What not to miss in the week ahead
DRAMA DI Ray
The latest production from Jed Mercurio has been created and written by Maya Sondhi, aka PC Maneet Bindra in Line Of Duty. However, she isn’t playing the lead in her own project. Instead, Bend It Like Beckham and ER star Parminder Nagra has that honour. She is DI Rachita Ray, a Leicester-born police officer based in Birmingham who, when we first meet her, has finally received the promotion she’s longed for. It comes just as a case involving a “culturally specific homicide” requires a lead detective, and Rachita begins to wonder if her new job is a token appointment, one that will tick boxes due to her ethnicity rather than her ability – something that makes her even more determined to find the killer and prove any doubters wrong. Monday, STV, 9pm
DOCUMENTARY Lighthouses: Building The Impossible
Situated 20 miles off Pembrokeshire's coast, The Smalls is one of Britain’s most remote offshore lighthouses. As Rob Bell discovers, it presented challenges not only for builders and architects, but also the keepers – the presenter shares the macabre story of a man forced to share a prison-like cabin with his dead companion. Friday, Channel 5, 9pm
COMEDY
The Other One
The first series of this sitcom introduced viewers to half-sisters Catherine “Cathy” Walcott (Ellie White) and Catherine “Cat” Walcott (Lauren Socha), neither of whom was aware of the other’s existence until their father suddenly dropped dead. By the end of the first run they were hit by another bombshell – they have a brother, Callum (Christopher
Jeffers), and to make things even more complicated, Cathy kissed him. Awkward. Meanwhile, Cat’s mum, Marilyn (Siobhan Finneran) is unhappy to realise she wasn’t Colin’s only mistress.
Friday, BBC1, 9:30pm
DOCUMENTARY Born Deaf, Raised Hearing
Actor Jonny Cotsen created the one-man show Louder Is Not Always Clearer, which explored his experiences as a deaf man. He’s returning to the subject in this documentary, as he tries to find out why he was brought up as if he could hear, and whether it is too late for him to embrace his deaf identity.
Friday, BBC1, 7:30pm
DRAMA
The Terror: Infamy
The first series of this horror anthology was inspired by the real-life story of Captain Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic. This second run is telling a very different story, but once again the setting is inspired by real events, namely the forcible internment of people of Japanese ancestry in the US during the Second World War. Also drawing on Japanese folklore, the opening double bill sees the community of Terminal Island in Southern California dealing with a spate of sudden deaths. Derek Mio and George Takei are among the cast. Friday, BBC2, 9pm
DOCUMENTARY
Passion, Greed And The Super League
In April 2021 the owners of a cabal of top football clubs attempted a brazen power grab to reshape the sport for their own benefit. However, not long after the news that a European Super League was being set up, one by one, the clubs bowed to pressure, pulled out of the ESL and issued apologies. Gary Lineker, Lord Alan Sugar and Premier League CEO Richard Masters are among the contributors on this film asking what really led to these owners forming an unlikely alliance of US hedge funds, Russian oligarchs, European industrial tycoons and Gulf royals. Wednesday, BBC2, 9:30pm