TONIGHT’S TV CHOICE
NEW DNA Family Secrets BBC2, 9pm
When she’s not flicking her ginger tresses or practising the tango with boyfriend Kevin (‘from Grimsby’) Clifton, Stacey Dooley is to be found with her documentary hat on, here teaming up with geneticist professor Turi King to put DNA testing to work on behalf of people trying to connect with their family history. It’s Long Lost Family with extra science and fewer tears.
Why Is Covid Killing People Of Colour? BBC1, 9pm
David Harewood is black, in his fifties and has health issues including kidney disease and asthma. In this pandemic that means he has a target on his back. In this report the actor seeks answers to the question
in the title. As black communities are among those hardest hit, has Covid highlighted systemic racism?
Marcella
ITV, 9pm & 10.45pm This is not so much a crime drama as a portrait of woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Anna Friel’s troubled cop Marcella has a full-blown identity crisis in a climactic double bill – has Marcella gone for good and has alter ego Keira taken over?
NEW Your Honor Sky Atlantic, 9pm
Bryan Cranston has come a long way from playing the dopey dad in gem sitcom Malcolm In The Middle and gets his serious acting chops on again here in this thriller from British writer Peter Moffat, whose credits include Silk. There’s a legal edge – Cranston plays a judge whose son lands him in a very tight spot following an accident.