Daily Mail - Daily Mail Weekend Magazine
SIX HIGHLIGHTS FOR WHAT EVER MOOD YOU’RE IN
If you want classic comedy... DAD’S ARMY
Sunday-Tuesday, 8pm, GOLD Three lost episodes of the classic Home Guard comedy have been lovingly re-created, and are being shown over consecutive nights. The casting is first-rate, with Kevin McNally as the pompous Captain Mainwaring, Robert Bathurst as Sergeant Wilson and Kevin Eldon as Corporal Jones (right).
If you want a fond farewell... POLDARK Sunday, 8pm; Monday, 8.30pm, BBC1
There won’t be a dry eye in the land this bank holiday weekend as we bid a fond farewell to everyone’s favourite Cornish hero. Monday sees the last-ever episode, but will there be a happy ending for Captain Ross and his much put-upon wife, Demelza (Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson, right)?
If you want crime drama... PEAKY BLINDERS
Sunday, 9pm, BBC1 The most stylish show on TV blazes back on to our screens for a fifth series. It’s 1929, and gang leader Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy, right) is now a Labour MP, fighting for the rights of the working man. But events on Wall Street are about to bring the family’s fortunes crashing down. Continues on Monday.
If you want a cosy mystery... MIDSOMER MURDERS
Monday, 8.30pm, ITV Barnaby and Winter (Neil Dudgeon and Nick Hendrix) are called in to investigate when the owner of the successful Causton Lions rugby team is mysteriously found dead in a cryotherapy chamber. Could his glamorous wife, Samantha (Tamzin Outhwaite, right, with Dudgeon and Hendrix), be to blame?
If you want tea and cakes... THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF
Tuesday, 8pm, Ch4 The nation’s favourite bakery show is back, this time with a baker’s dozen as 13 talented amateurs enter the iconic tent to tackle challenges set by judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, while hosts Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding (right) look on with glee.
If you want revelations... WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
Wednesday, 9pm, BBC1 Moved from its usual night, this episode sees comedian Paul Merton delving into both his mother’s and father’s sides of the family and, on the latter, he learns about a greatgreat-grandmother who was sent to prison for her part in an assault – involving a banjo.