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TV tonight: exploring Marilyn Monroe’s links to organised crime

A two-part series shows how the film star was drawn closer to the mob by prominent men in her life. Plus: Amanda turns detective in Amandaland. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, Channel 4In the golden era, it was far from unusual for Hollywood’s elite to be rubbing shoulders with underground crime’s most notorious figures – and this depressing two-parter focuses on the links Marilyn Monroe had throughout her life. She’s brought closer to the mob via production heads, Frank Sinatra and even President John F Kennedy. Hollie Richardson 9pm, BBC One Amanda (Lucy Punch) has become a brand ambassador! But as she chucks out her old sofa to make space for the new one she has been given to promote, she finds a used condom. Cue awkward chats with her kids, poor Anne, ChatGPT and even mummy Felicity. HR 9pm, BBC TwoA nerve-rackingly rare procedure in this week’s visit to the surgery theatre: one patient needs a double transplant for their pancreas and kidney. Elsewhere, a woman gets part of her tongue removed to help stop an aggressive cancer. More incredible – if slightly queasy – high-risk hospital work. HR 9pm, ITV1 This escapist crime drama shamelessly ticks multiple

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US attorney and a key figure in the investigations into the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King G Robert Blakey, who has died aged 90, was one of America’s leading legal scholars, and his speciality was organised crime.…

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TV tonight: exploring Marilyn Monroe’s links to organised crime

A two-part series shows how the film star was drawn closer to the mob by prominent men in her life. Plus: Amanda turns detective in Amandaland. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, Channel 4In the golden era, it…

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US attorney and a key figure in the investigations into the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King G Robert Blakey, who has died aged 90, was one of America’s leading legal scholars, and his speciality was organised crime.…

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A two-part series shows how the film star was drawn closer to the mob by prominent men in her life. Plus: Amanda turns detective in Amandaland. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, Channel 4In the golden era, it was far from unusual…

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