A new period crime drama, This Is Not a Murder Mystery, airs at 8pm on U&Drama. Set in West Sussex in 1936, the show features a stately home hosting artists such as Salvador Dalí, Man Ray and René Magritte. After a party fuelled by cocaine, opium and professional jealousy, a body is found staged like Magritte's The Lovers. Stephen Tompkinson stars as acerbic DCI John Thistlethwaite. The programme is praised for its clever visual references and arch dialogue.
At 9pm on ITV1, a new drama combines Italian cuisine and murder. DCI Joe Mottram (Warren Brown) and his daughter Angelica (Beau Gadsdon) seek solace in Capri after the death of his wife. Joe is asked by his mother-in-law (Phyllis Logan) to clear a relative's name, leading to soft-focus closeups of risotto and corpses.
Channel 4 airs a three-part series at 9pm revisiting the 2018 Salisbury poisonings, where Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent. The opening episode features local responders unaware of the lethal substance and offers an insider perspective on the government's diplomatic response.
Other highlights include a documentary on Anne Boleyn with Jason Watkins and Tracy Borman (9pm, Sky One), the comedy Twenty Twenty Six (10pm, BBC Two), and a kooky comedy where neighbours unmask a suspect (9pm, Sky One).
