TV tonight: a nightmarish thriller about a group of women accused of an awful crime

Hunting Alice Bell, a new Channel 4 thriller created by David Baddiel and Peter Bradshaw, follows Fran, a suburban mother whose work video goes viral and prompts online trolls to accuse her of being a woman linked to a serial killer. The story explores how a false identity can follow someone and gain traction in an AI-shaped online world.

Fran discovers that other women have also been forced to deny being Alice Bell, leaving the central mystery unresolved: who is telling the truth? The evening’s other programmes include a documentary about Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home and the final episode of a series examining the McCartney family’s search for answers about their brother’s murder.