PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV
THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB, 8PM, DRAMA
THIS isn’t just another cosy crime drama. It’s written by genre master Robert Thorogood, the creator of Death In Paradise, and is based on his books set in the picturesque riverside town of the title, where a local shooting brings together three women to seek out a killer. Samantha Bond stars as Judith Potts, a sharp-eyed ex-archaeologist with a fondness for crosswords and swimming nude in the Thames. The second woman is astute vicar’s wife Becks Starling (Cara Horgan), and rounding out the trio is dogwalking empty-nester Suzie
FILM DRAMA L’Immensita, 9.35am/ 12.05am, Sky Premiere
PENéLOPE CRUZ (pictured) stars in this joyful and poignant drama set in 1970s Rome, about a mother caught between her children and a marriage that should be over.
ABUSE EXPOSÉ The Program: Cons, Cults And Kidnapping, Netflix
AS A teenager, Katherine Kubler was picked up from school one day by men carrying handcuffs and driven to a new educational facility in the middle of nowhere — and she wasn’t allowed to leave . . . America’s troubled-teen
Harris (Jo Martin, pictured near right with Bond and Horgan). All three women are unfulfilled in some way, but find great satisfaction in sinking their teeth into a mystery after meeting at Judith’s enormous house — which yes, we do learn how she managed to afford on an archaeologist’s salary. That’s a good set-up, but where this show really starts to score points is in rehabilitation industry is big business, but a lack of supervision and control frequently leads to teenagers suffering mental and physical abuse at the hands of fellow students and often even staff. Kubler’s personal and hardhitting, how it builds. The more we get to know these characters the funnier and deeper they get, and the actors clearly have a great chemistry. Concludes tomorrow
three-part series unpicks her own nightmarish experiences at a school that left her with mental, emotional and physical scars, many of which are now only beginning to heal decades later.
COMIC TALE Cold Comfort Farm, 10pm, BBC4
JOHN SCHLESINGER’S adaptation of Stella Gibbons’s 1932 comic novel stars a fresh-faced Kate Beckinsale as Flora Poste, the orphan who brightens up the lives of eccentric relatives on a farm. The impressive cast includes Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Rufus Sewell, Eileen Atkins and Miriam Margolyes — who looks back on her role as she introduces the film tonight.