Top TV Picks
Comic Relief 2021
BBC One, Friday
Lenny Henry, Davina McCall, Paddy McGuinness, Alesha Dixon and David Tennant preside as stars of stage, screen and the movies entertain the nation with hilarious sketches, live performances, big surprises and stunning music acts in a bid to raise much-needed cash for good causes at home and across the world
My Father and Me
BBC Two, Saturday
Documentary maker Nick Broomfield takes a distinctly personal look at his relationship with his humanist-pacifist father Maurice, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid images of postwar England. These images inspired Nick's own film-making career, but also spoke to a difference in outlook between the pair
Line of Duty
BBC One, Sunday
Jed Mercurio’s smash-hit crime thriller returns for its sixth installment, with Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar reprising their roles as DS
Steve Arnott, DI Kate Fleming and Superintendent Ted Hastings. New information comes to light about a possible suspect in a year-long unsolved murder, and DCI Joanne Davidson (Kelly Macdonald) appears keen to finally bring Gail Vella's killer to justice. However, her conduct soon arouses suspicion, and it's not long before AC-12 are on the case. But as their investigation uncovers deeper and darker information, will Davidson turn out to be their most dangerous adversary yet?
Football’s Darkest Secret
BBC One, Monday
Three-part documentary exploring historic child abuse that took place in youth football in England from the 1970s to the 1990s and the code of silence surrounding it. The first episode focuses on former footballer Andy Woodward's 2016 revelation of abuse at the hands of a youth coach, and the personal accounts of players from various youth sides
Kate Garraway: Finding Derek
ITV, Tuesday
In this intimate and deeply personal film, cameras follow Kate Garraway and her family as they cope with her husband Derek's hospitalisation with COVID-19. 12 months after he was first admitted into hospital, Derek remains seriously ill, leaving Kate and her family to adjust to a very different way of life. Throughout the programme, Kate meets other people who have been affected by coronavirus, from a community nurse still experiencing life-changing symptoms of Long-COVID, to a woman whose husband has not regained consciousness after contracting the disease
Strangers Making Babies
Channel 4, Tuesday
There are currently 70,000 people signed up to co-parenting sites, looking for platonic partners to have children with - without the added complication of finding love first.
This series follows a group of single women as they are matched with several men, guided by fertility specialist Marie
Wren and matchmaking expert Gillian McCallum as they spend time together and work out whether or not to have a baby together.