Friday 22nd
STAN LEE’S LUCKY MAN, SKY1, 9pm
From the Marvel comic writer Stan Lee, creator of Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk and The X-Men, comes this new series which is part fantasy, part crime drama. James Nesbitt stars as a London detective, Harry Clayton, who hangs around in seedy casinos and lap dancing clubs, mixing with rogues and toughs.
He’s a compulsive gambler and one day his huge debts are called in and he has three days to find the money. “That’s a completely insane request!” he says and starts investigations of his own, asking his shady buddies why the casino owner has been spooked and why his debt is suddenly being called in.
With no information, he has no option but to return to the casino and try to win his way out of debt. He’s playing “all the way to hell. A long way to go on a Monday night.”
But a beautiful woman sits beside him at the roulette table saying “Luck’s a revolving door. You just need to know when it’s your turn to walk through.” Suddenly he starts to win spectacularly and, after a night of passion with the mysterious woman, he wakes up alone with a strange bracelet on, and the words good luck scrawled on the wall.
Life begins to change, starting with the murder of the casino owner, but that’s only the start of a sudden crime wave engulfing the city.
BRITAIN’S TRILLION POUND ISLAND – INSIDE CAYMAN, BBC2, 9pm
This is the second BBC2 programme this week which is about tax. It must be that grim time of year again. But it’s not grim not for the “politicians, playboys and ex-pats” on the Cayman Islands which is Britain’s biggest tax haven.
Jacques Peretti visits Cayman to look behind the glamorous image to find out what the implications are for us taxpayers back in Britain.
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