DARK SECRETS OF A TRILLION DOLLAR ISLAND: GARENNE: STORYVILLE

Channel 4, 9pm

BBC Four, 10pm

Camilla Hall’s documentary shines a light into a very dark rabbit hole, exposing the unsavoury blend of cock-up and conspiracy surrounding the abusive regime underpinning Jersey’s Haut de la Garenne children’s home for several decades.

With much of the island establishment closing ranks to protect Jersey’s reputation and lifeblood as offshore tax haven, it was left to a few mavericks to ask inconvenient questions which could not be ignored.

Amid intense media interest, dismal mistakes were made in the police investigation (items reported as human bone turned out to be coconut shells) and the island’s unelected nabobs appeared at best aloof and at worst in denial about the situation. How else to explain Jersey bailiff Sir Philip Bailhache’s public pronouncement that,

“All child abuse, wherever it happens, is scandalous, but it is the remorseless and unjustified denigration of Jersey and her people that is the real scandal”? But amid the disgrace of several Jersey establishment linchpins and the humiliation of some of the police involved, the real suffering at the heart of the story is never forgotten. Gabriel Tate

Made with the full cooperation of Caroline Flack’s family, Charlie Russell’s desperately sad documentary about the late Love Island and

X Factor presenter is as layered and complex as its subject. The pressures of prurient tabloid scrutiny and social media abuse are in part deemed responsible for Flack’s decision to take her own life in February 2020 aged 40 – both were intensified to an unimaginable degree by a prosecution for assault of her ex-boyfriend that even he did not support.

But her intimates interviewed attest to a personality ill-equipped to handle the level of fame her ambition and talent brought her. Her twin, Jody, recalls her difficult but lovable and loved sister, her succession of unsuitable boyfriends, wild fluctuations in mood and struggles to manage heartbreak, as well as a fascination with suicide. She became, in Dermot O’Leary’s words, “addicted to affirmation” that proved increasingly hard to come by. The few minutes towards the end, where Jody and mother Christine look through old photos, are almost unbearable, but for the most part this is a deft, thoughtful and sensitive blend of celebration, eulogy and lament. Here’s hoping it generates more change than simply #BeKind. Gabriel Tate

This explosive investigation uncovers Jersey’s dark secrets

A sensitive look at the life and career of the TV presenter