The very best of the week ahead
Today Jeremy Kyle: Death on Daytime
Channel 4, 9pm
Having touched upon it in Dispatches: TV on Trial around the time the news broke in 2019, Channel 4 returns to one of British daytime television’s nadirs for the full two-part documentary treatment. Guests, relatives and whistleblowers from the production team expose the context behind the death of Steve Dymond, who took his own life in 2019 after failing one of The Jeremy Kyle Show’s notorious lie-detector tests. Such goings-on were characterised as “a human form of bear-baiting” by a judge while sentencing a man for assault on the show back in 2007 – a full 12 years before its eventual, overdue cancellation. Supported by behind-the-scenes footage, the contributors will discuss reports of production crew priming and provoking guests in the hope that verbal or physical abuse would follow. The series itself, thankfully, feels like a relic and while Kyle is attempting to restart his media career with a drivetime slot on TalkRadio, it feels increasingly unlikely that he will ever enjoy such influence or prominence again. Kira Phillips’s two-parter concludes at 9pm tomorrow, with the full series available on All4 from 10pm tonight. Gabriel Tate
British Academy Film Awards 2022
BBC One, 7pm
Actress Rebel Wilson – the sixth host in five years – steps up to the plate at the Royal Albert Hall at the British film industry’s biggest annual shindig. This year, Dune deservedly leads the way ahead of The Power of the Dog, Licorice Pizza and, implausibly, Kenneth Branagh’s sickly sweet Belfast.