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TV New
Home No place like Home series

Channel 4

Playlist
Top 10 N RUFUS Jones’s new comedy is Katy’s relatively new boyfriend,
Home for Channel 4, when does nothing of the sort.
IPeter, Katy and Katy’s son Over the next few months, while
John return from their first family Sami waits for his application to
holiday to France, what they bring be processed, he learns more than
back comes as a big surprise. he expected about the people he’s
They discover Sami (Youssef living with, himself, and his own
Kerkour, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, family somewhere in Europe.
Baghdad Central), a Syrian refugee Jones (WIA, Inside No 9) said:
who has entered Britain illegally to “There’s a domestic situation, there’s
claim asylum, in the boot of their an asylum situation and through it
car. all my character is trying to be the
After their initial shock, Katy man of the house and failing.
(Rebekah Statton, Happy-Go- “Peter comes out with things
Lucky, Pulling) and John welcome that 10 years ago you tended not to
the refugee into their home with hear but in the political atmosphere
open arms but Peter (Jones), who these days you hear them a bit more
from people who would never
normally say things about how
‘we’re full up’”.
“He is slightly of that ilk but
his views on immigration, which
to me are questionable, are clearly
masking more personal issues. FAMILY AFFAIR: Rufus Jones, above, right, and co-stars of his new comedy Home. Rebekah
“When I started writing the Statton plays Katy and Youssef Kertour is asylum seeker Sami, left
trick I was playing with was that helpless response to what we were people. Just the other day I sat
although you have a refugee living seeing on the news in late 2015’ – next to a guy of Middle Eastern
with the family, Peter is the refugee the height of the Syrian refugee origin and a homeless guy came up
because he can’t be a stepfather to crisis. and just started persecuting him
John and he can’t be an adequate He added: “I wanted to write with hate speech and the police
TOP CARTOONIST Nick partner to Katy. about one person’s story, reaching were called. I was just weighing
Newman's latest play, Trial By “He’s feeling adrift and he’s this country. I wanted to say questions such as this when I had
Laughter (pictured below), co- displacing all that stuff onto this something about how we treat to intervene in the situation. It’s
written with Private Eye editor actual refugee. refugees as well as the refugee there and it’s a live issue.
Ian Hislop is now on tour. Go “Hopefully through the series experience, and what that says “For every racist we have, we
to: ents24.com for details. you positively see him becoming a about us.” have an intermediary or someone
Here’s Nick's top 10 playlist: better man.” “I wrote this in Brighton public who aids Sami.”
Jones revealed that he wrote the library because I like being in ■ Home continues on Channel 4
show’s pilot episode in ‘an angry, libraries and I like writing amongst at 9.45pm on Tuesdays.
1 Squeeze
Up The Junction
Film review UK Box
Top 10
2 Yes Love Sonia Out now Certificate 18 Office
Yours is No Disgrace
Guys and Dolls The Lego Movie 2: The
3 Sit Down You're Rocking the True story of an evil trade 1 Second Part
Boat Instant Family (pictured

4 The Beatles 2 below)
Help! OVE SONIA is a powerful
Lportrayal of the appalling sex- VULNERABLE: Mrunal 3 How to Train Your Dragon:
The Hidden World
Indian village girl with
5 Mumford and Sons trafficking trade – inspired by the Thakur plays a trafficked
true story of a young Indian village
Roll Away Your Stone
girl who was found in a container Freida Pinto, inset, as 4 Alita: Battle Angel
prostitute Rashmi and
ship in California. Manoj Bajpayee as Faizal
Kirsty MacColl
6 It’s the directorial debut of in Love Sonia The Kid Who Would Be
Fifteen Minutes Slumdog Millionaire and Lion 5 King
producer Tabrez Noorani and it
7 Tears For Fears pulls no punches. 6 Cold Pursuit
Head Over Heels The film stars Mrunal Thakur
who is excellent as the eponymous
The Mikado heroine, a shy, naïve 17-year- 7 Green Book
8 The Sun Whose Rays Are All old whose desperate,
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father, (a strong ther, (a strong
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The Divine Comedy
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S i s o di ya) ( (Slumdog Millionaire).Slumdog Millionaire trade that preys mercilessly on
to clear his The film depicts the vulnerable young women, but bear
living hell of these unhappy ving hell of these unhappy
debts. li in mind it’s more education than
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Sonia goes to to co with you long after leaving the
Mumbai’s red-light district owner and businessman Faizal.wner and businessman Faizal. cinema.
Mumbai’s red-light district
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in search of her sister, hoping Demi Moore features in a cameo Review by Tracey Allen
to rescue her, but ends up being as Selma, a Californian activist and
trafficked herself and is taken to a counseller. R'n'R Rating:
brothel where she meets Rashmi, Love Sonia could be considered
the beautiful but bitter prostitute, essential viewing, drawing our (3 out of 5) Source: theguardian.com