James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan star in new drama Together, Jaime King is back in Black Summer, there's a Dobermann in trouble on Supervet, and it’s the final episode of Liverpool Narcos . . .
Pick of the Day
Together, 9.00pm, BBC Two
It probably won't get much more zeitgeisty than this, though I reckon it's early days on how we reflect on these pandemic times.
Here’s a new drama, starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan as a husband and wife forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of lockdown.
She is a charity worker, a co-ordinator for all of Europe at a refugee charity.
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He, meanwhile, is a self-employed, self-made man who runs a boutique computing consultancy.
She's the daughter of a dentist father and an `old socialist' mother - the only grandparent still around.
He's been forced to furlough his staff and take up growing vegetables - something he's very proud of.
Don’t Miss
The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick, 8.00pm, Channel 4
This week's pets-as-patients for Noel Fitzpatrick (below) include a 10-year-old Dobermann who is treated for an aggressive bone tumour in one of its legs.
One option is a full limb amputation, but another could potentially save Rolo's leg by cutting out the affected part of the bone and replacing it with a unique implant of Noel's own invention - a scapula-humeral endoprosthesis.
Meanwhile, five-year-old labrador Jeff is suffering from developmental elbow disease, which cannot be managed by medication alone.
The day of his planned surgery for a full elbow replacement arrives, though bad news places the prospect of such treatment in jeopardy.
Florence Foster Jenkins, 8.00pm, BBC Four
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This fact-based comedy, starring Meryl Streep and a brilliant Hugh Grant, is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
Streep plays a tone-deaf socialite imagines she is a great singer, and her conniving yet devoted husband allows her to remain in her fantasy by holding concerts with small, invited audiences.
Reality threatens to intrude when she announces her intention of realising a lifelong dream of performing in New York's Carnegie Hall, recruiting a struggling young pianist (Grant) to aid her.
Arena: Nicholas Roeg - It's About Time, 12.15am, BBC Four
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Another chance to see this profile of the acclaimed director of Don't Look Now, The Man who Fell to Earth, Walkabout, Bad Timing (above) and Performance.
Roeg reflects on the recurring themes of his work, including perception of time and the difficulty of human relationships.
With contributions from actors Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Jenny Agutter and Theresa Russell, and film-makers who have been inspired by his work, including Danny Boyle and Ben Wheatley.
Terror, 7.35pm, PBS America
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This episode looks at events at the Munich Olympics in 1972, when eight Palestinians from the Black September movement attacked the apartments of the Israeli delegation and killed two athletes.
Immediately, TV cameras switched from the sports events to the unfolding hostage drama - exactly what the terrorists wanted: to bring the Palestinian plight to the attention of the world.
New or Returning Shows
Discovering Sci-Fi on Film, 10.00pm, Sky Arts
Streaming on NOW TV
In this ninety-minute special, the Discovering Film team gather together for an evening to discuss and review their Top 25 Sci-Fi films from the last 100 years.
Expect Aliens, Terminator, at least one Blade Runner and maybe a selection of films from a galaxy far, far away. Surely Silent Running and 2001: A Space Odyssey will feature too.
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New to Stream
Black Summer: Season 2, Netflix
Jaime King stars in the lead role as Rose, a mother who is separated from her daughter during the earliest and most deadly days of a zombie apocalypse.
After a happy ending at the end of an otherwise bleak first season, winter comes with cold-blooded new challenges during the zombie apocalypse as frantic scavengers and violent militias battle the dead and desperate.
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Katla, Netflix
This looks very promising.
In Iceland, after the subglacial volcano Katla has been erupting constantly for a whole year, Gríma is still looking for her missing sister who disappeared the day the eruption started.
As her hope of ever finding her body is fading, the residents of the surrounding area start to have visits from unexpected guests. There might be something hidden under the glacier no one could ever have foreseen.
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Hospital Playlist: Season 2, Netflix
It’s another season of extraordinary days for the doctors and patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist.
Ending Tonight
Liverpool Narcos, 9.00pm, Sky Documentaries
Streaming on NOW TV
As cocaine went mainstream, Curtis Warren became Liverpool’s most high-profile cocaine baron making so much money he made the Sunday Times Rich List.
With Warren still serving time, Liverpool Narcos hear from Stephen Mee – a seasoned trafficker in his own right, described by the police as Warren’s second in command and an emissary to the Cali Cartel.
