TV tonight: can The Traitors US really be as devilishly good as the UK series?

Alan Cumming steps into Claudia Winkleman’s footwear. Plus: Storyville – Three Minutes: A Lengthening is a vital watch. Right here’s what to look at this night

The Traitors US

8pm, BBC Three

Should you have been left begging for extra of 2022’s greatest actuality sequence after a festive binge, right here it's – US type. Set in the identical citadel, with the identical guidelines and lots of the similar duties, there are solely two large modifications: Alan Cumming is deliciously deviant in Claudia Winkleman’s function, and half of the contestants are US celebrities (properly, former Massive Brother and Beneath Deck stars). Positive, it could’t beat the UK one – but it surely nonetheless makes for a cracking recreation to get caught into. Hollie Richardson

Waterloo Street

8pm, BBC One

“Even the constructing’s turning on us,” shrugs Mr Guthrie as one other day dawns on the difficult faculty. Children are shouting earlier than they even get by way of the doorways, and a drama workshop descends into damaged home windows and chaos. In the meantime, troubled pupil Preston hits a low level and badass head Kim has an out-of-character second. Hannah Verdier

Challenging … James Baxter and Angela Griffin in Waterloo Road
Difficult … James Baxter and Angela Griffin in Waterloo Street. Photograph: David Gennard/BBC/Wall To Wall/Rope Ladder Fiction

India: The Modi Query

9pm, BBC Two

The second episode of the two-part sequence interrogating Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s troubled relationship with the sizeable Muslim minority seems to be at Modi’s time in authorities. Amnesty Worldwide has repeatedly criticised insurance policies (together with India’s new citizenship regulation) that they allege deal with Muslims unfairly. Why have the organisation’s Indian workplaces been closed? Phil Harrison

24 Hours in A&E

9pm, Channel 4

One other go to to the hectic Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. This week, a younger girl knocked off her motorcycle has bodily trauma however medical doctors are equally involved about her groggy verbal responses. Elsewhere, a espresso store sugar sachet is pressed into medical service. Graeme Advantage

The Household Pile

9.30pm, ITV1

Bafta-winning Brian Dooley’s breakneck new sitcom about 4 very totally different Liverpudlian sisters clearing out their lifeless father or mother’s home continues. Nicole and Ursula are checking out the shed once they come throughout a secret that makes them keep in mind their dad in a complete new mild. HR

Storyville – Three Minutes: A Lengthening

10pm, BBC 4

Haunting and beautiful … A still from Storyville’s Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Haunting and exquisite … A nonetheless from Storyville’s Three Minutes: A Lengthening. Photograph: courtesy of Household Affair Movies/BBC/US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Directly haunting and exquisite, this Helena Bonham Carter-narrated documentary begins with three minutes of silent footage filmed by David Kurtz in a Jewish city in Poland in 1938. Kurtz’s grandson, who discovered the movie in 2009, helps unpick the tales of the folks smiling and going about their each day lives in it. Most have been later murdered in the course of the Holocaust, however one of many few remaining survivors – a boy within the movie – remembers his reminiscences right here. HR

Movie alternative

Beast (Michael Pearce, 2017) 10.50pm, Film4
This febrile 2017 amour fou thriller was our first indication that Jessie Buckley was a star within the making. She blazes by way of the movie as Moll, the disaffected daughter of a well-off Jersey household who's drawn to the damaging Pascal (Johnny Flynn). In the meantime, a sequence of murders of ladies has set the island on edge. Whereas Pascal could have his secrets and techniques (is he the killer?), Moll isn’t the dutiful baby her controlling mom (the good Geraldine James) would really like. Author-director Michael Pearce went on to make the tense Riz Ahmed thriller Encounter, so is one other one to look at. Simon Wardell

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