Setting sail on a cold case
EMMERDALE
STV, 7pm GIDDY with excitement over the wedding, Mandy asks Lydia to be her bridesmaid. But Lydia feels uneasy about it, admitting she worries that none of the problems Mandy had with Paul have gone away.
Meanwhile, Paul is busy grabbing some bubbly to celebrate, but also looks like he has things on his mind.
Elsewhere, Cain is unimpressed to run into Faith, fresh from her night’s stay in the hearse. And Al is lording it over everyone because of his business award.
THE TERROR BBC2, 9pm PREPARE for a scare as this chiller brings a tale of horror on the ocean to the small screen.
It first aired in the US nearly three years ago, but now the menacing 10-parter, executive produced by Ridley Scott, finally hits mainstream UK telly.
Ciaran Hinds, Jared Harris, Paul Ready and Tobias Menzies head up the cast, while sumptuous sets and costumes bring some movie magic.
It’s loosely based on true events, in that in the mid-1800s, two British ships headed out on an ambitious Arctic voyage and never returned.
Their fate remains a mystery, but let’s hope it was nothing like you’ll see in this fictional account.
We’re told that in 1845, two Royal Navy ships left England to find a passage through the Arctic, in the most technologically advanced ships of their day… but they vanished.
Years later, there are only whispered rumours of a “thing made of muscles and spells” and the men being pursued until they were dead and gone.
The action cuts to HMS Erebus and HMS Terror on icy waters in 1846. The two crews are headed up by Sir John Franklin (Hinds) and Captain Francis Crozier (Harris), who don’t get on that well – while Captain James Fitzjames (Menzies) likes to stir up trouble.
Nonetheless, it’s all dining and drinking and telling each other anecdotes about how brave they are.
But then some unexpected events spook the crew and everything starts going very wrong for the ill-fated expedition.
Hold your nerve for a double bill of episodes tonight.