The Jinx – Half Two
9pm, Sky Documentaries
There was once a rule that documentary-makers shouldn’t intervene with their topics. However Andrew Jarecki’s jaw-dropping 2015 sequence The Jinx proved an exception. Jarecki, chances are you’ll recall, elicited an obvious confession to homicide from the actual property inheritor Robert Durst – which resulted in Durst briefly happening the run earlier than his arrest, the night time earlier than the finale aired. This sequel picks up the place the primary sequence left off, protecting Durst’s tried escape, his extremely odd dialogue with police and the forged of oddball allies he acquired within the present’s aftermath. The story retains on giving – though, as we’re reminded by footage of the household of one in all Durst’s victims watching the primary sequence, it’s a narrative with horror at its coronary heart. Phil Harrison
Blue Lights
9pm, BBC One
Simply as our hearts have recovered from the extraordinary season opener of the positive Belfast-set cop drama, Annie and Shane discover themselves operating right into a burning home {that a} loyalist gang has focused – and worse is but to come back. Elsewhere, Grace and Stevie name a truce, however can emotions actually go away while you spend 10 hours collectively in a automobile preventing crime each day? Hollie Richardson
Pompeii: The New Dig
9pm, BBC Two
Calling all Indiana Jones or Lara Croft wannabes! Get able to dive even deeper into the misplaced world of Pompeii within the second a part of a sequence that follows archaeologists as they excavate a whole metropolis block. They reveal what life was like earlier than Vesuvius erupted in AD79 – and discover the horrifying ultimate moments of all these unfortunates who had been misplaced within the catastrophe. Kayleigh Dray
Homicide Case: The Digital Detectives
9pm, Channel 4
This sequence is fascinating for viewers with a crime-solving bent, because it takes us right into a type of post-forensics world. Take this week’s case, for example, which is a burnt physique present in a distant location in Scotland. With no footprints or fingerprints, no witnesses and no DNA, the important thing turns into the suspects’ on-line actions. Jack Seale
Meet the Richardsons
9pm, Dave
The fake fly-on-the-wall format with real-life (albeit just lately separated) couple Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont soars when its superstar visitor stars go wild. On this episode, Ben Shephard and Kimberly Wyatt appear merely comfortable sufficient to be alongside for the experience; it’s left to Lucy’s Taskmaster castmate Julian Clary to unleash a hilarious flipside to his regular crushed-velvet camp. Graeme Advantage
The Regime
10pm, Sky Atlantic
The underwhelming satirical drama continues. It’s nearly held collectively by Kate Winslet’s efficiency as Elena Vernham, the chancellor of a central European autocracy. Elena’s land reforms come beneath risk and American engagement wanes. May a navy gambit be a danger value taking? PH
Movie decisions
Humorous Pages (Owen Kline, 2022), 10.50pm, Film4
In Owen Kline’s debut function, teenage goals are pretty straightforward to beat. His protagonist, 17-year-old Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), is a would-be cartoonist impressed by the sudden loss of life of his supportive artwork instructor to stop faculty and go away house to pursue his vocation. He strikes right into a squalid basement flat and will get an workplace job with a public defender. There, he meets the irate, unpredictable Wallace (Matthew Maher), who was once within the comics business, and thinks the older man might be his new mentor. Issues don’t go nicely. The naive Robert’s coming-of-age misadventures are regularly humorous and all the time excruciating because the plot throws an array of on a regular basis eccentrics his approach. Simon Wardell
The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, 1951), 2.25pm, Film4
This traditional Ealing comedy options one other of its downtrodden little males getting one over on the institution. Right here, it’s Alec Guinness’s lowly financial institution worker Henry Holland, who persuades vacationer trinket-maker Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) to hitch his plot to steal gold bullion, the transportation of which he supervises. The heist is barely a part of the enjoyable, with the director, Charles Crichton, mixing into the caper a terrific Keystone Cops-like chase via London and a pursuit in Paris. SW
