For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerSaturday’s viewing guide, by Yasmin ChoudhuryHughie Green: The Rise & Fall of Mr Saturday NightChannel 5, 9pmA monstrous womaniser or a star-maker of the ordinary working class? Channel 5’s charting of Hughie Green’s life and career shows how the father of light entertainment was both at once — from the frontman of the hugely successful talent show Opportunity Knocks all the way to his downfall as a philanderer who brought his extreme right-wing politics where they weren’t wanted. Interviews with former Opportunity Knocks contestants accompany archival footage, with Bonnie Langford chuckling as she says that Green was Uncle Hughie to her but then continuing, “to other people I saw something a little bit

Source: The Times March 11, 2023 04:50 UTC