Toni Collette stars in controversial drama Wanderlust, Patrick Demspey's back on the box, while Shades of Blue heads for TV Heaven . . .
Pick of the day
Wanderlust, 9.00pm, BBC One
This new drama's been on the controversy carousel over the last few weeks, making all kind of claims and boasts about its sexual content.
So – as the continuity announcers say – expect strong adult themes from the start.
After years of marriage, therapist Joy (Toni Collette) and Alan Richards (Steven Mackintosh) find themselves in a sexual cul-de-sac.
Joy is trying to find a way to keep her spark with her husband, following a cycling accident which has put their sex life on hold. Suddenly they find themselves drawn to new people, and both are tempted to make the ultimate indiscretion.
With their marriage in crisis Joy comes up with an audacious, unorthodox, but potentially brilliant proposal that will surely have huge ramifications for their future . . .
New or Returning Shows
McMafia, 10.15pm, RTÉ One
James Norton did a reasonably good James Bond audition here, but that's one of the few positives to be gleaned from this glossy-but-muddled drama about dodgy rich Russians throwing their weight around London.
When his family’s past brutally returns, Russian exile Alex Godman (Norton) gets drawn into the murky world of international crime.
Having spent his life trying to escape the shadow of his father’s criminal past and running a successful London hedge fund, he suddenly finds himself having to protect his family and fight for all he has worked for.
Harry & Meghan: The First 100 Days, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
Give me the Kardashians over royalty anytime. At least they work for a living.
Here's a new documentary about Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle’s first few months together as newlyweds. For obsessives only, I'd imagine.
Killer in Our Classroom: Never Again, 10.45pm, BBC One
In February 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, carrying a semi-automatic rifle. He killed fourteen pupils and three members of staff.
With filming beginning shortly after the shooting, this documentary follows pupils from the school as they take on the establishment to demand change. The film also tells the stories of some of the other students affected by the shooting.
Ending Tonight
Shades of Blue, 10.00pm, Sky Witness & NOW TV
It’s the last-ever episode of the daft police drama starring Jennifer Lopez as Harly Santos, a hard-pushed female cop whose hair is never less than impeccably coiffured while she roots out dirty cops.
As Harlee’s story comes to a crashing end, she faces a police commission as Wozniak and the crew scramble to help her from the outside.
The Joy of AI, 10.00pm, BBC Four
The 'Joy of . . .' strand wraps up with professor Jim al-Khalili taking what's promised to be a sharp-witted and refreshingly optimistic look at how we have created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why we should not let this spook us.
Don't Miss
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, 9.00pm, Sky Witness & NOW TV
In his first appearance in a TV drama since his departure from Grey’s Anatomy, Patrick Dempsey stars as former literary icon Harry Quebert, whose life is upended when he gets accused of murdering a 15-year-old girl who disappeared years earlier.
When a former protégée, Marcus Goldman, visits Quebert's residence in beautiful coastal Maine in the hope of curing his own writer’s block, he gradually unfurls the truth behind his mentor’s involvement in this tragic case.
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