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

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

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.

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