Highlights from UKTV this fortnight

A new series of the Frankie Drake Mysteries arrives Tuesdays at 9pm on alibi. Louis Theroux just about survives meeting America’s Most Hated Family on W. The stylish Briarpatch continues and Steve Backshall re-enters the wild in a new four-part epic adventure series not to be missed on Dave.

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Frankie Drake Mysteries

Tuesday 26th January at 9pm 

This classy crime drama returns for a new series. Set in 1920s Toronto, the action-packed series follows the city’s only female private detectives as they fight crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.

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Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family  

Saturday 23rd January at 9pm 

Surviving America’s Most Hated Family sees Louis struggle to come to terms with the infamous Phelps family from Topeka Kansas who picket the funerals of dead soldiers killed in Iraq as a protest against an America that tolerates homosexuality.

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Briarpatch

Wednesdays at 9pm 

The stylish crime drama following the determined and no-nonsense detective, Allegra Dill (Rosario Dawson) on the hunt for her sister killer continues.

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Expedition With Steve Backshall: Unpacked

Sundays at 8pm (from 24th January)

A new four-part series, with previously unseen footage, revealing a fresh perspective on naturalist and explorer Steve Backshall’s ten world-first expeditions and showing just how his epic adventures were filmed.

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