Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax
9pm, Channel 4
Brace yourselves for this true parents-at-the-school-gates horror story with endlessly gobsmacking layers. It speaks to 4 moms who, again in 2014, had been victims of a conspiracy concept that urged they had been a part of a baby-eating, satanic, paedophile cult. The allegations had been made by two youngsters however, because the interview recordings which can be performed right here for the primary time present, they had been being compelled to lie. The anger among the many girls is palpable all through this brilliantly investigated 90-minute documentary, during which they recall what they did to get to the foundation of what actually occurred, and element all of the ways in which this ruined their lives and their youngsters’s. Hollie Richardson
Is College Actually Price It?
9pm, BBC Two
“College students, aye? They’re all the time kicking off about one thing.” With 69% of graduates saying a level isn’t price it, lecturers on strike and charges leaving college students in tens of hundreds of kilos of debt, comic and former English instructor Geoff Norcott tries to search out out whether or not increased training is one thing he desires his son to even take into account. HR
Snow Going Again: Comedian Aid vs the Arctic
9pm, BBC One
Crimson noses are inevitable on this frosty charity problem, during which artful Dragons’ Den queen Sara Davies, ex-footballer Alex Scott, Geordie Shore veteran Vicky Pattison and TV presenter Laura Whitmore head to the Arctic Circle. Can they endure 50km of onerous trekking, cross-country snowboarding and piloting off-road bikes with large, fats tyres? Graeme Advantage
The Zaks Affair: Anatomy of a Faux Assortment
9pm, BBC 4
Who doesn’t love art-forgery yarn? This documentary follows consultants as they give the impression of being into the “Zaks assortment”, a repository of Russian and Ukrainian trendy artwork that has been the supply of quite a few big-money gross sales previously 20 years. Might or not it’s that the story behind them is bunk and the work are all duds? Jack Seale
Curb Your Enthusiasm
9pm, Sky Comedy
It’s a Susie episode! Any instalment that centres that perpetual thorn in Larry’s aspect, Jeff’s irascible and boldly attired spouse – performed with fiery rage by Susie Essman – is a winner. Whereas Susie’s new enterprise enterprise has surprising penalties, Larry tries to make his visits to the lavatory extra environment friendly. JS
Our Flag Means Demise
11.15pm, BBC Two
Season two of the now-cancelled pirate farce reaches its remaining double invoice and definitely goes out with a bang. However regardless of a lot life-or-death swordplay and explosive cannon hearth, the largest query is whether or not the tender union between chalk-and-cheese buccaneers Stede (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) can survive. GV
Movie alternative
20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, 2023), 10.30pm, Channel 4
“Battle is like an X-ray: all human insides turn out to be seen.” So says an embattled physician on this Bafta-winning documentary, which brings residence in devastating vogue the phobia of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. TV journalist Mstyslav Chernov was within the south-eastern metropolis when it was besieged by Putin’s troops, however stayed to doc the more and more determined state of affairs confronted by its residents. The horrible human price is proven in distressing hospital scenes and interviews with individuals in concern of their lives and people of their youngsters. A troublesome however mandatory watch. Simon Wardell
