The former NFL quarterback has been embroiled in a scandal in Mississippi where he allegedly helped to arrange for welfare funds from TANF to build a $5 million volleyball stadium at his daughter’s college. Instead, it routinely fails, and in the case of Brett Favre, it apparently enhanced the lives of the wealthy. ![]() And the Premier League games on Sunday were Fulham v Arsenal and Newcastle v Wolves, not Bournemouth v Liverpool and Crystal Palace v Man City.During the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver went deep on Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, or TANF, a program that’s supposed to help lift families out of property. The Six Nations action on Sunday was Scotland v Ireland, not Italy v Wales and England v France as an earlier version said. This article was amended on 13 March 2023. Six Nations Rugby Union: Scotland v Ireland, 2.15pm, BBC One From Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Followed by Newcastle v Wolves at 4.00pm. Premier League Football: Fulham v Arsenal, 2.00pm, Sky Sports Main Event At Craven Cottage. Alida Valli adds heart as Lime’s actor lover but it’s a bracingly cynical drama, all askew angles and subterranean intrigue. ![]() His pulp fiction author Holly Martins finds himself in one of his wild west plots when he arrives in the city to discover his old friend, Harry Lime, has just died. It features one of the most distinctive cameos in cinema from Welles, but it’s really Cotten’s film. Simon WardellĬarol Reed’s riveting 1949 thriller reunites Orson Welles with his Citizen Kane co-star Joseph Cotten in a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of black marketeers in bombed-out postwar Vienna. It’s not as hard-edged as it could have been, but in Riseborough’s hands it’s utterly compelling. He seems like a soft touch but his gentle persistence offers her a way out of her cycle of harm. Hoping to reconnect with the teenage son she abandoned, she falters and fails, but then meets Marc Maron’s motel manager Sweeney. In Michael Morris’s touching drama of redemption, she plays self-destructive alcoholic Leslie who, after frittering away a $190,000 lottery win, finds herself homeless. The controversy over the (successful) campaign to get the film’s star, Andrea Riseborough, an Oscar nomination has taken away from what should be universal praise for her lacerating performance. But women who were allegedly drugged and raped by Cosby share their testimonies about what was happening behind the scenes. In the second episode of this documentary, “America’s dad” continues to gain the love and trust of audiences in the 70s through hugely popular kids’ educational shows such as Picture Pages and Fat Albert. Graeme Virtue We Need to Talk About Cosby 9pm, BBC Two As the taskforce tightens its net, there is a crash course in walkie-talkie etiquette from Jennings, while boss man Boyce hightails it to Zurich to take on Swiss banking privacy laws. The deft 80s-set thriller reaches its penultimate episode, and all those involved in the Brink’s-Mat blag are feeling the squeeze, even slick lawyer Cooper. Stick around for a special documentary, Morse and the Last Endeavour, at 10.20pm. ![]() But take heart: every end is a new beginning, and that’s particularly true of prequels. There’s an appropriately funereal mood for this last ever episode, as the cryptic crossword-loving Morse (Shaun Evans) investigates a number of unusual death notices in the Oxford Mail, leading him to a local undertaker’s and some moody reflections on mortality. It’s a wonderfully on-brand final bow for the nation’s favourite naturalist. He kicks things off with some big players: killer whales patrol the kelpy waters off Muckle Flugga golden eagles breed in the Caledonian forest (which is now only 1% of its original size) and – bringing the drama – beloved puffins go head to head with the cunning black-headed gull over an eel lunch on the Farne Islands. Over five beautiful episodes, the 96-year-old shows off the natural riches of the British Isles and the role they play in the survival of species across the world. ![]() David Attenborough is bringing it home for what is reportedly going to be his final series filmed on location.
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