TV tonight: finance whiz Gary Stevenson takes on the super-rich
The working-class lad who became a millionaire proposes a new annual tax. Plus: it’s 25 years of The Office. Here’s what to watch this evening
How to Get Filthy Rich With Gary Stevenson
“If we don’t do anything about this system, very quickly the billionaires will own everything.” Gary Stevenson was born working-class and wanted to become rich; he was a finance whiz and a millionaire by his mid-20s. As this documentary shows, he now breaks down economics for audiences and campaigns to close the wealth gap – proposing a 2% annual tax on wealth above £10m. “Absolute populist claptrap,” one super-rich interviewee tells him about his mission. Hollie Richardson
Ambulance: Code Red
8pm, Channel 5
Time to watch with your hands in front of your face, as we join the critical care teams saving lives across the Thames Valley. This week’s cases include a woman who has gone into cardiac arrest while driving, and a 19-year-old who has fallen off his motorbike and fractured his femur. Priya Elan
Fire Country
9pm, Sky Witness
The fourth series of the firefighting drama blazes on with Station 42 facing a wildfire. And Shawn Hatosy might be a fan favourite as Dr Jack Abbot in The Pitt – but he ruffles a few feathers here as the new battalion chief. HR
Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman Remember The Office
10pm, BBC TwoOne of the many extraordinary things about the gamechanging sitcom The Office was that it cast Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook when they were complete unknowns. Twenty-five years later, the two look back on how Freeman auditioned for Crook’s role, whether the US remake was better, and how corpsing on set threatened to stop this instant British comedy classic being made in the first place. Jack Seale
Mysteries Unearthed With Danny Trejo
10pm, Sky History
“Is that the James Bond car from The Spy Who Loved Me?” Eight special white Lotus cars were made for the 1977 film and a man believed he found one with “fins jutting from the sides” in his storage unit. Was it really a Wet Nellie submarine car? HR
Film choice
My Summer of Love (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2004), 11.55pm, BBC Two
Emily Blunt’s big-screen debut boded well for the magnificent career to follow. She plays Tamsin, an alluring posh girl who hooks up with tomboy Mona (Natalie Press) over one sultry season in West Yorkshire’s Calder valley. Paddy Considine is Phil, Mona’s ex-convict brother, whose recent religious conversion seems to conceal a simmering propensity for violence. All in all it’s the modern-day lesbian Wuthering Heights of our dreams, with Bafta-winning direction from Paweł Pawlikowski, who just picked up his second best director award at this year’s Cannes. Ellen E Jones
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