 Britannia, Sky Atlantic, 9pm
The end is near. It’s the final chapter of series one of Sky Atlantic’s riotous tale of indomitable tribal passion, and Rome is on the march Cait, defiant to the last, has been captured. But despite Aulus offering a sizable bounty and a pardon for all her previous crimes against the Empire, her captor chooses not to turn Cait in to the Roman camp as agreed.
Meanwhile, Divis, left near death from his encounter with the hunter, receives a last-gasp reprieve from the land. Phelan and Ania find themselves in uncomfortable lodgings at the Druids’ camp as they seek an audience with Phelan, certain that their part in the prophecy is important. However, Veran seems content to keep them waiting. And at the Cantii citadel, with their food supplies depleted through treachery, the situation seems hopeless for Kerra – further cemented by the arrival of a second Roman legion.
As Rome truly shows the island of Britannia how it conducts its business, there is one more sacrifice that must be made.
The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story, BBC Four, 9pm
In this the final episode Gillian concentrates on the three weeks that led up to Ruth’s execution. She charts attempts to save her and Ruth’s last-minute admission that she had an accomplice.
News of this makes its way to the Home Office, who are dealing with a flood of letters from the public. They are a fascinating insight into Britain’s attitude to gender, abuse and capital punishment in the mid-1950s.
Despite the fact that the police were forced to open new lines of inquiry and re-evaluate witness accounts, Ruth was not reprieved and was hanged. Gillian examines the reasons why.
After Ruth’s death a report is sent to the Home Office questioning the outcome of her trial, and Gillian uncovers a surprising connection between Ruth’s alleged accomplice and London’s legal establishment. Finally, Gillian looks at the terrible impact the case had on Ruth’s son Andre and considers Ruth’s legacy in terms of our legal history.
My Baby’s Life: Who Decides?, Channel 4, 9pm
 Incredible advances in medical science’s ability to prolong life have huge cost implications for a financially strained NHS but prompt complex questions relating to quality of life.
This powerful two-part observational documentary series provides an intimate, sensitive and heart-breaking account of the lives of children who can be kept alive but probably never cured. Filmed over the year when the Charlie Gard case gripped the nation, the programme delves deep into both sides of this emotive debate, asking if it’s ever right to let a baby die. Based at Southampton Children’s Hospital’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, it features the parents of children and the doctors who care for them.
Eighteen-month-old Tallulah was born prematurely at 27 weeks. Her lungs are underdeveloped, so she’s kept alive attached to a ventilator. After two years of living in hospital, Tallulah is well enough to go home for the first time, but is still attached to a life-support machine.
Max was also born prematurely and lives in the hospital connected to a life-support machine. Surviving on the edge of medical technology, Max bounces in and out of intensive care with an uncertain long-term outcome. And Mimi has a potentially fixable heart defect. But before she can get the complex surgery she needs, she would have to live on a life-support machine in hospital for two years. Her parents take the highly complex and extremely difficult decision to withdraw treatment for their daughter, wanting to end her suffering when it is not certain that she can be cured.
Do The Right Thing, Channel 5, 9pm
National treasures Eamonn and Ruth present the second edition of their weekly consumer entertainment show in front of a live studio audience. Along with reporters Roman Kemp and Michael Underwood, Eamonn and Ruth will tell extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
This is the show where one minute, we will all be laughing out loud at the ridiculous, then fighting a social injustice the next, or campaigning to change the law.
Tonight Ruth, Eamonn and the team reveal the devastating effects of house fires caused by dangerous electrical white goods. There is a warning about the increasing number of conmen who are targeting people using their phones—one pensioner was scammed out of her £7,500 savings. And one high street store has been hoodwinking the public with dodgy sale prices.
There is an emotional reunion for a father and son who have not seen each other for almost 60 years, and we will celebrate an ordinary woman who set up an extraordinary charity and has literally saved hundreds of children’s lives.
2 Guns, E4, 9pm
If you fancy a movie tonight Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg star as wisecracking undercover cops in Baltasar Kormákur’s action adventure, 2 Guns.
The film is based on the graphic novels by Steven Grant. Posing as members of a drug cartel and unaware of each other’s true identity, Bobby (Washington) and Stig (Wahlberg) attempt to frame each other in an effort to bust a Mexican drug lord (Edward James Olmos). But after a bank heist goes wrong, Bobby and Stig become fugitives on the run not only from the Mexican cartel but also from the DEA, CIA and US Navy.
Weighed down by $43m of cash and facing blackmail and corruption at every turn, they must put their differences aside and work together to outrun all of their pursuers. |
