TV tonight: human remains are found in tense cold case drama Black Snow
8pm, BBC OneThe cosy crime drama takes a sharp turn into folk horror. Supernatural menace the Cornman is apparently on the prowl, terrorising locals, spoiling milk and scorching crops. It's up to Humphrey (Kris Marshall) to separate fact from Cornish folklore. The great Caroline Quentin and Kevin McNally guest star as feuding farmers. GV
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With spring in full swing, Monty Don brings colour to the Mound with an array of blue and yellow blooms. Then he gets ready for summer by planting some vegetables to harvest in a couple of months' time, while Frances Tophill is charmed by wisteria in Surrey. Nicole Vassell
8pm, Channel 4Natalie Cassidy concludes her roundup of Britain's most talked-about products, though surely robot vacuum cleaners' viral moment has long since passed. Nevertheless, Cassidy employs some crisp-munching children to test three models. Plus, are cheap 'dupe' perfumes any good? Jack Seale
9pm, Sky MaxThe creative death match between old stager Deborah (Jean Smart) and fiery upstart Ava (Hannah Einbinder) worsens as the comedian and the writer use a new talkshow as their latest battleground. Also, every scene with Hassidic Jew turned personal assistant Randi (Robby Hoffman) is a scream. JS
9.30pm, BBC OneBen Miller is one of the oldest sitcom archetypes here: the irritating, self-regarding man – smart enough to have delusions of grandeur and stupid enough to believe them. This time, Julian (Miller) has hired an award-winning film-maker to help push his documentary over the line. But will he get cold feet? Phil Harrison
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988), 12.05am, Talking Pictures TVJohn Carpenter's pulpy 1988 sci-fi action flick is a hotbed of anticapitalist sentiment. Itinerant worker Nada (wrestler Roddy Piper, a low-budget Arnie) comes to Los Angeles seeking employment but, after donning a pair of special sunglasses, stumbles on a conspiracy involving hidden messages on billboards and shop fronts and in magazines telling people to 'Consume', 'Watch TV' and 'Obey' (the banknotes say: 'This is your God'). Also, some folk look like warmed-up skeletons. Have aliens invaded? A fun mix of politics and punch-ups. Simon WardellAmores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000), 12.25am, Film4The title translates as 'Love's a bitch' but there is also a lot of dog appreciation in Alejandro González Iñárritu's intense drama about desire, loss and blood-soaked revenge. Three stories collide in a Mexico City car crash: Octavio (Gael García Bernal) loves his brother's neglected wife and enters illegal dog fights to fund their escape; model Valeria (Goya Toledo) breaks her leg in the auto accident then her pooch vanishes under the floorboards of her new flat; and the tramp-like El Chivo (Emilio Echevarría) has a cohort of canines but is also a hitman for a cop. SW
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Born in 1937, Doris Jean Lockhart grew up with her two brothers in a chaotic ranch house in Memphis, Tennessee. Her mother Nina was an émigré who fled Ukraine as a child — they had a difficult relationship — and her father, Jack, to whom she was close, was an investigative journalist from Chicago who inspired his daughter's love of writing and collecting. When they died — her father from suicide — she was left with a generous inheritance. She spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris before moving to London in 1965. That year she met Saatchi at the London office of Benton & Bowles, the advertising firm where Charles was a junior copywriter and Doris, six years his senior, group head. She was married to Hugh Dibley, a racing driver and commercial pilot who was abroad a lot for work. By 1967 they had divorced and Doris had moved in with Charles. They lived together for six years before marrying in 1973, by which time the advertising agency Charles had started with his brother, Maurice, only three years earlier had become a humming business. Doris and Charles were, on the face of it, rather different. She was an Ivy League-educated American with what one friend described as a Greta Garbo beauty: inscrutable blue eyes, platinum-blonde hair and a tendency 'to disappear' for weeks on end. Charles, an Iraqi-born advertising mogul, was visionary and bold but on occasion domineering and ruthless. He was less intellectual and knew less about the art world than Doris, a minimalist enthusiast who educated him in contemporary art and encouraged him to invest. Weekends were spent excavating the art scene of New York. They would walk around a gallery in opposite directions then reconvene at the entrance to discuss what they had seen, at the start rarely disagreeing on a purchase. 'Not only would we agree as to whether we wanted to buy that artist's work,' she said, 'but we would even agree on which works in the exhibition we wanted. It was absolutely amazing. And it was great fun.' Under Margaret Thatcher's ethos of entrepreneurialism and individualism — and the patronage of Charles, her 'favourite ad-man' — the British art scene was soon shifting towards market-driven painters such as the Young British Artists. In 1988 Hirst, still a student, organised the infamous Freeze exhibition, held in an empty building in London's Docklands. Doris and Charles turned up to the exhibition in a Rolls-Royce. 'I remember everyone saying, 'My God, the Saatchis are coming',' said Hirst. 'It was this big mythical thing.' The collectors became their patrons and in 1992 the landmark Young British Artists show was held at their gallery, though they had by that point divorced. It never bothered Doris that she had to retreat from the limelight, but she was disappointed when Charles sold most of their collection ('The market was overheated,' he said, after ditching his Warhols for cheaper British artists). Towards the end of their marriage their tastes had begun to diverge anyway, and Doris grew disillusioned by the commercial turn of the art world. 'In 1988 I lectured at the Royal College of Art and I was appalled at how careerist the students had become,' she recalled. 'They all wanted to get work into the Saatchi Collection, so they were making huge things to fill all those huge spaces. We live in a time that is heavily influenced by advertising and, as we all know, Charles Saatchi is a master of that discipline. The influence is felt in much of the art made today and, for me, it's soft at the centre. I don't want narrative, but there's a lack of rigour in it.' She continued to collect, turning her eye to minimalist architecture. Her pièce de résistance was a house in Hays Mews, Mayfair, which she designed with the godfather of minimalism, John Pawson. The inside was cubic and abstract, the walls blindingly white and bare. There was no visible storage. 'My mother was an untidy person,' she said. 'It forged in me a need to have a place for everything.' She was forced to sell the house after a stalker tracked her down and put a brick through the kitchen window at 4am: he had reportedly been obsessed by a photograph Robert Mapplethorpe took of Doris in 1983, now hanging in the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection, in which her porcelain face floats mid-air, her eyes piercingly wide. It captured something of her enigma. 'He totally objectified me, dehumanised me, almost,' she said. 'When I look at it, I don't see myself, I see Robert Mapplethorpe's wonderful photograph.' There were never any children — she used to say that she was 'too busy having fun' and that they would have caused her too much anguish — but there was her treasured collection, which included a work by Hirst called The Only Way Is Up. Here, once again, recollections differ. According to Hirst, she bought the work on one of her visits to his studio. Doris claimed he gifted it to her as a thank you for the loan she gave him to import his tiger shark — she wouldn't accept the money so he had said she could take whatever she wanted from his studio. 'Well, I couldn't turn that offer down but I didn't want to pick anything big, because I didn't want to seem greedy and horrible, because his work was starting to make money,' she said. 'So I picked something that I could actually carry away and I have it to this day, a piece called The Only Way Is Up. If my place started to burn down, that's what I would take. Yes, I'd get my cat, but I would actually also get the work that Damien gave me.' Doris Lockhart Saatchi, art collector and writer, was born on February 28, 1937. She died on August 6, 2025, aged 88
