This week on TV, Holly Walsh's comedy The Other One returns for a second series, while the new crime drama DI Ray starring Parminder Nagra heads to ITV.
DI Ray
Monday
ITV, 9pm
Parminder Nagra leads Maya Sondhi’s new crime drama as Detective Rachita Ray, who earns a long-awaited promotion when she is asked to join a homicide investigation.
However, when she discovers the murder is a ‘culturally specific homicide’, she is forced to confront a lifelong battle between her British identity and South Asian heritage. Fearing she may have been brought on to the case because of her ethnicity rather than her ability, DI Ray becomes determined to find the killer and call out the biases of her colleagues, neither of which is an easy task.
Gordon Ramsay: Unchartered
Wednesday
Channel 4, 10pm
Star chef Gordon Ramsay travels to some of the world’s most incredible and remote locations in search of culinary inspiration. Beginning in Tasmania, Ramsay goes diving in shark-infested waters for giant saltwater spiny lobsters and eats wallaby cooked on a hot rock with herbs foraged from a bush filled with venomous snakes.
We Hunt Together
Thursday
Alibi, 9pm
Writer Gaby Hull’s cat-and-mouse thriller returns for a second series. Picking up ten months after the first series finale, Eve Myles reprises her role as detective Lola Franks and Babou Ceesay returns as her police partner DI Jackson Mendy.
When the mysterious killer with links to Freddy Lane (Hermione Corfield) strikes once more, the detective pair are determined to catch their nemesis once and for all, but the murderous games have just begun.
Clark
Thursday
Netflix
The biopic of Swedish conman and gangster Clark Oloffson stars Bill Skarsgård in the leading role.
Oloffson is the man who inspired the term Stockholm syndrome, due to his ability to charm the Swedish people despite committing crimes such as assault, robbery and attempted murder.
The series will follow the life of Oloffson from his early years to the present day, exploring how he became one of the most notorious gangsters in Swedish history.
Having spent more than half of his life locked up, Oloffson continuously left a trail of devastation, destruction and trauma.
The Other One
Friday
BBC One, 9:30pm
The comedy series created by Holly Walsh about a dysfunctional and unlikely blended family is back for series two.
The series begins with half-sisters Cathy (Ellie White) and Cat (Lauren Socha) trying to come to terms with the fact that they have a half bother called Callum (Christopher Jeffers) and Cathy unwittingly got off with him.
Despite this Cathy is determined to focus on her work and love life and get it back on track, even if her ex-fiancé keeps hanging about.
To add to the sisters problems the one year anniversary of their dad’s death is approaching and he still has some surprises for them from beyond the grave.
