STORY OF EUROPE
Double episode ★★★★
8.35pm, SBS
Now seems as pertinent a time as ever for Britons to be reminded of Modern Europe being, as Cambridge historian Christopher Clark puts it, "one of the greatest achievements in human history". This is an absorbing account of expansion across the globe, from the first Viking raids to Columbus and Cook, with due weight given to the impact on the colonised. Among the historical gems here is the marvellous term for the Endeavour's botanists: "experimental gentlemen".
Story of Europe is an absorbing account of European expansion across the globe.
NCIS NEW ORLEANS
★★★
9pm, Ten
No matter how grisly the crime these naval investigators must decipher, nothing ever seems completely insurmountable as long as they can order a stiff bourbon and sway to some Southern tunes at knock-off time. Tonight, Agent Dwayne Pride (Scott Bakula) and the team find themselves in the unenviable position of being privy to a dead navy contractor's apparently bigamous existence. Luckily diplomacy in handling their internal affairs is what this team does best.
PAPER PLANES
Movie ★★★½
7pm, Nine
One of those sweet Australian fantasies about triumph over adversity, culminating in spectacle of validation, this story of one boy's bid to win the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan doesn't quite reach the heights of say, Babe or Strictly Ballroom. But, like plucky young Dylan (Ed Oxenbould), it has a red hot go. There's a dark element to the tale, which is handled beautifully by Sam Worthington, as Dylan's dad.
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