TV tonight: John Simm stars in a hammy new thriller

Ali Catterall - TheGuardian - 07:38
A great cast has fun in this drama about the death of a wealthy family’s patriarch. Plus: Jamelia plays Tina Turner in Just Act Normal. Here’s what to watch this evening
Squabbling … John Simm as Gray Wright in I, Jack Wright. Photograph: Des Willie/UKTV
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Squabbling … John Simm as Gray Wright in I, Jack Wright. Photograph: Des Willie/UKTV

TV tonight: John Simm stars in a hammy new thriller

A great cast has fun in this drama about the death of a wealthy family’s patriarch. Plus: Jamelia plays Tina Turner in Just Act Normal. Here’s what to watch this evening

I, Jack Wright

9pm, U&AlibiA great cast – including John Simm, Gemma Jones, Rakhee Thakrar and Niamh Cusack – for this rompy thriller about a wealthy patriarch who died by suicide … or did he? Businessman Jack Wright married three times and has a brood of grownup kids, so there is a lot of squabbling ...
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