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The Private Life Of Cows and The Black Dahlia: Today’s TV picks

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Farmer Jimmy Doherty gets into the mind of the average cow on BBC2, while
Josh Hartnett and
Scarlett Johansson smoulder in Chandleresque noir The Black Dahlia on Film4.

Jimmy Docherty in The Private Life Of Cows, BBC2, 8pm
Jimmy Doherty in The Private Life Of Cows, BBC2, 8pm

Pick Of The Day: The Private Life Of Cows BBC2, 8pm

I’ve never given two hoots about what goes on in a cow’s mind but farmer Jimmy Doherty does, his argument being that there are 1.5billion bovines on Earth and they’re totally ‘taken for granted’. So here he is conducting behavioural experiments to see if, among other things, they can learn to press a door bell for food and to find out which ones are the busybodies of the herd. Doherty keeps things fairly knowing and playful and his farmer cohort, Jilly, whose cows we’re analysing, is a loveable soft touch. If anyone cares whether a farm cow is a happy cow, she does.

NCIS Five, 9pm

Season finale time and the conflict around Ziva rumbles on. Her fellow NCIS colleagues must head to Israel and face her Mossad boss father to defend agent DiNozzo, who is accused of murdering Mossad operative Michael Rivkin. Expect a showdown of the extremely tense variety. 

Cook County Jail Discovery, 10pm

Another slice of addictive shock-and-awe telly, this time following the violent and unpredictable crims held in the ‘largest single-site county jail in the US’ in Illinois. So lots of bad behaviour for the film-makers to choose from, then.

Film Of The Day: The Black Dahlia Film4, 11.15pm

Another lush case of Hollywood homicide from LA Confidential writer James Ellroy, which sees two celebrity detectives (Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart) hunt a grisly serial killer in a morally fetid Tinseltown. Brian De Palma directs this slick, ‘Chandleresque’ (that is, the plot’s impossible to understand) noir while feisty femme fatale Hilary Swank acts the bosoms off co-star Scarlett Johansson.


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