TV FILMS OF THE WEEK

ROMANCING THE STONE

Monday, Film4, 6.40pm

The wonderful Kathleen Turner plays a romantic novelist, while charismatic Michael Douglas is a roguish mercenary. The script is sharp, the romantic undercurrents a delight. Huge, muddy fun.

THE LADY IN THE VAN

Monday, BBC4, 10pm

An eccentric older woman – beautifully played by Maggie Smith – gets the rusting van she calls home pushed onto the driveway owned by the playwright Alan Bennett. She stays for the next 15 years. Unexpectedly delightful.

CREED

Tuesday, 5*, 9pm

Rocky Balboa’s opponent in the first two Rocky films was Apollo Creed, hence the title of this reboot. Michael B. Jordan is terrific as Apollo’s illegitimate son, Adonis, a young man who discovers that boxing is in his blood but needs a trainer. Gosh, who will that be?

COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN

Tuesday, Talking Pictures, 10pm

A group of female James Dean fans comes together to mark the 20th anniversary of his death in a car crash. The great Robert Altman directs a cast led by Cher, Karen Black and Sandy Dennis.

SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER

Wednesday, Sony Movies, 5.05pm

Mike Myers plays a San Francisco beat poet whose new girlfriend might just have a sideline in murdering her boyfriends. Strange but very funny.

TOUCHING THE VOID

Thursday, Channel 4, 10pm

In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were experienced climbers attempting a dangerous ascent. On the way down, Joe broke his leg, leaving Simon with no option but to lower his injured partner by rope. And then Joe went over an overhang...

BORG VS MCENROE

Friday, BBC2, 11.20pm

Wimbledon should have been about to start now. This dramatisation of the run-up to the epic men’s final of 1980 between champion Borg and fiery McEnroe offers consolation.