Drama
Ackley Bridge
CHANNEL 4, 8.00PM
The first episode of this school drama set in a Yorkshire mill town had to have a last-minute edit to cut a fake bomb hoax scene in light of the Manchester terror attack. The plot lines in this second episode, however, are much lighter as Nas (Amy-leigh Hickman) reveals all to Missy (Poppy Lee Friar) about her secret crush. RW
Gracie!
BBC FOUR, 9.00PM
Jane Horrocks is perfectly cast in this 2009 biopic of Thirties superstar Gracie Fields, precisely conjuring up both Fields’s irrepressible chirpiness and her very distinctive singing style. Later, there’s another chance to see the 1977 Michael Parkinson interview with poet John Betjeman and Fields, in which she talks about watching Coronation
Street. RW
Fargo
CHANNEL 4, 10.00PM
The US drama moves from snowy Minnesota to sunny LA as cop Gloria (Carrie Coon) revisits her stepfather’s mysterious past.