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Forensics: The Real CSI (BBC2, 9pm)

The fascinating series concludes with the case of a 34-year-old man who was fatally stabbed while visiting a group of friends in a multioccupancy property in Birmingham. Some potentially vital evidence has been compromised by the presence of the paramedics who attempted to save the man’s life, so the detectives turn to CCTV and financial transactions to track their suspect before he boards a flight out of the country. The team also uses a mix of traditional and digital forensics to find out whether the witnesses’ accounts stand up to scrutiny.

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (C5, 9pm)

In the latest episode of his new series, Ben Fogle is catching up with one of the wildest people he’s ever met, Emma, who lives in Wales. He finds her hidden away in an overgrown woodland, where she reveals that she’s still embracing an organic life, which is off-grid and almost entirely independent from the outside world. However, he discovers that as Emma has got older, she has needed to adapt her way of life, and he meets some of the people she is sharing her home with and pitches in to construct a new communal mud hut.

512 Hours with Marina Abramovic (Sky Arts, 9pm)

In summer 2014, internationally acclaimed artist Marina Abramovic performed in the Serpentine Gallery for the duration of her exhibition: 10am to 6pm, six days a week, attracting nearly 130,000 visitors. This documentary follows Marina as she creates the simplest of environments in the gallery spaces, with her only materials being herself, the audience and a selection of props. On arrival, visitors left their baggage (both literally and metaphorically) behind as they entered the exhibition. The public then became the performing body, participating in the delivery of an unprecedented piece of durational performance art.

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Below Deck Mediterranean (E4, 7.30pm)

The American reality series continues, and after the crew’s first night off, Hannah puts her foot down when Bobby and Danny bring girls back to the yacht. Bryan attempts to smooth things over with the Captain, but the boys are given their first strike. Then, when an all-female group charters the yacht for their upcoming calendar shoot, the Ionian Princess crew struggles to keep up with their demands.

The Bay (STV, 9pm)

It’s been a compelling second series for the crime drama, Morven Christie’s disgraced DC Lisa Armstrong having to battle to leave her image behind after that CCTV footage of her in the back alley with the prime suspect of the last

mirroring the 45th President of the United States’ time in the White House, which began in headline-grabbing fashion and yet somehow managed to become more compelling and unbelievable as time went on. Here he sets his sights on Asia, launching the biggest trade war America has ever seen before forging one of the most unlikely friendships in diplomatic history, with one of the world’s most brutal dictators in North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.

THURSDAY

How to Keep a Healthy Weight with Michael Mosley (C4, 8pm)

Whether you’ve been taking advantage of your allocated outdoor exercise every day or not, it’s hard to deny that the lockdowns of the past year have not been conducive to maintaining a svelte figure. And of course weight isn’t everything – studies have proven that it’s far better to be healthy than slim – but for those who wish to shed a few pounds (and keep them shed) Dr Michael Mosley is worth listening to. Here he reunites five volunteers who he helped ‘Lose a Stone in 21 Days’, offering further advice and busting a few myths.

Your Garden Made Perfect (BBC2, 8pm)

Some people may dream of having a swimming pool, but for Suzanne and Andrew, it’s more of a nightmare, mainly because the giant pool in their Plymouth back garden is derelict. They’ve approached landscaping companies about sorting it out, but the businesses have declinee to take the plunge, and the couple can’t afford to simply fill it in. So, how will designers Tom Massey and Pop Probert transform this unique outdoor space? Meanwhile, Joel Bird comes to the help of an Essex couple with patio problems. Presented by Angela Scanlon.

The Directors (Sky Arts, 8pm)

A profile of Rob Reiner, who first shot to fame for his acting role as Michael ‘Meathead’ Stivic in the TV series All in the Family. After that, he turned to directing, with first his being the 1984 faux rock-and-roll documentary This Is Spinal Tap. His next film, Stand by Me, was an adaptation of a Stephen King story, before he achieved success with The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally..., Misery, A Few Good Men, North, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi and And So It Goes.

Piers Morgan’s Life Stories (STV, 9pm)

GMB presenter Piers has had quite the line-up of guests over the years, from Roger Moore to Raquel Welch, Caitlyn Jenner to Cliff Richard, Mel B to Michael Parkinson. Tonight’s interviewee can recall a time when TV was a very different landscape: Tricia Goddard, who rose to fame with a confessional TV show in the UK, before she moved to the US, working as a conflict resolution expert on the similar Maury show. Her own life has been every bit as fascinating as anyone she featured, and here she discusses how she learned the man she called ‘dad’ wasn’t her biological father, and how her mother took the secret to her grave.

Back (C4, 10.05pm)

The second series of Simon Blackwell’s superb sitcom draws to a close, and with it goes one more tenuous thread of any relationship we had with the notion of a pub, at which people socialise. Still, there’s plenty of fun yet as Stephen (David Mitchell) and Alison (Olivia Poulet) head out with revenge in mind and a plot to track down Andrew’s birth mother. Despite Andrew (Robert Webb) having maliciously inveigled his way into Stephen’s family life, Stephen still starts to have second thoughts.

FRIDAY

Grayson’s Art Club (C4, 8pm)

Grayson’s first Art Club series – initially delayed due to (non-covid) illness – was one of the big hits of Lockdown 1, helping to foster that feeling of community and togetherness that was so much a feature of that time. It also helped many of us to get creative, or to reawaken that spark for making that had become dormant. He’s back with more masterclasses, hints and tips, and creative guests. First up he’s joined by Boy George, who creates an artwork inspired by this week’s theme: ‘Family’. Plus photographer David Bailey discusses his other passion – painting – while Yinka Illori demonstrates how his work fuses stories from his British and Nigerian heritage, and Harry Hill makes an appearance.

Kate Humble’s Coastal Britain (C5, 8pm)

With a warning to those with no head for heights, Kate’s latest jaunt around the UK’s coastline sees her find out more about North Yorkshire, beginning at the 300-foot cliffs surrounding Robin Hood’s Bay, before descending to the town. From there, she heads to the site of a 16th-century factory whose ruins provide the ideal habitat for the adder.

However, it’s a different kind of reptile that really captures the imagination, as she learns about the footprints left by dinosaurs which roamed the region.

Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez (BBC2, 9pm)

It’s not often that a documentary with a blockbuster-baiting title such as this Indiana Jones-evoking series actually lives up to the excitement it generates for itself, but Janina Ramirez has an uncanny ability of picking out the truly extraordinary moments and objects from history’s often drab shelves. Here she investigates the Oseberg ship, a remarkably well preserved Viking vessel discovered in a burial mound in Norway. This ship dates back 1,000 years and is immediately recognisable from fictional portrayals of Viking marauders in movies and TV – but it’s the real deal. So well preserved is this boat that intricate carvings on its bow look as though they have just been made. Janina treks through the southern fjords of Norway to find out more.

Later - with Jools Holland (BBC2, 10pm)

Rag’n’Bone Man will be familiar to regular viewers – he’s one of the (many) acts who owe much of their success to the former Squeeze member’s uncanny knack of seeking out and promoting future stars as they just begin their ascent. The ‘Human’ singer is back, treating us to a performance of his new single, All You Ever Wanted. Meanwhile US folk music legend Peggy Seeger performs All In Then Mind, and jazz drummer and producer Moses Boyd discusses his musical influences.