ON BBC TV

Olivia Newton-John At The BBC

BBC2, 10.15pm

• The Mail on Sunday
• 9 Oct 2022

The first programme in an evening of tributes to the muchloved star, who passed away in August, features clips of her appearances on music and chat shows from the BBC archive. It’s followed at 11.15pm by a rare chance to see the 1980 roller-skating fantasy movie Xanadu, which falls into the ‘so bad it’s good’ category, before the 1977 TV special Only Olivia rounds off the night at 12.50am.

Xanadu

• The Irish Mail on Sunday
• 9 Oct 2022

(1980) PG ● 11.15PM, BBC2 ★★★★

The much-missed Olivia Newton-John stars in this bizarre musical drama.

Sonny Malone (Michael Beck), a struggling artist living in LA, meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.

 

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