Falling
9pm, Channel 4
“May I see your cabbages?” Catholic priest David (Paapa Essiedu) asks devoted nun Anna (Keeley Hawes). “Only if you get me really drunk,” she chuckles. And with that, a forbidden love story starts to unfold. This is Jack Thorne’s new slow-burn drama about the relationship between two people committed to the church and their communities. In the opening episode, when Anna admits her “immortal thoughts of lust” to David, she doesn’t get the response she expected – but it will force her to reconsider her whole life. Does she really want to start again outside the convent? And are her feelings for Hot Priest 2.0 definitely one-sided? Jason Watkins and Niamh Cusack also star. Hollie Richardson
