Maxine

Monday

Channel 5, 9.00pm

Maxine. A new three-part original drama, starts Monday at 9pm on @Channel5_tv and #My5 pic.twitter.com/ztySLQlR0N

— Channel 5 (@channel5_tv) October 6, 2022

Maxine revisits the 2002 Soham murders from the perspective of Maxine Carr, the school assistant who perverted the course of justice by giving her boyfriend Ian Huntley a false alibi.

As the police and journalist Brian Farmer scrutinise her alibi and the bodies of the two missing 10-year-old girls are discovered, the couple are arrested on suspicion of murder. And as the trial proceeds, Maxine's allegiance to her manipulative partner reaches breaking point.

The Elon Musk Show

Wednesday

BBC Two, 9.00pm

A new series that uses extensive archive footage to chart the rise and rise of the controversial tech titan and world's richest person, Elon Musk. The first of three parts takes us back to 1995, the start of the Silicon Valley tech boom that sparked Musk's ascendancy.

After building and selling a major internet tech business, he becomes a multi-millionaire by the age of 28. But just as he's enjoying newfound success, Musk faces his first major challenge.

I Hate You

Thursday

Channel 4, 10.00pm

Veteran comedy writer Robert Popper (Friday Night Dinner) turns his attention from family to friendship with this new chaotic comedy about two flat-sharing, twentysomething best mates, Charlie and Becca.

Tanya Reynolds and Melissa Saint star as the mates in question, bantering and bickering in equal measure as in any love-hate friendship. And when Becca starts dating a man in his seventies and raving about how interesting older men are, Charlie sets out to find her own pensioner.

Russia 1985-1999 TraumaZone

Thursday

BBC iPlayer

A new film by Adam Curtis pic.twitter.com/SeDj3HhDa3

— (@Grimezsz) September 28, 2022

Self-described "emotional journalist" Adam Curtis dives back into the BBC archives to teach an immersive history lesson about modern Russia. Because, as he pointed out in the promo, to understand the country now you have to understand what happened in the titular years, a cataclysmic period that saw the collapse of the two great ideologies of our time, communism and democracy.

This time there will be no voiceover narration, but the power of Curtis' documentaries has always lain in the streams of images that evoke not just factual histories but emotional ones.

The Larkins

Sunday

ITV, 8.00pm

It's back to the Kentish idyll where the Larkin family is waging war against their new neighbours, the Jerebohms (Morgana Robinson and Julian Rhind-Tutt), in the new series of the '50s period drama.

And as they look ahead to Charley's (Tok Stephen) wedding, Pop (Bradley Walsh) accepts a lucrative offer he can't refuse and romance also blossoms for Primrose (Lydia Page).