{"id":292043,"date":"2026-02-11T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292043\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:23:07","slug":"tv-tonight-a-journalists-deep-dive-into-the-mind-of-a-serial-killer-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292043\/","title":{"rendered":"TV tonight: a journalist\u2019s deep dive into the mind of a serial killer | Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charmed By the Devil<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9pm, Sky Crime<br \/>When 23-year-old Doug Gretzler was imprisoned in 1973 for murdering 17 people across 20 days \u2013 including two children \u2013 in the US, with his accomplice Willie Steelman, the only person he talked to was the journalist Laura Greenberg, who recorded their conversations. These took place across an astonishing 350 prison visits and 500 hours of conversation. She opens this documentary, which questions the murderers\u2019 motives. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n<p>Can You Keep a Secret?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9pm, BBC One<br \/>The curious comedy ambles through a concluding episode that cosily ties up all the various blackmail\/suspicious death loose ends. It begins with a lovely bit of comic business by Mark Heap, as the secretly-not-dead William, husband of Dawn French\u2019s Debbie, develops a taste for spoonfuls of dry cocoa powder. Jack Seale<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jackson: The Trial<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9pm, Channel 4<br \/>In the third episode of this four-parter revisiting the pop star\u2019s 2005 trial on charges of child molestation, the prosecution lays out its case. Rewinding to 1993, Jackson\u2019s maid testifies that she saw him kissing a 13-year-old boy, but was too intimidated to tell police, and there\u2019s a shocking revelation from the boy\u2019s mother. Ellen E Jones<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9pm, Channel 5<br \/>Remarkable medical scenes to end this series as surgeons Andrew Kay and Richard Irving carve a hole in patient Abi\u2019s skull in order to detangle a tumour and a nerve in her brain. It\u2019s gruelling viewing, though it\u2019s impossible not to be awed by the life-saving possibilities of modern science. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n<p>Black Ops<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9.30pm, BBC One<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Carnival time in Black Ops. Photograph: Ricky Darko\/BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Enthusiastic MI5 wannabes Dom (Gbemisola Ikumelo) and Kay (Hammed Animashaun) have blundered even further into a tangled conspiracy that seems to go all the way to the top. As the giddy spy comedy hits its series finale, can the rookie agents thwart a devious attempt to sabotage Notting Hill carnival? Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n<p>First Dates: Be My Valentine<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">10pm, Channel 4<br \/>Gogglebox fans will be rooting for former star Daniel as he sits down for dinner with a paramedic in this Valentine\u2019s special. Elsewhere in the restaurant, Girls Aloud superfan Patrick is looking for something kinda ooh, while a dentist who enjoys rapping wants somebody who makes him smile. HR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charmed By the Devil 9pm, Sky CrimeWhen 23-year-old Doug Gretzler was imprisoned in 1973 for murdering 17 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-292043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}