Still Open All Hours (BBC1, 7.45pm)
After almost three decades away, Roy Clarke’s much-loved sitcom is back, with David Jason reprising his role as Granville.
He was miserly, stuttering shopkeeper Arkwright’s put-upon nephew, who wanted more out of life than being an errand boy.
Granville seems to have got what he wished for – sort of – when we meet up with him again, 28 years after the last episode.
Arkwright (like the much-missed Ronnie Barker, who played him) has passed away, so Granville is now in charge of the shop, which he runs with his son, Leroy (James Baxter), a cheerful charmer who turns heads among the local womenfolk.
Still around are Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron), and the formidable Black Widow, who continues to send shivers down Granville’s spine.
They turn up in this special episode which, if recent reports turn out to be correct, could be the forerunner of a full series.
Gangsta Granny (BBC1, 6.05pm)
Along with best pal Matt Lucas, David Walliams quickly worked his way into the heart of the nation in TV smashes Little Britain and Come Fly With Me. However, as he continues to go it alone, the Beeb is airing one of his most popular children’s books, with some TV greats brought on board for good measure.
This family comedy tells the story of bored schoolboy Ben (Reece Buttery) who’s being made to stay with his Scrabble-playing, cabbage soup-loving grandma (Julia McKenzie).
However, he learns there’s a whole lot more to the OAP when she tells him how she used to be an international jewel thief. Together, the pair set out on a criminal adventure of their own.
I Am Britney Jean: Britney Spears in Las Vegas (ITV, 10.05pm)
In 1998, Britney Spears burst on to the scene with her debut single Baby One More Time. Whether or not we’d take her seriously, as she paraded through school corridors wearing next to nothing, didn’t matter because she was destined for worldwide success anyway.
Fast-forward 15 years, and Britney's had her fair share of well-documented ups and downs.
Now the star is back on top form and raring to wow the world again – beginning with a two-year Las Vegas residency.
This documentary follows Britney as she prepares for her Nevada residency, finishes writing and recording her album, and discusses her personal and professional life.
Idris Elba – King of Speed (BBC2, 8.15pm)
It’s been an extraordinary year for Idris Elba. Aside from landing a Golden Globe for his turn in TV drama Luther, and starring in a third series of the same, he also featured in high-profile offerings Pacific Rim, Thor: The Dark World, and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
One of his personal passions is motor racing, and in the first of two parts, he sets off on a globe-trotting journey to learn about the history of the sport.
It’s the sort of show Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear boys would give their eye teeth to be involved in, whether it’s handling a Nascar racer in a US-based re-creation of a 1930s police chase, or being trained to pilot a rally car in Finland by Ari Vatanen.
Death Comes to Pemberley (BBC1, 8.15pm)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that people just can’t stop tinkering with Pride And Prejudice.
Whether it’s adding a scene of Mr Darcy in a wet shirt for a TV version, updating the plot for Bridget Jones’s Diary, or rewriting the entire book with zombies, Jane Austen’s classic has been reworked many times.
However, there’s one homage that seems to have impressed even the most hardcore Austen purist, and that’s PD James’s sequel Death Comes To Pemberley.
The crime writer’s acclaimed novel takes some of the book’s much-loved characters and puts them in the middle of a detective story. And now, to mark the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, it’s been brought to the screen in this three-part adaptation.
The action picks up six years after Darcy (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Anna Maxwell Martin) overcame their respective pride and prejudices, and finds the couple happily married with two young sons.
Everything seems perfect as they prepare for the annual ball at their impressive country pile, Pemberley, but the arrangements are thrown into confusion when Elizabeth’s wayward sister Lydia (Jenna Coleman) crashes the party, screaming that her husband Wickham (Matthew Goode) has been murdered. Darcy sets out to search the surrounding woodlands, but it’s not his brother-in-law’s body that he finds...
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