Channel Hopping

MICHAEL MCINTYRE’S BIG SHOW

Today, 8.10pm - BBC1 I KNOW. Everyone seems to think that Michael McIntyre, pictured, is hilarious, but frankly I just don’t get it.

He looks funny, in fairness, but I am not sure it stretches much further than that.

The first instalment of this eight-part series includes an appearance by Little Mix (no, me neither).

LOUIS THEROUX’S ALTERED STATES

Tomorrow, 9pm - BBC2 SUBTITLED Choosing Death, this episode looks at the six American states that offer terminally ill people the option of ending their lives by taking a prescribed cocktail of drugs.

According to the BBC blurb, the programme raises ‘complex moral and legal questions about how much control we should have over own our deaths’.

JUTLAND: WW1’S GREATEST SEA BATTLE

Wednesady, 10pm More 4 ONE of the most famous naval clashes in history took place in the North Sea in 1916. There were 250 combat ships and, when it was over, the casualties amounted to more than 8,500. This Secret History special joins a ‘landmark expedition to uncover the truth about the battle’.

DAVID CASSIDY: THE LAST SEASON

Friday, 9pm - BBC4 DAVID Cassidy’s heyday was even before my time. The teen idol, pictured, who died last year, aged 67, was one of the world’s biggest pop stars in the Seventies. His swoonsome image gazed down the bedroom walls of millions of fans. This profile tells ‘the inside story of his explosive rise to fame, his conflicted relationships with his own father and his own celebrity, and the legacy he left behind’.