In the new series Resurrection (8.35pm RTÉ 2) the people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear. The eight-part The Missing (9.00pm BBC One) stars James Nesbitt as a father searching for his five-year old son who went missing in France. Imagine…The Art That Hitler Hated (11.20pm BBC One) investigates the fate of Jewish art during the Nazi period. Two-parter with Alan Yentob.
Resurrection
8.35pm RTÉ 2
In this new series, the people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear. An eight-year-old American boy (Landon Gimenez) wakes up alone in a rice paddy in a rural Chinese province with no idea how he got there. Details start to emerge when the boy, who calls himself Jacob, recalls that his hometown is Arcadia, and an Immigration agent takes him there. The home he claims as his own is occupied by a 60-year-old couple, Henry and Lucille, who lost their son, Jacob, more than 30 years ago. While they look different, young Jacob recognizes them as his parents.
The Missing
9.00pm BBC ONE
This eight-part series should be a cracker. The year is 2006 and Tony and Emily Hughes’ life changes forever when their five year-old son Oliver goes missing on a family holiday to France. A huge manhunt led by Julien Baptiste, one of France’s finest detectives, is launched. . Eight years on from Oliver’s disappearance Tony and Emily’s marriage is over, yet Tony refuses to believe that Oliver is dead. Then new evidence emerges and Detective Julien Baptiste returns to Chalons Du Bois to try to discover the ultimate fate of Oliver Hughes. Tony is played by James Nesbitt (pictured) and Emily by Frances O’Connor.
Imagine…The Art That Hitler Hated
11.20pm BBC One
Alan Yentob returns with a two-part special, exploring the discovery of a hoard of art, which had been hidden by Cornelius Gurlitt, a reclusive old man in his Munich flat. The find sheds new light on the fate of many paintings looted by the Nazis and puts the question of restitution back centre-stage. This was art which Hitler thought ‘degenerate’ like the Jews themselves. Pictures were seized, scattered or sold at knockdown prices before the Jewish owners fled into exile or were killed. Imagine... follows the trail of the old man’s father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, art dealer to the Nazis. Picture shows der Führer presumably mortified by another example of a filthy picture.
