999: What’s Your Emergency?, C4, 9pm
MORE of us than ever before are dialling 999, asking the emergency services to pick up the pieces when something goes wrong. And tonight sees the return of the documentary series that takes an intimate and frank look at modern Britain through the eyes of those on the front line. The focus is on paramedics, as well as police and fire services, and one of the first cases covered is a man with an axe-related injury. Meanwhile, another team responds to a call to attend a rugby injury, and at a road incident, a woman with life-changing multiple injuries has to be cut out of her car.
Our Girl, BBC1, 9pm
IN case there was any doubt that Michelle Keegan is far more than just a pretty face, this compelling series has underlined the fact. In the last episode, Georgie is caught in the crossfire when another attempt is made on Inspector Chowdhrey’s life, forcing her to re-examine her feelings for her Captain. With Chowdhrey’s son Sumon still missing, Georgie persuades James to call in Special Forces. A daring mission is conceived, but two section find themselves in a deadly shoot out with the drug gang to recover Sumon and halt the Yaba trade.
Long Lost Family, STV, 9pm
DAVINA McCall and Nicky Campbell investigate the case of Maria Roberts, the daughter of Italian parents who had a happy adoption growing up with an English family, and now hopes to find Gilda, her birth mother. The team also meets Francesca Barnes, who is in the early stages of transitioning from male to female. She was born with the name Paul and given up for adoption as a baby. Francesca is now searching for her mother, Norma, but fears her transition may lead to rejection.
Gangland, C5, 10pm
THE channel’s obsession with crime series shows little sign of abating, as this returning documentary proves. It explores the harsh realities of life in some of London’s toughest neighbourhoods, where young people are pressed into an underground subculture of street gangs, murder and drug deals, that sees them exposed to gun and knife crimes on a daily basis. The first episode follows a couple whose son was stabbed to death in 2017 for refusing the overtures of a local gang to join their “firm”.
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