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It’s all her fault

Friday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic

“If someone took Milo…why would he pretend to be you?” Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning play wealthy American school mothers in this thriller that ticks all the right boxes. When Marissa Irvin (Snook) goes to pick up her son from his playpen, the woman who opens the door is not Jenny Kaminsky (Fanning) — the mother she thought he was staying with. When the search begins, Jenny quickly becomes a suspect. As the case unfolds, we are shown how the mothers first met and became friends with each other. And in a brutal world of privileged parents to navigate through, everyone is easily blamed. Holly Richardson

Empire with David Olusoga

9pm on BBC Two

Since his new time on The Celebrity Traitors, David Olusoga is doing what he does best, with an essential series about how the British Empire shaped the world. He returns first to Elizabethan England, which later leads him to the Newton Slave Burial Ground in Barbados, and then back to the United Kingdom and the spa town of Bath. People with personal stories about this complex legacy also share their perspectives. Human resources

An unspoken world

7.30pm on Channel 4

Scenes of authoritarian violence, long predicted by popular culture, are now unfolding for real in self-proclaimed “Health City” Los Angeles, where millions live in fear of Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown. Across the country, ICE agents are becoming more secretive and brutal. Rhea Chatterjee reports. Ellen E. Jones

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

9pm Sky Max

After enjoying some luxurious Spanish hospitality at the country retreat of Solaz del Mar, it’s time for Daryl (Norman Reedus) and his best friend Carol (Melissa McBride) to embark on their sea escape plan. Can they fix their sinking yacht before being drawn into more regional tensions? Graeme Virtue

How are you? It’s Alan Partridge.

9.30pm on BBC One

This joyful series comes to an end. But what did Alan learn? Certainly not to move forward from old grievances. To that end, he visits the BBC to find out why he was removed from it this time. Suffice to say, the answer doesn’t really end the matter. A triumphant rebirth and the best outing for partridges for some time. Phil Harrison

The Graham Norton Show

10.40pm, on BBC One

Man of the Moment Glen Powell is in the studio with Colman Domingo talking about their new film The Running Man. They are joined by Rosamund Pike, who stars in the heist thriller Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, and Jack Whitehall, who gets serious in new drama Malice. Human resources

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Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025), Netflix

Given Guillermo del Toro’s horror proclivities, it was inevitable that he would one day try his hand at Mary Shelley’s modern-day Prometheus. And this is an honest take – intensely gothic in its green-and-red-themed sets and costumes, and sincerely romantic in its exploration of life and death. Oscar Isaac’s Victor Frankenstein is a serious man (with serious sideburns), arrogantly obsessed with scientific discoveries, while Jacob Elordi brings pity to the Creature, a marble-skinned innocent who learns harsh lessons about humanity. Christoph Waltz in the supporting role of Victor and Mia Goth as his brother’s nosy fiancée add a touch of brilliance to a tale that is often told but rarely told with such dedication. Simon Wardle

Prey (Dan Trachtenberg, 2022), 9pm, Movie 4

Sometimes one good idea can revitalize a tired franchise. That’s certainly the case here with Dan Trachtenberg’s reworking of the Predator films in 2022. This time we go back in time to the year 1719 and the Great Northern Plains. There, the mostly unseen alien warrior encounters a Native American tribe on their homeland in the wilderness. Young hunter Naru (Amber Midthunder) is the first to recognize the unusual threat in their midst, aside from the terrestrial dangers of the French colonists. It is tense, tightly planned, and does not rely on the knowledge of its ancestors. Southwest

The Blessing, (Terrence Davies, 2021), 11pm, BBC Two

The last film directed by the great Terence Davies before his death is an erudite biopic of the poet Siegfried Sassoon. His life was full of sharp contrasts, from the traumatic horrors of World War I, which he fought but opposed (resulting in a stay in a psychiatric hospital) to the fanatical upper-class milieu of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s. It’s also a frank exploration of gay sexuality in an era when people didn’t dare speak up for it. Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi poignantly play Sassoon at different ages, providing additional generational contrast. Southwest