Disclosure: Useless Man Working
9pm, BBC Two
Kim Avis was an eccentric busker and market dealer who turned generally known as “a personality” in Inverness. In 2019, reporter Myles Bonnar was one of many native individuals shocked to listen to of Avis’s dying – hundreds of miles away in California. As Bonnar explores on this wild documentary, it transpired that Avis faked his personal dying to evade sexual assault prices. . Hollie Richardson
Grand Excursions of Scotland’s Rivers
7pm, BBC Two
In additional tranquil telly this week, Paul Murton bravely takes a microlight above Ben Lui – the place he begins his exploration of the higher reaches of the River Tay. He then goes underground to go to an lively gold mine beside the waterway, and meets the chief of Clan Macnab on a sacred island. HR
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
Kiran Moodley studies from faculty campuses within the US the place there are tensions between college students divided over the Israel-Gaza warfare – Columbia College has even banned two pro-Palestinian protests. Moodley speaks to individuals from each side, following a Palestinian scholar and a Jewish American scholar, to see if he can discover frequent floor. HR
Past Paradise
8pm, BBC One
Lots of people have met a grisly finish in Shipton Abbott, so when a girl is discovered with an arrow by means of her shoulder, it’s simply one other day on the workplace for our tenacious group – even when it opens up a rabbit warren of chilly circumstances to resolve. Thank goodness they’ve a marriage to plan alongside all of that homicide most foul, eh? Kayleigh Dray
Avoidance
9.30pm, BBC One
Romesh Ranganathan’s hapless sitcom antihero Jonathan finds himself in yet one more awkward state of affairs when he and his ex, Claire (Jessica Knappett), fear about their son Spencer’s sleepover. It seems the internet hosting mother and father are the one individuals round with extra unresolved battle than them. As ever, acutely noticed and properly carried out. Phil Harrison
Late Night time Lycett
10pm, Channel 4
Stay and direct from his house metropolis of Birmingham, the nation’s most sweet-natured satirist brings us one other night time of mischief and mayhem. The names of his movie star friends had not been introduced at time of writing, however that hardly issues; so long as Joe’s two favorite aunties, Margaret and Pauline, are about, we’ll all be having enjoyable. Ellen E Jones
Movie alternative
Insurgent Moon – Half Two: The Scargiver (Zack Snyder, 2024), Netflix
Zack Snyder’s house opera, which mashes up tropes from Star Wars and Seven Samurai, returns to wrap issues up (probably). Sofia Boutella’s Kora brings again the ragtag group of warriors she sourced within the first instalment to the farming settlement imperilled by imperial forces. It’s ploughshares into swords for the outnumbered moonfolk and their handlers – a wonderful supporting forged together with the likes of Doona Bae and Djimon Hounsou – with a resurrected Ed Skrein bringing the sneering evil as Kora’s principal navy foe, Atticus Noble. Simon Wardell
BlackBerry (Matt Johnson, 2023), midday, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
For these with fond recollections of TV drama Halt and Catch Fireplace, set through the delivery of the non-public laptop business, Matt Johnson’s fact-inspired comedy-drama concerning the rise and fall of the BlackBerry cell phone will encourage a well-known thrill. There’s the sensible however naive nerd (Jay Baruchel’s Mike Lazaridis) with one nice thought (a cellphone that can be a pager and an e-mail machine!); the aggressive, savvy businessman (Glenn Howerton’s perma-furious Jim Balsillie) who pushes the laid-back tech-heads to success; and the relentless drive for revenue that eats up and spits out Mike’s small, collegiate operation. A sensible, humorous cautionary story. SW
