*
9pm, FX
*
Guy Pearce stars as a part-time investigator and a literal jack of all trades in this excellent new crime drama from Down Under. Nick Cave's Red Right Hand sets the tone from the off, with a pre-credits sequence depicting a former client blasting away Jack's girlfriend – then himself. It's a wry, graphic affair, where tough-talking Ockers abound ("Do come in, or I'll shoot your balls off"), and even Jack's new love interest Linda (Marta Dusseldorp) threatens him with "a lifetime case of herpes". Ali Catterall
**An Idiot Abroad*
9pm, Sky1
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The most offensive, vile, inexcusable bilge you'll see on TV this year. Karl and Warwick are in Siliguri, India
at a carnival featuring a pair of conjoined twins. Karl tells Warwick he should get on stage with them and make them some money, before adding that he could join them too because he is "bald" and "white". Later he makes Warwick cry with pain by encouraging him to climb some steep steps up the side of a mountain. Televised pyramid-scheme bullying with Gervais at the top and his willing "friends" filtering the abuse downwards. If this is your kind of fun, get help. Julia Raeside
Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 days ago.