TV tonight: a devastating drama about the mass removal of Canada’s Indigenous children

The Guardian Culture Tuesday 18 August 2026, 05:15 UTC By Hollie Richardson, Hannah J Davies, Hannah Verdier and Phil Harrison 1 min read

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A young woman sacrifices everything to find the siblings she lost in the 1960s. Plus: Ricky Gervais jumps aboard the Magical Sitcom Tour. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky AtlanticA devastating drama about the “Sixties Scoop” – when Canadian authorities enabled a mass removal of Indigenous children from their families and put them into the welfare system.

A young woman sacrifices everything to find the siblings she lost in the 1960s. Plus: Ricky Gervais jumps aboard the Magical Sitcom Tour. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky Atlantic
A devastating drama about the “Sixties Scoop” – when Canadian authorities enabled a mass removal of Indigenous children from their families and put them into the welfare system. Twentysomething Esther Rosenblum is investigating how she came to be adopted as a five-year-old in Montreal and is looking for her estranged siblings. Flashbacks to 15 years earlier show what happened after the night they were taken from their parents. Hollie Richardson

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