TV & Radio
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DRAMA
Innocent
Lee Ingleby and Hermione Norris star in a new STV thriller, which is being shown over four nights next week.
Ingleby, probably best known for his long-running role in Inspector George Gently, plays David Collins, who has been protesting his innocence ever since being convicted for the murder of his wife Tara seven years earlier.
Despised by his wife’s family and friends, his only support has been his brother Phil (Daniel Ryan) who has stood by him, sacrificing his own career and livelihood to mount a tireless campaign to prove his brother’s innocence.
In the first episode, Collins is unexpectedly acquitted on a technicality and vows to bring to book those who lied at his original trial, to see the real killer jailed and more importantly, to regain custody of his two young children, Jack and Rosie.
Norris, star of Cold Feet and Spooks, plays Tara’s sister, Alice, who with her husband Rob (Adrian Rawlins) has been raising David’s kids as her own. As a new investigation is launched, long-hidden secrets emerge.
Monday to Thursday, STV, 9pm
COMEDY
Atlanta
Donald Glover’s acclaimed comedy drama Atlanta has finally found a home in the UK on BBC2.
The series, which has won two Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards, centres on the lives of two cousins working in the Atlanta music scene. Star Wars actor Glover plays Earnest Marks, a Princeton dropout who returns to his hometown of Atlanta to discover his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry) has become the hottest new rap act. Lakeith Stanfield co-stars as Darius, Alfred’s right-hand man and visionary.
The ten-part series originally launched in the US in September 2016 with a second already made and about to air in America.
Tomorrow, BBC2, 10pm
MUSIC Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Sit back and enjoy the glitzy extravaganza as 26 countries, whittled down from 43, compete in the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal. The UK’S entry is Storm by Surie, who has been to Eurovision before as a backing singer for Belgium. Recent history and tactical voting suggests a top ten finish would be considered a success. Israel’s song Toy, by Netta Barzilai is the hot favourite, with Alexander Rybak singing That’s How You Write A Song also considered a front runner. Graham Norton provides the tonguein-cheek commentary.
Today, BBC1, 8pm
CRIME
Midsomer Murders
The 20th season of the whodunnit series set in the picturesque but murderous villages of the fictional county of Midsomer returns, with Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby and Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter. The six-parter begins when the body of woman on a Jane Austen weekend at Whitcombe Grange is found dead in the woods.
Tomorrow, STV, 8pm
DOCUMENTARIES Burma With Simon Reeve/myanmar’s Killing Fields
In August last year the world was left stunned when a brutal military operation drove hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from their homes in Myanmar, as Burma is now known.
For the BBC, Simon Reeve travels to the country and to Bangladesh to meet the refugees traumatised by the violence, while for Channel 4, Dispatches have access to Rohingya activists’ secret recordings, which provide evidence of years of repression and violence by the Myanmar authorities. ■
Tomorrow, BBC2, 9pm; Monday, Channel 4, 10:20pm