Bomb Girls reaches watershed moment

It’s August 1942 when Bomb Girls returns with its first new episode in six weeks, and much has happened in the interim.

The period drama about women working in a munitions factory during the Second World War landed a Canadian Screen Award during the break, for lead actress Meg Tilly.

And when the story picks up again, with an episode called Party Line, the war will reach a watershed moment — not for the outside world, perhaps, but certainly for the Canadian men and women who’ve been at war since the beginning.

For it was Aug. 19, 1942, when the Allies launched an ill-fated raid on Dieppe. Initial radio reports of a resounding victory for Allied forces are inescapable in the episode’s opening moments.

Interestingly, one of the peripheral characters plays a prominent role in the story’s return, and shows signs of becoming a main player. Vera, played with a subtle effectiveness by Anastasia Phillips, is a shift worker disfigured in an accident at the factory, and her road to recovery has been long and arduous. She’s veered from suicidal depression to, now, coolly calculating ambition, and is newly determined to decide her own destiny, quickly becoming the most interesting character. (9 p.m., Global)

The Voice is back with a new season, on a night of high-profile returns. Shakira and Usher join Blake Shelton and Adam Levine this season, replacing Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green, who chose to take a one-time hiatus. (8 p.m., NBC, CTV Two)

Revolution returns, too, with the rebels making a clean break from the megalomaniac Monroe (David Lyons) and his armoury of helicopters and heavy assault weapons. (10 p.m., NBC, City)

Monday Mornings features a guest shot by Ioan Gruffudd as a maverick surgeon whose conduct in the operating room breaks the first rule of medicine: do no harm. (10 p.m., Bravo)