Songs of Praise
BBC One/iPlayer, 1.15pm
Aled Jones and Rev Kate Bottley are the hosts and Gareth Malone, Michelle John and Harry Bradford preside for the Grand Final of the BBC Young Chorister of the Year, with three juniors (aged 11 to 13) and three seniors (aged 14 to 18) hoping to impress with musical choices including John Rutter’s Gaelic Blessing and Bob Chilcott’s Be Thou My Vision.
Hamza’s Hidden Isles
BBC One, 6.15pm; full series will be available on iPlayer today
The irrepressible Hamza Yassin packs his camera and hits the road once again, tonight exploring wildlife across the British Isles as it responds to spring: expect the dawn chorus, adders and the courtship of the great crested grebe, among other small wonders.
Educating Yorkshire
Channel 4, 8pm
Two year-seven students require the careful guidance of Thornhill Academy’s finest, as Lottie comes to terms with losing the sight in one eye and boisterous charmer Preston is coaxed into channelling his energy into performance.
Hunted
Channel 4, 9pm
The real-life thriller, which sees ordinary people go on the run in the hope of winning £100,000, returns for an eighth series. Enter Chief Ray Howard, new head of the hunters with helicopters and facial recognition technology among the tools at his disposal as his quarries set off from Stansted. Will any of the six pairs stay at large for 21 days and take the cash prize? Daft, tense and still pretty irresistibly packaged. Continues tomorrow.
Revival
Sky Max, 10pm; full series will be available on NOW/Sky today
This new comic-book adaptation is a fairly appealing concept: we’re in rural Wisconsin and those who have died in the past fortnight are rising from their graves, not to feed on the living but to resume their old lives. The genre hook comes through local deputy Dana Cypress (Melanie Scrofano), whose investigation into the murder of a horse leads to dark places. GT
What’s on TV this week?
The Intruder
BBC Four, 9pm & 9.55pm; full series will be available on iPlayer today
What happens when the seemingly perfect au pair becomes your absolute worst au nightmare? It is a question most recently asked by Channel 5 thriller The Au Pair, which was a cosy riff on the 1992 classic The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Four-part French psychological thriller The Intruder is an altogether more stylish affair. Although don’t let the subtitles fool you – it is just as twisty and bonkers as any UK drama.
Tonight’s opening episode introduces us to Mélanie Doutey’s Paula, a struggling mother-of-three who has hired young nanny Tess (Lucie Fagedet) to lighten the load after giving birth. Tess is young and beautiful; she is attentive and smart; her cooking is delicious. She is also, Paula suspects, trying to ruin her life. Why is Paula suddenly so tired? How have important documents suddenly vanished just before her big work meeting? Who is responsible for the inflammatory text messages sent from her phone?
There is a background hum of anxiety about Tess making Paula inadequate, and the unique difficulties women face after returning to work from maternity leave. But none of that matters much by the end of tonight’s second episode, in which Tess reveals her sinister master plan.
