WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17
DAVID LOMAS INVESTIGATES Finding the lost connections Screening: Three, 8.40pm Streaming: ThreeNow The suppliers of facial tissues can breathe easy – David Lomas is back to make everybody cry again. The veteran journalist helps find answers to unsolved family mysteries and reconnect lost relatives, and in this season that means the search for a professional rugby player’s biological father, finding a Wairarapa farmer’s birth parents and manifesting for a Māori magician the father he has never known.
GRANTCHESTER
The long-running detective series poised on the edge of the 60s Screening: BBC UKTV, 8.30pm It’s the summer of 1959 and Grantchester’s seventh season finds crime-solving flatmates Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) and Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) both contemplating the future. For DI Keating, it’s mostly just more murders to investigate, but the Reverend is grappling with a love life that becomes more complicated and steamy than is usual for an English country vicar. The season begins with a lot of weddings.
SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW
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