What is on TV tonight? Mud, Nature’s Miracle Orphans and Is the President a Sex Pest?
The Week rounds up the best picks for this evening’s television
Is the President a Sex Pest? asks Panorama on BBC One at 8.30pm tonight. In the run-up to Donald Trump’s visit to the UK, reporter Richard Bilton looks at the multiple allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour dismissed by the president.
On Channel 5, geologist Tom Backhouse investigates sinkholes caused by collapsed mine shafts on Sinkholes: Sucked Under at 7pm; while on ITV at 8pm, Julia Bradbury picks six accessible family treks in the UK, including the Jurassic Coast, in Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury.
On tonight’s Who Do You Think You Are? Comedian Olivia Colman is surprised to discover that she needs to travel to India to find out more about her great-great-great grandmother.
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If you need a wildlife fix, tune in to BBC Four at 8pm for Nature’s Miracle Orphans. Patrick Aryee watches an orphaned sloth learn to live in the wild in Costa Rica, while Lucy Cooke goes to Zimbabwe to help train a pair of lion cubs to hunt.
Tonight’s best film recommendation is Mud (2012), starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, on FilmFour at 6.15pm. Two boys exploring a Mississippi island find a fugitive who asks them to deliver messages to his longtime sweetheart. “Mark Twain meets Sam Peckinpah in Jeff Nichols's exhilarating coming-of-age movie,” says The Observer.
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