“The BBC will be desperate for Mercurio to come back with a seventh series but this felt like the right place to end it. I’ve griped about various bits of this show over the years but it stands head and shoulders above most other dramas. It has kept us guessing and kept us talking. And it’s clever. To tie up a story this complex, leaving no loose ends, is a superb achievement.”
“After all the shenanigans and conspiracy, in the end a surprising amount rested on trusting the audience would assume nobody with a Brummie accent could be a master criminal. It worked on me! Whatever Line of Duty’s limitations, few programmes come close to it as a demonstration of pure plotting. It has proved that there is still an appetite for weekly, cliffhanger-laden, jargon-filled chaos, but that’s enough. Let that be an end of it.”
The Great Garden Revolution is just one of the gems on today.
Outdoor spaces are transformed in The Great Garden Revolution, Jan decides to come clean in Casualty, and Channel 5 profiles Zara & Mike: No-Nonsense Royals. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
Our hand-selected recommendations for what’s on TV tonight include three TV shows, a film, live sport and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set
What’s on TV tonight
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Best TV shows on TV tonight
Casualty, 8.20pm, BBC1
Will Jan confess?
Jan decides to put an end to her life of crime and confess tonight. But Iain’s not having it and comes up with a cunning plan to SOJ (Save Our Jan). The problem is, it involves asking Ross the ‘wrong un’ for help. Is operation SOJ destined to fail? (And if so, can we have a Jan prison spin-off please?) Meanwhile, the ED team are tested by vile racists when treating a troubled teen. Jac
Having previously featured in
House Beautiful s list of emerging female gardeners, find out more about Poppy Okotcha s modelling past and how she s become horticulture s newest rising star.
Poppy appears in Channel 4
• Poppy was born in London but grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. During her teenage years she moved back to the UK, spending time in the British countryside, and spent her early 20s in London.
• As a trained horticulturist and ecologically-focussed grower, Poppy s mission is to inspire people to engage with and connect to the natural world. She also advocates for those who are under-represented and marginalised in both horticulture and environmentalism. Whilst confirming her new TV slot via Instagram, Poppy reflected on why her casting is significant in addressing diversity in horticulture, writing:
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Exterminate All the Brutes
9pm, Sky Documentaries
Oscar-nominated in 2017 for his insightful documentary on James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, filmmaker Raoul Peck returns with this four-part, partly-dramatised series examining the history of European colonialism and its brutal legacy. Josh Hartnett stars in the scripted scenes, while archive footage and expert testimony build an unflinching narrative of genocide and exploitation, beginning tonight with the colonising of indigenous American land.
Ammar Kalia
8pm, Channel 4
Ground Force fans eat your heart out: this new series riffs on the old favourite, bringing designer Joel Bird, ecological gardener Poppy Okotcha and craftsman Bruce Kenneth to a different garden each week and transforming it into an outdoor haven, with tips provided by celebrity guests.
The Great Garden Revolution, review: a whisky barrel pond and G&Ts with Shirley Ballas? Yes please
4/5
Channel 4 s new show was full of tips for gardening novices, and great fun with it
1 May 2021 • 9:00pm
Presenters Bruce Kenneth, Poppy Okotcha and Joel Bird
Credit: Channel 4
The Great Garden Revolution is gardening done the Channel 4 way. Are you yearning to turn your outside space into an Ibiza-style bar? This show will tell you how. The presenters include Poppy Okotcha, billed as an “ecological gardener” (is there any other kind?), and Joel Bird, who wears a pork pie hat and braces and those shoes that look a bit like Cornish pasties. And the first property to get a garden makeover was situated – where else? – in North London.