Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, BBC 2, 10pm
FOLLOWING his round-up of 2017 review special in December, Boyle returns with a second seven-part run of the show as he attempts to make sense of the bewildering world we live in and dissect the week’s news using stand-up, review, discussion and audience interaction. Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan and Mona Chalabi will feature as weekly guests, while other comedians and journalists join them to take Frankie to task.
The Bridge, BBC 2, 9pm
SAGA (Sophia Helin) wants to return to work following her assault, but while Henrik (Thure Lindhardt) wants to have her on the investigation, Lillian takes some convincing. Saga remains obsessed with finding Henrik’s daughters, while he wonders if he will have to give in to the idea that they are no longer alive to finally move on. The investigation into Margrethe Thormod’s murder continues, with suspicion falling on a radical left-wing group and a refugee who has gone missing. In Danish and Swedish.
Our Wildest Dreams, Channel 4, 8pm
LYNN and Richard and their two young daughters Emily and Yvaine are a “food-bank family” from Bedfordshire, unhappy with their quality of life in the UK. They pack up their belongings in a horsebox and head for a remote part of Portugal, to follow their dream of living off-grid, being completely self-sufficient and escape the pressures of living on the breadline. They face challenges, such as camping on an unsuitable plot of land, wild summer storms and forest fires, and Richard’s discovery that he’s not quite the builder he thought he was.
Tap America: How a Nation Found Its Feet, BBC4, 9pm
ACTOR Clarke Peters’s love affair with tap dancing began as a child when his mother showed him the Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy-Floy) in their New Jersey kitchen. Now, he’s going in search of the roots of this very American art form. Along the way, he discovers the debt that Hollywood legends such as Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly owed to the Afro-American performers who were routinely excluded from leading roles in the movies, and also learns why, far from dying out, tap is very much alive and kicking in the 21st-century.
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