Telly Today: Ray Mears continues through the Australian Wilderness

November 24, 2017

ATV Today Editor Doug Lambert picks his telly highlights for Friday November 24th 2017.

Australian Wilderness with Ray Mears, ITV, STV and UTV, 8pm

Ray continues his travels in Australia, journeying south to the Flinders Ranges, which are the continent’s largest range of mountains. Ray travels through the arid grassland of the foothills up to the top of one of the ridges. Along the way, he meets some of Australia’s most iconic animals.

Ray meets farmer Tony Smith and his head shepherd Norton Warnest, and learns about some of the challenges of sheep farming in the Flinders Ranges. Ray leaves the farm in the height of the midday sun and encounters flightless emus seeking shelter from the hot sun. Ray then meets the other symbol of Australia at a watering hole, spotting three different breeds of kangaroos – the euro, the grey, and finally the red.

Ray ventures higher into the mountains to look for Australia’s largest bird of prey, the wedge-tailed eagle. These massive birds are big enough to pick up an emu and have been known to drive kangaroos off cliffs. He finishes his journey around the Flinders Ranges at Wilpena Pound, where early settlers attempted to start cattle farms. The climate eventually got the better of them and the peaks were left to the eagles.

Sounds Like Friday Night, BBC One, 7.30pm

Fronted by Radio 1 DJ and presenter Greg James with Radio 1 Xtra’s Dotty this week their celebrity co-host is Craig David who will be chatting about what he’s been up to, recently; including a forthcoming album.

Along with his presenting duties, and singing live in the studio, Craig will be introducing the performances from The Killers and British singer-songwriter, Anne-Marie. The show is broadcasting live from the iconic Television Centre in White City, London.

The Gadget Show, Channel 5, 7pm

The action packed consumer series returns once more and, as always, is hosted by Craig Charles of Red Dwarf and Coronation Street fame.

Tonight Oculus Rift reveal products including a brand new VR platform designed to help film makers. The Fitbit smart watch goes up against the Apple Watch S3 in a test to see which has the best fitness tracking features, and the G Team help a student who wants to use tech to throw the perfect house party.

Cuba and the Cameraman, Netflix, from today

Jon Alpert began a chronicle of Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1972, bringing along a small crew and a portable camera. Filmed over 45 years, this factual documentary, follows three families and Castro. Alpert was there for Cuba’s socialism of the early ‘70s, and for the 1980 Mariel Bay boatlift, when over 100,000 Cubans fled the island, accompanied by inmates released from prisons and insane asylums.

He returned to cover the hardships of the 1990s and the “Special Period” after the fall of the Soviet Union when Cuba literally went dark, documenting how these families and the Cuban leader dealt with the serious challenges gripping their country.

The Good Doctor, Sky Living, 9pm

Dr Shaun Murphy faces another struggle this week when he discovers a patient’s parents have hidden his condition from their son. While he struggles to comprehend why the patient doesn’t deserve to hear the truth about his own health, the situation is complicated further by the patient’s eerie similarity to Shaun’s late brother.

Meanwhile, patients at the hospital are suffering increasingly severe allergic reactions, Can the team find the cause before patients start dying?