On TV tonight, Casualty focuses on some budding friendships, Magpie Murders offers up even more mysteries for ahead of next week's series finale, Sky Documentaries checks out one of history's most shocking flight hijacks in Hijacked: Flight 73, and Channel 5 looks back at the relationship between King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort ahead of the coronation. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV Tonight.
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What's on TV tonight
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Best TV shows on TV tonight
Casualty, 8.25 pm, BBC One
As ever, there’s high drama in Holby ED, with Jan’s ex, Gethin, almost drowning, a senseless stabbing, a prankster gored by a bull and Jacob continuing to act like a loose cannon. Yet the real joy in tonight’s episode is seeing the budding friendships forming on the wards. Donna and Dylan’s car share (check out his ride!) gets into gear – minus the karaoke, but we live in hope; Stevie and Donna plan a girls’ night; and Max and Stevie develop a new understanding with plenty of playful rejoiners, which would raise eyebrows in HR, but who’s telling!?
★★★★ ER
Magpie Murders, 9.15 pm, BBC One/iPlayer (box set)
There are many loose ends to tie up before next week’s finale, but tonight, true to form in this classy whodunnit, there are just a few answers and more questions! So while we’re trying to work out who took that incriminating picture of Andreas, we’re also thrown a curveball in the form of Magpie Murders gardener Brent turning up in Alan Conway’s writing class… Conway’s detective Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) says sagely, ‘The past and present, one feeds on the other,’ and that’s been the case in this series as writer Anthony Horowitz cleverly interweaves not just the past and present but real life and fiction. Susan is left reeling from her discoveries, but can she finally solve the mystery?
★★★★ JP
Charles & Camilla: Against All Odds, 9.20 pm, Channel 5
We hardly need to tell you that next Saturday sees the coronation, the first of a British monarch in 70 years. Not only will King Charles III be crowned king on that day but after initially being given the title of Queen Consort, Camilla will now be crowned Queen. This new documentary looks back at the relationship between Charles and Camilla over the years – for much of the time under the close scrutiny of the media, with the public’s perception of them changing over time – while also speculating on what kind of sovereigns the couple will turn out to be.
★★★ JP
Hijacked: Flight 73, 9.20 pm, Sky Documentaries
In 1986, in one of the most shocking hijacks of all time, a Pan Am flight sitting on the tarmac at the airport in Karachi, Pakistan, was stormed by four armed terrorists. With interviews from the crew, passengers and crisis negotiators, this documentary details the terrifying 16-hour ordeal that followed and ended with 22 passengers dead and more than 100 injured. Does the official Pakistani version of events really stack up, and what were the hijackers really after?
★★★★ NH
Best box set on TV tonight
The always-excellent Keri Russell stars as Kate Wyler, the newly appointed US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, who was hoping to be sent to Afghanistan rather than London. But as threats of war bubble over across the world, Kate has to make do with the UK, where she defuses international crises, forges strategic alliances, and adjusts to her new life and career.
Making everything harder is Kate’s need to balance the grandeur and majesty of working with heads of state with surviving her long-term marriage to fellow career diplomat and political star Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell). The political thriller also stars Brits David Gyasi and Rory Kinnear, while Celia Imrie makes a guest appearance.
NC
Best film on TV tonight
Le Mans '66, 9.20 pm, Channel 4
Canny scheduling at C4 means Azerbaijan Grand Prix Qualifying Highlights (7.50pm) is followed by more petrolhead entertainment in the shape of this thrill-soaked, nostalgia-heavy retelling of the Ford v Ferrari feud in the 1960s. Matt Damon plays daredevil driver Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale plays blunt Brummie Ken Miles, the mechanic who can take Shelby and Ford to chequered-flag glory and help ‘bury’ their Italian rivals. It's a beautifully judged film (beautiful-looking, too), with enough detail to keep car nuts happy but not so much that it grinds to a standstill.
★★★★ SM
Live Sport
- Snooker World Championship, 10 am, BBC Two
- Women's Six Nations: England v France, 12.30 pm, (k-o 1 pm), BBC Two
- F1: Azerbaijan Grand Prix, 10.15 am, Sky Sports Main Event/F1
- Premier League: Crystal Palace v West Ham, 11.30 am (k-o 12.30 pm), BT Sport 1
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