BEST OF THE REST
GIRI/HAJI
BBC2, 9pm
IT’S a bloody start to this Japanese English thriller, named after the Japanese words for duty and shame.
In London, a man is found stabbed in the back, dead on his apartment floor.
Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a man is eating his rice and noodles before a machine gun opens fire and kills him and several others in the restaurant.
The hero of the tale is detective and family man, Kenzo Mori (Takehiro Hira), who travels to London in search of his younger brother, Yuto (Yosuke Kubozuka) – long believed to be dead, but now rumoured to have reappeared in London.
Yuto is now wanted for a vicious killing in London that threatens a gang war in Tokyo.
The drama jumps between London and a subtitled Tokyo. Watch out for some light relief from Will Sharpe as gregarious rent boy Rodney, and Kelly Macdonald as an ostracized police officer.
These two may prove a help to Kenzo as he searches for the truth.
MUSIC LATER – WITH JOOLS HOLLAND
BBC2, 10pm
THE return of the iconic music show which gave the TV debuts to the likes of Adele, Stormzy, Arctic Monkeys and Amy Winehouse.
It may have a new set and a new suit for Jools, but promises to stay true to its long-held tradition of bringing talented musicians to the stage.
Joining Jools on the 54th series opener are Mark Ronson and five new female artists – YEBBA, who will also perform with rapper Sampa the Great, Welsh Mercury Prize nominee Cate Le Bon, singer songwriter and drummer Georgia and soul singer P.P. Arnold.
Award-winning producer Ronson will be performing a “sad banger”, to use his self-coined term, from fifth album Late Night Feelings.
Other artists appearing on the series include Liam Gallagher, Celeste, Rex Orange County, Amyl and the Sniffers, Kojey Radical, The S.L.P., Michael Kiwanuka, Little Simz, slowthai, Kano, Nerija, Elbow, Lewis Capaldi and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.