Moran bid as Lib Dem chief
LIB Dem Layla Moran has said she will run for the leadership of her party to replace Jo Swinson.
The education spokeswoman – the bookies’ favourite – said the policy of trying to overturn Brexit had been a “big mistake”.
The Oxford West and Abingdon MP said it was time to “offer a positive vision for the country”.
BBC2, May
A 19th century tale of adventure and mystery, this is an epic story of love, murder and revenge based on Eleanor Catton’s award-winning novel.
Set on the Wild West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island in the boom years of the 1860s gold rush, it tells the story of men and women who travelled across the world to make their fortunes.
Bond girl Eva Green stars as a calculating brothel madam, along with Eve Hewson and Himesh Patel as starcrossed lovers.
BBC1, Spring
In a departure from comedy, Stephen Merchant plays a creepy serial killer in this thriller about the real life Barking Murders. He plays murderer and rapist Stephen Port, who killed four men.
Port hunted out his prey on dating app Grindr between 2014 and 2015.
Sheridan Smith plays Sarah Sak, the mum of victim 23-year-old Anthony Walgate. The series aims to tell the story of the murders from the point of view of the victims’ families and their fight to uncover the truth amid a highlycriticised police investigation.
BBC1, Spring
With The X Factor firmly at death’s door, it’s down to global superstars Little Mix to step into the shoes of Simon Cowell, and hunt for talented singers to form all-female, all-male or mixed bands.
The hit makers, aka Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, will create the bands and become mentors as the new groups live together and battle for the prize to join
Little Mix on tour.
What a Touch.
Sky One, March 25
Mel and Sue playing contract assassins is the killer comedy duo we never knew we needed.
Sue Perkins plays Fran, while Mel Giedroyc plays Jamie – two best mates who just happen to kill people for a living. Having stumbled into the career, the hapless pair are not your typical murderers. Each hit is derailed by bickering and general incompetence. And as the body count stacks up, their friendship is put through the wringer. Expect brilliant disguises, top banter and a lot of death.
BBC1, Spring
When emergency services received a call in March, 2018, from people in Salisbury who were worried about an old man and a young woman ill on a bench, it kick-started an extraordinary chain of events.
The Russian double agent and his daughter had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, targeted by Russian nationals.
Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and Mark Addy lead the cast in the drama, which focuses on the impact on the local community as Salisbury became the unlikely focus of a national emergency.
Sky One, Thursday (March 12)
Laugh out loud funny, this comedy about parenting stars Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard.
They play couple Paul and Ally, who meet, fall in love and everything is going swimmingly – until they have kids.
“Who is happy with two kids under seven?” asks Ally.
As they juggle careers, kids and troublesome parents, the sitcom also looks at that parenting paradox… Paul explains: “I would die for those kids, but often, I also want to kill them.”