TV tonight: Rylan Clark goes witch-hunting in Elizabethan Essex

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Prof Alice Roberts joins Rylan to investigate witch trials in Chelmsford. Plus: an exposé of the international dog-fighting trade. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky History
Rylan Clark returns to his old Essex stomping ground of Chelmsford – which he calls “witchcraft ground zero” – for this three-part series in which he revisits old local witch trials. First up, he takes us back to the Elizabethan era, when a poor family of three women faced the death penalty. What was going on at the time to make this happen? Prof Alice Roberts helps Rylan investigate. Hollie Richardson

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