PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV
LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, NETFLIX
IT MAY have started as a spin-off from Law & Order, but the series focusing on the Special Victims Unit — named after a real-life police unit that handles sex crimes — has long since surpassed the show that spawned it. As of 2024 it’s the longest running primetime live-action drama on American TV, having clocked up a ridiculous 25 series since it began in 1999. Netflix has multiple series available so set aside plenty of time to binge the cases handled by the New York unit. Lead detectives Stabler and Benson (played with sharp-eyed empathy by Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay, pictured second left) are great, but watch too for the late Richard Belzer (a transfer over from parent show Law & Order) whose turn as deadpan detective John Munch is a masterclass in laconic scene stealing. Series 25 begins today with the team searching for a child who has gone missing in broad daylight.
CLASSIC FILMS The Three Faces Of Eve, 9pm, BBC4
FILM NOIR mystery with a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, who also wrote How To Marry A Millionaire, which follows. It is loosely based on a real psychiatric case study, of a woman (Joanne Woodward) with dissociative identity disorder; Lee J. Cobb plays the doctor who tries to cure her. Then, at 10.30pm, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable are the trio of beautiful, resourceful and well-groomed women looking for millionaire husbands in New York in a sparkling comedy.
LIFE IN THE FAST LANE Rob & Romesh vs F1, 9pm, Sky Max
COMEDY double act Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan (pictured) go behind the scenes at the Monaco Grand Prix in this fun new two-parter. They’ve been given access to the Mercedes team, and get to have a chat with British driver Lewis Hamilton, as well as dabbling in some work.
HAPPY MEMORIES Billy Connolly Does..., 9pm, GOLD
THE hilarious Scottish comedian is showing that he’s still as funny as ever even as he approashes 82. Here, in a new episode of memories from the past, he reflects on bad choices. Specifically, the kind of things that happen when we drink too much, and how what’s acceptable has changed over time.