Chris Packham and Ella Al-Shamahi make a top team on the BBC’s enthralling African stakeout. Elsewhere, dramas great and small…
Waterhole: Africa’s Animal Oasis (BBC Two) | iPlayer
The Undoing (Sky Atlantic) | sky.com
Inside Cinema: Guilt-Free Pleasures (BBC Four) | iPlayer
Raised by Wolves (Sky Atlantic) | sky.com
Small Axe: Red, White and Blue (BBC One) | iPlayer
Is Chris Packham being, rather quietly, groomed to be the new David Attenborough? Certainly he had a newborn gravitas about him in a truly absorbing new three-part programme, in which the Beeb work hand-in-hand with the Mwiba reserve in Tanzania to construct a false waterhole. Broadcasters have what might be kindly described as a chequered history when it comes to fakery and wildlife, yet this short series stands high apart in terms of quality, intention and accountability: it both allows further research, to a microscopic and night-camera’d degree, and goes a little way to counter the vicissitudes of climate change in that arena.