Anh's Brush With Fame
8pm, SBS
Really, Anh? Kyle Sandilands? If that was your reaction to the comedian/writer/painter's choice for tonight's portrait, you're not alone, but if there's one thing we've learned from this great little series it's not to judge a person at face value. That's not to say that Sandilands emerges from his interview and portrait as Mother Teresa, but what he says about his childhood – including a patch of sleeping rough on the streets – is quite enlightening. As always, the big reveal is the highlight, as we search the subject's reaction for traces of disapproval. If anyone's going to call it as they see it, it's Sandilands. Annabel Ross
Deep Water
8.30pm, SBS
We're good at embracing our own once they get the international tick of approval. Yael Stone had already carved a reputation for herself as a fine stage actress before moving to New York, but it was her breakthrough role as Lorna Morello on Orange Is the New Black that undoubtedly led to her (deservedly) nabbing the main role in this intriguing four-parter. What starts out as a fairly typical whodunit – young gay man is killed, his spurned lover is the obvious suspect – turns into an investigation into a series of historical hate crimes (based on actual events in Bondi in the '80s and '90s). Stone plays Tori Lustigman, the divorced detective mother of a teenage son, recently returned to Bondi from the country. She's flinty but compassionate, a good foil to the thus far inscrutable Detective Nick Manning, played by Noah Taylor and his moustache. It's refreshing to see a Bondi-based drama with a dark side – where the sun, sand and surf are secondary to an underlying sense of unease – and it's already clear this is going to be far from an open-and-shut case. The solid supporting cast includes William McInnes as the doughy, dismissive Inspector Peel, Craig McLachlan as a sleazy nightclub owner and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as a gay friend of Tori's late brother Shane. Annabel Ross
movie Suffragette (2015)
Premiere Movies (pay TV), 8.30pm
"War's the only language men listen to," says one of the women prepared to advocate for violence in the fight for British women to be given the vote, and while it's set in 1912 London the contemporary parallels are obvious in Sarah Gavron's drama. The film can be schematic, but the circumstances it describes are nightmarish, exemplified by the struggle of Maud Adams (Carey Mulligan), a worker in an industrial laundry since age 12 who is underpaid, sexually abused by her employer as if it's his natural right, and abandoned by her husband (Ben Whishaw) after she joins the Suffragette movement demanding equal rights. Meryl Streep briefly appears as the movement's fugitive leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, but the crucial performance comes from Helena Bonham-Carter as Edith Ellyn, a chemist and activist whose belief in the cause extends to acts of violence. She's compelling as a rational advocate of a by any means necessary philosophy. Craig Mathieson
Pay 60 Days In
Wednesday, CI, 9.30pm
You'd think the first season would have provided a sufficient lesson in the dangers of letting cocky, arrogant so-and-sos go undercover as prisoners inside Indiana's violent, overcrowded Clark County Jail. And yet here we see the pathologically smug former army medic Ryan swaggering into the lion's jaws. Under interrogation from other inmates his cover story begins to fall apart and he's marked as a potential snitch. Over in the women's unit, New York mum Monalisa, who wants to know what her daughter is going through in prison, is shocked by how filthy her cell is, while former prison officer Sheri finds herself with a loose-cannon cellmate whose brain has been damaged by drugs. As always, it's fascinating to get such an unvarnished picture of life inside in American jail, and to see how quickly some of the volunteers have to revise their assumptions. The threat of violence will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout. Brad Newsome
