TV Tonight: Dawn French is a comedy about insurance fraud | television

Can you keep the secret?

9.30pm on BBC One
Dawn French continues to make waves as Debbie, a woman who fakes her husband’s death in order to pay for the insurance payout. But now the cat is out of the bag: her police officer daughter-in-law Neha (Mandeep Gill) knows that William (Mark Heap) is alive and demands the money back. Meanwhile, another person pulled off the scam and used very uninspiring font in a blackmail message. But Debbie has no intention of submitting to any threats. Great fun. Holly Richardson

Landscape Artist of 2026

8 p.m., Sky Arts
St James’s Park offers another eight artists the chance to paint water, trees and, within walking distance, about a fifth of Buckingham Palace. More exotic approaches include a surrealist interpretation based on artificial intelligence, an emotion-based painting of a psychologist, and a miasma of greyish brown. Jack Seale

Dig for Britain

9pm on BBC Two
Further south in Britain, archaeological sites include an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Kent, an 18th-century cliff on the New Forest coast and under Trinity College in Oxford. There are also Iron Age objects discovered at Herne Bay, which are so delicate that they have to be lifted out and X-rayed – but what is hiding inside? Human resources

Grantchester

9pm on ITV1
Is magic afoot in Robson Green’s cozy crime drama? This is the question that Alfie and Geordie grapple with during their visit to the foundling’s house. Although Geordi finds himself experiencing something even more troubling: the possibility of his partner’s guilt. Alexey Duggins

patience

9pm on Channel 4
Rock star archaeologist Samuel Henry is ready to announce a shocking discovery about a Viking rune stone when he suddenly drops dead in the middle of a seminar. While Patience and Frankie were investigating, the same fate befell his colleague. Meanwhile, Patience tells Elliot what she needs from the relationship, in the form of a heavily printed contract. Ali Catterall

Surgeons: a matter of life and death

9pm on Channel 5
An operation is performed on a watermelon-sized kidney and a rare, rapidly growing tumor on the nose and cheek in this week’s nerve-racking episode of the fly-on-the-wall hospital series. Can surgeons remove them? Human resources

Choose a movie

Polite Society (Nidaa Manzur, 2023), 9pm, movie 4
Nida Mansour, creator of We Are Lady Parts, has brought that show’s edgy punk energy to her first feature film, a thrilling comedy. Priya Kansara is Riya, a British Muslim martial arts fanatic who dreams of becoming a stunt performer. Her elder sister, Leena (Ritu Arya), has dropped out of art school and somehow attracts the attention of wealthy, qualified geneticist Salim (Akshaye Khanna). Terrified that Lina will abandon her artistic dreams for the sake of an arranged marriage, Raya plans sabotage. Can she find anything wrong with Salem – or is this just a bad case of sibling jealousy? Simon Wardle

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