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FOOTBALL Leicester City v Legia Warsaw, 7.45pm, BT Sport 2
WEST HAM can secure their progress to the Europa League last-16 with a victory in Vienna (5.15pm, BT Sport 1), but Leicester have work to do if they’re to avoid the drop to the Europa Conference League. Brendan Rodgers’s side sit third in Group C, a point behind this evening’s opponents.
U.S. HISTORY The Pilgrims, 6.45pm, PBS America
RIC BURNS is the younger brother of documentary maestro Ken Burns, and he made this evocative new one-off about the experience of the Protestants who settled the first permanent English colony in New England. It was a brutal experience,
and could easily have failed entirely.
FAB FOUR The Beatles: Get Back, Disney+
PETER JACKSON used the same restoration techniques he developed for his World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old on this three-part documentary, which brings The Beatles’ recording of their 1970 album Let It Be (working title Get Back) to eerie life. It culminates in a rooftop concert. Continues daily.
LEGAL TEAM The Good Fight, 9pm, More4
COVID has gone relatively unmentioned in season five, but it returns in a small way tonight as a case from Carmen’s drug lord client brings up a past hospital trauma for investigator Jay (Nyambi Nyambi). The highlight of the case is the introduction of a slick new lawyer nicknamed ‘Racehorse’.
FINANCIAL SCANDAL Wirecard: A Billion Euro Lie, 9pm, Sky Documentaries
‘SOMEHOW, they always turned a profit.’ This new documentary explores the story of Wirecard, a German digital payments company that experienced a meteoric rise — but some of its money just didn’t exist. Journalist Melanie Bergermann helps to explain what happened.
ACTION ADVENTURE Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol,
9pm, Sky Max
IF YOU’VE been looking for something easy and fun to watch, this prequel series to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code could well fit the bill. In part two, Robert (Ashley Zukerman) and Katherine (Valorie Curry, pictured) take shelter from an old friend, and use the time to puzzle out the next clue.
TRUE TALE The Act, 10pm, 5Star
PART four of this drama about the true story of Dee Dee Blanchard (Patricia Arquette), who allegedly
kept her daughter ill for years, and may have suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Ultimately, Dee Dee’s actions led to her death, and this episode helps to explain why as her daughter starts to notice boys.
PANDEMIC PLAY Death Of England, 10pm, Sky Arts
EARTHY exploration of racism from the National Theatre, set during the pandemic. Giles Terera and Neil Maskell (pictured) play two jolly friends we meet in the aftermath of a seemingly vicious argument — they flip between talking to each other and the audience, which pulls us right into the situation.
FILM THRILLER Don’t Tell A Soul, 10pm, Sky Premiere
WHEN two teens rob a remote home, they are disturbed by a security guard (Rainn Wilson) and trap him down a hole so that he can’t rat on them to the police. All is not as it seems . . .
CRIME DRAMA True Story, Netflix
IN A gritty drama from Narcos writer Eric Newman, Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes star as brothers caught up in a bad situation after a night out.