The Jinx – Part Two
9pm, Sky Documentaries
There used to be a rule that documentary-makers shouldn’t interfere with their subjects. But Andrew Jarecki’s jaw-dropping 2015 series The Jinx proved an exception. Jarecki, you may recall, elicited an apparent confession to murder from the real estate heir Robert Durst – which resulted in Durst briefly going on the run before his arrest, the night before the finale aired. This sequel picks up where the first series left off, covering Durst’s attempted escape, his incredibly odd dialogue with police and the cast of oddball allies he acquired in the show’s aftermath. The story keeps on giving – although, as we are reminded by footage of the family of one of Durst’s victims watching the first series, it’s a story with horror at its heart. Phil Harrison
Blue Lights
9pm, BBC One
Just as our hearts have recovered from the intense season opener of the fine Belfast-set cop drama, Annie and Shane find themselves running into a burning house that a loyalist gang has targeted – and worse is yet to come. Elsewhere, Grace and Stevie call a truce, but can feelings really go away when you spend 10 hours together in a car fighting crime every day? Hollie Richardson
Pompeii: The New Dig
9pm, BBC Two
Calling all Indiana Jones or Lara Croft wannabes! Get ready to dive even deeper into the lost world of Pompeii in the second part of a series that follows archaeologists as they excavate an entire city block. They reveal what life was like before Vesuvius erupted in AD79 – and explore the horrifying final moments of all those unfortunates who were lost in the disaster. Kayleigh Dray
Murder Case: The Digital Detectives
9pm, Channel 4
This series is fascinating for viewers with a crime-solving bent, since it takes us into a sort of post-forensics world. Take this week’s case, for instance, which is a burnt body found in a remote location in Scotland. With no footprints or fingerprints, no witnesses and no DNA, the key becomes the suspects’ online activities. Jack Seale
Meet the Richardsons
9pm, Dave
The faux fly-on-the-wall format with real-life (albeit recently separated) couple Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont soars when its celebrity guest stars go wild. In this episode, Ben Shephard and Kimberly Wyatt seem simply happy enough to be along for the ride; it is left to Lucy’s Taskmaster castmate Julian Clary to unleash a hilarious flipside to his usual crushed-velvet camp. Graeme Virtue
The Regime
10pm, Sky Atlantic
The underwhelming satirical drama continues. It is just about held together by Kate Winslet’s performance as Elena Vernham, the chancellor of a central European autocracy. Elena’s land reforms come under threat and American engagement wanes. Might a military gambit be a risk worth taking? PH
Film choices
Funny Pages (Owen Kline, 2022), 10.50pm, Film4
In Owen Kline’s debut feature, teenage dreams are fairly easy to beat. His protagonist, 17-year-old Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), is a would-be cartoonist inspired by the sudden death of his supportive art teacher to quit school and leave home to pursue his vocation. He moves into a squalid basement flat and gets an office job with a public defender. There, he meets the irate, unpredictable Wallace (Matthew Maher), who used to be in the comics industry, and thinks the older man could be his new mentor. Things don’t go well. The naive Robert’s coming-of-age misadventures are frequently funny and always excruciating as the plot throws an array of everyday eccentrics his way. Simon Wardell
The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, 1951), 2.25pm, Film4
This classic Ealing comedy features another of its downtrodden little men getting one over on the establishment. Here, it’s Alec Guinness’s lowly bank employee Henry Holland, who persuades tourist trinket-maker Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) to join his plot to steal gold bullion, the transportation of which he supervises. The heist is only part of the fun, with the director, Charles Crichton, mixing into the caper a terrific Keystone Cops-like chase through London and a pursuit in Paris. SW
