Ramsay returns

HAYLEY TAYLOR reaches the end of her series about helping the unemployed back into work.

Here she visits Southend-on- Sea and a group of unemployed women who have been hit by the recession, in an area that has seen the number of people claiming out-of-work benefit almost double in just five years.

AH, Venice. The city of love. But Rory McGrath, Dara O’Briain and Griff Rhys Jones end up bickering as they encounter difficulties travelling from Montenegro along the Adriatic out of season.

However, the trio are more than happy shedding their clothes when they arrive at Europe’s largest nudist colony just outside the Roman city of Pula.

As the guys finally arrive at their destination, they are immediately thrown into intense training for the gondola race on Venice’s Grand Canal.

McGrath does manage to sneak off though and heads for the Venetian island of Murano – home to the lagoon city’s famous glass-makers – to create a suitable trophy for the race winner.

DAVID and his celebrity sparring partners take part in some one-onone boxing training and banter, pulling no punches both in the ring and conversationally. With ‘the Hayemaker’ preparing for his bout with Wladimir Klitschko, the intimate training sessions from his gyms in London, Miami and New York are interspersed with interviews with Haye himself, reflecting on his career so far, and what drives him to succeed. Tonight, Haye’s first subjects are comedy juggernaut Ricky Gervais, teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber and rapper Dizzee Rascal, while tomorrow evening he will be joined by Britain’s Got Talent judge Michael McIntyre and Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke.

JACK DEE shares the screen with Robbie Coltrane as this two-part plot sees Rick teaching a comedy workshop at Belford Prison purely for the council cash. Unfortunately, the gig doesn’t go quite to plan when he’s taken hostage by knifewielding prisoner Donald (Coltrane), and his chances of being able to talk his way out are scarce when it becomes clear Donald hates liars. Will the governors give in to the jailbird’s demands, or is Rick’s career doomed to come to a premature end in a prison library?

ANOTHER series of the British chef catching out the proprietors of failing restaurants. Tonight, Gordon Ramsay descends at the door of the Spanish Pavilion in Harrison, New Jersey. It’s a restaurant seemingly stuck in the Seventies with a stodgy menu, an obscenely overstocked kitchen and waiters who wear tuxedos to serve diners who are dressed in far more casual garb.

However, the real cause of the trouble comes in the form of warring brothers and coowners, Michael and Jerry, who don’t get along and are barely managing to stay awake while running the establishment. Can Gordon turn things around before they reach boiling point?