THE KEMPS: ALL TRUE

BBC Two, 10.00pm

Rhys Thomas can do serious documentaries – his films on Queen and Freddie Mercury are definitive – but his real gifts lie in the finely tuned musical spoof that sits adjacent to real life and occasionally overlaps. If ageing prog rock pioneer Brian Pern, played by Simon Day, was Thomas’s greatest comic creation, the brothers Kemp run him close for pretentiousness and hubris. Gamely playing “themselves”, Spandau Ballet’s Gary and Martin Kemp are trying to resurrect their faltering careers by producing a celebritypacked covers album of their best-known songs; Gary is also puffing his charity work, while Martin is producing an atrocious, geezer-heavy time-travel crime romp in which the brothers will reprise their titular turns from 1990 feature film The Krays.

Familiar faces abound, some playing themselves (Christopher Eccleston, Daniel Mays, Nick Robinson), others not (Day, Anna Maxwell Martin), but this is ultimately all about the Kemps, who prove delightfully eager to send themselves up in every conceivable way as they bicker and posture. Ending with a last-ditch publicity bid that goes south amid capers aplenty, All True is All Gold. Gabriel Tate

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