PICK OF THE DAY
BLACK EARTH RISING, 9PM, BBC2
SWISS TRIP Travel Man: 48 Hours in Zurich, 8.30pm, Ch4
A SEVENTH series of the light-hearted travel show in which Richard Ayoade embarks on 48-hour mini-breaks to various destinations, each time accompanied by a different travelling companion. This week, he and Frank Skinner (pictured) enjoy a whistle-stop tour of Zurich, home to a football museum, Dada art and fondue.
WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN Reported Missing, 9pm, BBC1
THIS week’s true-life case centres on 49year-old George Richardson, who vanished after heading to the job centre. His family think the police could be doing more, and that’s before the situation escalates . . .
CONSPIRACY THRILLER Strangers, 9pm, STV
OPENING with a shocking scene, this eight-part drama stars John Simm WRITTEN, produced and directed by Baftawinner Hugo Blick (The Honourable Woman, The Shadow Line), this powerful eight-part thriller stars Harriet Walter as Eve Ashby, a leading human rights lawyer whose adopted daughter, Kate (Michaela Coel, pictured), survived the (pictured with Emilia Fox and Anthony Wong) as Jonah Mulray, whose world is turned upside down by devastating horrors of the Rwandan genocide as a child. Kate is now working as a legal investigator in the same chambers as her mother, run by Michael Ennis (John Goodman). But when Eve agrees to prosecute an African militia leader once regarded as a hero for fighting the genocide, the mother-daughter relationship is strained to breaking point. news — his wife has been killed in a car crash in Hong Kong, where she worked for half the year. After flying out to collect her body, Jonah soon realises how little he knew the woman he loved.
LOOKING FOR LOVE The Undateables, 9pm, Ch4
THE award-winning series is back for a ninth run, following more extraordinary single people as they go in search of someone equally extraordinary with whom to share their lives. This week, we meet Charlotte, who has Asperger’s
(and is a ‘sucker for romance’), James, who has Down’s syndrome, and Mitch, who was born deaf.
FILM CHOICES Psycho In-Law, 2.15pm, Ch5
CATHERINE DYER is the woman who takes an instant dislike to the woman her widowed son-in-law falls in love with. She will stop at nothing to prevent the formation of a new happy family, with a new woman (Katie Leclerc) replacing her beloved daughter.
Masaan, 1.55am, Ch4
THIS moving and revealing Indian drama follows two young people as their sad lives slowly converge. Devi (Richa Chadda, pictured) has her premarital sexual curiosity discovered by police, while Deepak (Vicky Kaushal) has his dreams of another life shattered by a tragic accident.