Three Families is just one of the gems on today.
Compelling new drama in Three Families, and BBC2 comedies Motherland and Inside No 9 return. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
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What’s on TV tonight
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Best TV shows on TV tonight
Motherland, 9pm, BBC2
Between The Covers is back with Sara Cox
Between the Covers (BBC2, 7.30pm) READING and book sales enjoyed a huge surge at the beginning of lockdown – whether people will continue to pick up more tomes than they used to once everything is back up and running again remains to be seen, but the BBC clearly hopes they will because they’re bringing Sara Cox’s light-hearted literary chat show back for its third series. She’ll be joined on the first edition by Mel Giedroyc, Griff Rhys Jones, Oti Mabuse and Rick Edwards who discuss their favourite books as well as The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and Robert Goddard’s The Fine Art of Invisible.
AFTER a dearth of drama during the pandemic viewers can feel spoiled this week with at least two offerings sure to be in the running for awards and acclaim when the time comes. Fargo (Channel 4, Sunday, 10pm) returns to the badlands of Kansas City for a 1950-set series. Noah Hawley’s whip-smart and delightfully cynical crime drama, now on its fourth outing, has distinguished itself down the years with big name, sometimes surprising, casting. This time, it is Chris Rock adding his name to a list that includes Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Ted Danson and Ewan McGregor. The stand-up superstar plays Loy Cannon, part of a band of African-American gangsters who want to take the Italian-American mob on at their own game. Wonder how that works out. As added treats, also showing up are Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose), Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Ben Whishaw (voice of Paddington) and Timothy Olyphant (Justified).
Friday, 7th May 2021 at 2:50 pm
BBC One series Three Families is based on true stories, following three separate families who all, for different reasons, seek to terminate their pregnancies.
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However, they all live in Northern Ireland, where abortion laws have historically been among the most restrictive in Europe.
The series is set in the years running up to the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland two years ago, and the families we follow form part of the “emotional background” to that change in law, according to the BBC synopsis.
Read on for the true stories and real-life history behind Three Families.