The Forgiven, 10pm, 1.55am, Sky Cinema PremiereĪ privileged white man in a strange land faces his demons in John Michael McDonagh’s dark moral tale, which avoids using its Moroccan setting as a mere backdrop by including well-rounded indigenous characters.
His team includes Aubrey Plaza’s bracingly snarky intel expert Sarah and Josh Hartnett’s Hollywood film star Danny – who, in shades of Team America: World Police, has to act his way into the good graces of arms dealer Greg, played winningly by Grant as kind of a sleazy second cousin to Michael Caine. Jason Statham stars as mercenary Orson Fortune, hired by the UK government to track down a stolen mystery device.
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Hugh Grant is settling nicely into his second career as a movie villain, and he is the best thing in Guy Ritchie’s new spy thriller. Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre on Prime Video. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Prime Video Emboldened by her off-grid (yet on-trend) childhood, and her well-thumbed copy of Naomi Klein’s No Logo, Powney is forging fashion’s sustainable future. Remember when Netflix’s Seaspiracy had everyone rethinking their tuna sandwiches? This sombre and stylish feature documentary about British designer Amy Powney is doing the same for our clothes. Ali Catterall Fashion Reimagined 9pm, Sky Documentaries Elsewhere, Magwitch comes a cropper in Oz, and there’s a hideous love rival to put out of business. “If you want £5,000, an apartment in the heart of London and a pathway to the heart of the girl you love, sit down Pip.” Jaggers makes our hero an offer he can’t refuse, as the peaky reboot continues. Alexi Duggins Great Expectations 9pm, BBC One We’re promised interviews with those who knew him best, alongside highlights from his career – which should certainly make for brilliant viewing, given what a talent he was.
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This homage to the much-loved TV entertainer follows his sudden and tragic death last month. Danielle De Wolfe For the Love of Paul O’Grady 8pm, ITV1 To mark the occasion, watch as 20,000 grey seals descend on Norfolk’s Blakeney Point, with males weighing up to 310kg intent on one thing and one thing only: mating. The time has come for the fifth and final episode of what is said to be Sir David Attenborough’s last on-location series. In Greece that means slinging popcorn at an open-air cinema, joining a lone monk at a Meteora monastery and being adopted into a convivial clan of bell-makers (“Your first time pouring metal, right?” jokes one brother).
Pascoe is back learning about other countries by getting hands-on with their fast-vanishing jobs. Hollie Richardson Last Woman on Earth With Sara Pascoe 9pm, BBC Two First aired on BritBox last year, the three hour-long episodes run throughout this week. Nice lad Bobby Jones (Will Poulter) discovers a man dying at the foot of a sea cliff whose final words are: “Why didn’t they ask Evans?” Bobby and his bored posh pal Lady Frances Derwent (Lucy Boynton) – whose parents are comically played by Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson – start their own investigations into what the dead man was on about. Written and directed by Hugh Laurie, this impeccably stylish Agatha Christie murder mystery is packed with stars and takes a much jauntier tone than most other adaptations of the crime writer’s beloved novels.
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