VERA
ABC, 8.30pm
Septuagenarian sleuth DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) returns to screens for her ninth season. Casting a unique shadow across the Northumberland countryside thanks to her distinctive hat-and-wellies combo, Vera is back with four new feature-length whodunnits. Tonight, the unconventional detective is called to investigate when the body of a woman is discovered at a landfill site. The victim is a trainee forensic psychologist who had been looking into a historic murder case – Vera’s first instinct is to pick up that investigation to catch her killer, but finding the truth won’t be easy.