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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue and Ali Catterall

TV tonight: the hit Danish true crime series following an undercover lawyer

Amira Smajic faces an unseen interlocutor in Black Swan (BBC Four).
Scandi noir … Amira Smajic in Black Swan (BBC Four). Photograph: BBC/Wingman Media

The Black Swan

9pm, BBC Four
Denmark has been named the least corrupt country in the world for the past six years, but this astonishing documentary series by film-maker Mads Brügger shows a darker side to the nation. Secret cameras film the lawyer Amira Smajic, a once trusted adviser to notorious gangs, and her undercover meetings with criminal clients – starting with a double bill that follows cases including dumping illegal toxic waste and managing bankruptcy without scrutiny. Hollie Richardson

Cooper & Fry

8pm, Channel 5
Sound the new mismatched detective duo klaxon: Robert James-Collier plays DC Ben Cooper, who is joined by Mandip Gill’s newcomer DC Diane Fry, to solve murders in the Peak District. Their opposite approaches are instantly clear when a body is unearthed on a Derbyshire farm during renovations. HR

Ambulance

9pm, BBC One
We’re used to praising life-saving work in this brilliant fly-on-the-wall paramedic series. But the first case this week shows the extraordinary job paramedics do, even when the patient doesn’t survive. Nick arrives at a family home where a 78-year-old man has stopped breathing, and asks his shocked wife to say her goodbyes. HR

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

9pm, Sky Max
Greg Davies referees a typically raucous episode of the rock’n’roll quiz, the last in the current run. Girls Aloud trouper Nadine Coyle and jacked rocker Tom Grennan compete to drop the most F-bombs while Strictly champion Chris McCausland gamely goes along with an impromptu edition of Blind Date. Graeme Virtue

In My Own Words: Yinka Shonibare

10.40pm, BBC One
British-Nigerian visual artist Yinka Shonibare – who put Nelson’s ship in a bottle in Trafalgar Square in 2010 – proves to be a wry, candid and deeply thoughtful chronicler of his own life. It is particularly affecting to hear how the impact of the spinal virus he contracted as a student in London shaped his outlook and creativity over the past 45 years. GV

Tell Me Lies

11.20pm, BBC One
“So, any fun Halloween plans?” It’s witchy season at Baird college, and everyone’s secrets are bubbling to the surface. Evan is having doubts about Bree, who is secretly sneaking off with creepy Oliver. Meanwhile, Lucy’s grade point average takes a nosedive after dropping Stephen’s class and Stephen is stirring up trouble again, trying to ruin Lucy’s relationships. Evil, as ever, is afoot. Ali Catterall

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