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KIDS’ GAME SHOW Crackerjack!j 6pm,p, CBBC
AFTER that sterling Christmas special, Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes (pictured) get down to the gungy business of hosting a full new series of this excellent revival. Their first group of guests certainly run the gamut, ranging from a comedy trampoline act to Chris Kamara and a string trio.
OUT OF THIS WORLD Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 6pm, Pick
SISKO (Avery Brooks) and his son go on a grand adventure together in a quiet, stand-alone Star Trek episode that is all about the characters — and is the show at its best. They build their own version of an ancient spaceship with sails, and end up where no one expected.
OCEAN EXPLORER
Expedition Amelia, Disney+
BOB BALLARD is the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic and here, he’s looking for the plane of the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific on July 2, 1937.
SCANDAL DOCTOR Baby God, 9pm, Sky Documentaries
DR QUINCY FORTIER was a fertility specialist who died aged 93, in good standing. This new U.S. documentary meets adults who learned, through genetic testing, that Fortier used his own samples to impregnate their mothers. It has left some questioning their identity. (Sky 114, Virgin 277)
NORDIC NOIR Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders, 9pm, More4
THIS returning Swedish drama perfectly captures the best of Nordic noir — complex characters with spiritual angst and dark senses of humour unravelling mysteries on bleak, epic landscapes. Rebecka (Sascha Zacharias) is a former big-city lawyer now working on cases, and herself, in the Arctic.
FANTASY TALE A Discovery Of Witches, 9pm, Sky One
VAMPIRE-WITCH couple Diana and Matthew (Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode, pictured) have travelled to Elizabethan London as Sky’s fantasy begins a new series. The way the city has been brought to life is very impressive, but what’s even more striking is Matthew’s increasingly creepy behaviour.
NEW COOKERY SERIES Amy Schumer Learns To Cook, 10pm, Food Network
‘BACK by slight demand’, the comedian Amy Schumer returns for a new series of the show in which her husband — the resolutely unstarry chef Chris Fischer — tries to teach her to cook. ‘Tries’ is the operative word, as Amy seems much more interested in making cocktails tonight.
FILM SATIRE Greed, 10pm, Sky Premiere
IN THIS satire of the super-rich from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan plays billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie who, with his 60th birthday approaching, finds his retail empire in crisis. A tale of excess and bad taste, it also stars David Mitchell and Isla Fisher, with a guest appearance by
the late Caroline Flack.
COMEDY DRAMA Dickinson, Apple TV+
THE return of this very modern —and often very funny — drama set in the time of the American poet Emily Dickinson, played with a rebel yell by Hailee Steinfeld.