TV tonight: Who is Bill Cosby now? This excellent documentary finds out

 

“One of the most successful comics in history!” “America’s Dad!” “One of the biggest predators in Hollywood.” In this excellent four-part documentary series, comedian W Kamau Bell chats with academics, TV insiders and stars, asking a question that confronts many of them: Bill Who is Cosby now? In the opening episode, he recounts when America first encountered Cosby at the time of the civil rights movement — described in the press as a “raceless comedian” who became one of first black character on television. Hollie Richardson

The semi-final brought a bathroom-themed task, as the remaining quartet in clay attempted to make double sinks and decorative tiles to evoke a Turkish bath. The second challenge was a decorative style that constituted a true test of design sophistication and precise execution: the Moorcroft tubular lining. Jack Seal

The comic legend continues to establish himself as one of the nation’s leading river presenters with this new eco-series. He traveled across the UK to understand the decline of the water industry since the water sector was privatised, starting with the North. It’s personal, passionate and complicated. Alexi Duggins

A widowed artist is reported missing and a group of despicable posh students use Clockwork Orange on a homeless man as the final series of the dramatic prequel continues. If that all sounds a bit grim, there’s some lovely meta business as Morse and Thursday encounter the cast of a popular crime TV show filming on their area. Virtue Graeme

While Palmer (Tom Cullen) lives the good life in Tenerife – inflatable swimming pool, karaoke room, the works – his gold smuggling friend Noye (Jack Lowden) is returning home and facing music. That means a confrontation in the interrogation room with long-winded lawyer Boyce (Hugh Bonneville). Please sir, not another story about your RAF days! Ellen E. Jones

This fitness challenge in which lazy people are paired with Warriors to perform intense physical and heartfelt emotional tasks has reached the halfway mark: a new pairing is revealed and tested challenge the power to cause surprise. It’s fun – the contestants’ flaws are constantly exposed but importantly, never ridiculed. Phil Harrison

 

Alfre Woodard in Clemency. Photo: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy
The messy morality of state-sanctioned killing is at the heart of this influential film from Chinonye Chukwu, director of the recent biopic Till. Alfre Woodard is alternately feverish and debilitating as Bernardine, the warden of a US prison with a death row inmate who just wants to keep it together despite insomnia and a deteriorating marriage. Aldis Hodge is a strong presence as Anthony, a convicted cop killer who switches between hope and despair as his execution date approaches, while Richard Schiff’s exhausted lawyer Marty shows his conviction. How the death penalty affects everyone involved. Simon Wardell