Black Cake

Wednesday

Disney+

Siblings Benny and Byron – played by Adrienne Warren (Women of the Movement) and Ashley Thomas (The Ipcress File) – are left a USB stick by their recently deceased mother. It turns out the woman they knew as Eleanor was actually called Covey, and suffered a dark past she spent the rest of her life trying to hide. What follows is a tale of family and betrayal that takes place across Jamaica, California, Italy and Britain.

The series is an adaptation of Charmaine Wilkerson’s book of the same name, and is made by Harpo Productions, Oprah Winfrey’s production company.

Choir

Wednesday

Disney+

This six-part documentary follows the Detroit Youth Choir. It’s hard to envy musical director Anthony White, who is tasked with replacing multiple singers while keeping the choir relevant in the eyes of its city. Just to make things even more difficult, there is the added pressure of living up to their 2019 performance on America’s Got Talent.

The prospect of a performance at Carnegie Hall has the singers excited, but will brutal auditions and preparation get the better of them?

Lindsey Burrow: Who Cares for Our Carers? (Tonight)

Thursday

ITV1, 8.30pm

Lindsey Burrow is married to former rugby league player Rob, who in 2019 made headlines by revealing his motor neurone disease diagnosis. Lindsey has been acting as his unpaid carer ever since, like many others up and down the country who have a loved one with a long-term medical condition. As part of an investigation for Tonight, Lindsey hears their stories.

Carers provide £162 billion in free services, according to one estimate; this show attempts to tot up the human cost.

Mr & Mrs Smith

Friday

Amazon Prime

Plans for a TV adaptation of the 2005 film were announced all the way back at the start of 2021. Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) departed the project later that year, reportedly over (amicable) creative differences with Donald Glover (Atlanta). For those with an appetite for photogenic, homicidal married couples, the wait is nearly over.

Now, Glover stars alongside Maya Erskine (Blue Eye Samurai): the two play contract killers whose cover story demands they pose as a married couple. As blood starts to spill, real romance begins to bloom.

Here We Go

Friday

BBC One, 8.00pm

The Jessops return for a second series of the family sitcom, reuniting members of the British comedy gentry, including Katherine Parkinson (Inside No. 9) and Jim Howick (Horrible Histories).

This time around, uncouth dad Paul (Howick) finds his boat in his mum’s garage, igniting his sense of adventure as he tries to get the family out onto the water. Meanwhile, mum Rachel (Parkinson) is starting to feel old, surrounded by people half her age at her new university course. She decides to show the students how it’s done by playing drinking games.