Top TV Picks
Don’t Exclude Me
BBC Two, Thursday
With school exclusions at their highest in a decade, behavioural expert Marie Gentles visits Milton Hall Primary School in Southend to help the establishment manage their most challenging pupils.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
BBC Two, Saturday
Presenters Kirsty Wark and Brenda Emmanus go behind the scenes at the London arts institution to find out which aspiring artists will make it on to the walls this year.
Rocketman
Channel 4, Saturday
Elton John enters an addiction rehabilitation session, and recounts his life in a flashback, covering his days as young Reginald Dwight growing up in 1950s Britain. He takes piano lessons, makes his way into the Royal Academy of Music, and hones his craft in local pubs before becoming one of the world's biggest pop stars.
The Mating Game
BBC One, Sunday
Series exploring the lengths that animals go to in search of a mate, featuring footage of dancing, fighting and even deceiving potential partners. The first episode features footage of a young ostrich preparing to mate for the first time and an ageing zebra fending off younger rivals, as well as the sneakier tactics of the nursery web spider and kangaroos fighting for supremacy. Plus, male birds that pose as females to get closer to their intended mates unnoticed.
Ridley Road
BBC One, Sunday
Jewish hairdresser Vivien walks out on her wedding in 1962 to go in search of her lost love Jack in London – but is shocked to see him apparently at a rally by a neo-Nazi movement.
She discovers that he and her own estranged uncle are agents for a secret underground movement battling far-right extremism.
When a confrontation at a Jewish school leaves Jack missing and a student dead, Vivien is persuaded to take up his assignment as an undercover operative.
Dementia and Us
BBC One, Tuesday
The programmes explore what it is like to live with the condition over a period of time, as cameras follow the families through the ups and downs of life and the challenges they face.
Narrated by Dreane Williams, who herself lives with vascular dementia.