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TV tonight: romance scams to make your blood boil
Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam picks apart an especially galling emotional grift. Plus: a rival vet arrives in the Dales in All Creatures Great and Small. Here’s what to watch this evening
Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam
Given that romance scam documentaries have become a regular fixture in the schedules, you would think they would have lost the power to shock. But blood will boil in viewers of the first of this three-parter, where three women in middle life recall what happened when they were lonely and started talking to a handsome man online. It turned out, of course, that the same man was dating them all – and he was finding new ways of getting them to send him money. Hollie Richardson
A foreboding sushi conveyor belt signals a crime this week, when a diner keels over in the middle of a team lunch. John (David Mitchell) thinks he’s on to something when he spots a vital piece of discarded evidence. “People write important things on napkins,” he advises. “Pac-Man was created on a napkin.” Hannah Verdier
