John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial

Wednesday

Apple TV+

Beatles documentaries have been here, there, and everywhere recently, from Disney +’s Get Back to Channel 4’s The Beatles and India. Now, Apple TV+ focuses on the most sinister blotch on the band's history – the murder of John Lennon outside his own apartment.

Over 40 years after Mark David Chapman ended the life of one of the most loved and iconic musicians of all time, John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial will draw on eyewitness reports, previously unseen photographs of the crime scene, and interviews with the psychiatrist who first assessed Chapman. This ‘why-dunnit’ investigates Chapman’s relationships to religion, conspiracy and Catcher in the Rye, which all led to the murder.

Platform 7

Thursday

ITVX

Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson stars in ITV’s adaption of Louise Doughty’s bestselling novel of the same name. Jobson plays Lisa, a girl who has witnessed a devastating, and life changing, event on platform 7 of a train station.

Lisa begins to realise there might be some connection between the accident she has just witnessed and herself, with her patchy memory slowly revealing to her the person that she was before the catastrophe. In a contorted ghost story, Lisa unravels the mystery of her death.

Smothered

Thursday

Sky Comedy, 9.00pm

Fresh from the Schitt’s Creek writers' room and from her best-selling novel Really Good, Actually - Monica Heisey delivers a rom com with a twist. Two strangers have a ‘meet-cute’ on a night out and decide to keep seeing each other, but strictly for a three-week period.

Famalam’s Danielle Vitalis stars as Sammy, a woman done with dating apps. Alongside her is Big Boy’s Jon Pointing as Tom, a man with a fair amount of baggage. Together they become “two adults, having a hot, casual fling”, until they both get too invested in each other and Sammy discovers there is another woman in Tom’s life: his six-year-old daughter.

Vigil: Series Two

Sunday

BBC One, 9.00pm

Suranne Jones’ DCI Amy Silva is back for another case. Most of Vigil’s first series was contained to the inside of a submarine, as Silva investigated a death on board. Told through flashbacks was Silva’s relationship with her colleague Detective Sergeant Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie, Game of Thrones), which they rekindled once ‘The Vigil’ reached land.

In series two, Silva and Longacre are happily anticipating their first child, when they are handed the task of solving ‘multiple unexplained fatalities’ at a Scottish Military Base. Everyone is a suspect, and Silva battles to find them, wishing to return home before her baby is born.

Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on The Case of Conan Doyle

Sunday

BBC Two, 9.00pm

Historian and presenter Lucy Worsley’s self-described “huge, weird crush on Sherlock Holmes” comes to a head, as she conducts an investigation into the famous fictional detective, and his relationship with creator Arthur Conan Doyle.

Worsley examines the author Sherlock left behind when he became a world-wide sensation, as Conan Doyle famously began to resent the detective of his own creation and wished to distance himself from him. In the first episode, Worsley goes back in time to discover Sherlock’s first iteration in Conan Doyle’s years as a medical student. She analyses the early stories and the writer’s growing discontent with his best-selling mystery novels.