GOīetween the Covers BBC Two, 7pm Sarah Cox invites actor John Thomson, comedians Fern Brady and Lou Sanders, and wine critic Olly Smith to share some favourite reads, though far more interesting are their joint assessments of this week’s choices: The Coward by Jarred McGinnis and Booker backlist gem The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald. With Joe Exotic currently serving a 22-year sentence for murder conspiracy and animal abuse offences, and Baskin accusing Netflix of gross misrepresentation (not least regarding the disappearance of her first husband), the second series picks up where the first left off, digging deeper into the lives of the show’s bizarre cast of semi-criminal tiger fanatics, and the inevitable campaign to get Joe Exotic out from behind bars. Overall, it seemed to sum up the madness of Trump’s America. Joe Exotic (he even ran for US President in the 2016 primaries) whose determination to keep animal protection activist Carole Baskin (another a deeply divisive character) from shutting down the big-cat “zoo” where he kept more than 200 tigers in captivity, led to him being convicted for soliciting her murder. If you didn’t catch it, this was one of those era-defining shows that caught the zeitgeist perfectly, featuring a crazed, gay, gun-toting, showman, Tiger King 2 Netflix The lawsuits have already started flying – over just the contents of Netflix’s series two trailer – so we can be confident that Tiger King 2 will be just as outrageous as the original, one of the biggest breakout hits of the pandemic last year.

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