FOUR OF THE BEST: Literary adaptations

As the adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries gets under way (9pm, BBC1), we look at the best book-to-screen translations of recent years – and where to watch them…

Catch-22 (2019) George Clooney (left) co-directed and co-starred in this six-part adaptation of Joseph Heller’s blackly comic Second World War-set novel from 1961. All 4. Birdsong (All 4), Apocalypse Now (Buy or rent on Amazon, Sky).

The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present) This series, based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel, takes its heroine (Elisabeth Moss, above) on an expanded journey through a chilling new world. Sky/now TV.

Noughts + Crosses (BBC iplayer), Alias Grace (Netflix), Children Of Men (Netflix).

War And Peace (2016) The BBC has a reputation for quality adaptations of literary classics, and this six-part miniseries of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel did not disappoint. BBC iplayer. Poldark (2015-19, Netflix), Bleak House (2005, Britbox), Pride And Prejudice (1995, Netflix).

Paddington (2014) Created in 1958 by Michael Bond, the marmaladeloving bear from darkest Peru (left) is still enchanting children (and grown-ups), more than six decades later. Amazon Prime. Malory Towers (BBC iplayer), Peter Rabbit (Netflix), Anne With An E (Netflix). 11.00

7.10pm FILM Puss in Boots Animated comedy spin-off, with the voices of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. 9.00 Big Brother: Best Shows Ever 10.20 Batwoman Superhero drama.

11.20 Naked Attraction

7.25pm Come Dine with Me

8.00 Grand Designs

9.00 999: On the Front Line – Trauma 10.00 24 Hours in A&E

11.05 999: What’s Your Emergency?

6.45pm The Imitation Game Biopic of codebreaker Alan Turing, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

9.00 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Action

thriller sequel, starring Tom Cruise. 11.20 Plastic Fact-based crime thriller,

starring Ed Speleers and Will Poulter.

6.30pm Live Renault Super Sunday Everton v Liverpool (Kick-off 7pm). All the action from the Merseyside Derby in the Premier League, played at Goodison Park.

Micky Flanagan: Back in the Game The comedian performs to his home crowd at London’s Hackney Empire.

The Blacklist Crime thriller. 9.30 11.30

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords A mum locked out of her own home. Sinkholes: Sucked to Death

FILM The Firm After the murder of two of his colleagues, a law graduate discovers the company that has headhunted him is controlled by the Mafia. Thriller, starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Includes Access.