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Best of the Box: Praise the Lord Jesus, it's the return of the Norton

Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret having not...
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11.51 22 Sep 2015


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Best of the Box: Praise the Lo...

Best of the Box: Praise the Lord Jesus, it's the return of the Norton

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11.51 22 Sep 2015


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Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret having not recorded something during the week when everyone is suddenly talking about it?

Fear not, Tom Dunne has you covered.

Sue Murphy joined Tom to pick out the best of the box this week and there really is a lot of great TV picks.

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Pick of the Week: The Graham Norton Show, BBC1, Friday, 10.35pm

It's back! Praise the Lord!

Together on Graham's first sofa of the new series: Hollywood star Matt Damon, and Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain (The Help, Zero Dark Thirty), starring in new blockbuster The Martian; Oscar-winning French star Marion Cotillard, talking about her latest movie role as Lady Macbeth; top comic, musician and actor Bill Bailey; and music from The Weeknd, performing the summer hit Can't Feel My Face.

Other Picks

Animal Rescue, Monday, TV3, 8.30pm
 
If you really want to sob for hours consistently, Animal Rescue is where it's at...
 
ISPCA's chief inspector, Conor Dowling, takes an abandoned mare and her young foal to the ISPCA's National Animal Centre in Longford.

Stories from the Frontline, Tuesday, BBC4, 9pm
 
BBC world affairs editor John Simpson takes viewers behind the scenes of reporting from the frontline. He and his guests - Jon Snow, Christiane Amanpour and Max Hastings - discuss the difficulties, moralambiguities and challenges of this increasingly dangerous job, with a series of clips from conflicts in the Falklands, Bosnia, Iraq and Syria, highlighting some of the best work of the past 50 years.
 

Midwinter of the Spirit, Wednesday, UTV, 9pm

Merrily Watkins isn’t your average country vicar. Her newly acquired training has put her on the dark side of the pulpit. She’s become one of the few women priests working as an exorcist - a job increasingly mistrusted by the modern Church and rarely talked about, even though it operates in virtually every diocese in the UK.
 
When a man is found murdered in the most horrific circumstances imaginable, Merrily becomes convinced that Satanists are operating in the city.
 

Charlie Hebdo - Three Days that Shook Paris, Thursday, More4, 10pm 

The definitive story of the January 2015 attacks in Paris by Islamist militants against satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, the police and a Jewish supermarket.
 

Film of the Week: High Noon, Tuesday, Film4, 2.55pm 

A town marshal is torn between love and duty on his wedding day as he prepares for the arrival of a vengeful adversary on the midday train. Meanwhile, the townsfolk the marshal has so loyally protected are certain he will be killed in the confrontation and abandon him one by one to face his enemy alone.


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