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Entertainment
Phil Harrison, Priya Elan, Jack Seale and Graeme Virtue

TV tonight: a new mismatched detective duo for crime drama fans

Ethan Winter and Lauren Bell stand in an office in ITV drama Winter.
Body of evidence … Dr Ethan Winter (Richard Armitage) and DI Lauren Bell (Anna Scholey) in Winter. Photograph: Eagle Eye Drama

Winter

9pm, ITV1
If you have room for one more mismatched detective duo in your life, this new drama introduces Dr Ethan Winter (Richard Armitage), an unbearably smug forensic pathologist who can “read a body like a book”, and DI Lauren Bell (Annabel Scholey), a diligent, frosty cop. The pair are on a collision course as the murder of a young woman lands in their in trays. But when an explosive postmortem raises the stakes, they are forced to tolerate each other. Phil Harrison

The Shaman’s Grave

8pm, BBC Four
The capacity of archaeology to open a window into human belief systems is at the heart of this documentary exploring a very cold case from Germany. What do the bodies of a stone age woman and child – and the other items in their shared grave – tell us about the era’s spiritual practices? PH

Cause of Death

9pm, Channel 5
Nineteen-year-old Jay Slater was holidaying in Tenerife when he tripped and fell to his death at the bottom of a ravine. Now, pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd returns to the scene of the disaster with Jay’s mum, Debbie, recreating his last walk in order to work out what killed him: deyhdration, a lack of sleep or something else? Priya Elan

Yuja

9pm, Sky Arts
This intriguing portrait of the prodigious Chinese-American pianist Yuja Wang does a good job of telling her life story while leaving some of her essential mystery intact. She’s a charming but abstracted interviewee: reclining, as if in therapy, and struggling to fully explain her brilliance. PH

Not Going Out

9.30pm, BBC One

There are shades of the Fawlty Towers anniversary episode as Lee (Lee Mack) desperately tries to deflect withering house guests Anna and Toby (Abigail Cruttenden and Hugh Dennis) away from the discovery that Lucy (Sally Bretton) is hiding from them upstairs. The cat doesn’t help. Jack Seale

Martin Compston: Living Las Vegas

10pm, Channel 4
“Now I know why John Wayne walked like that …” Affable tour guide Compston saddles up for an authentic cowboy adventure in the second instalment of his Sin City travelogue. Other highlights include a raucous cocktail sesh with Scottish drag star Lawrence Chaney and a belated trip to the Grand Canyon. Graeme Virtue

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