Rev | Living With The Amish | Symphony | Life's Too Short | The Slap | PhoneShop
Rev
9pm, BBC2
Dreaming of being a mother, Alex gets a chance to try out her parenting skills when a friend's daughter, Enid, comes to stay. She's not a charming child: "Shut up, I hate you!" It's all made worse by the fact that London is in the grip of a heatwave and an exhausted Adam is suffering with nightmares. With a storyline involving an elderly parishioner (Sylvia Syms) who's convinced her nursing home bedroom is haunted, an episode that has fun with the more eldritch currents of parish life. Jonathan Wright
Living With The Amish
9pm, Channel 4
Last year, a group of Amish teenagers came to the UK to experience what their peers across the Atlantic get up to, and while there was obviously going to be a bit of binge-drinking, our lot behaved pretty well. The exchange programme continues this week, as a different set of UK teens heads to the US to live with Amish families. After a few initially daft questions ("Do you have takeaways?"), they settle into the tranquility of the Amish way of life, with domestic work for the girls, and manual farm labour for the boys. It's genuinely touching to see the appreciation of their welcoming hosts too. Ben Arnold
Symphony
9pm, BBC4
The final part of Simon Russell Beale's history reaches 1912, with Mahler recently dead and the world on the edge of a great turbulence that would inform the choppy motions of the 20th-century symphony. Sadly, in order not to frighten the viewers, Beale chooses to ignore 20th-century composers such as Schoenberg, Var�se and Bart�k, in favour of a more populist narrative of relatively tonal composers ? Ives, Shostakovich: a bit like a history of 70s rock music that ignores punk. However, his take on how these composers reflected the birth pangs of their great new nation states is certainly compelling and educational. David Stubbs
Life's Too Short
9.30pm, BBC2
Warwick is facing more blows to his self-esteem: he's cut out of a BBC current affairs interview, finds his Dwarves For Hire clients are mutinying, then discovers his website is under attack from a 16-year-old schoolboy, whom he attempts to confront, with devastating consequences. Warwick lands some work as a stand-in, but Helena Bonham Carter demands he be replaced in his scene by a bin with a face painted on it. John Robinson
The Slap
10pm, BBC4
Tonight's episode centres on Rosie, the mother of slapped child Hugo and a veritable cauldron of righteous indignation. Her anger has been slowly simmering ever since Hector's cousin Harry took a swipe at her ill-behaved son, and now she has the thing she most desires ? the date for her day in court. But things between her and boorish booze-hound husband Gary are beginning to fracture, their relationship becoming ever-more toxic under the stress of the situation. BA
PhoneShop
10pm, E4
Kayvan Novak looks as though he is having the time of his life playing the demented area manager Razz Prince. In between acting out his favourite movie scenes (complete with slo-mo sound effects) and making his assistant's life a misery, he offers Ashley and Jerwayne a chance to join the Elite Selling Krew, a shadowy team that may or may not actually exist. Meanwhile, Christopher, fed up with being the new kid, finds himself getting headhunted, while manager Lance wonders whether his empire is all about to fall apart. Martin Skegg
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/nov/23/living-with-the-amish-tv
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