Nicole Vassell

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Amol Rajan explores grief and faith by the Ganges

3 days ago | msn.com | Phil Harrison |Ali Catterall |Nicole Vassell |Graeme Virtue

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TV tonight: Amol Rajan explores grief and faith by the Ganges

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Phil Harrison |Ali Catterall |Nicole Vassell |Graeme Virtue

Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges9pm, BBC One Journalist Amol Rajan has been “in a bit of a funk” since his father died three years ago. Rajan gradually realised that his mother, a practising Hindu, “seemed to have an emotional toolkit that I lacked”. Has this lack of faith made it harder to come to terms with bereavement? With this question in mind, he travels to India to take part in the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela.
Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski star in The Gilded Age

5 days ago | msn.com | Phil Harrison |Nicole Vassell |Ali Catterall

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TV tonight: Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski star in The Gilded Age

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Nicole Vassell |Ali Catterall |Phil Harrison

The Gilded Age9pm, Sky AtlanticJulian Fellowes’s New York-set costume drama continues to underwhelm in its third series. Somehow, it’s never quite racy or absorbing enough to excuse its lack of literary weight, plus some of the dialogue feels like a parody of period potboiler tropes. Ada (Cynthia Nixon) has become heavily involved in the temperance movement – which isn’t suiting Agnes (Christine Baranski) at all. Elsewhere, George’s railroad plan is in danger of hitting the buffers.
excellent crime drama The Gold reaches its big end

6 days ago | msn.com | Phil Harrison |Jack Seale |Nicole Vassell |Simon Wardell

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excellent crime drama The Gold reaches its big end

6 days ago | msn.com | Phil Harrison |Jack Seale |Nicole Vassell |Simon Wardell

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TV tonight: excellent crime drama The Gold reaches its big end

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Phil Harrison |Jack Seale |Nicole Vassell |Simon Wardell

The Gold9pm, BBC OneThe net is beginning to close around the Brink’s-Mat villains in this penultimate episode of the enjoyable crime drama. John Palmer has a galloping cocaine habit and dozens of angry pensioners to deal with in Tenerife. Charlie Miller is finding that exile in Costa Rica doesn’t offer total protection. And Kenneth Noye has attracted the attention of the police for a brutal and brand new crime.
how Serena Williams nearly became a punk guitarist

1 week ago | msn.com | Phil Harrison |Jack Seale |Nicole Vassell |Hannah Davies |Simon Wardell

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TV tonight: how Serena Williams nearly became a punk guitarist

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Phil Harrison |Jack Seale |Nicole Vassell |Hannah Davies |Simon Wardell

In the Arena: Serena Williams11.10pm, BBC OneThe Williams sisters are almost always approached as a pair, sharing a destiny from early childhood. In this series, Serena tells her own story – though, of course, Venus chips in. The opening episode looks at the influence of their father Richard, who saw tennis as his family’s passport out of Compton. But Serena initially had other ideas: she is a Green Day fan and fancied herself as a punk guitarist.
TV tonight: human remains are found in tense cold case drama Black Snow

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Graeme Virtue |Nicole Vassell |Jack Seale |Phil Harrison |Simon Wardell

Black Snow9pm, BBC TwoThe Queensland-set cold case drama continues. Zoe Jacobs (Jana McKinnon) vanished on her 21st birthday back in 2003, and we have come to know her hopes, fears and love of ecstasy and pop-punk via extended flashbacks. So it’s all the more upsetting that unkempt detective James Cormack (Travis Fimmel) and Zoe’s old bestie turned beat cop Samara Kahlil (Megan Smart) have just recovered submerged human remains near the local dam.