HD Heads-Up: April 21

Girls bows out tonight (SoHo, 8.30) with a double-episode season finale the same week the cast did its first table read for the sixth and final season. “Knowing the end was near informed the entire penultimate set of episodes, including its finale,” The Hollywood Reporter says, with tonight’s swan song featuring an “epic fight” between two of the key characters …

THR observed had the two-ep conclusion been a series finale, “aspects of its surely would have been satisfying for devoted fans” while HitFix argued it climaxed “the best Girls season in years” and the New York Times asked:  “Is it just us, or did the show get better?” …

The same could be asked of the new season of Orphan Black, which premieres after Girls (SoHo, 9.30). “It’s back to basics for the cult show as the fourth season kicks off in lean, fresh and easier-to-follow fashion,” reckons THR while Entertainment Weekly says the cloning thriller’s return signals “new hope” by taking a leaf from the Star Wars: The Force Awakens playbook and “replicating the story that started it all. The premiere rewinds to before the very beginning” …

TV One is resurrecting Murder in the First for a second, late-night season (11.00 Mondays) from May 2. As Variety said of this slick Steven Bochco legal drama that continues a style he pioneered 20 years ago with Murder One: “Fast-paced and tense, the serialised construct isn’t a bad viewing option, even if it’s unlikely to rank first on many must-watch lists.” A third season goes to air in the US on June 19 …

Monday’s 60 Minutes (Prime, 8.30) investigates: what’s in the missing “28 Pages” from the official 9/11 report, “the Mafia of food” and the elusiveness of the Northern Lights …

60 Minutes’ stablemate, Sex Diaries (Prime, 9.30), encounters gigolos on May 2, including a 51-year-old office administrator who became a male escort after his mother-in-law “suggested the unconventional job”. “I once got £800 for three hours and a threesome with a very rich young couple in a London hotel,” he reveals in the Channel 4 doco …