The best of tonight’s television
As pressure builds on Laz and the engineers to find a solution to the MAV malfunction, Sadie and Ollie’s marriage is sorely tested. Sean Penn and Natascha McElhone star.
■ BEST DRAMA The First Channel 4, 9pm
On March 4 this year, former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were enjoying an afternoon out in Salisbury when they collapsed due to exposure to a nerve agent. Jane Corbin talks to the police who investigated the attack, and travels to Russia to meet the family of the man the Kremlin wanted dead. Ella finds out why local residents in Donegal are opposed to a planned oyster farm, while Helen is in Co Kildare to meet a farmer who benefited from the summer heatwave.
■ PROGRAMME OF THE DAY Panorma
BBC One, 8pm
BEST LIFESTYLE Ear To The Ground RTÉ One, 8.30pm
■ MOVIE OF THE DAY Parkland
Film4, 9pm
Drama built around the experiences of Abraham Zapruder, a movie buff who happened to be filming John F Kennedy’s visit to Dallas on 22 November, 1963.
■ WATCH BACK Grand Designs All 4
Presenter Kevin McCloud visits an impressive pair of black boxes that push the limits of engineering, and a 21st century Scottish crofter’s cottage.