Seven Days

SATURDAY

Hugh’s Wild West 6PM, BBC2

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is at the Somerset Levels to witness one of the world’s most dramatic wildlife spectacles: vast flocks of starlings coming to roost. Plus, the story of how the large blue butterfly was brought back from the brink of extinction.

Casualty 8.20PM, BBC1

The hospital is full and ambulances have to queue, putting patients’ lives in danger. Everyone is overworked, tempers fray and Alicia sees red – but is it wise for her to pour out her frustrations online?

Grand Tours Of Scotland’s Lochs 8.30PM, BBC2

Paul Murton heads to the summit of Suilven, a sugar loaf mountain, to examine the remains of the wreckage from a meteorite strike some 1.2 billion years ago.

Hard Sun 9.30PM, BBC1

It’s the penultimate episode of this complex conspiracy thriller, and Hicks and Renko are still at odds – he is trying to find the killer of a jogger, while she is trying to thwart his team’s efforts. Then, at the end of a long and trying day, Hicks makes a startling revelation…

Through The Keyhole 9.30PM, ITV

Joining Keith Lemon as he rummages around three mystery celebrity houses are actor Shane Richie, Countdown’s numbers whizz Rachel Riley and Blur bassist Alex James.

SUNDAY

Countryfile

6.30PM, BBC1

In a winter special, Anita Rani finds out how making jewellery inspired by nature can help to beat the winter blues, while in the Highlands, Steve Brown hitches a ride with a pack of huskies. Plus, we catch up with ski-jumper ‘Eddie the Eagle’ Edwards, 30 years after he leapt to fame at the Winter Olympics. Still Open All Hours 7.30PM, BBC1

Madge and Mavis are planning to leave the area. Can Granville and Gastric persuade their ladyloves to stay over an expensive dinner? Call The Midwife

8PM, BBC1

Spirits are lifted this week when Fred and Violet organise a local beauty pageant, but events take a darker turn when a mother with a neurological condition causes concern, Shelagh’s Hungarian nanny, Magda, takes drastic action after learning she’s pregnant, and Trixie finds herself in emotional turmoil. McMafia

9PM, BBC1

In the penultimate episode, Vadim is convinced to broker peace in Istanbul, Alex learns the dreadful price of his actions, while Dimitri makes a decision that endangers everybody.

SAS: Who Dares Wins

9PM, CH4

We started out with 25 recruits and now, there are just seven left to take on the most demanding final phase that the course instructors have ever designed. So, who will survive the day to pass the ultimate test?

MONDAY

Great American Railroad Journeys 6.30PM, BBC2

Michael Portillo heads west, beginning in Nevada for a journey to California. After learning more about the gold and silver in the hills, he saddles up for some cowboy dressage.

Silent Witness 9PM, BBC1

It’s Christmas morning as this final two-part story opens, and Nikki is hoping to hear from Matt, who has returned to the US. But she doesn’t have time to pine when the team are called to the scene of a massacre, and it looks as though the gunman might still be there. Horizon – My Amazing Brain:

Richard’s War

9PM, BBC2

Similar in subject to last week’s Can You Rebuild My Brain? on Channel 4, this new film charts the recovery from a stroke of former UN peacekeeper Richard Gray over four long years, as documented by his wife, Fiona.

This can be tough to watch at times, but his spirit and determination are inspiring.

Next Of Kin

9PM, ITV

The penultimate part of this tense thriller finds Danny and the terror cell holed up in a London flat, awaiting instructions. The final episode is showing tomorrow night at 9pm; it sees Mona reunited with loved ones, and one of Guy’s clients in police custody.

The Bulger Killers: Was Justice Done?

9PM, CH4

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the crime that shocked the nation, this affecting documentary looks back at the case, and asks whether the criminal justice system was too lenient on Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the ten-year-old boys who murdered James Bulger. On Thursday, in James Bulger: A Mother’s Story (9pm, ITV), Trevor McDonald meets James’s mother, Denise, still devastated by her son’s death after all these years.

Two Doors Down

10PM, BBC2

Eric (Alex Norton) is in a bad way following a bungled medical procedure, and is having to recuperate face down on the couch.

Will the arrival of neighbours Cathy and Colin help the poor man to feel any better?

TUESDAY

What Would Your Kid Do? 8PM, ITV

Jason Manford hosts this warm-hearted new hidden-camera game show in which parents have to guess how their little ones will react in a variety of real-life situations to find out how well they really know their children.

QE2: The Word’s Greatest Cruise Ship

8PM, CH5

This fascinating new documentary tells the story of the iconic cruise ship, the ‘70,000-tonne marvel of British maritime engineering’ that went on to sail farther than any ship in history before taking a well-earned retirement in Dubai .

Flatpack Empire

9PM, BBC2

With exclusive access to IKEA’s design studios, factories, test labs and stores over the course of a year, this eye-opening series goes behind the scenes of the Swedish homewares giant to find out the secrets of its success.

Inside No 9

10PM, BBC2

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s dark anthology series of twisted tales comes to an end. In Tempting Fate, three council cleaners arrive at the home of a recently deceased hoarder (Nigel Planer), where they are struck by a terrible curse from beyond the grave.

WEDNESDAY

Eurovision: You Decide 7.30PM, BBC2

Abba won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest at the Brighton Dome, so where better to stage the competition to choose this year’s