WEDNESDAY

THE IMITATION GAME,

RTE1, 9.35pm Television’s latest Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch, graduated to the silver screen with style in this biopic of mathematician Alan Turing. Recruited in Second World War England to work on cracking Nazi codes, including the Enigma machine, his considerably shortened the war. Yet within a decade of the end of the war authorities reveal he is gay and jail him. Disgraced, he feels there is only one way out. Graham Moore won best adapted screenplay Oscar for his debut.

IN THE ELECTRIC MIST

BBC1, 11.45pm Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman bring their best Deep Southern drawls to this adaptation of the James Lee Burke thriller. Louisiana Detective Robicheaux (Jones) is trying to link a prostitute’s murder to Big Easy gangster Julie ‘Baby Feet’ Balboni, who is producing a film about the Civil War. When a corpse is reported in a swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux becomes convinced it’s that of a black man who he saw being murdered years earlier. And then his surreal visions of Confederate soldiers begin.

THE ACCUSED

C4, 12.30am Nearly 30 years on from when it was made, be warned that one of the most controversial films of the 1980s has lost none of its power to shock and distress. Jodie Foster won the first of her two actress Oscars as Sarah, a young woman who is sexually assaulted in a bar. Outraged at her attackers’ light sentences, she asks prosecutor Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) to take up a case against the men who goaded her attackers, leading to an extremely tense court case.