Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist<\/p>\n
10pm, Channel 4
There was worldwide outrage after the 2015 shooting of a Zimbabwean lion, Cecil, by an American trophy hunter, Walter Palmer. This documentary approaches the story from several angles. There\u2019s the story of the pile-on \u2013 Palmer became a pariah in the aftermath of his grim holiday. But there\u2019s also a potted history of Hwange national park where Cecil lived, its role in the local economy and the vexed question of the value of nature (spiritual and financial) to the community. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
George Clarke\u2019s Building Home<\/p>\n
8pm, Channel 4
\u201cI\u2019d have rather gone to the Maldives \u2026 \u201d So says Sophie, whose renovation soars over budget. As is the case in Clarke\u2019s gentle property series, there\u2019s more to it: Sophie is driven by a desire to bring her grandparents\u2019 former home back to life \u2013 and to bag her very own pink kitchen island. Hannah J Davies<\/p>\n
Grantchester<\/p>\n
9pm, ITV1<\/p>\n
Village drama \u2026 Robson Green as Geordie in Grantchester. Photograph: ITV<\/p>\n
A timely, if moderately shark-jumpy, season finale of the detective drama helmed by Robson Green and a revolving door of vicars. Fascist Wilbur Church is attacked during a visit to the University of Cambridge, leading a student to plead her innocence (\u201cI couldn\u2019t make a bomb \u2013 I can barely boil an egg!\u201d) HJD<\/p>\n
Murder Trial: The Suffolk Strangler<\/p>\n
9pm, Channel 5
Steve Wright, already serving a whole life sentence for killing five Ipswich women in 2006, was recently back in the news after pleading guilty to the 1999 murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall. This film re-examines the 2008 court case where the ex-merchant seaman dubbed \u201cthe Suffolk Strangler\u201d claimed to be innocent. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n
Hunting Outback Gold<\/p>\n
9pm, U&Yesterday<\/p>\n
In 1931, prospector Harold Lasseter died trying to find a stash of gold he insisted was buried in the central Australian outback. Can two cheery blokes called Jeff and Brendan now fulfil their childhood dream of proving Lasseter right? Episode one of this new series features some exciting metal-detecting. Jack Seale<\/p>\n
Random Acts: 1763<\/p>\n
12.05am, Channel 4
The Random Acts strand has long been the place to discover new film- and TV-making talent; an anything-goes showcase for experimental, short-form visionaries. The latest edition is Nicola Stead\u2019s look at what happens after a woman flees domestic violence, with a focus on how Greater Manchester police have handled abuse cases. Ellen E Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist 10pm, Channel 4There was worldwide outrage after the 2015 shooting of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-291422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}