A real treat with a rare TV screening of the original and best version of The Producers, things start to get very real on Face The Music, and the boys have another crazy plan in Horrible Bosses 2 - here's your TV picks for Thursday
Pick of the day
The Producers, BBC Four, 9.00pm
Let's hope our EPG isn’t playing tricks on us and this is the peerless 1967 original version of Mel Brooks’ Oscar-winning masterpiece and not the rather pointless 2002 remake. Little shown on television for some reason (insert wink emoji here), this fiendish comedy tells the story of a down on his luck theatre producer (a brilliant Zero Mostel) and a hapless accountant (an equally brilliant Gene Wilder) who scheme on making their fortunes by producing a play that is certain to be a flop. When they chance upon a bonkers script about Adolf Hitler, they turn it into a musical and the rest is hysteria. Top trivia: U2 got the title for their album Achtung Baby! from this movie.
Face The Music, RTÉ One, 10.15pm
As we meet our students and teachers halfway through the academic year, things are starting to get very real. The new building is still not open, but the show must go on. Internationally renowned Conductor Mihhail Gerts has flown to lead the Philharmonia Orchestra at RIAM. It’s not just the third level students that have a big performance coming up, the junior students have concerts that they are having to prepare for too.
Horrible Bosses 2, RTÉ2, 9.00pm
Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Chris Pint, Christoph Waltz, and Jamie Foxx lined up for passable 2014 sequel to the 2011 hit movie about mad as hell employees furious at their bosses (imagine!?). in this outing, the hapless trio of Nick (Bateman), Kurt (Sudeikis) and squeaky 'lil Dale (Day), decide to start their own business, but the plan is derailed when a duplicitous investor swindles them. There’s only one thing for it, they hatch a plan to get their money back by kidnapping the businessman's son. Aniston once again proves her talent as a great comedienne as très naughty dentist. Read our review.
All Fired Up, RTÉ One, 7.00pm
To feed your inner cowboy, Nico is making some Grilled Sausages with Smoky Baked Beans and Cheesy Polenta. Then it's a veggie superstar in the form of his Black Bean Burger with Chipotle Mayo and Avocado and he’ll show you how to transform chicken on the grill using your own Store cupboard flavour salts that you can tweak to your own tastes. Make up a batch and level up your BBQ all summer long.
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