TELEVISION
SUNDAY AUGUST 7
THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES
Homely homicide detectives
Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.30pm
Streaming: TVNZ+
The return of the ever-pleasant local whodunnit series. In the first of its six feature-length episodes, there’s something amiss with the town museum’s Egyptian mummy. See story, opposite page.
RIDLEY ROAD
Punching Nazis in the 1960s
Screening: Rialto, 8.30pm
A four-part BBC drama based – via Jo Bloom’s novel of the same name – on the true story of the 62 Group,’s reviewer, “played with full-on creepiness by Rory Kinnear”. The paper found Vivien’s facility for undercover spying a little improbable but concluded that the show was both “entertaining and disturbing”.
