TV tonight: Michelle Keegan's prickly 50s drama returns
Brassic co-creator Danny Brocklehurst's enjoyably prickly period drama about UK families trying to make a fresh start in 1950s Oz returns for a second series. After a year in a crummy hostel camp, the expanding Roberts clan – headed by ex-soldier Terry (Warren Brown) and sharp shopgirl Annie (Faye Marsay) – are determined to move up in the world. Meanwhile, desperate nurse Kate (Michelle Keegan) has reclaimed her birth son … but how long can the pair remain on the run? Graeme Virtue
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Tom Hanks's lovely narration and some incredible filming atone for this nature documentary's rather vague remit. This week we are in Mexico: there's mum-and-chicks drama in the desert, and dastardly orcas scheming together to hunt dolphins in the Sea of Cortez. Plus, a closeup look at orchid bees and monarch butterflies. Jack Seale
9pm, BBC One
As the star-studded Agatha Christie adaptation reaches its second act, a shocking murder is discovered at Gull's Point – the Devon estate of Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston). Insp Leach (Matthew Rhys) must find his footing amid the love triangles and society scandals of 1930s England if he is to bring a killer to justice. Ellen E Jones
9pm, BBC Two
Another grimly enthralling tiptoe around a horrific crime scene. A man has been fatally stabbed in his Birmingham home and it falls to forensics expert Cara Nicholls-Parkin to follow – quite literally at times – the trail of blood. It's inevitably bleak but also remarkable in its depiction of the many facets of a murder investigation. Phil Harrison
9pm, Channel 4
It's final time, and the kiln pressure is on as the final three contestants make a statement Greek amphora. Siobhán McSweeney manages any cracks, while judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller choose their winner. Before that: one last task that involves extreme throwing. HR
9pm, Sky Crime
By 2020, Sarah Turner had garnered millions of podcast listens and TikTok views as she shared her belief that her father killed her sister Alissa nearly 20 years earlier. It resulted in an arrest and trial that was later dismissed. She shares her personal investigation in this feature-length documentary. Hollie Richardson
Get Carter, 10pm, BBC Two
There is often a cruel, amoral edge to Michael Caine's most memorable characters, and Jack Carter in Mike Hodges's hardcore crime drama is a case study in cold-hearted revenge. Back home in Newcastle upon Tyne to find out who killed his brother, London-based gangster Jack rubs everyone up the wrong way. But will he get to the truth before the local mobsters send him packing, or worse? Hodges has a great feel for the working-class environment Jack moves through, setting scenes in pubs, racecourses, ferries and the bingo, as his quest gets ever more brutal. Simon Wardell
Championship Football: Portsmouth v Leeds, 11.30am, ITV1 From Fratton Park.
Women's FA Cup Football: Man City v Aston Villa, 12.20pm, BBC One A quarter-final at Joie Stadium, with WSL top scorer Khadija Shaw eading the line for the home side.
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