THIS WEEK'S TOP TV: 23 - 29 NOVEMBER

THIS WEEK'S TOP TV: 23 - 29 NOVEMBER

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Monday, 23rd November 2015
The Bridge (Credit: BBC)
The Bridge (Credit: BBC)

This week's best television, including The Bridge, and Burt Bacharach: A Life in Song

Monday

ISIS: the British Women Supporters Unveiled

Channel 4

9pm

Brought forward in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, this unsettling documentary investigates the women who support ISIS right here in the UK. Undercover reporting exposes the secret meetings and alarming reality of a domestic threat.


Isis: the British Women Supporters Unveiled (Credit: Channel 4)

 

Tuesday

Imagine: The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson

BBC One

10.35pm

This documentary from Julian Temple follows Wilko Johnson, the former Dr Feelgood guitarist, in the months after his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Believing he had just months to live, he set about recording a farewell album and going on tour - but things didn't turn out the way he expected.


Wilko Johnson (Credit: BBC)

 

Wednesday

Suspects

Channel 5

10pm

Back for a fourth series is this east London police procedural, made grittier than its contemporaries by its semi-improvised dialogue. Tonight finds the team coaxing down a desperate father, protesting on top of a roof on behalf of his son, an Afghanistan veteran who has been missing for a week.


Fay Ripley, Clare-Hope Ashitey and Damien Molony star in Suspects (Credit: Channel 5)

 

Thursday

The World's Most Expensive Food

Channel 4

9pm

Television's fascination with the super-rich never seems to cease - and this programme, exploring luxury dietary habits, is yet another opportunity to channel that voyeurism. We meet a wagyu beef farmer who massages his cows, and see what's on a tasting menu that costs £1000 per head.


The World's Most Expensive Food (Credit: Channel 4)

 

Friday

Burt Bacharach: A Life in Song

BBC Four

9pm

This one-off performance at the Royal Festival Hall last summer is a rare chance to see the composer live, in a wonderful celebration of his career and life, with special guests including the likes of Laura Mvula and Joss Stone in tow to honour him.


Burt Bacharach: A Life in Song

 

Saturday

The Bridge

BBC Four

9pm

The fantastic Swedish-Danish crime drama continues, its much-awaited third series so far proving to be just as gripping as the first two. Tonight, we learn more about Henrik, Saga's mysterious new partner who never sleeps and seems to have problems with his seemingly idyllic home life.


Sofia Helin in The Bridge (Credit: BBC)

 

Sunday

Ireland with Simon Reeve

BBC Two

8pm

In the second leg of his journey around the Emerald Isle, the spirited explorer encounters huge numbers of tourists taking pictures at one of the filming locations for Game of Thrones, and is unsettled when comes across an Orangeman's Day march in Belfast.


Simon Reeve (Credit: BBC)

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This week's best television, including The Bridge, and Burt Bacharach: A Life in Song