Daily Picks M Magazine July 28 - Sunday
SUNDAY, JULY 28
THE PLANETS ★★★★
7.40pm, ABC
Striding across the frosty Earthly terrain that best mimics the surface of Saturn, Professor Brian Cox beguilingly describes the wonders of the ringed planet. As vivid a picture as CGI can paint, it is the actual grainy images captured by spacecraft that are the most awe-inspiring. Here are some truly extraordinary discoveries over which to marvel with Cox, who also succinctly explains why something so far away matters, now more than ever.
MIDSOMER MURDERS ★★★★
Season return 8.40pm, ABC
The irrepressible English whodunit marks two decades of imperfect murders with a spate of killings seemingly linking butterfly enthusiasts with a high-IQ club. All the Cluedo characters are there – the doddery old lady, the snooty professor, the siren – and plenty of red herrings. Among the familiar faces enjoying their turn at this beloved genre are Mark Benton (Shakespeare & Hathaway), Thusitha Jayasundera (The Bill), and Danish actress Ann Eleonora Jorgensen (Ride Upon the Storm).
HUNTING HITLER ★★
Series return 7.40pm, SBS Viceland
A boatload of enthusiasm makes up for a paucity of evidence in this tireless search for something, anything, to prove that the Nazi leader did not die in the Fuhrerbunker in 1945 after all, but escaped through a hidden passage, boarded a plane, and fled to the South American jungle, where he lived out a long and happy life sipping tea from china cups. Some of the speculation revolves around declassified FBI files detailing sightings around the globe.