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For Life We often see inspired by true events at the start of movies and television shows, but rarely is it a story as astonishing as that of Isaac Wright Jr – the inspiration for this show. Married with a child, he was sentenced to life-in-prison in 1991 on drug charges – charges he said he was innocent of. Working with an inmate paralegal organisation, he helped overturn 20 inmates convictions, before getting his conviction overturned five-and-a-half years later. He went on to study law and passed the New Jersey bar in 2008. In 2017, the New Jersey State Bar Association closed the investigation into his character, and he became a licenced attorney. He is currently running for mayor of New York City in this year s elections.
The week s best comedy on TV and radio
The week’s best new comedy on TV and radio.
Monday May 10
MOTHERLAND: The close-to-home parenting comedy returns for a third series. As a nit pandemic sweeps the school, Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin) finds herself accused of triggering a second wave - so decides to host a treatment party in her home to get back into the good books of her fellow patients. Philippa Dunne, Tanya Moodie, Paul Ready, Lucy Punch and Diane Morgan all return, too.
BBC Two, 9pm
INSIDE NO 9: Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith star in a new season of their dark comedy dramas, starting with Wuthering Heists, a mashup of heist movie and commedia dell’arte - though it doesn’t really matter if you don’t know what that is. Pantalone has an audacious plan to steal a consignment of diamonds - but he’s hired a complete bunch of double-crossing clowns to do it. The guest cast features Kevin Bishop, Paterson Joseph and Gemma Whelan.
Murder, They Hope is just one of the gems on today.
Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson are back as the comedy crime solvers in Murder, They Hope, it’s a double bill of Casualty, and BBC2 remembers Muhammad Ali: A Life in Ten Pictures. 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