THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, BBC1

Hopefully it won’t cause quite the same national panic that the radio broadcast did 80 years ago, but this version of the HG Wells classic will undoubtedly be well-viewed.

Eleanor Tomlinson and Rafe Spall play Amy and George, a couple trying to start a life together in Edwardian London while avoiding the chaos of an alien invasion.

Robert Carlyle and Rupert Graves also star in the adaptation, which was filmed in Liverpool and is to be shown in October.