Rik Mayall: Magnificent B\u2019stard<\/p>\n
9pm, Sky Documentaries
Star quality is often obvious in retrospect. But it\u2019s hard to believe that anyone who saw Rik Mayall in his early days didn\u2019t recognise the charisma explosion he was. This wonderfully entertaining documentary tracks Mayall from his time as a student comic, via The Young Ones and The New Statesman, through to his tragically early death. Adrian Edmondson and Ben Elton are among those paying fond, slightly awestruck tribute. As director Bob Baldwin puts it: \u201cHe loved being Rik Mayall.\u201d Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
Cornwall: A Year by the Sea<\/p>\n
8pm, Channel 5
A visit to those who live and work in Cornwall, including Anna, head guide at St Michael\u2019s Mount, who never tires of the stunning views from the summit: \u201cI mean, look! Where else would you want to be?\u201d Meanwhile, fans of The Wicker Man may especially enjoy footage of Padstow\u2019s May Day festival, with its \u2019Obby \u2019Oss and pursuing \u201cTeaser\u201d. Ali Catterall<\/p>\n
24 Hours in Police Custody<\/p>\n
9pm, Channel 4
Another gripping day in the life of Bedfordshire police begins with photos of a dead 48-year-old woman. DS Graham McMillan spots bruising on her body and follows his suspicions across Europe as the trail of clues constantly threatens to peter out. Is he going to end up with a case that\u2019s too circumstantial to secure a conviction? Jack Seale<\/p>\n
From<\/p>\n
9pm, Sky One
Knackered lawman Boyd (Lost\u2019s Harold Perrineau) has been trying to keep order in the accursed town of Fromville, despite it being besieged by sanity-sapping physical and psychic horrors. As season four reaches its penultimate episode, he has an ambitious plan to break everyone out of their purgatory \u2026 but at what cost? Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n
The Traitors US<\/p>\n
9.10pm, BBC Three
Episode five is entitled \u201cIf You\u2019re Gonna Come for Me, I\u2019ll Finish You\u201d. And there are certainly thunderstorms over breakfast before today\u2019s task: restoring a ruined fountain by tracking down eight statues, with $16,000 at stake. Meanwhile, someone is promising revenge after their own murder: \u201cI\u2019m going to haunt these hallways. Mark my words.\u201d AC<\/p>\n
The Accused: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?<\/p>\n
10pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n
Julie Hyde with a photograph of her niece, Stacey, who was convicted of murdering her friend\u2019s boyfriend. Photograph: Gj Fielding\/Candour<\/p>\n
This instalment of the series that showcases the difficulty of overturning a conviction on the grounds of miscarriage of justice follows Stacey Hyde \u2013 who was found guilty of murdering her best friend\u2019s boyfriend in 2009. Will she successfully arguethat his stabbing during a drunken fight was the result of self-defence \u2013 and that she is one of the many women sentenced without the circumstances being properly looked at? The charity Justice for Women hopes so. Alexi Duggins<\/p>\n
Film choiceTaking no prisoners \u2026 Daniel Radcliffe in Escape from Pretoria. Photograph: Arclight Films\/Ian Routledge\/Allstar<\/p>\n
Escape from Pretoria (Francis Annan, 2020), 9pm, Film4
Although it\u2019s still oddly difficult to accept Daniel \u201cPotter\u201d Radcliffe as a fully grown adult, he does make a convincing ANC prisoner in Francis Annan\u2019s tense, fact-based drama, set in late-70s apartheid South Africa. In the absence of any major Black characters to bring wider political context, the film doubles down on its jail-break thriller angle. Sentenced to 12 years for distributing leaflets, Radcliffe\u2019s Tim Jenkin is bent on escape. Luckily, he\u2019s a persistent problem-solver, with locked doors just a temporary obstacle when you have an unlimited supply of wood. SW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rik Mayall: Magnificent B\u2019stard 9pm, Sky DocumentariesStar quality is often obvious in retrospect. But it\u2019s hard to believe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}