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Pick of the Day: Sherwood
21:00, BBC Today
After last night’s episode, we have a pretty good idea as to the identity of the spy cop who stayed behind in the Nottinghamshire town after the end of the strike: young Scott planted an arrow in his front door. Meanwhile, in the finale of James Graham’s superior drama, Kevin (Robert Glenister) returns to the rooming house to find Jenny Harris (Nadine Marshall) checking in, and memories of 1984 rush back.
We own this city
21:00, Sky Atlantic
The latest episode of David Simon’s powerful dramatization of real police corruption in Baltimore begins with the cocky and increasingly reckless Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal) instigating an unnecessary car chase that ends with the death of an innocent bystander. In fact, the driver he was chasing turns out to be “clean,” leading Jenkins to plant drugs in his car. These 2010 events are bracketed with the 2017 investigation, where Jenkins’s former colleague tells the beans to the FBI, and Baltimore is rocked by protests from Freddie Gray.
Why do buildings collapse?
9:30pm, BBC Dos
On June 24, 2021, Champlain Towers South, a 13-story residential building in Florida, collapsed, killing 98 people. What could have caused one of the worst construction failures in modern history? A year later, there is still no official explanation and this program is investigating the implications for other buildings around the world, including those in the UK. In Scotland, for example, more than half of all homes need critical repairs. How should we tackle the problem of our aging buildings and prevent a future tragedy?
Citizen Ashe: Storyville
22:00, BBC Four
As this year’s nail-biting Wimbledon action unfolds, an opportunity presents itself to remember former champion Arthur Ashe. this fascinating Storyville The documentary looks at both Ashe’s rise to the top of the then-white sport of tennis and her subsequent social activism before succumbing to AIDS in 1993. For much of the 1960s, while other black American athletes made themselves politically vocal Ashe’s reluctance was seen as cowardly and him an Uncle Tom figure. But by becoming the first black player to be selected for the US Davis Cup team and to win both the US Open and Wimbledon, Ashe no longer felt the need to remain silent about the injustice in your country or abroad.
Ellie y Natasia
22:00, BBC 3
Sketch shows are randomly famous, but Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s hilarious, riotous comedy vignettes are overwhelmingly more of the former than the latter. Kiell Smith-Bynoe of ghostsy Hugh Skinner (los windsor) are among the guest stars in the latest double bill, as the titular duo present a 21st century trashed guide to sex for girls and play two vaping dominatrices.
on assignment
22.45 h, ITV
On the ITV version of BBC Radio Four’s From our own correspondent, John Ray travels to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to investigate how the country is dealing with an economic crisis caused in part by the war in Ukraine and global inflation. Also, Daniel Hewitt visits Corsica to find out why violence erupted in the streets earlier this year.
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