THE TEN BEST SHOWS TO
WATCH, LISTEN TO & STREAM
13—19 APRIL 2024
1 TV Blue Lights
Monday 9.00pm BBC1 Areturn for the Belfast-set drama that breathes new life into the police procedural. Expect scenes stacked with tension as Grace (Siân Brooke) tackles adrugsfuelled crimewave that has links to Loyalists.
INTERVIEW P16
2 STREAMING Feud: Capote vs the Swans
Available from Wednesday Disney+
The martinis are laced with vitriol in asinful true-life drama. Naomi Watts leads agaggle of 1960s socialites who are beguiled, then betrayed, by the mercurial Truman Capote (Tom Hollander).
FEATURE P18
3 TV Pompeii: the New Dig
Monday 9.00pm BBC2
The Roman city is still revealing amazing archaeological finds 2,000 years after the eruption of Vesuvius. As cameras follow anew dig, many intriguing objects come to light, including afresco depicting what looks a lot like a 79AD pizza.
FEATURE P20
4 FILM Anatomy of a Fall
★★★★ j
Available now Amazon Prime Video This gripping French courtroom drama won an Oscar and aBafta for its twisty, admirably ambiguous screenplay, with Sandra Hüller giving aprecisely calibrated performance as the woman accused of murdering her husband.
5 TV The Grand National
Saturday from 12.55pm ITV1
To Liverpool for the Grand National meeting at Aintree, where there’s afull card of races to enjoy before the main event gets under starter’s orders at 4pm.
SIMON BARNES P27
6 TV The Apprentice
Thursday 9.00pm BBC1 The two remaining candidates launch their business ideas into the world and hope they’ve done enough for Lord Sugar to give them the nod. Winner and mentor are then reunit
