What’s on TV tonight: Scottish crime drama The Ridge, In My Own Words: Frederick Forsyth, and more
Ambulance
BBC One/iPlayer, 9pm
Having spent the last couple of years in London, the series heads back up north and into Yorkshire for the first time. It’s a region that receives upwards of 3,000 calls to emergency services every day, so there’s plenty of action in tonight’s Bradford-based opener, including an emergency home birth.
QI XL
BBC Two/iPlayer, 9pm
Sandi Toksvig returns with series W of the extended version of the long-running comedy game, tonight considering all things Wales, whales, and wails. With a Welsh-themed line-up, too, comprising Elis James, Griff Rhys Jones, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Alan Davies. The edited version airs on Friday at 10pm.
TikTok: Murder Gone Viral
ITV1/ITVX, 9pm
A second series begins with one of the most debated teenage crimes of recent years – the stabbing of 17-year-old Charlie Cosser at a party in West Sussex in 2023 – a murder that has come to be seen as emblematic of how youth violence, social media and justice intersect in the digital age.
Sanatorium: Storyville
BBC Four/iPlayer, 10pm
Director Gar O’Rourke finds an extraordinary subject for his debut documentary, a vast Soviet-era health spa on the shores of the Black Sea in Odesa, Ukraine. There, as air-raid sirens blare and the sounds of war echo in the distance, clients still come for mud baths, ECT treatments and other routes to healing and happiness.
In My Own Words: Frederick Forsyth
BBC One/iPlayer, 10.40pm
Reuters foreign correspondent, BBC reporter, MI6 agent, fighter pilot and one of the bestselling thriller writers of the last 60 years, Frederick Forsyth saw luck as a key part of his eventful life. This interview, in which he reflects on his career in writing, was conducted just weeks before he died in June. GO
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