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DRAMA COLD FEET
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The ripples from Adam and Karen’s new relationship are still being felt as the long-running drama opens its ninth series.
VERA
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Brenda Blethyn’s Northumberland detective is back for a tenth series, comprising four mysteries. In the first, a grim picture of a life starts to emerge when a dead body is found at an upmarket housing development.
COMEDY
THE GOES WRONG SHOW
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One of those rare TV comedies that the whole family can enjoy, this series of doomed one-off plays from Mischief Theatre is packed with precisely executed slapstick. Don’t take your eyes off the screen – you’re bound to miss a joke.
THE THICK OF IT
BBC IPLAYER HHHH In the week that Armando Iannucci’s space comedy Avenue 5 arrives (Wednesday, 10pm, Sky One), revisit his scorching political satire starring Peter Capaldi as a vicious spin doctor. All four series are available, including the first with Chris Langham.
DOCUMENTARY
CATCHING A KILLER: A DIARY FROM THE GRAVE
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In the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton, two neighbours died within 18 months of each other. A trainee vicar benefited from both wills, and became the chief suspect in their deaths – one victim left a diary, and the entries add a haunting dimension to this account of the case.
EXPOSED: THE CHURCH’S DARK SECRET
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Bishop Peter Ball was a high-profile figure with high-profile friends, such as the Prince of Wales. He was also a sexual predator who abused teenage boys, and the cover-up that resulted from his abhorrent activities reached the highest levels of the Church of England. This two-parter tells the whole alarming story.