Hi all, hope you’re having a great weekend, and as part of your Sunday chill out, here’s a few entertaining finds for next week’s viewing…

We try to avoid the usual TV recommendations and go for programmes that are slightly unusual so many of them might be a tad graphic, but that’s half the fun right? Having to watch from behind your cushion while someone has an axe removed from their head or something or taking a look at how someone else’s life went awry or even went well!

Those are the kind of shows we like to recommend, so here are our TV picks for this coming week…

Monday

Build a New Life in the Country – Was It Worth It? 8:00pm, Fiver

After Nick Vallance’s architectural business went bust he decided to make a completely fresh start, so he and his wife Lesley and their two sons left behind the safe Surrey suburbs and headed to Spain to take on the biggest challenge of their lives.

They converted a 400 year old Andalusian bishop’s palace and turned it into an eight bedroom designer hotel and family home. So how have they been getting on since the cameras left them? Has it all gone the way of the pear or did it go well?

The Omid Djalili Show, 10:35pm, BBC1

In this first of six shows we can expect hilarious stand-up and sketches from award-winning comedian Omid Djalili.

The London Olympics, Henry VIII, the credit crunch and darts player’s wives are just some of the targets of multi-talented actor, stand-up comdeian and writer Omid Djalili.

Tuesday

Confessions: Nightmare Nannies, 10:35pm, ITV1
Thousands of households let nannies into their homes to care for their children – but can they be really trusted?

This programme meets the home helps who dish the dirty on what really goes on behind closed doors. For instance, what do the cleaners and nannies get up to once the kids are asleep and the hoovering is done while you’re out at work?

The rich and famous have had very public affairs and disputes with their nannies, but it can happen to anyone as one woman found to her cost when her husband proposed to her nanny.
As celebrity mum and TV presenter Lowri Turner said, “You don’t want to hire Svetlana from Russia who’s a part time glamour model do you?!”

Bizarre ER, 10:30pm, BBC3

In this first of ten new shows, Freema Agyeman narrates a series focusing on the most extraordinary and eye-watering cases to come through the doors of a British A&E department.

These include a man whose nostrils are packed to bursting point with bandages and has to have the stuffing extracted, a housewife who’s stitched up her husband’s arm with a needle and thread and no anaesthetic, and a dog walker who’s finger got pulled off after it got caught in a lead. Plus, how surgeons saved a man impaled on a fence post.

See, this is what we want to watch!! Bring it on!

Wednesday

Cannibal Killer, 10:00pm, Five

This is an altogether more serious and very harrowing documentary which examines the case of British cannibal David Harker, who killed Darlington woman Julie Paterson and ate her flesh. The film explores the trail of devastation in the wake of Harker’s crime, which was to claim two more lives.

Police were alerted to the murder when they found Paterson’s remains dumped in a sack in a secluded lane but the victim’s head and limbs were never found and the killer has never expressed any remorse for his actions. In the aftermath of the murder, Paterson’s boyfriend, Alan Taylor, tragically became obsessed with finding the rest of her body, and took to digging holes all over Darlington.

Fascinating but very sad and disturbing watching…

Human Cloning Project, 9:00pm, Discovery Channel

This documentary explores the controversial and rather scary topic of human cloning, showing that scientists already have the technology to crack the code of life itself… frightening maybe but incredibly interesting!

Thursday

Kimberley: Young Mum Ten Years On, 9:00pm, Channel 4

This film is a sequel to the award-winning documentary ‘Fifteen’. In 1999, Kimberley was a teenager with big dreams; in love for the first time, she was keen to avoid getting pregnant young like her mum and sister had done.

Almost 10 years later and Kimberley’s now a 24-year-old mum-of-two who lives on a South London council estate in a one-bedroom flat on a budget of £110 a week. She’s already had one child removed from her by social services, and now she’s in danger of losing another. Her two-year-old son Harvey has been on the child protection register since he was a baby, but Kimberley’s now determined to turn her life around…

Who Killed the Honey Bee? 9:00pm, BBC4

Martha Kearney explores the terrifying implications of the fact that bees are dying in their millions.

You may not think so – until you hear why – but it’s an ecological crisis that threatens to bring global agriculture to a standstill and this film explores the reasons behind the decline of bee colonies across the globe and investigates what might be at the root of this devastation.

Friday

Tonight: A Better Life Abroad? 8:00pm, ITV1

Morland Sanders follows the progress of some of the British families attempting to escape the recession by finding jobs in countries like Canada and Australia.

But is any country recession-proof, and are these opportunities all they are cracked up to be? I suspect not but we’ll have to tune in to find out if the grass really is greener…

Housewife, 49, 9:00pm, ITV3

Victoria Wood justifiably won two BAFTA awards for her World War II drama about a downtrodden wife and mother, whose life dramatically changes and improves with the outbreak of war.

A new world opens up for Nella Last as she gets involved with the Women’s Voluntary Service, helping her to forget her marital difficulties and the absence of her two beloved sons.

It’s a wonderful and moving film which if you’ve never seen before means you’re in for a treat.

Here’s a clip from the film…

Saturday

Hostel, 10:00pm, Five USA

Presented by Quentin Tarantino and written and directed by Eli Roth, Hostel is a shocking and relentless film in the tradition of Saw. It’s about two American backpackers who’re travelling in Europe and find themselves lured in as victims of a murder-for-profit business. A fellow backpacker recommends a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town which – they’re promised – is ‘stocked’ with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous…

The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact, too easily. . . Initially distracted by the good time they’re having, the two Americans quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as deep as the darkest, sickest recess of human nature itself.

Here’s the very spooky trailer…

Lee Evans Live from the West End, 10:00pm, Comedy Central

I’ve seen this show several times, and it’s well worth watching! Fair dos to Lee, he puts on a performance that’s well worth the cost of a ticket; it’s hilarious so don’t miss it if you can humanly avoid it!

Sunday

Family Guy, 10:00pm, BBC3

Oh praise be! The new series of Family Guy begins with more from Peter, Stewie, Brian, Meg and the rest of the gang… If you like the Simpsons and have a weird sense of humour, this is a must-see show.

It’s truly one of the funniest shows ever so do your best to watch it at least once if you’ve never seen it before.

Another 101 Things Removed from the Human Body, 10:00pm, Bravo

This is epic and excellently gory stuff with yet more interviews with surgeons, doctors and people who, through accident or idiocy, have had unusual objects embedded in their flesh.

Contains graphic scenes – yay!

Have a great Sunday and we’ll see you next week!