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The best of the DIRECTV primetime lineup

The conclusion of season one of Sally Wainwright’s exceptionally good Yorkshire police drama, Happy Valley, screens at the accessible starting time of 7pm on the DIRECTV Channel. If it started within BC on TV’s 6pm-10pm primetime, the Jude Law/ Natalie Portman/J ulia Roberts/ Clive Owen drama, Closer (5.55pm Prmt), would have been in contention.

Today’s Number One Film:

*The Hours 6.25pm Fox Cinema. Watch this if you liked Closer, House of Sand and Fog or The Ballad of Jack & Rose. Technically masterful – indeed, marvellous – adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s novel recreating a single day in the lives of three women, one in 1923, one in 1951 and one in 2001. A powerful and ultimately hopeful film although dealing with that entirely depressing subject matter: the human condition. A hugely enjoyable drama with a soul-shaking denouement should impress even those who found the very clever Michael Cunningham source novel too difficult, with it’s linking of two modern women to Virginia Woolf’s own character, Mrs Dalloway. It’s also hard to go wrong with Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in the lead roles. Kidman won the 2003 Best Lead Actress Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe. Directed by Stephen Daldry/ 2002/ UK-USA / Drama/ 114 mins/ Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, some disturbing images and brief language.






JUST NOSED OUT:

Phoenix (German [language] Holocaust Drama), 8.20pm FoxCin; **The Brothers Grimsby (Stoner Comedy), 9.35pm MaxP; The Intouchables (Bio-Comedy-Drama), 6.38pm Gldn; The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (Documentary-Music), 7.05pm ISat.

BEST Pay Per View BET: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

*Starred films have been chosen in the last year. ** Double-starred films have been chosen in the last two months.

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