TV FILMS OF THE WEEK

MAMMA MIA! Sunday, ITV, 6pm

This award-winning adaptation of the hugely popular Abba stage musical is a sunny, funny and surprisingly poignant delight. A dungareesporting Meryl Streep leads the singing.

THE NOTEBOOK Sunday, BBC1, 10.30pm

An old-fashioned romance that springs little in the way of surprises. But what raises it to moving heights – as a carehome resident reads a story to an elderly woman succumbing to dementia – is the quality of acting from a cast that includes Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner and Gena Rowlands.

EVEREST Tuesday, Film 4, 6.40pm

There are those who think climbing Mount Everest has become too easy, and Baltasar Kormákur’s fabulous film doesn’t dodge that suggestion. But the mountain has a habit of biting back as we discover in this vertigoinducing and deeply moving drama.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK Wednesday, 5 Star, 11.05pm

Effective adaptation of Susan Hill’s already very frightening novel. Daniel Radcliffe is surprisingly good as the young solicitor who travels to a remote house and discovers… he is not alone.

GET OUT Thursday, Film 4, 9pm

Remember Sidney Poitier in Guess Who’s

Coming To Dinner? Well, initially Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winner seems just like that, as a young white woman takes her black boyfriend home to meet her parents. But there’s something nasty in the basement.

SPECTRE Friday, ITV2, 8pm

Not long now until we get to see Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond in No Time To Die. So a good moment to revisit the last one, partly because both Spectre and the baddie, Blofeld, are back.

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK Friday, BBC1, 10.50pm

The sort of film that probably wouldn’t get made these days, with Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer as three lonely, sexually frustrated single women and the sudden arrival of Jack Nicholson – who seems to be the answer to their prayers.