Film choice

Easy Virtue (2008) BBC TWO, 12.00NOON; NOT SCOTLAND ★★★

 Stephan Elliott’s adaptation of Noël Coward’s play about a race-cardriving American widow (a badly bleached Jessica Biel) who marries an posh Englishman (Ben Barnes). When he takes his bride home to meet his parents (affable Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas) at their country seat, though, his mother despises her.

If you can cope with the excruciating soundtrack medley (a jazz cover of Sex Bomb?) it’s perfectly jolly.

A.C.O.D (2013) FILM4, 10.55PM ★★

 A.C.O.D, an acronym for adult children of divorce, is written by TV veterans Ben Karlin (Modern Family) and Stu Zicherman (Six Degrees). Zicherman, who also directs, rounds up an affable group of actors – Adam Scott, Amy Poehler, Jane Lynch and Catherine O’hara among them – for a story about a restaurateur (Scott) who uses his family background as fodder for a bestselling book. It strives for some heart, but is beyond sluggish.

The Olive Tree (2016) SKY CINEMA PREMIERE, 11.20PM ★★★★

 Directed by Icíar Bollaín, who made the wonderful Even the Rain, and scripted by Ken Loach’s favoured screenwriter Paul Laverty, this low-key yet captivating film encapsulates the wider story of modern Spain within a very personal narrative. A young woman (Anna Castillo) decides to rescue her grandfather’s beloved 2,000-yearold olive tree, sold against his will to a German energy company.