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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tim Lusher

The Guide recommends: What to watch this weekend

The Victorians
Jeremy Paxman presents a 'hymn to the natural beauty of the UK' - The Victorians ... Photograph: BBC

Saturday

Let's Dance For Comic Relief
7.05pm, BBC1
Can anything top Robert Webb's Flashdance routine? Claudia Winkleman finds out as Dom Joly and Angela Rippon get their legwarmers on.

Satanic Verses
9pm, BBC2
The Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie 20 years on. As this film illuminates, Khomeini's edict resulted in death, injury and terror for people involved with the book, and presaged an era in which fear of the righteously indignant stifles open discussion of religion.

Storyville: Robert Capa – In Love And In War
10.20pm, BBC4
Robert Capa is best known for one image from the Spanish civil war, of a loyalist militia man at the moment of death. Framed above the question "Why?" it is outdone as a student poster staple only by Korda's portrait of Che Guevara. As this terrific film demonstrates, there was a lot more to Capa's work.

Sunday

The Victorians
9pm, BBC1
Jeremy Paxman's series on Victorian painters concludes with some acknowledged masterpieces like Millais' Ophelia, but as interesting as some of the biographical details are, it ends up more a hymn to the natural beauty of the UK than the art it inspired.

Generation Kill
10pm, FX
It's the final episode for David Simon's Iraq mini-series and the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion are coming to terms with the realities of daily patrols in Baghdad. A masterclass on how to craft intelligent storytelling.

Dirty Sexy Money
11pm, E4
It's easy to see why this second series will also be the last. Peter Krause looks blankly at his co-stars thinking, "I wish I was still in Six Feet Under", while Donald Sutherland hides his talent under some crazy facial hair. This season opener revolves around husbands behaving badly and wives behaving worse. Nick, as usual, is expected to clean up the mess.

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