TV FILMS OF THE WEEK

ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE Sunday, ITV, 1.35pm

With less than three weeks to go before the release of No Time To Die, what better time to revisit one of the gems of the James Bond back catalogue. George Lazenby may not have been everyone’s idea of 007 but the late, great Diana Rigg is unforgettable as the mercurial Tracy.

BOMBSHELL Monday, Sky Cinema Premiere, 1.45pm

John Lithgow dons a fat suit to play the famously predatory former head of Fox News, Roger Ailes, while Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie are the female presenters who have finally had enough.

NOTORIOUS Tuesday, Talking Pictures TV, 9pm

One of Hitchcock’s finest, with Cary Grant as a secret agent on the trail of former Nazis hiding out in South America and Ingrid Bergman as the alcoholic lover he blackmails into spying for him. But how far will she have to go?

WILD ROSE Wednesday, Film 4, 9pm

Jessie Buckley, the Irish actress and singer, plays Rose-Lynn, a wayward young single mother from Glasgow who’s already been to prison once, struggles with the idea of responsibility and can’t give up on her dream of becoming a country singer in Nashville.

THREE MEN IN A BOAT Thursday, BBC4, 8pm

Jerome K. Jerome’s comic classic is adapted by Tom Stoppard, with Tim Curry,

Michael Palin and Stephen Moore.

SHAKESPEARE SH IN LOVE Thursday, T BBC4, 10.35pm

Joseph Fiennes is a young Shakespeare, who has already sold his next play to two different theatre owners but barely has an idea in his head. What he needs is a muse. Enter Gwyneth Paltrow.

BRAVEHEART Friday, GREAT! movies, 9pm

Famous for its historical inaccuracies but beloved nonetheless, largely because of Mel Gibson’s (above) iconic, kilt-whirling, woaddaubed performance as William Wallace.

Matthew Bond