SKY LIGHTS

True Blood SoHo, Tuesday, 8.30pm The fate of Bon Temps hangs in the balance as Sookie (Anna Paquin), Bill (Stephen Moyer), Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and co face new threats and shocking realities in the seventh and final season of this HBO hit vampire drama. While some of True Blood’s most beloved figures will meet cruel fates, others will cheat death to forge happily-ever-after relationships. No doubt blood will be spilled and hostages taken along the way. The Truth About Personality BBC Knowledge, Wednesday, 8.30pm Apparently optimists outlive pessimists by nearly a decade. Which is terrible news if you are a chronic melancholic. But understanding the origins of an optimistic personality could help save us from premature death. British journalist, medical doctor, TV presenter and journalist Michael Mosley takes a closer look at the links between a rose-tinted outlook and life expectancy and asks, what power do we possess to really change for the better? Caligula with Mary Beard History Channel, 8.30pm Historian Mary Beard embarks on an investigative journey to explore the life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus – better known to us as Caligula. Born some 2000 years ago, Caesar was known as Rome’s most capricious tyrant, was said to have made his horse a consul, proclaimed himself a living God, and indulged in scandalous orgies . . . and that’s before building vast bridges across land and sea, prostituting senators’ wives and killing half the Roman elite on a whim. All that in just four short years in power, before a violent and speedy assassination at just 29 years old. Beard reveals a story of murder, intrigue and dynastic