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All Her Fault
Friday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
“If someone did take Milo … why would they pretend to be you?” Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning star as wealthy American school moms in this moreish thriller that ticks all the right boxes. When Marissa Irvine (Snook) goes to collect her son from his playdate, the woman who answers the door isn’t Jenny Kaminski (Fanning) – the mother she thought he was staying with. As the search begins, Jenny quickly becomes a suspect. While the case unravels, we are shown how the two mothers first met and befriended each other. And in a brutal world of privileged parents that they need to navigate through, blame is easily thrown at everybody. Hollie Richardson
Empire With David Olusoga
9pm, BBC Two
Fresh from his 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 first rewinds to Elizabethan England, which later leads him to Newton Slave Burial Ground in Barbados, then back to the UK and the spa town of Bath. People with personal stories about this complicated legacy also share their views. HR
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
Scenes of authoritarian violence, long predicted by popular culture, are unfolding for real right now in the self-declared “sanitary city” of LA, where millions live in fear of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Across the country, agents for ICE are becoming more covert and brutal. Ria Chatterjee reports. Ellen E Jones
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
9pm, Sky Max
Having enjoyed some fine Spanish hospitality in the rustic haven of Solaz del Mar, it’s time for soulful dirtbag Daryl (Norman Reedus) and his BFF Carol (Melissa McBride) to crack on with a nautical escape plan. Can they patch up their scuttled yacht before getting dragged further into regional tensions? Graeme Virtue
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
9.30pm, BBC One
This joyful series concludes. But what has Alan learned? Certainly not to move on from old grievances. To that end, he’s visiting the BBC to find out why he was removed from This Time. Suffice to say, the answer doesn’t really bring closure. A triumphant rebirth and the best Partridge outing for some time. Phil Harrison
The Graham Norton Show
10.40pm, BBC One
Man of the moment Glen Powell is in the studio with Colman Domingo, talking about their new thriller The Running Man. Joining them are Rosamund Pike, who stars in heist film Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, and Jack Whitehall, who gets serious in new drama Malice. HR
Film choice
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025), Netflix
Given Guillermo del Toro’s horror leanings, it was inevitable he would one day try his hand at Mary Shelley’s Modern Prometheus. And this is a wholehearted take – rampantly gothic in its green and red-themed sets and costumes, and faithfully Romantic in its exploration of life and death. Oscar Isaac’s Victor Frankenstein is a serious man (with serious sideburns), hubristically obsessed with scientific discovery, while Jacob Elordi brings pathos to the Creature, a marble-skinned innocent learning harsh lessons about humanity. Christoph Waltz as Victor’s backer and Mia Goth as his brother’s inquisitive fiancee add flourishes to a tale often told but rarely with such devotion. Simon Wardell
Prey (Dan Trachtenberg, 2022), 9pm, Film4
Sometimes one good idea can revitalise a tired franchise. That’s certainly the case here with Dan Trachtenberg’s 2022 reworking of the Predator films. This time we are taken back in time – to 1719 and the Northern Great Plains. There, the mostly invisible extraterrestrial warrior faces a Native American tribe equally at home in the wilderness. Young would-be hunter Naru (Amber Midthunder) is the first one to recognise the unusual threat in their midst, aside from the more earthbound dangers of French colonialists. It’s tense, tightly plotted and doesn’t rely on knowledge of its forebears. SW
Benediction, (Terence Davies, 2021), 11pm, BBC Two
The final film made by the great Terence Davies before he died is a cultured biopic of the poet Siegfried Sassoon. His was a life of sharp contrasts, from the traumatic horrors of the first world war, which he fought in but opposed (leading to a stay in a psychiatric hospital) to the waspish, upper-class milieu of the Bright Young Things in the 1920s. It’s also a candid exploration of gay sexuality in an era when it dared not speak its name. Sassoon is played affectingly by Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi at different ages, offering an added generational contrast. SW
