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TV tonight: a body is found in a clever surrealist period drama

Dalì is among the artist suspects in This Is Not a Murder Mystery. Plus: the story behind the 2018 Salisbury poisonings. Here’s what to watch this evening 8pm, U&DramaA period crime drama set in West Sussex, 1936: a stately home is playing host to the hottest artists of the day, including Salvador Dalí, Man Ray and René Magritte. After a party fuelled by cocaine, opium and professional jealousy, a body is found, staged like Magritte’s The Lovers – prompting the arrival of Stephen Tompkinson as acerbic DCI John Thistlethwaite. The clever visual references and arch dialogue make it hard not to love. Jack Seale 9pm, ITV1New drama in which delicious Italian cuisine and brutal murder come together. When grieving widower DCI Joe Mottram (Warren Brown) and his daughter Angelica (Beau Gadsdon) seek solace in sunny Capri, Joe is soon asked by his mother-in-law (Phyllis Logan) to clear a relative’s name. Cue soft-focus closeups of risotto, cookery tips and corpses. Ali Catterall 9pm, Channel 4This three-parter revisits the attempted murder of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia on UK soil in 2018. The opening episode hears from local responders who had no idea a lethal

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Dalì is among the artist suspects in This Is Not a Murder Mystery. Plus: the story behind the 2018 Salisbury poisonings. Here’s what to watch this evening 8pm, U&DramaA period crime drama set in West Sussex, 1936: a stately home is playing…

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