PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV
GREATEST HEISTS WITH PIERCE BROSNAN, 9PM, BLAZE
IF YOU had to pick an actor to front a show about jawdropping heists, then former 007 star Pierce Brosnan (pictured) would be close to the top of the list. The 1999 movie The Thomas Crown Affair proved that he loves an intricate law-breaking scheme, after all, and he clearly relishes his twinkly-eyed role presenting and narrating this new-to-Freeview documentary show about high-profile heists. And there are some brazen criminals caught red-handed in this eight-episode series, from the Italian ring of thieves who pulled off the
ART PIONEER Mary Cassatt: Painting The Modern Woman, 8pm, Sky Arts
THE U.S. painter Mary Cassatt had a significant impact on how women are represented in art — her prints, sketches and paintings include many images of mothers and children — though she never married or had children herself. This interesting new documentary explores the impressionist’s influence.
KINGS & QUEENS Royal Autopsy, 9pm, Sky History
PATHOLOGIST Brett Lockyer dissects the prosthetic ‘bodies’ of largest-ever diamond heist in Antwerp, Belgium, to the robbers disguised as coppers who walked out of a Boston art gallery with half a billion dollars’ worth of paintings. First, though, there’s the men who tunnelled into a bank vault deep beneath London’s Baker Street — but were unaware that an amateur radio enthusiast monarchs in this innovative and sometimes gross dive into the lives of kings and queens past. As Dr Lockyer proceeds with his grisly work, Professor Alice Roberts (pictured) asks questions about why they died. Series one covered Charles II and Elizabeth I, while the new, second series finds Henry IV, Mary I, Queen Anne and, in this first episode, George IV on the slab.
EIGHTIES SITCOM No Place Like Home, 8.20pm, BBC4
A RARE repeat for the comedy following the trials and tribulations of Arthur and Beryl Crabtree (William Gaunt and Patricia Garwood), who think their four children have flown the nest and are looking forward to some peace and quiet . . . Look out for a young Martin Clunes as their son Nigel, and new memories from Gaunt before the show itself. Continues next week.