What’s happening, what’s on and what’s interesting this week …
Explore the evolution of understanding and the dramatic attempts across generations to unravel the MYSTERIES OF MENTAL ILLNESS. This four-part, two-night event begins Tuesday night at 9 on PBS NC.
Kenneth Branagh (Fortunes of War) returns to the stage for a RADA fundraiser. Branagh will direct and star in Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version which runs during August.
Lucy Worsley gets into bed with past monarchs to uncover the TALES FROM THE ROYAL BEDCHAMBER – Thursday at 7pm on PBS NC.
What did Hugh Laurie (Roadkill) study at university? If you guessed theatre, you’d be wrong.
Learn the untold story of how tens of thousands of homosexual federal workers were either fired or denied employment in the 1950s. Relive THE LAVENDER SCARE – Saturday night at 11 on the Explorer Channel.
Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) made a virtual appearance on THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON this week. That in and of itself is interesting but considering Dame Helen was in a bubble bath at the time, well it quickly goes viral.
Follow 13 young people from across the US and Canada at a new genetics and genealogy camp as they study their own DNA and family histories to answer the question “Who am I?” Don’t miss FINDING YOUR ROOTS: THE SEEDLINGS – Sunday at 9:30pm on the North Carolina Channel.
And Michael Palin (Monty Python) chastises algorithms for killing our individuality.
Now, somebody’s having a birthday! Let’s celebrate!
21 June
David Morrissey (South Riding) turns 57
Rachel Power (Middlemarch) celebrates 53
Dominique Barnes (Brat Farrar) has her 55th
Finn Atkins (Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters) is 32
22 June
Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) celebrates 89
23 June
Gerry Cowper (EastEnders) has her 63rd
24 June
Iain Glen (Mrs. Wilson) hits 60
Amber Rose Revah (Indian Summers) is 35
Richard Lumsden (Is It Legal?) marks 56
25 June
Roy Marsden (Dalgliesh) celebrates 80
Scott Maslen (EastEnders) hits 50
Maureen & Angela Deiseach (Degrassi) is 39
Sheridan Smith (Mr. Stink) turns 40
Lucy Benjamin (EastEnders) marks 51
26 June
Clive Francis (Poldark) has his 75th
27 June
Anthony Howell (Foyle’s War) hits 50
Sam Claflin (Any Human Heart) turns 35
Sam Hoare (Jane Eyre) celebrates 40
Joanna McCallum (Ginger Tree) is 71
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