A blunt detective teams up with a podcast journalist (because: 2024). Plus, the third and final series of The Great. Here’s what to watch this evening

Monday, 9pm, BBC OneJenna Coleman is back with another twisty primetime thriller – a timely four-part story about a detective and a podcast journalist coming together to see how crimes in a Lancashire lakeside town might be connected. Coleman is straight-talking DC Ember Manning who, after her husband’s death, seems to be moving on well enough with their teenage daughter. A local arson attack leads Manning to reach out to Riz (Weruche Opia) – who is investigating a missing persons cold case – and a man in his 20s who had relationships with two underage girls. Manning’s discoveries soon compel her to question her own past relationship and the age gap between them when they met. Hollie Richardson

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    Monday, 9pm, BBC OneJenna Coleman is back with another twisty primetime thriller – a timely four-part story about a detective and a podcast journalist coming together to see how crimes in a Lancashire lakeside town might be connected.

    10pm, BBC TwoMichelle de Swarte’s cracking comic drama about a bankrupt model returning to her Brixton roots continues with Mia still sofa surfing and in desperate need of a booking.

    He kicks off the summer season with a cheesy bean and fennel gratin, “oozy” pea risotto and mackerel served on sun-dried tomato couscous.

    Peter (Nicholas Hoult) is distracted from his horse-breeding escapades just long enough to contribute some suggestions, like why not rename raspberries “Peterberries”?

    A landmark work in the history of Black British cinema, Isaac Julien’s 1991 drama feels like a precursor to Steve McQueen’s Small Axe in its mixing of race, sexuality, politics and music.

    Set in London during the 1977 Silver Jubilee celebrations, it follows friends and pirate radio soul DJs Chris (Valentine Nonyela) and Caz (Mo Sesay) as they navigate racism and homophobia, love and ambition, while the unsolved murder of a young gay black man puts the community on edge.


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