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Tonight s TV tips include psychological drama miniseries Penance, The Graham Norton Show that didn’t happen last Friday, as well as Greta Thunberg, Enda Kenny and Jamie Oliver . . .
Pick of the Day
Penance, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
Here’s a three-part psychological drama with Mrs Robinson/Oedipus issues, starring Julie Graham, Nico Mirallegro and Neil Morrissey.
Grieving mother Rosalie Douglas (Graham) refuses to accept that her son Rob s sudden death was an accident.
Husband Luke (Morrissey) has moved out of the house, and teenage daughter Maddie is acting out, wracked with grief and an as-yet unexplained guilt over her brother s death.
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With eagle-eyed Line of Duty fans pausing every scene to work out what s going on there is nothing they are going to miss.
From barely visible clues about the identity of H to subtle gestures that hint at corruption - armchair detectives are determined to work out all the twists and turns.
While casting their eyes over every intimate detail they have also paid very close attention to the cast.
This week came the shocking realisation that DS Buckells was in a very famous scene from hit teen comedy The Inbetweeners.
After an already fairly action-packed start to the series of
Line of Duty, Jed Mercurio took us up another few notches on Sunday night, delivering a downright slobberknocker of an episode. It had it all: three bent coppers put in their place, two cold-blooded murders, and one forced retirement (RIP Daddy Hastings).
And, to top it all off, he closed it out with a (somewhat shoehorned in) cliffhanger, in which Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) and Chloe Bishop (Shalome Brune-Franklin) presented Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) with a folder which disclosed a surprise discovery: the identity of a blood relation to Joanne Davidson (Kelly MacDonald). Of course, rather than just tell him aloud like real-life humans, they did the very TV thing of sliding him the folder and allowing him to open it, meaning the audience is left in the dark until the next episode. And it s clearly pretty juicy: the information contained within was shocking enough to elicit a “mother of god” from the gaffer