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Highlights for 2008-10-07

13:00	Shoestring (UKTV Drama)
	A private eye is hired by a troubled local radio station in the West Country and is soon settling into the dual role of phone-in host and investigator.
16:35	Blue Peter (BBC 1)
	Magazine programme for children. The team puts questions to the Sarah Jane Adventures kids and makes friends with a cute lion cub.
20:00	Run Fatboy Run (Sky Cinema 1)
	Simon Pegg squeezes into some very small shorts for this cheeky romance directed by David Schwimmer (with whom he co-starred in Big Nothing). As titular "fatboy" Dennis, Pegg looks doomed to failure when he signs up for a marathon to prove his love to former flame Libby (Thandie Newton). Shes tough to please though, which is understandable as Dennis left her pregnant at the altar five years earlier. Schwimmer gets plenty of comedy mileage out of Denniss shortcomings - including the inevitable locker-room scene where he cops an eyeful of Libbys hunky new fiancï¿½ (Hank Azaria) in the buff. A few of the gags are obvious and lazy, but overall theres a good balance of laughs and emotion, with Pegg managing to be endearing even as he molests a shop mannequin. The last leg of his journey (a race across London), while a bit contrived, will surely raise some hearty cheers.
20:00	Twiggys Frock Swap (BBC 2)
	If your idea of a good time is watching 100 women squealing over secondhand clothes while Twiggy stands by and simpers, then party on, ladies. Though a full preview edition wasnt available as we went to press, the taster DVD captures what looks like a chic jumble sale at a girls boarding school. Not that any money changes hands - Twiggys Frock Exchange is based on the clothes parties that are apparently so successful in America, where women turn up with clothes to swap, then everyone dives in. But Twiggys Frock Exchange isnt an unseemly scramble; its more genteel, even going a step further, doling out fashion advice to the women taking part while co-host Lauren Laverne bellows her delight and Paula Reed, a fashion editor, smiles encouragement. And there appears to be a lot of cooing over pairs of shoes. RT reviewer - Alison Graham
20:00	Live Boxing (British Eurosport)
	Live coverage of an international light-heavyweight contest as Mahamed Aripgadzhiev faces George Tevdorashvili in Minsk, Belarus.
21:00	Jack: A Soldiers Story (BBC3)
	Ben Anderson, who reported from Helmand Province for Panorama last year, returns to Afghanistan to shadow Lance Corporal Jack Mizon (24) of the Grenadier Guards. Mizon is a fearless soldier, but over the course of this sad, enraging film, he crumbles. His deadly, impossible task (shown at length here in rivetingly tense scenes) is to suppress the tireless local guerrillas: after 81 exhausting days of it, Mizons friends are dead or maimed and, when he finally returns home, he cant cope. Seeing active service drain Jacks youthful resolve raises all sorts of questions about the state of our armed forces. RT reviewer - Jack Seale
21:00	Jamies Ministry of Food (Channel 4)
	Its funny, moving, heartening and may even do some good - whats not to like about Jamies latest series? The restless chef has hit upon a brilliant idea to seduce the nation away from junk food. The thing is, will it work? The notion that each of his students passes on one of Jamies beautifully simple recipes to two friends and they in turn then pass it on to two of their friends and so on would be fine if everybody in the world were as driven as Mr Oliver. When it turns out that theyre not, he looks like a hurt puppy. To rescue matters Jamie embarks on what looks like a masochism strategy, appearing in front of a football crowd to be jeered at by 5,000 Rotherham fans, then letting the daughter of his biggest local opponent cut his hair. Its impossible not to admire the man, and in the wonderful tale of miner Mick, who cooks for the first time and calls it "the biggest thing Ive ever done", he seems to have his vindication. RT reviewer - David Butcher
21:00	Sunshine (BBC 1)
	This is the latest series from Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, who wrote BBC2s quietly brilliant Early Doors. Cash also co-wrote (and played Dave in) The Royle Family, so theres pedigree here. Youd expect wry Mancunian wit and warm character comedy - and thats exactly what you get. The story centres on Steve Coogan as Bing, a lovable but hopeless chancer given to joking his way out of trouble. He leads not so much a hand-to-mouth existence as hand-to-bookies, and so spends much of the time in the doghouse with girlfriend Bernadette (beautifully played by Lisa Millett). Theres quality support from Bernard Hill as Bings dad, whose idea of babysitting is to wake his grandson up for an evening of tall stories about how he gave Hitler a Chinese burn. And Cash and Mealey turn up as bin-men. Its gently amusing, with a loving attention to detail, but dont expect belly laughs - its classed as a comedy drama. RT reviewer - David Butcher
21:00	British Style Genius (BBC 2)
	The first of five documentaries tells the story of our high-street fashion (or "how fashion was democratised"), working backwards from the phenomena of Top Shop and M&S to the days of Biba and Mary Quant. While at times the film appears to be little more than a plug for the highstreet giants, younger viewers will still be intrigued to see how involved Kate Moss is in the design process. The rest of us will simply love seeing the fashion of our youth and hearing what Quant et al have to say. RT reviewer - Jane Rackham
21:45	American Gangster: Extended Edition (Sky Cinema 1)
	As this true-life New York crime saga (set between 1968 and 1974) evocatively unfolds, master director Ridley Scott makes "big" look easy. Denzel Washington brings a suave tranquillity to his role as emerging Harlem drugs lord Frank Lucas (all the better to explode into sudden violence), while, in parallel, Russell Crowes honest New Jersey cop Richie Roberts juggles divorce, pariah status within a corrupt police department and, eventually, the logistics of bringing Lucas down. Its as if The Godfather, GoodFellas and Scarface met TVs The Wire: grand overstatement combined with procedural detail and junkie sleaze. Beyond Josh Brolins poisonously bad cop, a fine supporting cast struggles to make any meaningful impact in the wake of a dominant Washington - not least in the poorly sketched female roles - and fidelity to events takes the dramatic sting out of an operatic climax. Nevertheless, this is still a classy crime fable that succeeds despite sidestepping the electric set pieces of such genre maestros as Martin Scorsese or Brian De Palma.
22:00	I Should Be Dead (National Geographic)
	Extraordinary stories of people triumphing against the odds and coming back from the dead, investigating the medical science which enabled them to survive. How did a skydiver whose parachute failed to open and a paraglider who got sucked up by a storm manage to survive?

This information is provided by The Radio Times