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Exile is a story about returning to your hometown to find that little has changed. It focuses on the father-son relationship between Sam Jim Broadbent ,and Tom Ronstadt John Simm , and also Nancy Olivia Coleman, who is tired of caring for her elderly father on her own.

There's so much frustration and anger in Tom's character who is unable to understand why his father treated him like he did in the past, and with Sam's Alzheimer's it becomes a real mystery with little pieces of the past being gradually released throughout the three episodes.

What I love about this show is that even with all the angst and tension there is some great humour and heartwarming moments. Just email it. No matter. The ingenious conceit of a mystery story in which the quest for the truth is foiled by an Alzheimer's sufferer catalysed a well-plotted drama, executed without exploitativeness and, in Simm's case, played more tenderly than I'd have thought him capable.

That said, I liked the way Simm spat on his birth father's grave at the end. Can't see Hollywood keeping that. On The Secret Millionaire C4 , TV's hateful randomiser, a billionaire aluminium and steel heiress went to Sheffield to distribute largesse. Seven months pregnant, Simrin Choudrie took along two film crews to make sure not a moment of her spiritual growth was missed.

She was also accompanied by a security detail, in case the locals became unacceptably lairy, and by her unborn son for that voguish thing, in utero slum tourism. Simrin posed as presenter of a documentary about deprived mothers to get access to Sheffield's charities and community groups. After a week of volunteering, she did her reveal: she was really a billionaire who would write six-figure cheques to those she considered worthy.

To my mean-spirited sensibility, her beneficiaries were intolerably humble in the face of charity by TV. Couldn't she have written a bigger cheque? After all, Simrin isn't merely a millionaire, but a billionaire.

Simrin's journey raised many questions, some rhetorical. Why do the rich need camera-mirrors to validate their magnanimity? Weren't there equally deserving beneficiaries? Are televised vagaries of happenstance any way to redistribute wealth? The Secret Millionaire unwittingly made a strong case for a much more progressive rate of taxation.