The Pact (BBC1, 9pm)
THIS new drama is worth a look for its impressive cast alone – it stars Laura Fraser, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Eddie Marsan, Aneurin Barnard and Adrian Edmondson, and that’s just for starters. However, there’s also an intriguing premise. It follows friends Anna, Nancy, Louie and Cat, who all work at a local brewery, where they are thoroughly fed up with their bullying, spiteful young boss Jack. So, after a particularly drunken work function, they make the snap decision to bundle him in a car and dump him in the woods. It’s supposed to be a prank, but no one is laughing when Jack is subsequently found dead.
Motherland (BBC2, 9pm)
IT may be about the perils of parenthood, but we don’t see much of the characters’ kids in this acclaimed sitcom. However, they are growing up – some of them are now on the cusp of leaving primary school. It seems that’s come as something of a surprise to Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin), who is panicking about the catchment area she lives in, and wondering whether a religious conversion might be the way to get her offspring into the right second school.
Innocent (STV, 9pm)
DON’T worry too much if you didn’t see the first series of Innocent. You did miss out on a gripping thriller, but the new second series picks up with a new cast and story, so you won’t be lost. Katherine Kelly heads the cast as teacher Sally Wright, who was convicted of murdering pupil Matty Taylor, supposedly because she was trying to cover up their affair. After five years in prison, she’s cleared of the crime and freed. But can Sally rebuild her life after losing everything? And if she didn’t kill Matty, who did?
Classic British Cars: Made in Coventry (BBC4, 9pm)
AS part of the BBC’s creative highlights to mark Coventry’s role as UK City of Culture 2021, this documentary looks at the rise, fall and rebirth of the motor industry in the Midlands city. Motoring journalist Mark Evans shares the story of the classic cars made in the city, from the industry’s beginnings in 1897. There are interviews, archive footage and photographs telling the stories behind the creation of classic marques such as the Daimler, the Triumph, the Riley and the Jaguar, and the companies and people behind them.
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