Still Game, BBC 1, 9.30pm
THE news that the local undertaker has died and a creepy replacement has moved into town causes much commotion among the Clansman regulars. Nobody quite knows what to make of the new arrival, with Isa spreading stories that he could be the Grim Reaper himself. And despite their initial bravado, Jack and Victor are spooked when the man himself turns up in the pub.
My Baby’s Life: Who Decides?, Channel 4, 9pm
LAST year, the case of Charlie Gard, whose parents and medical team disagreed over whether he should undergo experimental treatment, raised difficult questions about how far we should go to try to prolong a child’s life and who gets to make that decision. New advances in medical science mean that it’s a dilemma parents and doctors could be facing even more frequently in the future, as they are forced to consider the child’s quality of life and the cost to the financially straitened NHS. This sensitive two-part documentary explores the emotive debate, as it follows children on life support at Southampton Hospital’s Paediatric ICU and meets the parents and staff caring for them.
Civilisations, BBC 2, 9pm
SIMON Schama explores the artistic depiction of nature. He discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of observed nature but rather a projection of dreams and idylls. His journey takes him from 10th-century China, where he looks at the scrolls of the Song dynasty, to the country villas of the Renaissance. He also travels to America and Holland, finding landscapes that are respectively expansive and confined, revealing a kind of earthly paradise and a sense of nationhood.
The Good Fight, More4, 9pm
THE acclaimed US legal drama The Good Wife came to the end of its seven-year run in 2016, but The Good Fight wages on thanks to this spin-off, which follows Christine Baranski’s character Diane Lockhart as she and her goddaughter Maia (Rose Leslie) join a new firm in the wake of a financial scandal. As the second season gets under way, Maia is still dealing with the fallout from her parents’ actions and Diane is faced with a world gone mad.
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