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SPECIAL REPORT Stacey Dooley Investigates: Whale Hunters, from 10am, BBC3 (via iPlayer)
WHALING is more of a tradition than a job in the Faroe Islands, and that’s where Stacey Dooley begins her quest to try to understand both sides of the rather complicated whale-hunting debate.
FOOTBALL Leicester City v West Ham United, 7pm, BT Sport 2
AS THE Foxes fight for second place, they host West Ham, having beaten them 2-1 last month. Demarai Gray scored in what was to be Manuel Pellegrini’s last game in charge of the Hammers. Over on BT Sport 1 (7.30pm), Manchester United look to bounce back from their weekend defeat to Liverpool when they welcome Burnley to Old Trafford.
ON THE SLOPES Impossible Engineering, 8pm, Yesterday
WHISTLER mountain is a stunning sight, partly for its beauty and partly for the feats of engineering that have allowed humans to ski around so much of it. This new episode looks at some of the latter, including the record-breaking 2.7-mile Peak 2 Peak Gondola.
CRIME DRAMA Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, 9pm, Drama
THIS good-looking, new-toFreeview spin-off from Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is set in the Sixties, and follows the niece of the now-dead Phryne Fisher. Peregrine (Geraldine Hakewill) inherits her aunt’s fortune and becomes a PI in a chirpy show that echoes The Avengers.
MODEL BEHAVIOUR The Great Pottery Throw Down, 9pm, More4
WE’RE down to ten potters in this week’s new, third episode, and their challenge is to build two ceramic figurines of animals using the Japanese technique of nerikomi. Host Melanie Sykes observes as the contenders also try another, more dramatic Japanese technique: raku firing.
REALITY SHOW Long Lost Family U.S., 9pm, Quest Red
THE series ends with Mary-Ann, a Hispanic woman who, after taking a DNA test, discovered she was unrelated to the people she thought were her birth parents. With those parents now dead, Mary-Ann enlists the help of
Chris Jacobs to discover the truth. (Freeview 38, Sky 149, Virgin 170)
SPACE COMEDY Avenue 5, 10pm, Sky One
IN ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S The Thick Of It, the joke was the incompetence of those in power. The principle is the same in this much grander space comedy, starring Hugh Laurie (pictured) as the extremely confidentlooking captain of a ship full of blame-shifting idiots who are surely bound for trouble.
MOVING DRAMA Everybody Knows, 10.15pm, Sky Premiere
POWERFUL drama starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem as members of a Spanish family in which secrets are exposed and hearts broken by a kidnapping.
CRIME COMEDY Get Shorty, 11.25pm, Sony Movies
JOHN TRAVOLTA stars as the gangster who wants to reinvent himself as a Hollywood mogul, pushing a script based on his own life. The Elmore Leonard novel on which this was based was also made into a TV series in 2017.