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PICK OF THE WEEK
MONDAY Cold Feet (STV, 9pm)
Erik’s relationship with a female student called Emma (Helene Reingaard Neumann).
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) (Film4, 11am)
SAOIRSE Ronan and Margot Robbie can currently be seen in cinemas in a film of the same name, making it the perfect time to revisit this earlier biopic charting the turbulent, if short, life of the doomed Scottish monarch. The drama chronicles the Catholic Queen’s (Vanessa Redgrave) tempestuous lovelife and also sheds light on her struggle to come to an accomodation with prickly English ruler Elizabeth I (Glenda Jackson), to whom she represented a terrible threat.
Gangster No1 (2000) (Film4, 11.25pm)
DIRECTOR Paul McGuigan’s violent but stylish thriller stars Malcolm McDowell as an unnamed gangster who is shocked to learn that an old “business associate”, Freddie Mays, is about to be released from prison after serving a 30-year sentence. The action then flashes back to the 1960s when the gangster (played as a young man by Paul Bettany) became Mays’ (David Thewlis) right-hand man, only for their relationship to sour when his mentor fell for a nightclub hostess Karen (Saffron Burrows). It may prove too brutal for some tastes but McDowell and Bettany are terrific in their shared lead role.
21 Jump Street (2012) (5Star, 9pm)
JONAH Hill and Channing Tatum earn top grades with this inspired remake of a 1980s TV series about baby-faced cops going undercover in a high school. Morton Schmidt (Hill) and Greg Jenko (Tatum) enrol at police academy and work together to ensure they complete the final exam. Life as cops turns out to be quite dull and their first bust ends in
During a heatwave in Brighton, the Lyell team is summoned to a waste dump where a body part has been found. The search is on to recover the other dismembered remains and piece together the victim’s body, which is covered in Japanese tattoos. Away from the lab, Nikki has some news that she desperately wants to share with Matt but must wait until he visits from America. Forensic crime drama, starring Emilia Fox, David Caves, Richard Lintern and Liz Carr.
Icons (BBC2, 9pm)
Sanjeev Bhaskar assesses the legacies and achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller,