FOR FULL TV LISTINGS FOR THE WEEK, SEE THETIMES.CO.UK/TVPLANNER VIEWING GUIDE, BY JOE CLAY THE TRUMP SHOW BBC Two, 9pm “What happens when a lunatic crazy person becomes president?” That’s

the opening gambit from Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House director of communications, one of many talking heads interviewed in this three-part documentary series looking back at

Donald Trump’s extraordinary and turbulent term in office. Episode one covers the first 18 months of his presidency. “What you hear is ‘orange man bad’,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief

strategist, says. “But he could be in the handful of greatest presidents we’ve ever had.” That concept will be a stretch for many, but the strength of this series is how many from Trump’s

responsibility of the job. “You almost have an experiment,” Michael Wolff, of _New York_ magazine, says. Trump struggled to make the transition from businessman to president and was

completely out of his depth, so opted instead for obfuscation and disruption. “It was like someone was continually walking into a set of drums and knocking them flying . . . bang, bang,

crash, bang, wallop,” Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America editor, says. Chaos is a recurring theme as the episode covers Trump’s volatile relationship with the press; his use of Twitter; and

how Washington life became a soap opera with discord between his aides played out in public. TASKMASTER Channel 4, 9pm The national service for comedians returns for its tenth series and it

has got a promotion of sorts, with Channel 4 poaching it from Dave. However, it left on a high, with the series winning the Bafta for best comedy entertainment programme this year. The

premise is simple: over ten weeks five funny people are set a load of ludicrous tasks by the Taskmaster, Greg Davies, and his sidekick, Alex Horne. The quintet of comedians this time are

Daisy May Cooper (_This Country_), Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson (_The IT Crowd_), Mawaan Rizwan (_Two Weeks to Live_) and the podcast king and stand-up Richard Herring. RIVIERA Sky

Atlantic/Now TV, 9pm The glossy Eurothriller has been a big hit for Sky and it duly returns for a third series. However, it might need a change of title because the show’s heroine, the art

dealer Georgina Clios (Julia Stiles), has fled the intensity of the French Riviera and is a rising star in international art restitution — hunting down stolen artworks. In London she meets

Gabriel Hirsch (Rupert Graves), a fellow art sleuth, who wants Georgina’s help in tracking down some Vermeers stolen from a Dutch family in 1944. “What’s more fun than f***ing over old

Nazis?” he says. What indeed? Advertisement MO GILLIGAN: BLACK, BRITISH AND FUNNY Channel 4, 10pm Last year Mo Gilligan became the first black comedian to front a primetime British TV show

in 20 years. He got his break on the black British comedy circuit, a thriving stand-up scene that has been packing out venues up and down the country for the past 30 years. In this series

Gilligan meets the acts that paved the way for him, including Angie Le Mar (_The Real McCoy_) and John Simmit (who played Dipsy in _Teletubbies_), and shines a light on new comedians coming

through, such as Michael Dapaah, aka the spoof rapper Big Shaq. MISCARRIAGE: OUR STORY Channel 5, 10pm It’s not just programmes about Yorkshire and reboots of beloved series that have

enhanced Channel 5’s status of late. The broadcaster has also been making sensitive programmes on difficult subjects, including racism, domestic abuse and drug addiction. In this latest

offering nine women and men, including the journalist Natasha Kaplinsky and the actress Lacey Turner, recall — in raw detail — their stories of the day they lost their babies. The film,

which encourages parents to grieve openly for their lost children, is shown without advertisements, so its impact is not diminished. CATCH-UP TV, BY BEN DOWELL FREDDIE FLINTOFF: LIVING WITH

BULIMIA BBC iPlayer As a cricketer Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff always wore his heart on his sleeve — whether admitting when he underperformed (which wasn’t often) or when celebrating with a

few drinks when things went right. What most of us didn’t know, however, was that this engaging, sturdy oak of a man is one of the 1.5 million people in the UK with an eating disorder,

something he believes may have originated in the attention he got early in his career for his weight problems. “I became known as a fat cricketer,” he says with typical honesty in a moving

and revealing film in which he finally looks his problems in the eye. FILM CHOICE Advertisement ARGO (15, 2012) Sky Cinema Greats, 5.50pm Ben Affleck entered the actor-turned-director elite,

alongside George Clooney, Clint Eastwood and the like, with _Argo_, which recounts a real-life incident. During the 1979 Iran hostage crisis a CIA operative called Tony Mendez (Affleck)

masqueraded as a movie producer scouting for locations in Iran to spirit out six Americans who escaped the US embassy before it was seized by revolutionaries. In a matter of days Mendez,

with the help of the Hollywood producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin, the foul-mouthed, abrasive comic relief) and the special-effects guru John Chambers (John Goodman, who has the best lines)

must set up a convincing fake movie. Affleck blends comic respite with an inexorable build-up of tension. (130min) WENDY IDE SWEET COUNTRY (15, 2017) Film4, 9pm Set in Australia’s Northern

Territory in the 1920s, Warwick Thornton’s film, based on a real murder case, focuses on Sam Kelly (Hamilton Morris), an Aboriginal farmhand working for the pious Fred Smith (Sam Neill).

While Fred treats Sam and his wife with respect, another white landowner (Ewen Leslie) refers to them as “black stock” and backs up his harsh words with harsher deeds. An escalation of

violence leads to a manhunt and, if the conclusion feels inevitable, the journey is engrossing. Yes, it’s often grim, with silent flashbacks and flashforwards adding an air of uneasy

fatalism. That’s leavened, though, by flashes of comedy, and the scorched landscapes are gorgeous. (113min) ED POTTON RADIO CHOICE, BY DEBRA CRAINE ASSIGNMENT: REZA’S STORY BBC World

Service, 9.06am Four years ago the Afghan TV journalist Said Reza Adib received a death threat while working on a story about the sexual abuse of children by powerful men in Afghanistan.

Adib fled to neighbouring Iran, the start of a dangerous odyssey for him, his wife and two small sons. The fleeing family ducked gunfire on the Turkish border, crossed the Aegean Sea on an

overcrowded makeshift vessel with fake lifejackets, and survived the nightmare of refugee camps in Greece. There Adib met Chloe Hadjimatheou, who tells the remarkable story of a journalist

prepared to dig out the truth no matter where that leads.