TV highlights: Monday, February 11
BACK ROADS
Season finale ★★★
8pm, ABC
It'll be a long time between drinks at an outback watering hole before Heather Ewart's charming travel series returns for its winter season. Her last summer stopover is in the Queensland cattle town of Windorah, where a yabby race has capitalised on the town's proximity to the Birdsville Races. Starting with the postman – her regular go-to person for local knowledge – Ewart meets battlers in this apparently quite homogenous expanse of red dirt.
HOME GROUND
Series premiere ★★★★
9.35pm, SBS
The proliferation of Scandi-noir makes it hard to watch this perfectly good Norwegian soccer drama without expecting a mutilated corpse to appear every time someone walks into the locker room. That sense of foreboding permeates the action, but for another reason. The hard-bitten female protagonist here is no detective, but a coach determined to overhaul a flailing club before the National Premier League season. Hers is a timely and universal struggle, well portrayed.
MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT
★★½
7pm, Nine
This emotional car crash is so spectacular it's impossible to look away. This far into the "social experiment", there's no use pretending anyone who has strolled down these hastily decorated aisles is here for any other reason than to boost their Instagram ads. Sam's "too good looking to find love"? Give us a break. There's such a mix of personalities in this cast, it's bound to get messy. Especially during the blindfolded dinner party … all that white!