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Much like the series itself, which saw each season jump ahead three years,
Deutschland hasn’t always been the easiest show to keep track of due to long gaps between seasons. Now all three seasons have been collected in one box set (with a few bonus featurettes on season one and photo galleries on the others), but it’s still the original season that’s supreme.
Drugged and tricked into joining the HVA by his aunt, Lenora (Maria Schrader, who brings new meaning to the question, “If you can’t trust your family, who can you trust?”), Martin might’ve refused if it weren’t for his mother (Carina Wiese). She needs a kidney transplant and Lenora can get her the operation, but the decision’s essentially taken out of Martin’s hands anyway when he wakes up from a spiked coffee in West Germany.
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Tommy Cooper at the BBC (BBC1, regions vary) It’s almost 40 years since the fez-wearing funnyman collapsed and died on live TV. Nevertheless, Tommy Cooper remains hugely popular, with new generations of viewers becoming fans after being introduced to his unique mix of magic and comedy via programmes such as this. He performed tricks from the age of eight after an aunt bought him a magic set, and developed an act while part of an entertainment party during the Second World War. After being demobbed, Cooper went professional and quickly learned that the audience was more amused by the failure of his tricks than by their success. He made his TV debut on BBC talent show New to You in 1948 and never looked back. He was more associated with ITV than the Beeb, but there are still plenty of laughs to be seen in this trip down memory lane.
What’s on TV this weekend: Deutschland 89 takes us back to the fall of the Berlin Wall
The i 3/5/2021 Gerard Gilbert
Friday
9pm, More4
We rejoin East German spy Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) 36 hours before the fall of the Berlin Wall and this follow-up to the hits
Deutschland 83 and Deutschland 86 does a fine job of evoking the excitement, fear and confusion of those times. As Martin tries to reassure his son, Max, that “things will be back to normal soon”, the new reformist government struggles to keep up with events and Martin’s handler Fritz (Niels Bormann) suggests he poisons the freshly installed head of state, Egon Krenz, if Krenz proves too liberal. On the plus side, there’s a potential love interest in the shape of Max’s new teacher, while elsewhere Fritz infiltrates a group of socialists.