Tuesday

May 6, 2025 Vol 19

TV Tonight: Prickly 50s Drama Returns by Michelle Keegan | Television and radio


Ten thousand poms

8pm, BBC one

Brassic co-creating Danny Brocklehurst is a pleasing prickly period drama about UK families trying to make a fresh start in the 1950s Oz is back for a second series. After a year at a Crummy Hostel Camp, the expansion of Roberts Clan-led by ex-soldier Terry (Warren Brown) and Sharp Shopgirl Annie (Faye Marasa)-is referred to as moving to the world. Meanwhile, desperate nurse (Michelle Keegan) nurse is to reclaim her childbirth … but how long will the pair remain? Virtue of Graeme

The America

6.15pm, BBC one

Tom Hanks’s lovely narration and some inconvenient -belief atone for this documentary environment rather than this vague remit. This week we were in Mexico: there was mum-and-chicks drama in the desert, and dastardly orcas scheming together to hunt dolphins in the Cortez sea. Plus, a closeup look at bee orchids and monarch butterflies. Jack Seale

Toward zero

9pm, BBC one

Love the triangles … to zero in BBC one. Photo: Nick Wall/BBC/Mammoth Screen

While the adaptation of Star-studded Agatha Christie reached its second movement, a shocking murder was discovered at the point of Gull-the Devon Estate of Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston). Insp Leach (Matthew Rhys) should find his foot in the midst of the triangles of love and social scandals in the 1930s England if he brings a killer to justice. Ellen e Jones

Forensics: the real CSI

9pm, BBC two

Another surprising tiptoe around a terrible -terrifying crime scene. A man was severely stabbed to his home in Birmingham and it was falling for forensics expert Cara Nicholls-Parkin to follow-quite literally at times-the blood path. It is inevitable bloody but also noteworthy in its description of many aspects of a murder investigation. Phil Harrison

The great pot discarded

9pm, channel 4

It was a final time, and the kilong pressure was in the final three tournaments that made the Greek amphora statement. Siobhán McSweeney manages any cracks, while judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller have chosen their winner. Before that: a final task that involves intense throwing. Time

Family secrets: The loss of Alissa Turney

9pm, sky crime

By 2020, Sarah Turner gained millions of listeners in the podcast and scene of Tiktok as she shared her belief that her father had killed her sister Alissa almost 20 years ago. This resulted in an arrest and trial that was eventually removed. He shared his personal investigation into the documentary length of this feature. Hollie Richardson

Movie choice

Get Carter, 10pm, BBC Two

Brutal … Get Carter to BBC Two. Photo: AllStar Picture Library is limited./alaky

Usually a cruel, amoral edge of Michael Caine’s most memorable characters, and Jack Carter in Mike Hodges’ hardcore drama drama is a case study in cold revenge. Back home in Newcastle with Tyne to find out who killed her brother, London -based gangster Jack Rubs all the wrong ways. But will he get to the truth before the local mobsters send him, or worse? Hodges has a great feeling for the environment working in the class moving class, setting scenes with pubs, racecourses, ferries and the bingo, as his adventure will be more cruel. SIMON WARDELL

Live sport

Championship Football: Portsmouth V Leeds, 11.30am, ITV1 From Fratton Park.

Women’s Fa Cup Football: Man City V Aston Villa, 12.20pm, BBC One A quarter-final at Joie Stadium, with WSL top scorer Khadija Shaw Eading the line for the home side.

Thora Simonis

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