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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Hannah J Davies, Hannah Verdier and Phil Harrison

TV tonight: a devastating drama about the mass removal of Canada’s Indigenous children

A child being dragged off by a woman, with another woman behind the child with her arms stretched out. Two policeman and a white truck are behind them
Heartache … Little Bird. Photograph: ©Original Pictures Inc.

Little Bird

9pm, Sky Atlantic
A devastating drama about the “Sixties Scoop” – when Canadian authorities enabled a mass removal of Indigenous children from their families and put them into the welfare system. Twentysomething Esther Rosenblum is investigating how she came to be adopted as a five-year-old in Montreal and is looking for her estranged siblings. Flashbacks to 15 years earlier show what happened after the night they were taken from their parents. Hollie Richardson

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