Wednesday

The Bay ITV1, 9pm

The fourth series of The Bay opens with a nightmare scenario. Through a window, mother-of-four Beth (Victoria Elliott) spots an intruder in the garden. Thinking it’s a burglar, she heads downstairs, only to find the house ablaze. Panicking, she makes sure that the children get outside to safety, before heading back inside to rescue the family dog; but she has misjudged how fast the fire has spread, and she finds herself trapped, screaming, on the top floor. By the time family liaison officer Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason) arrives on the scene, it is being treated as a murder case. But why would anyone want to target an ordinary family? As is characteristic of The Bay, its focus stays with the bereaved. Jenn, now firmly settled in the role as a replacement for Morven Christie’s Lisa Armstrong, relocates the family with an armed guard, although grows increasingly frustrated with widowed husband Dean (Joe Armstrong), who isn’t reacting in the way she expects. Stephen Kelly

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared Netflix

It has been nine years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing. What happened to the plane – and where – is explored in this gripping three-parter, which is structured around different theories. All are fairly far-fetched, but the story is so strange that even the wildest conspiracy theory starts to sound plausible. SK