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The week ahead: Remembering Munich
Conrad Astley6/ 1/2006
THE DRAMA documentary Manchester United refused to touch kicks
off an impressive week of post-Christmas viewing.
Surviving Disaster (Tuesday, BBC1) is the first
ever attempt to put the story of the club's Munich air disaster
onto the screen.
The filmmakers said they attempted to contact relatives of anyone
involved, but both Man United and survivor Bobby Charlton decided
they wanted nothing to do with it.
A little-known fact is that more journalists were killed in the
disaster than sportsmen, but for some reason the public chose to
mourn the deaths of British football's brightest stars, rather than
the hacks.
How we laughed at last month's show Space Cadets. What sort of
moron could possibly believe TV bosses could send them into
orbit?
Well, maybe they can't, but a self-publicising bearded entrepreneur
thinks he will soon be able to do what Tomorrow's World promised us
all those decades ago.
Horizon (Thursday, BBC2) looks at the possibility
that stellar tourism could soon become reality, with Sir Richard
Branson setting up Virgin Galactic for ordinary people who want to
go to space - and have a couple of spare hundred grand.
The documentary features an interview with a man who felt as if
he'd touched the face of God - not our Branson looking in the
mirror, but someone who's already paid to visit the final
frontier.
There's a bit of a space theme this week, with new sci-fi sitcom
Hyperdrive (Wednesday, BBC2) treading into Red
Dwarf territory, and US import
Invasion (Sunday,
Channel 4) telling the preposterous tale of aliens arriving in
Florida.
Equally ludicrous, but no doubt good fun, is
Life On
Mars (Monday, BBC1) starring John Simm as a cop who gets
hit by a car and is transported from The Bill into The
Sweeney.
Arriving in 1973, not only does he find himself wearing flares, but
he's shocked to see his boss bullying witnesses and punching
suspects, which of course never happens in the modern police
service.
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