What’s on TV: Thursday, February 7

Madam Secretary

10Bold, 9.30pm

Children separated from their families at theUS-Mexico border provide the too-close-for-comfort subject matter in this week's Madam Secretary. Some scenes aredecidedly hard going but it also providesviewers with the comforting fantasy that a rational US federal government would smash a Stetson-wearing Arizona governor sitting somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan on the political spectrum. If only.

Shocked: Angie and Yvie on Gogglebox Australia.Credit:Foxtel/Nick Wilson

How To Catch a Serial Killer

SBS, 9.30pm

When true crime is barely enough, along comes the story of British detective Stephen Fulcher, who lost his career after going rogue on his investigation into the disappearance of a woman from a nightclub in 2011. Fulcher zeroed in on the killer but abandoned procedure to get him to confess – meaning the confession was inadmissible. It's bound to be a divisive take on evidentiary procedure and moral laws. LD

Gogglebox

Ten, 9pm

There were naysayers – the sad, deluded fools – when Gogglebox debuted on Australian TV screens in 2015, introducing the nation to the joys of watching people watching television while engaging in the finest traditions of Socratic dialogue (sample: "I wonder if the Queen writes a letter to herself if she gets to a hundred?"). Nine seasons down the track, however, we find ourselves at an unprecedented crossroads thanks to former Gogglebox participants Yvie and Angie plucked from the couch and given a ticket to the African jungle and the current season of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

Does it get any more meta than watching current Goggleboxers watching their former Goggleboxers climb the slippery pole of reality TV? As Socrates himself may have said, the unexamined TV show is not worth watching. LD

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