Drama
Black Earth Rising
BBC TWO, 9.00PM
Hugo Blick’s riveting thriller takes yet another turn when, in echoes of the Pinochet case, an indicted war criminal arrives in the UK and moves to extradite him to the ICC are opposed by the repellent lawyer Blake Gaines (who’s played, in a lipsmacking turn, by Blick himself).
Strangers ITV, 9.00PM
David Chen (Anthony Wong) has vanished, leaving widowed academic Jonah (John Simm) without his closest ally. In the fourth instalment of this solid if unexceptional thriller, Jonah drifts further out of his depth when he follows the trail to Macau and stumbles upon some new and unpalatable truths.