What’s on TV tonight: Mary Berry makes her way to Southend for Jamie And Jimmys Friday Night Feast and Earths Tropical Islands – inews

CultureTVPlus, Mark Gatiss goes in search of the source of the mythological vampire Dracula, travelling from Slovenia to Philadelphia

Friday, 3rd January 2020, 6:01 am

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In Search Of Dracula With Mark Gatiss

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As his own version of Dracula concludes tonight (9pm, BBC1), Mark Gatiss goes in search of the source of the mythological vampire, travelling from Slovenia (location not just of his Castle Dracula, but also of the classic silent movie, Nosferatu) to Bray studios, where both Gatisss version and the Hammer horror films were shot, and Philadelphia, home of the Bram Stoker archives. Here we learn that the authors inspiration may have come from a nightmare he experienced after eating dressed crab. Gatiss also meets Joanna Lumley, Stephanie Beacham and other actresses who played opposite Christopher Lee.

Jamie And Jimmys Friday Night Feast

Mary Berry makes her way to the pop-up caf at the end of Southend Pier, kick-starting a new series of the celebrity-endorsed cookery show.

Secret Scotland With Susan Calman

The joke about the first series of Calmans good-natured paean to her homeland is that there was very little that was secret about the tourist hotspots she visited. Unabashed, she begins the second series in the Cairngorms, stopping off at Balmoral and Braemar, where, of course, she must toss a hammer.

The Goes Wrong Show

The studio audience is a vital ingredient in these knockabout comedies about a disaster-prone amateur dramatic troupe, great gales of laughter greeting each malfunctioning prop, misplaced actor and miscued line. This week, the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society stage a spy thriller that is (we are told) rarely performed because of its historical inaccuracy.

Earths Tropical Islands

The last of these handsome nature documentaries visits Hawaii, the most remote island chain on Earth. For the hardy creatures that have made it there, such as the waterfall-climbing fish, carnivorous caterpillar and Laysan albatross, a land of opportunity awaits.

TOTP: The Story Of 1989

This was the year that Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses appeared on the same edition of Top Of The Pops, the latters Ian Brown not even attempting to mime in sync with the recording. It was also when Stock Aitken and Waterman were mass producing identikit, unthreatening pop idols, and cartoon rabbit Jive Bunny had three consecutive number ones with their inane remixes of early rocknroll. The sublime and the ridiculous the British pop charts were ever thus.

Graham Nortons Good Showbusiness Guide

There is nothing more boring than a celebrity, especially the Hollywood variety, staying on message. Norton is an expert at luring habitually tight-lipped A-listers off-piste, and this is a compilation of moments when guests, from Tom Cruise to Dwayne The Rock Johnson by way of Chris Pratt, have done much more than just chat.

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What's on TV tonight: Mary Berry makes her way to Southend for Jamie And Jimmys Friday Night Feast and Earths Tropical Islands - inews

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