The week in TV: Manhunt; Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax; The Dry; Is University Really Worth It? – review

‘Wheezing nobly’: Tobias Menzies as Edwin Stanton, on the trail of assassin John Wilkes Booth in Manhunt. Photograph: Apple TV

Manhunt Apple TV+
Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax (Channel 4) | channel4.com
The Dry ITVX
Is University Really Worth It? (BBC Two) | iPlayer

I’m always ready to be educated by television, but should it feel like actual homework? Monica Beletsky’s new seven-part Apple TV+ drama, Manhunt, sounded compelling. Based on James L Swanson’s book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, it opens with the 1865 assassination of US president Abraham Lincoln. At Ford’s theatre in Washington, actor John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle) shot Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) in the head, jumped on to the stage (breaking his leg), then escaped with help from Confederate sympathisers.